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

he doesn't even know how to spell disreputable scumbags.

lol at JANKY CRONUT WHY WON'T U WATCH THE QUEEN'S SPEECH ON XMAS DAY being the new line of attack

Because she shelters nonces, next q

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— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) December 3, 2019

jezza got rumbled...

But today Corbyn hasn’t had such a good outing on royal family territory. In an interview with ITV’s Julia Etchingham he was asked if he watched the Queen’s speech on Christmas day. He said that he normally did, although the full exchange suggests otherwise.

ITV has sent out the transcript of the exchange.

JE: Talk to us a bit about Christmas in the Corbyn household. Do you sit down to watch the Queen’s speech? Mr Corbyn.

JC: It’s on the morning, usually we have it on .. some of the time.

JE: It’s not on in the morning .. it’s at three o’clock in the afternoon

JC: It’s when its repeated .. in the afternoon

JE: So you don’t sit down, as a family, to watch the Queen speech.

JC: We don’t watch television very much on Christmas Day. Maybe a film in the evening. Erm I’d like to do a bit of exercise on Christmas morning

JE: You do some exercise on Christmas morning. I don’t think the Queen’s speech is in the morning. It’s three o’clock in the afternoon. That’s when everybody watches it.

JC: Well. Our Christmas is sometimes ...

JE: You don’t watch it do you Mr Corbyn?

JC: There is lots .. lots to do .. I enjoy the presence of my family and friends around Christmas. Obviously, like everybody else does. And, I also visit the homeless shelter, either on Christmas Day, or the day before, to talk to, and listen to people’s lives, about how they could be made better with a government that cared for them.

It’s not quite Frost/Nixon, although Corbyn would probably have been better off just saying he caught up with the Queen’s speech through the news (if at all), like most of the population.

So I spoke with Jo Swinson this morning. https://t.co/8bkJErxTyc

— Benny 🦁Hunter (@BennnyH) December 4, 2019

she's so fucking bad at this

what's wrong with "what kind of senile old spanner watches the Queen's fucking speech?"

Pretty good odds that the people who actually give a fuck won't be voting for him anyway

mr corbyn don't you think that the time you waste with your family or volunteering at a local homeless shelter on xmas day would be better spent in blank-faced supplication before the televised image of our queen

"I am pissed off my face on Snowballs and sleeping in front of a Disney movie by 3 o'clock on Christmas Day"

meanwhile, in international scumbag news

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had to look that up from the image URL, but jfc

can't believe professor x is fash now, smdh

i was gonna do the old "fascist monster with blood on his hands meets Viktor Orbán" riff but it's such a beautiful picture

For the sake of overseas readers I think we should make clear that wacthing the Queen's Speech on television at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on Christmas Day is not normal behaviour in the UK.

is that Scruton in the wheelchair?

the hits just keep coming

Boris Johnson made claims that children of working mothers in low-income families were “unloved and undisciplined” and more likely to “mug you on the street corner”, it has emerged.

In a 2006 collection of journalism, entitled Have I Got Views for You, Johnson bemoaned the increasing tendency of women to work, saying they had been “socially gestapoed into the workplace”.

“In the last 30 years an ever-growing proportion of British women have been ‘incentivised’ or socially gestapoed into the workplace, on what seems to me to be the dubious assumption that the harder a woman works the happier she will be, when I am not sure that is true of women or anyone else,” he wrote.

In the book, published before he became mayor of London, Johnson said an increasing number of female graduates tended to pair up with male graduates – a process known by economists as “assortative mating” – and that they then pool their advantages.

“The result is that in families on lower incomes the women have absolutely no choice but to work, often with adverse consequences for family life and society as a whole – in that unloved and undisciplined children are more likely to become hoodies, Neets [not in education, employment or training] and mug you on the street corner.”

what are some of the low-key non-fanfare labour policies that people are excited about ?

xxp

it is, getting some kind of award for inspiring Orbán to hate Muslims

Although he likes to see himself as a think outside the box conservative academic, he's looking like he needs to start thinking about getting a box measured for him in that pic!

reassuring!

I asked Boris Johnson if he had made crystal clear to Donald Trump that the NHS and pharmaceuticals should not be part of trade talks. He didn’t answer, gave a three-minute stump speech about Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn, and ended the press conference... pic.twitter.com/c2vjhmlwYe

— Benjamin Kentish (@BenKentish) December 4, 2019

(xp) Who is that?

sir Roger Scruton

Jesus Christ, what happened to him?

The Big C for a big c?

he's started vaping crystal meth recently

Bit late Sadiq

“It’s heartbreaking to think the leader of a great country like the USA is clearly a racist.”@SadiqKhan calls out @realDonaldTrump during his visit to London. #NATOmeeting pic.twitter.com/mMckJgvNuV

— PoliticsJOE (@PoliticsJOE_UK) December 4, 2019

oh noes, an openly racist american president, unthinkable

JE: You don’t watch it do you Mr Corbyn?

