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

This woman is mentally ill... surely?

corbyn’s most underrated superpower is the way he can turn the cortexes of select middle-tier british celebs into thick, velvety minestrone

She’s been like this for years. Combination of declining irl relevance plus the worst crowd on twitter egging her on into getting worse and worse. I’d say it’s sad, but she’s a colossal racist.

And a colossal irrelevance, because who is she? I mean, at least a few thousand 50 year old virgins and nerds know who Rachel Riley is.

Matt Hancock loses his cool at local hustings as crowd refuse to buy his Tory spinpic.twitter.com/4egXjIj8hA

— The Pileus (@thepileus) November 30, 2019

enjoyed watching toady Hancock lose his shit and letting his mask slip with an audience at a hustings who were basically laughing him out of the room.

xp for a few sweet months FB was in my friend’s musical (he got so much stick for hiring her because she is also a massive terf on top of everything else) and her Twitter was relatively and blissfully quiet. He may have insisted upon it.

I'm hesitant to use the word 'radical centrist' but can't think what to call Riley/Linehan/FB and others. They seem different to the Alyssa Milano / Gary Lineker crowd that I guess is just standard Bluetick Politically Homeless Centrist/Liberal? Or are those guys just more polished and keep their shit together ("Bernie would be ok if it wasn't for his horrible supporters"), less prone to single issue. The Milano/Lineker crew seem somewhat more representative of a certain milieu (that piece on Remainiacs earlier this year covered it well enough)

Makes me cycle back to this idea of people on the left/right being more prone to believing in conspiracy theories (both true and false) and centrists more focused on the actions and 'foibles' of individuals, historically at least. Everything will be ok we just need to remove this or that particular individual. Trump Derangement Syndrome seems more pronounced in centre than left, same with obsession over Putin (the one conspiracy theory that liberals were really always onboard with. *insert random person* is a Putin plant/asset/operative).

I can see from their perspective why they believe in horseshoe theory. I dgaf about how many children Boris has, or what he does in his personal life, or any other pearl-clutching distractions

lol busted

leftists admiring Trump’s style pic.twitter.com/ruUCbDjIPT

— zachary (@zatchry) November 28, 2019

trump’s tweet is a lot more entertaining than obama’s ‘no u should definitely hear your nazi uncle our’ tbf, and *furrows brow, steeples fingers* isn’t that what twitter is all about

I do GAF about what Boris Johnson has done in his personal life because I can’t unlearn one particular thing he’s done in a habitual way and no, it’s nothing to do with condoms. Every single journalist at a certain level knows about this aspect of his behaviour and there’s a huge story going unreported because the person required to speak out to stand it up doesn’t want to upset four third parties. This is why so many writers on the left are beyond incensed by certain women BBC journalists dealing with BJ uncritically, because if *we* know about it, so must they.

lol busted

leftists admiring Trump’s style pic.twitter.com/ruUCbDjIPT

— zachary (@zatchry) November 28, 2019

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Keep this to the US lib threads please

Friend of mine registered for a postal ballot. Was told it'd arrive the week of the 24th. So yesterday he went to his electoral registration office and they were like "oh yeah sorry, complications on our end, it'll be with you Monday". He'll be out of the country by Monday. Asked if he could switch to having someone vote for him, they said no because the ballot's already in the mail. Anyone have any idea whom he should complain to? Pretty fucking scandalous to lose your vote over something that the registration office have admitted is their fault, not his.

Electoral Commission, I think.

That sucks. Incidentally, we haven't received our postal ballot either.

*ballots, bah.

my partner's arrived last Tuesday. Felt quite a sense of urgency to get it posted off immediately before the dog ate it or it got spoiled by chilli sauce or something.

I got my postal ballot the other day in Canada

Postal votes are dealt with on a local basis tho so prob depends on where you are. My overseas postal vote is dealt with by Glasgow City Council

Keep this to the US lib threads please

― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver),

np will do! (if a mod wants to delete go ahead, these embedded tweets are kind of distracting anyway!)

Postal votes are dealt with on a local basis tho so prob depends on where you are. My overseas postal vote is dealt with by Glasgow City Council

Yeah, he's in Tower Hamlets which has quite the reputation for corruption and bureaucracy.

I just want to fight for the rights of EU people in the UK who pegged it at the first sign of trouble yesterday, although apparently bravery is a uniquely Polish characteristic so if he had run he wouldn't have been a genuine Pole. It isn't just Hartley-Brewer (who called narwhal man "most British response) who is completely full of shit today imo.

