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

wow the lib dems' messaging just keeps getting stronger

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

I really don't care do u?

blue and yellow alright

melania trump sends coded message: vote libdems and find yourself in a nightmarish marriage of convenience with a far-right monster

for all that we pride ourselves on being a secular nation we've never had a prime minister who isn't an outspoken christian

Cameron never really seemed to give a shit until he saw a good reason to ladle on the piety. Gordon Brown was a minister's son but I don't remember him talking about religion much at all.

FFS the pearl-clutching about the New Statesman line. Endorsements from publications are worthless shit.

true, but snivelling non-endorsements are worse

yeah true - just don't do one and if anyone asks act like they were never a thing

we are going to own jerusry crulgtny for fence sitting by refusing to make a call

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The Conservatives will pledge £4bn for local public transport despite not including it in their manifesto costings https://t.co/S20xPD0xAy

— Sky News (@SkyNews) 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

Cameron never really seemed to give a shit until he saw a good reason to ladle on the piety. Gordon Brown was a minister's son but I don't remember him talking about religion much at all.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 8:29 AM (fifty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

blair held off converting to catholicism under after he stepped down, and alistair campbell got pissy when a journo asked blair if he prayed with dubya, "we don't do god".

and yeah, gordon brown is a son of the manse and yet i've heard him talk about james maxton more than jesus

TBH I always assumed that "we don't do God" thing was as much of a way of shutting Blair up as anything else.

Yeah but being Catholic as a PM is a big degree of difference in this country to being Anglican or AN Other Protestant denomination, no? Like Blair was a Godfucker but he kept it on the qt because filthy papists

TBH I always assumed that "we don't do God" thing was as much of a way of shutting Blair up as anything else.

― Matt DC, Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:29 AM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

probably true.

it would've been possible for him to say some ecumenical type "christian" soundbites without giving the game away. i remember him doing so tbh, just not that often.

David Cameron and Michael Gove put their kids down for a primary school in Kensington - the Cams got in but the Goves did all sorts of performative churchgoing to ensure their place, including Sarah Vine volunteering to teach Sunday school. Which gives me the creeps, frankly.

We haven’t really forgotten the Gove bibles, have we?

is that some kind of drug slang?

conservatives announcing random uncosted policies at this stage seems... uncharacteristic

given that nothing they say can be trusted it seems like a reasonable strategy tbh

David Cameron and Michael Gove put their kids down for a primary school in Kensington - the Cams got in but the Goves did all sorts of performative churchgoing to ensure their place, including Sarah Vine volunteering to teach Sunday school. Which gives me the creeps, frankly.

We haven’t really forgotten the Gove bibles, have we?

A Bible given to every school child from the Education Secretary, inscribed as such.

BBC report from a foodbank in Grimsby, interview with a couple who just moved to Grimsby having lived in a homeless hostel in Margate for six months, "I like everything Boris is talking about".

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for all that we pride ourselves on being a secular nation we've never had a prime minister who isn't an outspoken christian,

I don't know many that were outspoken Christians, to be honest.

Stafford Cripps was only Chancellor, for instance.

BBC report from a foodbank in Grimsby, interview with a couple who just moved to Grimsby having lived in a homeless hostel in Margate for six months, "I like everything Boris is talking about".

BBC report from a foodbank in Grimsby, interview with a couple who just moved to Grimsby having lived in a homeless hostel in Margate for six months, "I like everything Boris is talking about".

Well as you know I've voted Conservative every election until now

Whoever does his insta is the best.

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5p-1W2odLr/?igshid=y1nhzhusgzxw

Feeling a bit down this lunchtime.. truth hurts I suppose. pic.twitter.com/gIrmDo4QwJ

— Johnny Mercer (@JohnnyMercerUK) December 4, 2019

Accidental Partridge

Pleases Vote for Labour !!!!! Cheers my dears-Edwyn,

— Edwyn Collins (@EdwynCollins) December 4, 2019

Mercer was tweeting racist jibes about Abbott from his constituents the other day

IDS is a goner. faiza should be sending some of these activists to other nearby marginals

Faiza Shaheen and @HackedOffHugh were campaigning outside my house to unseat IDS. Good luck @faizashaheen (hoping you don’t need it, ofc) pic.twitter.com/ey5MxaJ4eB

— Jo Hanna Pearce (@jdpearce) December 4, 2019

i'm a little baffled by the over-effort on this one seat. there does seem to be an element of "symbolism" over comprehensive chess-playing when it comes to momentum's canvassing this time and tbh that sort of shenanigans contributed to tory failures last time around.

(also given what little I know of Australian politics I do not trust the idea of importing anything politics-adjacent from there, but that's just some kneejerk ignorance there really, I admit)

ftr ranked-choice voting and 100% voter enfranchisement are both very good things

And yet we still get Scott Morrison.

think momentum are still directing their activists pretty strategically (including to other london marginals and in the midlands/north etc). think the scenes we're seeing are due to non-momentum directed individuals pitching up to help and who are attracted to the potential totemic scalps of IDS and BJ though. do wish they'd be a bit more tuned in though and travel to other nearby marginals

let's not forget that faiza and other activists have been campaigning in IDS' seat since the weekend after the 2017 election. he was probably already a goner before the 2019 GE was called. wouldn't be surprised to see her have quite a healthy majority

there was this article recently grousing about it - given how poorly directed resources were in the previous campaign due to the wreckers at labour HQ, I think I'm going to take it with a massive pinch of salt

NEW from me: There's some real unhappiness up here in the North West about Labour's campaign strategy.

People trying to run defensive campaigns in marginals are strapped for volunteers, while watching 200 people try to overturn 6,500 Tory majorities...https://t.co/xG7mUvfauS

— Hannah Al-Othman (@HannahAlOthman) November 28, 2019

that particular writer is a regular Corbyn basher and has been travelling throughout the NW recently so she has to write something. But I'm not convinced the ppl organising their ground game are going to make the same mistakes the tories did in '17.

I meant Labour there, just brain melting at moment.

A Bible given to every school child from the Education Secretary, inscribed as such.

ok i got that wrong


https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2012/may/25/michael-gove-bibles-schools-plan


It has also been dismissed as a vanity project because the Bibles are marked "presented by the secretary of state for education".

And yet we still get Scott Morrison.

a functional media would also be a good thing to have, yes

I remember someone from the gideon society coming to visit us in primary school to tell us how a hotel bible had 'saved' him and we were all just like "you'd never read the bible before? omg you're lucky, we get the bible shoved down our throats all the time."

_A Bible given to every school child from the Education Secretary, inscribed as such._


i think importantly and iirr it has an introduction from

GOVE.

gove thy neighbour as thyself

By Gove.

the gove raabs outgrieve

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy Gove is better than wine.