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

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

suspect it would be too hand-wringy and FBPEish to paste those (probably v familiar to ilxors anyway) Hannah Arendt quotes on lies in the press/propaganda here, and conveniently I'm too lazy to look them up, but I do get reminded of them rather often lately

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.

It really is incredible just how thoroughly cucked the UK press is

he’s a reliable ‘affable’ media performer. that mask slip on derbyshire is a shocker tho - exactly the kind of stuff LAB want to hammer in the midlands/north

He was in it but he didn't win it ... I think?

dad = reality TV star
son = unreality TV star

Yes, he's the only British politician whose dad or sister regularly appears in the media to talk about him. It's very odd, but the UK media love a posh family.

it's at times like this I feign not having a television

If the polls are right & historic Labour heartlands turn blue then perhaps the lesson will be that it is easier for the right to move left on economics (regional inequality, spending) than it is for the left to move right on culture (Brexit, free movement, patriotism)#ge2019

— Matthew Goodwin (@GoodwinMJ) November 29, 2019

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 42% (-)
LAB: 34% (+2)
LDEM: 13% (-1)
BREX: 4% (+1)
GRN: 3% (+1)

via @PanelbaseMD, 27 - 28 Nov
Chgs. w/ 22 Nov

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 29, 2019

just marvelling at that stanley johnson clip. expect it to be played over and over

8%, but yes totally prepared for the guy who ate a book to claim he is right on the 13th xp

easier for the right to move left on not committing crimes than it is for the left to ignore the crimes

Jesus fucking Christ at Maitlis.

Bet she knows how to spell

On state aid, Johnson says the ramifications are felt everywhere. He says councils that try to run bus services for pupils, and then try to charge, fall foul of state aid rules because they are deemed to be in competition with other providers.

...is he saying the EU is preventing the government from allowing councils to charge parents to transport pupils to school?

He says Brexit will allow the UK to cut VAT on tampons.

He knows this just happened in Germany. He knows.

Oh and lol

EU referendum voting intention:

Remain: 52% (+1)
Leave: 48% (-1)

via @PanelbaseMD, 27 - 28 Nov
Chgs. w/ 22 Nov

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) November 29, 2019

that's not going to help labour win over any leavers tbh. why chance it with a second ref?

The principled answer is that if you voted for it once, and wish to do so again with knowledge of the actual deal, why wouldn’t you, an adult, be happy to vote leave again?

That was always the problem with Lab's Brexit policy. If your primary concern is leaving the EU then vote Tory. If you want a potentially better life it's Labour and they have to campaign on the whole manifesto (which they have) xp

Is #greggssausageroll trending yet?

that's not going to help labour win over any leavers tbh. why chance it with a second ref?