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

Need someone from Labour to say something to rattle him, shouldn't be difficult.

Question: I guess what we're hoping for these days is a Labour minority government, but if that happens, what're the chances they'll actually be able to push any of their measures through? Are we counting on LibDems showing their usual lack of integrity when the chips are down?

hoping for labour majority gov my good man

As it stands, we are a normal-sized polling error – that is to say, if either or both of the parties are being systematically under- or overestimated by three percentage points – from either a Labour minority government or a Conservative landslide.

cheers Mr Bush, you've cheered me up loads there pal.

Labour minority with Swinson as deputy PM could happen

Need someone from Labour to say something to rattle him, shouldn't be difficult.

Exactly!

Hahahaha yes Sadiq, our titchy king!

Trump on the NHS:

No, not at all, I have nothing to do with it. Never even thought about it, honestly ...

I don’t even know where that rumour started. We have absolutely nothing to do with it and we wouldn’t want to if you handed it to us on a silver platter, we want nothing to do with it.

Oh ok.

Tories will probably be the largest party but not over the line.

Lab/SNP coalition is the best that I feel is possible but it will be supply and confidence. Enough for a 2nd ref and hopefully a break on killing ppl. Labour will not get anywhere near what it wants to implement from the manifesto but with a good left-wing government in place we can keep fighting and showing ppl what it is capable of.

I don’t even know where that rumour started.

Almost as old as you are mofo

Hugh Grant is dumb

Here are the 2017 results of those constituencies:

Cities of London & Westminster
Con: 46.6%
Lab: 38.4%

If LibDems (11.1%) vote Lab there’s a chance to kick Tories out

Finchley & Golders Green
Con: 47%
Lab: 43.8%

If LibDems (6.6%) voted Lab there’s a chance to kick Tories out

— Joana Ramiro (@JoanaRamiroUK) December 2, 2019

can celebs just all fuck off.

Schofield and Willoughby pulling no punches

Q: Aren’t you exhausted by the campaigning?

No, says Corbyn.

Tories will probably be the largest party but not over the line.

Lab/SNP coalition is the best that I feel is possible but it will be supply and confidence. Enough for a 2nd ref and hopefully a break on killing ppl. Labour will not get anywhere near what it wants to implement from the manifesto but with a good left-wing government in place we can keep fighting and showing ppl what it is capable of.

Yeah, Tories out, second ref, new election -- but it'll be a pretty different election after Corbyn has been in number ten for a bit, and hasn't turned it into a co-op and (depending on ref result) with a Brexit party back for good and splitting the Tory vote again.

Lab/SNP coalition with Lib Dems as honorary junior partners in condition that their leader, Jo Swindon, an extremist who is unfit for political office, steps down

She won't have to step down, she's going to lose her seat.

please santa, all i want for xmas is for jo swindon to be humiliated on the national stage by getting unceremoniously booted out of office

Raab, Redwood and IDS are at the top of my wishlist

i mean if santa delivers those too i'm certainly not gonna complain

what could possibly go wrong

Almost a third of voters now say they will vote tactically in the election, according to polling carried out for the Electoral Reform Society (ERS), with the proportion rising rapidly.

The polling by BMG found 30% of people said they would be “voting for the best-positioned party/candidate to keep out another party/candidate that I dislike” on 12 December. This is up from 22% saying this at the start of the election campaign, and 24% in a parallel poll last week.

Only 51% of people said they would pick “the candidate/party I most prefer, regardless of how likely they are to win”.

The ERS, which has long campaigned for a move from the first past the post electoral system to a proportional method, said the polling “should sound alarm bells for our democracy”, adding that given the sometimes contradictory advice on who to vote for tactically in different seats, the election could become “a lottery”.

Swinson getting fucked is almost the one thing we can be certain of...and then, depending on the shape of things...I don't know for certain but one or a few Tories that defected to the Lib Dems could be elected (?) and they could then go back to the Tories or become independents if there is a risk of no deal.

LDs a complete fucking basket case. And what they do could be the hardest to predict.