This had me lolling. And it made me look up how much support there is for the monarchy in the UK. Then I stopped lolling :(

just one of the many factors that makes us such as profoundly disappointing nation

As a subordinate of the Orange Kingdom I feel you in this regard.

absolute state of this prick:

Former Labour minister Ivan Lewis urges people to vote Tory to keep Corbyn out of No 10

The former Labour minister Ivan Lewis, who resigned from the party last year criticising Jeremy Corbyn’s handling of antisemitism, is now urging people in his constituency to vote Conservative. At the time he resigned Lewis had been suspended from the party over sexual harassment allegations, but he claimed the investigation was being prolonged for political reasons.

Lewis is standing as an independent candidate in Bury South, where he had a majority of almost 6,000 over the Tories in 2017. But now he says people should vote for his Tory opponent because he thinks the priority is for Corbyn to lose.

In a post on Facebook he said:

I say to my Labour friends, Corbyn’s Labour party is not the Labour party of our parents and grandparents. It is unreasonable of me to expect you all to leave the party because of antisemitism. But it is unreasonable of you to admit there is a serious antisemitism problem in the party then expect me to join you in the mantra ‘but the most important thing is we have a Labour government’. Imagine if this institutionalised racism was against any other minority community ...

At this election, the future of our country is on the line like never before. The only way to stop Corbyn in Bury South is to vote Conservative. This is not a decision I have taken lightly but I believe it to be in the best interests of the constituency and the country.

I've said it before but having to swear fealty to the Queen of the United Kingdom in order to become a Canadian citizen is even more absurd and humiliating, especially when you live in Quebec.

Huge uptick in Tribune subscriptions today, eh?

have any other parties’ activists been assaulted ?

Heartbroken to hear from one of my volunteers who has been assaulted today, in broad daylight, while delivering leaflets. I'm grateful to @CheshirePolice who are dealing with it, and I hope candidates and supporters of all parties will join me in condemning this act of cowardice.

— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) December 4, 2019

Corbyn literally made jam for the Queen so if he said he watched the Queen's Speech tbh I'd believe him. I doubt Christmas is much fun in the Corbyn household tbh.

They're probably like my parents. Corn chowder on Christmas Eve followed by quiet contemplation and and early bedtime. They might as well be Presbyterian.

Imagine if this institutionalised racism was against any other minority community ...

have any other parties’ activists been assaulted ?
🐦[Heartbroken to hear from one of my volunteers who has been assaulted today, in broad daylight, while delivering leaflets. I’m grateful to @CheshirePolice🕸 who are dealing with it, and I hope candidates and supporters of all parties will join me in condemning this act of cowardice.
— Charlotte Nichols (@charlotte2153) December 4, 2019🕸]🐦

for all that we pride ourselves on being a secular nation we've never had a prime minister who isn't an outspoken christian, although really who knows what boris believes in

my point being, there are dark holy forces at play against jezza

Amazing that Corbyn and Tony Blair both had rumours about them taking communion while not being proper Catholics

probably spends it anticipating (dreading in his case) the boxing day fixtures like the rest of us. bet his christmas dinner condiment game is top notch too

although really who knows what boris believes in

boris believes in boris iirc

xp that’s not what I meant

Lewis is standing as an independent candidate in Bury South, where he had a majority of almost 6,000 over the Tories in 2017. But now he says people should vote for his Tory opponent because he thinks the priority is for Corbyn to lose.

(grumpy noises)

prob pointing out the obvious here but Bury South includes Prestwich, home to the largest Jewish community in the UK outside London iirc

I was wondering about the views and likely voting intentions of the community there vs, say, Finchley - not that I imagine either is at all homogeneous - in the wake of the press reaction to Mirvis's comments last week, as a university friend was from there - Jewish, lefty, working class & proud, Labour voter but already grumpy about Blair (this was 1st term of Blair era); often used to get in political arguments with a North London Jewish acquaintance who was the Toriest Tory I ever met

a quick spy on social media tells me they're both voting Lib Dem this time round, and I found it v funny to think of these two old antagonists voting for the same party

(my second pointless "I knew this guy who..." anecdote of the day; sorry, all)

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/04/bishop-auckland-toys-with-tories-in-once-unthinkable-revolution-labour

Revolution,,,

“I’ve been a Labour member and my family has always voted Labour,” he says, “but the party around here has turned nasty in my opinion, since the Brexit referendum. I voted to leave, but leave voters are being called racist and far right, which is not how it is.

Why do Guardian writers (and others) do this? Report this kind of statement but then never seem to follow up by asking why the person did vote Leave? I am so keen to hear the non-racist reasons but every time blood out of a stone.

they've all seemingly settled on 'traffic jams getting worse'

according to that c4 news focus group, it was so that we'd stop putting money into the eu and put it into the nhs and local services

wow the lib dems' messaging just keeps getting stronger

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— Sam Gyimah 🔶 (@SamGyimah) December 3, 2019