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

saw a good simonk_133 thread earlier on 2017 focus groups which were pushing a similar message to J harris about the labour heartlands that time round

I hate it when shit politicians rep for good music people you like. Alan Johnson talking about John Grant made me throw the radio out the window.

Tom Watson being a fan of John Martyn nearly made me give up hope

xp I don't think I want to find out what Johnson's last.fm alias is

Hans Werner Henze apparently composed a piece for Boris' first wedding

55-64: 79% (+7)

ffs these arseholes are the ones ushering the Tories in.

Generation melt

*waves at the thread from my age group*

dog Latin/LJ complicate this age divide btw

I imagine that as the age-group who are most likely to say they don't gaf about politics and they are all the same etc.. and then vote Conservative like clockwork, even if it is 4 foot snowdrifts and they have severe angina and arthritis.

But yes been lots going on the train today. On my way back an actual young person was talking on the phone about the election before having a go at rugby boys.

Dog Latin and I might be two brackets apart lol (if he's turned 45)

Fiona 'buh-bye' Bruce unable to read out the word 'nationalize' from her autocue without feigning scare quotes of disgust.

Also I've already confirmed myself as a certain Labour voter and enthusiast, give over

Or are you just commuting and looking for a scrap? I do sympathise

I do kind of wonder if DL managed to overcome his issues w/ Cromwell and will vote Labour in the end?

are you two voting labour yet or nah

🐦["Absolutely certain to vote"

18-24: 60% (+11)
25-34: 61% (+8)
35-44: 62% (-)
45-54: 62% (-6)
55-64: 79% (+7)
65+: 78% (-1)

ComRes Poll 25-26 Nov

Young people, keep talking to your friends, brothers, sisters - we can only win if we turn out to vote.
— Hasan Patel 🌹 (@CorbynistaTeen) December 2, 2019🕸]🐦

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EKyaiPaWwAE10tQ?format=jpg&name=large
Hugh immediately regretting his decision to canvass with Chuka

That John Harris column is incoherent. Why would stopping Brexit lose a generation of Labour voters? Because some voted for it in « good faith » ? Are they suddenly going to think that the Tories are « more democratic » while they despise their policies?

Boomers thinking they are finally stepping out and ~choosing a side~ and then picking the dullest, worst, mediocre, meaningless of all voices, is truly something to behold.

that was an xp

John Harris goes out and finds reactionary or cranky people, nods very seriously at their legitimate concerns, and inevitably concludes that Labour should be more racist to appeal to them. To him, the white working class is not capable of any more than rage and intractability. He would look at Corbyn’s line about everyone having a poem or a painting or a story to tell and be completely unable to reconcile it with a single one of his subjects.

John Harris had exactly the same attitude when he took over Select and put Oasis on the cover of every issue

tbf that's true of more or less everyone in the UK media - print and broadcast.

That’s why they all boost and reinforce each other - are they so out of touch, or is it the left that is wrong?

Just watched Sky News' daily "I've always voted Labour but..." report - this time from Stoke, of course. Not sure if the BBC one has gone out yet.

Speaking of reactionaries

Um, what the fuck?

How many people has Ian Austin mailed, in constituencies that aren’t his own, to smear Corbyn and tell them to vote Tory? pic.twitter.com/2KxgqxfgKf

— Gareth (@garethdwr) December 2, 2019

it’s not just harris - it’s most of the WM journos and even some pollsters. this was the thread

Just reading back through some of the Edelman focus groups from 2017. Incredibly perceptive stuff! pic.twitter.com/adBR6rUBsn

— Simon (@simonk_133) December 2, 2019

Sky anchorman disappointed by politics professor saying he expects the Brexit Party to take more votes from the Tories than Labour and that he expects Labour to hold on to their seats in Stoke.

sky UKIP leader interview looked a doozy

she’s called pat mountain ffs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butter_mountain

I got one of those Ian Austin letters. The small print at the bottom says it's been sent by the Conservative party; he hasn't paid for them all himself.

He hasn’t paid for them at all.

only posting this for tom. not a parody account

the election is good again pic.twitter.com/YyNzmO0hV2

— Ben Smoke (@bencsmoke) December 2, 2019

how have the lib dems fucked this up so hard?

i suppose it's a good thing to remind yourself that twitter is a very peculiar slice of society and the remainiac culture warriors are very much in a minority

I can't even fathom what it must have taken for Dave Merritt to have written that piece so soon after the attack, in the knowledge that it would likely make him a target for some of the absolute worst people in the country.

the most powerful shitposting

uh xposts :/

matt DC otm - incredible dignity and strength

At some point in the future the LibDems might remember that the 'democrat' in their name used to have a 'social' attached to it and the closest they came to electoral relevance was when they were able to attract both sets of voters.

There simply aren't enough people out there who want a slightly nicer version of Cameron's Tories. So they have nothing but Remain to rally behind, and they totally fucked it there.

There is a possibility Jeremy Corbyn will be Prime Minister of the UK by the end of next week. There is no better time to highlight how, no matter what Corbyn does or whatever position he takes, his critics will attack him - even if they totally contradict themselves (thread).

— Colin Millar (@Millar_Colin) December 2, 2019

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers newspaper political writers

hilarious read that was, Nick Cohen wins!

OT I was kind of popcorn.gif for Panorama, but yeah, no.

basically just a bunch of gutless-bastard deceitful hacks who will go to any length to slur the loto for their corporate overlords without putting much thought into it

I did a massive own of Nick Cohen on a FB thread last week where he stropped because I trotted out the basic fact about Andrew Neil paying David Irving to translate Goebbels’ diaries (therefore maybe not the person to ask politicians critical questions about antisemitism). NC responded with something irrelevantto correct me about the editor in charge of the fake Hitler diaries not being Andrew Neil and I just siiiiiiighed and came back with a link from 1992 saying, it was the *Goebbels* diaries. He then did a massive flounce about how expecting him to know the difference was unreasonable. Dumbshit.

Corbyn: *appears on press tv*
Johnson:

just howling with laughter imagining if we'd have ever heard the last of it if Corbyn had written this piece pic.twitter.com/yqS7SjOTBy

— Frankie Coyle (@francisqcoyle) December 2, 2019

dua lipa endorsement is in

Dua Lipa just told her 36.6m Instagram followers to #VoteLabour 🌹

👌 pic.twitter.com/XJHQJy3JIi

— Chris Saltmarsh says #VoteLabour 🌹 (@Chris_Saltmarsh) December 2, 2019