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

this seems... significant

UK medicines pricing clearly on US side of table...

This video from January is US Pharma industry lobby telling US trade negotiators that US-UK trade deal is “an important opportunity” to deal with “artificially depressed prices” in UK - “dictated” via our “primary payer” system pic.twitter.com/ptXlcThTfV

— Faisal Islam (@faisalislam) December 3, 2019

Whether Labour win or not (I gave up on hope a while ago, and only do action) it's a pleasure to watch the Tory mask slip all the way off. Nasty incompetent morons. Eventually things reach a tipping point.

ARTIFICIALLY DEPRESSED PRICES ffs

Like, the idea that you vote Conservative because they're sensible businesslike chaps is long gone, these days Tory voters and activists as far as I can see are all screeching about vote Tory to save us from this inflated balloon monster called Corbyn and omg Greta the environmentalist will murder us all with her nice coherent protests

Salisbury is about as Tory as you get, it's been blue since before the publication of The Great Gatsby, so if Boris is getting a rough ride there then Tory strategists are right to be worried.

They are almost back to being the obvious non-starters they were in 1997, in other words

lol the Labour candidate in Salisbury is a Tom Corbin. Good to see 'King Arthur Pendragon' running again also.

A leading campaigner against racism has resigned from a Church of England advisory body in protest at the archbishop of Canterbury’s support for the chief rabbi’s comments last week on antisemitism in the Labour party.

Gus John, a respected author and academic, said: “As a matter of principle, I cannot continue to work with the Anglican church … after the archbishop of Canterbury’s disgraceful endorsement of the chief rabbi’s unjust condemnation of Jeremy Corbyn and the entire Labour party.”

Welby getting some blowback from last week.

It did seem to be one woman heckling in Salisbury and a toff shouting "good man!" so I'm not sure it counts as a rough ride, but all the same you love to see it

Would party leaders be going to safe seat at the the last week of a campaign?

Thing is even if the only thing you care about politically is building the wall at Dover and ethnically cleansing the shires, there is no sense in which you could call Johnson a good man

I was thinking how pivotal making inroads to some of these northern brexit voting seats are to the Tories strategy and boris doesn't seem to have been up here for a while.

Not sure Johnson has ever set foot in the South Ruislip part of his seat. The tarmac at RAF Northolt doesn't count.

Anyone willing to read this?
https://www.bitebackpublishing.com/books/may-at-10

has anyone done a chris cook style analysis of what the JC/BJ visit locations tell us about their campaigns ?

The BBC liveblog described Johnson's reception in Salisbury as "pretty warm" I think

ie like this https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39874420

i was wondering if he was planning on attending the un climate change conference in madrid. if not, why not? maybe corbz should attend as pm-in-waiting

The Midlands would seem to be where the Tories are expecting to gain most seats from Labour, rather than the North, with good reason too I fear.

Excuse me, John, have you seen this? @LordJohnMann
Who is in charge of standards in public life? The person we pay to investigate antisemitism is being challenged about his attitudes to the Gypsy and Travellers community. Hello? Hello? Anyone out there? Hello? https://t.co/QairYoP3su

— Michael Rosen (@MichaelRosenYes) December 3, 2019

Rosen has been criticising Mann on his silence on Tory AS, his own dodgy racist record against travelling communities and even how his ridic "Tsar" title causes offence with Ashkenazi Jews. Obv to no reply.

Rosen should get the job if Corbyn gets in.

I also didn’t realise he had written this until really recently, and I’ve seen this all over the internet.

http://michaelrosenblog.blogspot.com/2014/05/fascism-i-sometimes-fear.html

Why did John Woodcock, disgraced ex-Labour MP, meet with two MPs from the far-right antisemitic MHP party in Turkey who’s “militant youth wing” Grey Wolves distribute Mein Kampf in Turkish?

If @MainstreamUk claim to be fighting antisemitism and extremism they could start here... pic.twitter.com/jtB1XoTbQg

— Kurdistan Solidarity Campaign (@KurdsCampaign) December 3, 2019

can't believe realpolitik managed to bag the coveted gapes interview before maitlis or neil

This just happened...

For context, my necklace says ‘FUCK BORIS’ 😂😂😂

Nice to meet you @jeremycorbyn! pic.twitter.com/7JOutAboVf

— Matt Read 🇪🇺 (@FoxSaidWhat) December 3, 2019

I’m colour co-ordinated. https://t.co/JZ5yO1Sg8n

— Mike Gapes (@MikeGapes) December 2, 2019

Given that we have a minority government, isn't it odd that the media focus is almost 100% on constituencies where the main opposition party has slim majorities not those where the minority government has slim majorities? No need to answer that.