BBC have shat it lads

The Prime Minister will be interviewed on tomorrow's Andrew Marr programme. Statement here. pic.twitter.com/BfICt0hNbT

— BBC News Press Team (@BBCNewsPR) November 30, 2019

should send brillo pad with a Marr mask on imo

apparently bravery is a uniquely Polish characteristic

Not if we go by the Völkertafel or Table of Nations, an 18th century compendium of Germanic stereotypes:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ed/Völkertafel.jpg

Translation (low res warning):

http://i.imgur.com/Qen8lBA.png

Looks like the first link is broken (due to the umlaut, I assume), so you'll need to copy and paste it.

Andrew Marr? Must have been a bad conncetion, we meant Eddie Mair. Seriously though, privatize the BBC.

xxp
lool! diseases: diarrhoea. "put the knife down you varlet, or I'll shit my kecks"

Labour should be going very hard on "what is Boris Johnson afraid of", "why is he running away?" etc. Worked against May.

Expecting a barrage of questions aimed at Corbyn about the shooting of this loser on London Bridge.

Two terror attacks under the tories + Labour's weird rebrand as the party of police, I'm sure the barrage will happen but don't know that it'll be very effective.

bbc are a disgrace. such a spurious excuse.hardly the first time this month someone's been stabbed in london. marr hasn't even the brains to see what soft touch everyone views him as.

(xp) It'll be relentless.

beautiful ratio on that BBC tweet

not to be callous (given people have lost their lives) but will be interesting to see how the next day unfolds. LAB were very strong in 2017 when the two terrorist attacks occurred. conservatives are on shaky ground:

- attacks happened under the tories
- BJ cut police numbers in london & CONs have cut police numbers/lost experience nationwide (not sure how this would have helped yesterday but will be used)
- CONs have cut local govt funding/social services (impacts community policing)
- CONs demonise immigrants, when we see yesterday a prime example of the contribution they can make to our society
- BJ voted for iraq, wanted intervention in syria etc

I'm sure our esteemed liberal media will try to gotcha JC by getting him to defend liberal values again ("you think they should have ARRESTED someone who was about to blow themselves up")

Maybe the planned review of Revent can be used against LAB too?

this was the speech he gave after manchester
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2017/05/jeremy-corbyn-speech-terrorism-and-foreign-policy-full-text

fully expect someone to ask whether it was a 'tragedy' that the attacker was shot

yikes - missed this at the time

Following the briefing, Mr Coleman said Guto Harri, the Mayor’s communications chief at the time, explained the 7/7 inquests were for the benefit of the families.

Mr Coleman added: ‘To which Boris replied, “Fuck the families! Fuck the families!
https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/16/boris-johnson-said-f-families-7-7-terror-attacks-9970567/

Fuck the families, fuck business, fuck anything in a skirt

fully expect someone to ask whether it was a 'tragedy' that the attacker was shot

This is really tame, 'common sense' stuff tbh, pretty much everywhere in the world. If anything, it's the opposite stance that's unusual.

love too live on rainy fascist island

otm
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when even james ball, a trevor bastard extended universe centrist parody account turned sentient, is turning against the bbc, you know you have fucked it beyond all hope https://t.co/j6ZNYsYnGg

— a a dril (@demarionunn) November 30, 2019

xp ?

meant the demarionunn tweet

big john and his leather glove otm
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKnoUN7WoAI4WbH?format=jpg&name=large

A convicted murderer was among ex-prisoners and members of the public who grappled with and eventually grounded the London Bridge knife attacker before police arrived, Sarah Marsh reports.

Among those who pinned down the attacker was James Ford, 42, who is also thought to have tried to save the life of a woman who had been stabbed. Ford was jailed for life in 2004 for the murder of 21-year-old Amanda Champion, who had a mental age of 15.

Ford, who is understood to be serving the final days of his sentence at HMP Standford Hill, an open prison in Kent, was on London Bridge as the attack unfolded.

Fully expecting quite a few Daily Express readers' heads to explode.

So we know, so far, that a Polish immigrant and a murderer on day release confronted the attacker - Rule Brittania!

I'm not trying to be a contrarian here, but it isn't always a case of "bravery" when someone with a propensity for violence find themselves in a situation where their talents can be useful. Some people just live for busting skulls and stabbing people with pikes - most of them are bastard cops or in the armed forces - they need an outlet!