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

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?

Like windmill Jolyon is campaigning with a Green in Stroud, an unwinnable seat, where they’re polling 7% and where claiming they’re in a position to win the seat hands it to the Tories.

Lol

This is what holding Boris Johnson to account looks like. pic.twitter.com/uyb526d36A

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 29, 2019

MRP is showing Tories winning in Stroud because of Green Party 's antics (But OTOH it also showed LDs on 0%?? Have they formed a pact there?)

yeah the situation in that seat is really dumb xp

more than a few greens pissed off by it

I have been a General Election #GreenParty candidate in 1987, 2005, 2010, 2015 and 2017 but this time stopping Boris Johnson is the priority. Please Greens get strategic, don't split the vote in key marginals like #Stroud! pic.twitter.com/sDKuaDH2px

— AnotherGreen (@Anothergreen) November 20, 2019

Glenville Gogerly

loved him in Open All Hours

... he's always causing a ruckus at Dr Max Gammon's annual barbecue

Lol this cunt

We’ll plant 2 billion trees over the next ten years. That’s it. That’s the tweet.

— Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 27, 2019

thought it in 2017 and think it may be there again in 2019: wonder whether the polls are masking a “shy labour” constituency - eg given all of the attacks + shaming of the party and its supporters since 2015/17. this was reason I particularly liked rob delaney’s video: a popular/well-liked celebrity saying he is a proud and enthusiastic labour supporter. that enthusiasm and support can draw people into the party. this is why purdah was so effective last time: people like JC when they saw him unmediated

there has also been a notable turn in some of the most recalcitrant liberal melts recently. think they realise that a labour victory is the only life raft out of dodge

Idk if it’s shy labour as much as potential youth turnout?
But young people I would say are as interested this time if not more so, and climate change is one of the topics where Labour supporters and conservative supporters are usually on polar opposites. Funnily enough, there’s some Telegraph article where Bojo mentions calling Piers “climate change isn’t real lol” Corbyn over some stats that scared him. It’s not over yet, imo. If you remember the traction ivory and hunting (two relatively minor Con proposals) got in 2017, and that was among young people then too.

labour have done a good job in framing it as a “once in a generation”/last chance election (aided by impending hard brexit + climate breakdown)

suspect the shy labour thing may be more of a constituency in scottish central belt where brand of local party is abysmal (and brand of SNP still strong) but desire for the change outlined in the UK prospectus does exist

The last line of this...!

In today’s Daily Mirror: an example of how voting Labour brings real change #VoteLabour #RealChange pic.twitter.com/2ufDVpd3Vj

— Stephen Cowan 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@StephenCowan) November 29, 2019

Haaaaaaa

TIkTok is undefeated pic.twitter.com/KVfE6dL84f

— Bonita (@BonitaRochelle) November 28, 2019

Five injured in a stabbing incident near London bridge. Treated as if it is terror-related.

Oh sorry I didn’t see that you posted it to the rolling London thread, LBI.