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

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

Before voting reg was up would have been nice. Still v cool tho!

lol when i did a reading from my book and my niece (then 11) was in the audience, mostly bored, the point she pricked her ears up was when i read out the magic words "dua lipa"

glad to see she is still good not bad :)

Nice package on Newsnight about the ups and downs of canvassing with a message from yr boy SBush about the different a 2% swing either way could make.

and Eleanor Penny! she calls it an election of hope.

This is as desperate as the Czech spy story - posting on Reddit is now a distinctly Russian tactic apparently pic.twitter.com/23ZWzZh3P9

— Nick Srnicek (@n_srnck) December 2, 2019

This is as ludicrous as it was inevitable.

seems dumb when the govt suppressed the russia report. rattled

It’ll be Russian interference when Trump fucks it for them this week too, will it?

what’s their internal polling saying I wonder

anyone worried about this spike in fb ads?

It’ll be Russian interference when Trump fucks it for them this week too, will it?

well, kinda, yeah

they've definitely got the shitters running down their jitters atm.

^^

I'm badly misquoting a line from Jean Genet's The Screens there, one that made me lol about 20 years ago!

Not checkin in (here or elsewhere) too much cause have both mental health and objective external issues going on, are things going better at all? Always assumed labour would run much the better election campaign but fuck be nice if we cd maybe start a campaign fewer that 50 percentage points behind lol

A tentative "it could be much worse" is all I can manage rn BB

Wd like to welccome the us prseident to our shores btw and encourage him to not hold back if he has anything to get off his chest with regard to our current political situation lol

i know you shouldn’t share your enemies own propaganda but this is absolutely top tier content pic.twitter.com/ELVSYEo8R5

— jack🚩 (@tankiejack) December 2, 2019

let's not get too carried away with all the old bastard polling, plenty of these young 'uns need liquidating just as urgently

Far be it from me to trade in stereotypes but I'm guessing from those lads's accents that they don't really give much of a fuck about public services.

I mean tbf they're not doing much of a job of acting like they give a fuck about anything bar grinding the poor and getting a career in dickery

what did the lass who got cut off mid-sentence say? "I want us to get brexit done and invest in our fully costed T4 aktion/eugenics program and then kill all poor ppl and blacks"

I mean I couldn't watch every second of it I've only just recovered from John Harris

as if R4 today is broadcasting from the wrong side of a picket

love too be politically impartial

can't believe Kezia would cross a picket

This Merritt story doesn't look like it's going away any time soon. 'Don't fuck with grieving parents' feels like a pretty straightforward rule even outside an election campaign and they've done it twice this month.

I like Calzino's Shakespearean quotation - from one of my favourite scenes from any of the plays.

I had to look up who Dua Lipa is last night. I think Wikipedia says that she is an English singer and model.

not going for old git cred here, but same!