Ne'er get thee stitched til Booris be ditched: UK General Election 2019

Not a conspiracy but the outcome of a long established culture, and failure to respond to the challenges of social media, and a refusal to address the failings of individual employees.

The bbc won't get any thanks either, when people end up losing jobs to make up the pensioner license fee losses. Well maybe some of them will end up on the honours list.

Holy shit @ lionel shrivel on qt O_O

lol autocorrect

“what’s so bad about comparing Muslim women to letterboxes?” wtf

Holy shit @ lionel shrivel on qt O_O

― Wee Bloabby (NickB), Thursday, November 28, 2019 11:36 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

People You Suspect Are Frighteningly Overrated But Don't Actually Know Enough About To Say So

I don't believe anyone rates Lionel Shriver at anything.

OT but:

you have to attend a FAP before then obv

― imago, Thursday, November 28, 2019 4:43 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I'd love to! I'm almost never in London is the rub.

― pomenitul, Thursday, November 28, 2019 4:44 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

I'll Eurostar my way 'cross the water obv

increasingly unsuccessful author, increasingly hard right politics, increasing number of media gigs as a result. this picture - when you spot it - tells you all you need to know about her pic.twitter.com/V7AtWcHoB3

— Waluigitifo (@waluigitifo) November 28, 2019

wow what!?

this is the qt clip btw

“From that rhetoric, I get told to go back to my own country”

“I can’t see how you can blame Boris Johnson for that”

This #bbcqt audience member clashes with Lionel Shriver over the Prime Minister’s past comments about women in burkas. pic.twitter.com/KhqxaC25md

— BBC Question Time (@bbcquestiontime) November 28, 2019

Lionel Shriver is a piece of work. She is racist and madly into loyalism as well, to the point of openly posing with her Ulster Freedom Fighters mug.

Looks like it's time to post the photo of Lionel Shriver with a UFF mug again #bbcqt pic.twitter.com/lY8Urnd3JJ

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) November 28, 2019

working class antifascists in the 1930s banner-dropped BBC headquarters and gatecrashed their broadcasts in protest at how the BBC helped to facilitate the rise of Mosley, while ignoring or obstructing working class struggles. https://t.co/gwt4Kn3bex

— michael (@Sisyphusa) May 10, 2019

A stupid fucking talentless right wing American arsehole who valorizes Loyalist terrorism - the perfect guest for the BBC and Question Time, hoorah!

She’ll have fucked her sales here with these comments, which I gather were dwindling anyway.

She also said that WASPI women were losers, would guess that a high proportion of her readers would be in that demographic so good job Lionel

That’s what I mean. Faiiiiirly sure that women buy maybe ~75% of fiction? There’s a strong gender disparity anyway.

Shriver is a fucking grotesque nightmare. She makes Kate Andrews seem quite jovial and moderate by comparison amongst unwanted Yanks repping for fascism and neolib economics over here.

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theresa may unveils statue to nancy astor. cool cool

philip collins writes about “the muslim question” and ranks racisms in the paper of record. also cool cool

lionel shriver used to be a newsnight review regular back in the early 00s and her rightwing schtick earned her contrarian plaudits in that decade of challops wars. have not really heard from her since but I guess she turned out to be a gavin mcinnes type who got snared by their own bullshit and can't stop now.

Astor believed that Nazism would solve the problems associated with Communism and the Jews.

she sounds fun.

State broadcaster brings on shithead author to make the case for islamophobia, cool cool COOL

Astor wouldn't employ Catholics or Jews and was even considered too much of a liability by the Conservative party after the war. But a lot has changed for the Tories since that progressive era they went through in the late 40's.

Shriver is known principally as the author of We Need To Talk About Kevin.

First published in 2004, it's sold 822,000 copies in the UK and dwarfs the rest of her work.

Nothing Shriver published since has made much more than a tenth of Kevin in book sales. pic.twitter.com/Nq4IWCm4KN

— Chris McCrudden (@cmccrudden) March 1, 2019

good thread here that illustrates how post Kevin.. what a giant she is in publishing... well next to Alan Partridge's autobiography that is.

winner of the orange prize, oh the irony

This BBC Facebook ad thing is insane, to the extent I immediately assumed it was a joke.