Wait Hugh Grant is good again.

Your second para is not true. https://t.co/zOnVvwzy1s

— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) December 3, 2019

Still think the LDs will gain seats - anywhere between 5 and 20. Wouldn't normally be a case for the leader resigning but then she did claim that they could win a hundred.

Channel 4 asked Trump(!) if Corbyn should be doing more about antisemitism. Hope Orbán gets asked the same next time he’s over.

Hi @Channel4News instead of purporting to care about Jews, you might want to ask Trump - you know, the guy who accused American Jews of 'disloyalty' and said they wouldn't vote for him because he doesn't want their money - if he needs to do more to denounce HIS OWN antisemitism? pic.twitter.com/78ICqMNF24

— aron keller 🔥🐘 (@aronkeller) December 3, 2019

ffs

But maybe they were just trying to bait him into opinionating on our election?

'The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.' – some 'Murican fuckface who likely has a very sensitive and informed opinion on Corbyn and antisemitism that I can't wait to hear so I can finally make sense of it all.

Bodied.

Your second para is not true. https://t.co/zOnVvwzy1s

— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) December 3, 2019

A good day for Mr Vein

Tory minister admits US will be able to increase price of drugs bought by NHS after Brexit https://t.co/jVpSIghkpC

— The Independent (@Independent) December 3, 2019

morning everybody, been wondering if Hugh Grant has any opinions on the Lib Dems's Twitter campaign?

there's no way Trump can keep up this level of self-restraint, i assume they've took his phones off him and his guts are gnawing as the cold turkey swallows him up

Since this thread is now a crossover between us and the American thread, I assume we’ll see more of them here today. So can I ask a totally stupid question with no relation to anything: when did Trump lay off the fake tan (or is he sick?)

wait you mean that's not a gamboge balaclava he's had on his face this whole time?

"Wait Hugh Grant is good again."

Why is he campaigning with Berger tho' 🤯

Tactical voting.

Lol reel politik has an interview with Mike Gapes. Just saw that the actual Labour candidate for Ilford South dropped in a milk dogwhistle as well.

hadn't been aware Finchley was so very un-Lib-Dem before, gotta question the polls that have them closing in tbh

Exception to personal vote rule. I think Berger could do well where any other Lib Dem wouldn’t.

yeah if ever there was a seat where the antisemitism hoo-hah was going to effect a 40% swing away from labour

LDs have never gotten (heh) more than 8000 votes in Finchley & Golders Green - Berger might need three times that...unless...it's just about teaching Corbyn a lesson...

NEW: Ofcom has rejected a Conservative Party complaint about the Channel 4 News climate debate which saw Boris Johnson represented by an ice sculpture after he refused to take part

— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) December 3, 2019

The regulator said Channel 4's "use of editorial techniques" ensured the Tory viewpoint on the climate was "adequately reflected" in the hour-long leaders' debate and the ice sculpture "was not a representation of the PM personally and little editorial focus was given to it...".

— Press Gazette (@pressgazette) December 3, 2019

tbh if I lived there, given the polls I'd be forced to vote LD - one of about four seats in the UK where that's the case mind and it should be made clear that these seats are a tiny minority compared to the ones where lib dems should vote labour

omg now there's a bodying

tbh if I lived there, given the polls I'd be forced to vote LD

did you even look at the 2017 result there?! preposterous

Tactical voting.

"If LibDems (11.1%) vote Lab there’s a chance to kick Tories out

Finchley & Golders Green
Con: 47%
Lab: 43.8%

If LibDems (6.6%) voted Lab there’s a chance to kick Tories out"

polls can be falsified and used to distort public opinion but the ones coming out of that one constituency are pretty unambiguous, no?

in about 645 seats, vote labour, but...yeah

LJ telling us how he is voting Labour is it now

and I did look at the 2017 result, hence '40% swing away from labour'

why do you remotely have me down as a lib dem, it's a joke party redeemed only by the mathematics of it possibly denying the tories a majority

"tbh if I lived there, given the polls I'd be forced to vote LD"

No wonder fake bar charts work.