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

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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.

It's garbage in the wider scheme of things but it is a vote for WAB and leaving with almost no trade deals etc. It's a vote for a lot of change.

more like vote for us and we'll just keep driving in the same direction but this time really fast

6m ago 11:35
Johnson lists some potential benefits of Brexit

Johnson is now speaking about the benefits from Brexit. The UK will be able to:

Buy British, in government procurement

Abolish the tampon tax

Intervene to protect British businesses

Introduce an Australian-style points-based immigration system

(This may be the first time that being able to abolish the tampon tax has been cited as the second most prominent benefit from Brexit.)

The third one sounds like filthy communism

Any show giving Johnson's Dad the time of day is a disgrace.

Aren't there WTO rules against protectionism that 1 and 3 might fall foul of?

(I know nothing about this but I'm sure I was reading a Twitter thread about WTO rules wrt some Tory "Buy British" soundbite a week or two ago)

I mean it's all so bloody futile pointing fingers at the bits which are not possible vs the bits we can already do in the EU vs the bits which we can do outside the EU which are probably the opposite of what 90% of Leave voters wanted, but...

Stanley Johnson is far more liked than Boris, that’s why.

stanley johnson is good again: re ppl not knowing how to spell pinocchio (cf also gandhi, scorsese etc)

stanley johnson is bad again: i hardly need elaborate, the spelling thing is the only bit he's right about

Nick Ferrari has asked Johnson on LBC 'how many children do you have, and are you fully involved in their lives?'

Johnson says he does not believe the electorate want to know about this.

reading up again on the tampon tax, and the eu vat legislation is due to change on this in 2022 anyway?

This was good (cw: Nick Ferrari)

MUST WATCH: Ruth from Oldham challenges Boris Johnson on his disgusting slurs against working-class men, single mothers and their children. pic.twitter.com/DN6HqtxWFo

— Richard Burgon (@RichardBurgon) November 29, 2019

Gotta love that heavy sigh.

Stanley Johnson is far more liked than Boris, that’s why.

― gyac, Friday, 29 November 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Lol really? It is weird having a parent speak up for you like this.

Perhaps Johnson has forgotten that we already have a points-based migration system but he may mean that he intends to extend it to EU migrants.

Another to add to the pile of BBC reporters failing to tell the difference between lies and numbers they don’t understand.

We may come to dub this “the Election of 2 billion trees and 50 thousand nurses” - where numbers and accountability became meaningless. That’s a scary legacy.

— emily m (@maitlis) November 29, 2019

consistent non-conspiratorial line from BBC journalists since the start of the election: "hey, guess they're *all* lying (shrugs)" if only there were people whose job involved distinguishing between bullshit and facts

jiminy coblyn and his magic tree tree

At least everyone knows how to spell Pochettinio on ilx