I don't really believe the BBC is secretly conspiring in the Tories' favour. But what's becoming obvious is the extent to which the BBC has allowed itself to be blatantly, humiliatingly played by them.

just trying to school myself re: lionel shriver:

She was interviewed on Newsnight on BBC Two the night of December 17, 2012, questioned about the issue of whether the United States should change gun control laws after the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting but whoever wrote this Wikipedia entry forgot to mention what her views on gun control are.[20]

She argued on Question Time that the Prime Minister’s comments were not racist because “letterbox” is not a common slur.

What kind of a cretinous argument is that? She should check out /r/rareinsults.

johnson starting to get some push back from journalists. think they’ve rattled by the opprobrium in their twitter mentions. good thread of questions I’d like neil to ask BJ

Because the govt want us to talk about their threatening of Channel 4, I’m going to point out they still haven’t explained why the PM told Northern Irish businesses there would be no checks or processes of any kinds on their GB bound goods with the PM’s deal when there will.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) November 29, 2019

cool. maybe start with the daughter you abandoned. her name is Stephanie. she is 10 years old. https://t.co/rFxmm9RdWW

— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) November 28, 2019

lol

Oops! I forgot I was being filmed when I gave my old mate Nick Ferrari the secret signal to change the subject. pic.twitter.com/a7Zhs4uPEg

— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) November 29, 2019

Lewis Goodall has been very good during this campaign, I don't really know his political views and that's probably a good thing because his feed is refreshingly free of bullshit.

yeah him and adam bienkov are head and shoulders above most of the other lobby journalists

Goddall was some sort of Lab activist(?) Might have been just some Tory shitposting tho'

Boris Johnson says all the reports about the many offensive comments he has made in the past are "absolute distortions” of what he wrote.

Here’s his comments in full context, with links to the original sources.https://t.co/6RSBcNd25e

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 29, 2019

^^ for prosperity

it's the "tank-topped" bit that really hurts

I agree that the comments are offensive, but can we have some actual focus on the tangible outcomes of holding racist views and implementing structural racism please? No good talking about his antique racial slurs if you’re not going to talk about the state deporting black citizens to their deaths, and ruining the lives of so many others! Why will no one address that racism in this country isn’t about horrible words, it’s about policy outcomes and the real effect on people’s lives?

Like I’ve seen more insight and analysis on this from black twitter users than every fucking highly paid journalist in the country - a reflection of the lobby’s position ofc but no less irresponsible.

Lol this is a long, long road.

The fact that a Devon Labour MP, @LukePollard , spearheaded the campaign for a statue to this Hitler sympathising, anti worker, anti left MP is an embarrassment to the Party https://t.co/mgSiZEKL41

— Momentum North Devon (@MomentumNDevon) November 29, 2019

how glaringly racist did you have to be to be considered a liability to the Tories in 1945?

Holy crap, I’ve just read that Nancy Astor, the Nazi apologist & Holocaust supporter, has also had a train named after her, the Nancy Astor Express. A fucking TRAIN. Did no one think about the echoes of that?

— Ally Fogg (@AllyFogg) November 29, 2019

Did... did he forget he's on camera? pic.twitter.com/GNA2eZu3AD

— Adam Bienkov (@AdamBienkov) November 29, 2019

What was he trying to say? Fuck Beveridge, or Fuck This Caller?

I agree that the comments are offensive, but can we have some actual focus on the tangible outcomes of holding racist views and implementing structural racism please? No good talking about his antique racial slurs if you’re not going to talk about the state deporting black citizens to their deaths, and ruining the lives of so many others! Why will no one address that racism in this country isn’t about horrible words, it’s about policy outcomes and the real effect on people’s lives?

OTM

Seems legit

At around 0950 in the interview they return to why he drew his hand across his throat. PM says the reason is because he was imitating Nick Ferrari (off-screen). Nick F says he was doing it because a producer was talking to him down his headphones too loudly. https://t.co/13gN7P003H

— Rob Powell (@robpowellnews) November 29, 2019

urgent execution required

his expression though - makes me think of that scene with all those posh lads doing bayonet training in 'if....'

See Johnson's dad make more appearances in the last couple of days...it's just odd.

how do they have the gall to say this shit?

Gove claims vote against Tories is vote against change

Gove says a vote for any party other than the Conservative party is a vote against change.