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

still hammering on the fucking ‘there’s no money left’ note too - like yes, new labour were def complicit in the 2008 crisis but it was a fucking global collapse you disingenuous goon, and a Tory government would have been just as bad if not worse

Running as though in opposition while actually in power makes a cynical kind of sense though, how else could he really run?

tell that to boris! xp

Jim Bollix getting shat on by reality again?

It’s pretty chilling and bizarre Corbyn felt a need to repeat this claim. It’s victim-blaming that wouldn’t be tolerated for any other crime. The attacker was at a rehabilitation conference, his first named victim a man who dedicated his life to that. https://t.co/nZPqMBknEL

— James Ball (@jamesrbuk) December 1, 2019

Jeremy Corbyn says UK military interventions have fuelled terrorism at home. He said the same during GE2017, and the public agree. By 53% to 24% Britons think wars the UK has supported/fought are at least partly responsible for terror attacks against ushttps://t.co/5KTh3v1JZh pic.twitter.com/k7MaySyCnH

— YouGov (@YouGov) December 1, 2019

*wearily mutes James Ball*

oh I already did lol - just one of dozens of hacksters I muted whose tweets I get to read here instead

Sorry Nash but when there’s a take as mad as the government being the victim here...

Ignore me. We're also back to headlines like 'Give me a majority and I'll keep you safe from terror' for a Johnson column in the MoS - their readers sure know a good bargain when they're desperately tossed it.

as long as you're alright, I guess https://t.co/YNSstKLh8E pic.twitter.com/DnQcEqdHEH

— tom (@malaiseforever) December 1, 2019

72 convicted terrorists released early is... a fuck of a lot?

Matt otm about Johnson's image, I just get so tired of liberal handwringing about the bad men that allows them to ignore the bad politics but still feel personally aggrieved. That was half of Labour's strategy in 97 so of course I'm cynical about its value but tactically, this time round, you're right.

xxp she’s awful, keeps eye rolling at everything Labour’s been doing the last four years as though she wasn’t one of Ed Miliband’s advisers. Plus she congratulated Kate Andrews on getting some other job recently.

72 convicted terrorists released early is... a fuck of a lot?

Possibly also a reflection of the fact you don’t necessarily need to do much to be convicted as a terrorist, though.

that dispatches programme is heartbreaking. highlights one of the potential issues for the conservatives of holding an election in the run up to christmas

even the trailer for that Dispatches programme was too horrible for me to handle at the moment. cuts thru all the other bullshit dithering about who to vote for, unless you're a fucking monster.

I'd imagine child poverty is another one from the endless boris couldn't gaf about long list.

i was thinking about how low down it seems on the melt list of concerns

Stella Creasy rolling eyes at Chakraborrty. Gif

In many ways the melts are worse than boris - evil and hypocritical when they are supposedly the opposition.

one of the guiding tenets of these threads, obv

Richard Burgon doing the debate tonight, is it?!

oh no :(

ffs, what debate?

Why aren’t they sending out Thornberry or Rayner or Starmer?

We've hardly seen Starmer tbh

I'd strongly reccomnd watching new Scorsese movie or literally anything else instead of.

Thornberry and Starmer are out all over the country campaigning in marginals - Thornberry is in Canterbury with Sandi Toksvig lol. Not sure what is going on with Abbott.

Was this ad posted btw?

This is our strength. pic.twitter.com/nabBzTK0AB

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 30, 2019

I'm sure Burgon has been out campaigning too but, for some inexplicable reason, he's the one that gets the phone call.

he's such a charmless buffoon. I'm starting to hate him tbh.

he always seems ill-prepared and gets blustery when he realise he’s over his head - i really wish they’d stop wheeling him out so often

I saw this clip where he arrogantly assumed that Sky woman was commenting on something she hadn't read - he was wrong and it was a really bad look when all the sympathy goes to the Sky News presenter rather than an pol of the opposition party ffs

SB again:

The Prime Minister has basically copied and pasted my blogpost into a thread and passed it off as his own explanation.

A blogpost which I had to write to rebut the lies he spent yesterday spouting.

This is weapons grade shithousery. https://t.co/pnowlm60Y0

— The Secret Barrister (@BarristerSecret) December 1, 2019

they’ve honestly announced so many good policies now it’s easy to miss some

Labour’s ‘Healthy Streets’ programme will be modelled on the best towns in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands. https://t.co/LdmDuD598X

— Labour Press Team (@labourpress) December 1, 2019

hmmm

How the UK are predicted to vote is the image of Homer in his muumuu and I can’t unsee it pic.twitter.com/OnCYTQ3hjy

— Ste (@notstelfc) November 27, 2019

Starmer is my MP and I’ve seen all his publicity about marginal campaigning. RLB was very good on the Welsh debate but Burgon is on against Rishi Sunak so he may well duplicate the RLB line about Sajid Javid being one of the crash-causing bankers, which was great to see and very well-received.

Andy McDonald is someone who should get sent out more often, he's very calm and composed, articulate and won't brook no tory bullshit. This obvious rampant baldophobia needs running out of the PLP!

him squaring up to raab has been one of the highlights of the campaign

he was very good on QT last week as well.

Agree on Andy McDonald, would love to see more of Johnny Mac obviously but also Jon Trickett if we’re just saying shad cab.

Oh God, Trump is coming next week, isn’t he?

shouldn't that be oh good? boris will have to be nice to him and his approval rating is even low with tories and the NHS of course!

Trump is bound to say something stupid too.

🤞🏻 Labour will be after Trump saying the NHS is on the table and Trump endorsing Boris/attacking Corbyn. If I were them, I’d be hammering the message that Boris is too much of a coward to attend debates/interviews, so why would he stick up for the country in trade negotiations?

Boris is a top-notch deal maker.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/19/boris-johnson-unused-water-cannon-sold-for-scrap-at-300000-loss

jack merritt (the first named victim of the london bridge attack) seems like he was a real one. rest in power

I wish when Boris pats himself in the back for his time as London Mayor, i.e. sitting on his arse and taking the credit for other people's ideas and hard work for 8 years, that some of his own bright ideas were thrown back in his face.

Here's a pic courtesy of PA of Jeremy Corbyn eating fish and chips in Whitby.

Has anyone else noticed that his blue suit has the words 'for the many not the few' sewn into it in tiny red letters? pic.twitter.com/GAPP26z3fY

— Rob Parsons (@RobParsonsYP) December 1, 2019

give us a chip jez

Thank God Lewis Goodall bothers turning up to work, tbh (thread)

Ian Acheson, a former counter terrorism officer wrote a report in 2016 saying the parole system wasn’t coping with terrorists. Michael Gove, then Justice Sec, accepted all but one of the 69 recommendations. But when the report was published, under Liz Truss, only 12 remained.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 1, 2019