Tory cunt who presents Look North running an excitable glowing piece about how the Tories could take "Great" Grimsby next week

Adam Bienkov finally getting platformed by JC

.@borisjohnson, you were saying?https://t.co/YWum52jksG

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 3, 2019

Corbyn looking like he’s gunna fuck up anyone who messes with Burgon pic.twitter.com/IouUvg7FJG

— Monster Other (@generousmoblin) December 3, 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/03/no-great-escape-tory-scales-fence-and-bins-to-exit-climate-hustings-lewes?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

url/pretty/much-tells-the-story-lol

profiles in courage

JC snoozing - hasn't shared this yet has he?

This is what happened when people in the U.K. were asked how much health care costs in the U.S.

Remember that our outrageous for-profit system is not the norm in other countries.

We can and we must do better.

We need Medicare for All now.pic.twitter.com/AYGdRf8Lia

— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) December 3, 2019

The halfway house to the US system is the shitty australian system where in theory everything is covered by Medicare but you have to buy insurance if you are over 35 but then you also get charged at random for thing that are not covered by Medicare or insurance (like the full cost of a GP visit unless you are lucky enough to have one that will accept the governments $36.50 consult fee with no top up)

Beware of Tories touting the australian system as a ‘fairer’ halfway house. Beware of Tories touting anything australian.

Somewhere underneath that tweet, this new species popped up:

I'm all for Bernie (in fact I'm a massive fan and I've been following him since 2015), but Corbyn? Absolutely no way.

— L C S 🌍🇬🇧 (@AestheticSigh) December 3, 2019

"22. Scot. Student. Writer. Brexiteer. Left-leaning Red Tory. LGBT. Egalitarian. Working-class. Views are my own. | #BackBoris #Bernie2020 (confusing, I know)"

Left-leaning Red Tory?! Lmao.

please god let that be a troll

probably not. you encounter these freaks in real life.

What a fascinating character

just a narcissistic idiot who probably thinks he's smarter than everyone else and that's why they can't understand his bullshit

You could have stopped at 22 tbf

the worst thing of all is the actual twitter handle

I just want to know if he thinks Jess Phillips is our very own AOC.

lol gyac

Wow, @davidgraeber. Wow.

Thank you for saying it.

Every. Single. Word.

Thank you. pic.twitter.com/2FHtnVd7M1

— James Foster (@JamesEFoster) December 3, 2019

Beware of Tories touting anything australian.

Australia always struck me as just a massive Essex with a desert in the middle, Ed, surprised someone as nice as you can stick living there, frankly.

Bit of a massive generalisation there!

Australian healthcare may be shitty in many respects but I'm not so sure it's worse than the NHS. I can see a GP the same day I need to and he's free - it's not hard to find a GP who only charges the Medicare reimbursement, if you're in a big city at least. And I don't know where Ed gets the idea that you have to have private health insurance over the age of 35. I don't have any private health insurance and I've been treated reasonably well by the system without too many out of pocket costs. That includes all night (non-emergency) hospital stays at little to no expense.

welcome to the thread Kate Andrews, knew you were hiding out there somewhere!

I haven't really experienced any healthcare system but the NHS tbf. But don't want anything more exporting from Australia when we've only just managed to plant Clive James. Have a deep suspicion there will be a sliding scale of how much worse the service gets by how poorer and more serious your health condition is. Also have a deep suspicion that Tories would cherry pick all the worse aspects of Australian Healthcare. Anything but a free at point of delivery system is not good.

the canadian healthcare system is a bit better than the nhs in my experience. i can actually get to see a doctor here lol. thought you have to pay for prescriptions unless you have some coverage through your job - which must be awful and financially crippling for the working poor with chronic illnesses

i.e. not better than the nhs!!

I don't know where Ed gets the idea that you have to have private health insurance over the age of 35.

This is re the Medicare levy right? (which is added to your tax bill over a certain level of earnings if you don't have private health insurance). So it's not strictly true that you have to have private cover, but it's certainly encouraged by the tax system.

Unless things have changed since I last paid attention.

the canadian healthcare system is a bit better than the nhs in my experience. i can actually get to see a doctor here lol. thought you have to pay for prescriptions unless you have some coverage through your job - which must be awful and financially crippling for the working poor with chronic illnesses

― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 3:16 PM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i.e. not better than the nhs!!

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 3:18 PM (five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"in my experience". though, i dunno, the inability to get to see a doctor is a big downside also