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

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!

Yeah there’s nothing surprising about a “have-a-go hero” type turning out to be a total psycho, it’s hardly normal fucking behaviour. It’s like al pacino says: charge with a gun, with a knife you run

How dare you, these brave Londoners have red, white and blue blood in their veins - even the Polish guy.

I'm not sure about the wisdom of Pacino/Hoffa's "charge with a gun". When I had a shotgun pointed at me during a bookie robbery once - charging at the guy was the last thing on my mind!

that’s why you’ll never be a firebrand union leader and then disappeared by the mafia

that maxim only works if the armed assailant has a defective firearm, otherwise the odds will be massively in their favour!

It’s like al pacino says: charge with a gun, with a knife you run

Never run with scissors though.

lmao

Boris Johnson's election lead halved putting UK in 'hung parliament territory', latest poll reveals https://t.co/GqDjXQVHVX pic.twitter.com/KAwmPa2LbD

— The Independent (@Independent) November 30, 2019

We're all going to die, courtesy of a particularly nasty serial killer by the name of...Hope

*charges at Hope with a whale tusk*

Boris the so called Heineken Tory turns out to be a Toby Jug of piss!

Corbyn has called for an investigation ... phew!.. an investigation into why the perp was released and not into the conduct of the racist police filth who murdered him in cold blood!

this is a friend in Southampton itchen, just to dampen any enthusiasm a bit

Great insight on Facebook from someone I went to school with. This literally happened under a Tory government, with unused EU laws in place to protect our borders, and the terrorist was disarmed by a Romanian baker and a Polish fishmonger, but it's Labour's fault 🤔 We're fucked. pic.twitter.com/UCleQXZuet

— Aaron Gilbert (@AaronDelays) November 30, 2019