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

(that's enough Gove puns - Ed.)

the gove raabs outgrieve

Rolling gammon, in case you needed it:

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All these gammons showing their fear of Laura, bless 🙄 pic.twitter.com/8idwQU5IfP

— Dangerous European🌹 (@queenEvieB) December 4, 2019

meanwhile on scotpol twitter wings having another normal one as an SNP apparatchik resigns for making anti-semitic social media posts

So three hours ago Wings posted he was signing off twitter...

He then referenced the "final solution" as equivalent to people resigning from the SNP, compared Israel directly to the Nazis charged at Nuremberg, and pitched that the Nazis should have been better at fighting Russia pic.twitter.com/6KiO94q4d8

— Tristan Gray (@tristangrayedi) December 4, 2019

the gove raabs outgrieve

:D

Just got sent a lib dem dodgy bar chart in the post. It tantalises that the lib Dems could clinch this seat (Emily Thornberry's) by 1% (with a 20% swing). Absolute fucking nonsense, hard to know whether to be insulted at the presumption of my intelligence or frightened that I live in such a fucking shameless mess of disinformation. No mention of Joan Swanson on the flyer btw.

Also appalled to be on the lib Dem mailing list

I think the only campaign literature I've seen so far has been from the Lib Dems.

No idea what was in it, straight in the bin.

My partner got a begging letter from CCHQ yesterday with boris imploring she use her postal vote to give the tories a working majority "because that is the only way stuff get's done". I presume that was meant to arrive before the postal vote did or with it, because that ship has already sailed.

Joan Swanson!

Are they even registered to vote though?
― gyac, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 18:31 (yesterday) link

That question probably wasn't asked however I've seen a tweet saying hostels and shelters go on a voter registration drive

.@skynewssarah asks Chancellor @sajidjavid whether @BorisJohnson is 'running scared' of agreeing to an interview with Andrew Neil.#KayBurley at #Breakfast

Read more on the #GE2019 here 👉 https://t.co/f1KBldLmaA pic.twitter.com/lnTm5QzfZT

— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 5, 2019

There is no chance the BBC will call out the coward BJ for doing this ridiculous dodging is there? "Ongoing negotiations" my arse.

Got Tory, Labour and a strange independent candidate.

Just about to post my ballot. Commonwealth ftw.

Bon courage, indeed!

A friend who lives in Salisbury received these, the clear choice

https://i.imgur.com/2FDtYWN.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZkACf5S.jpg

gotta say his climate credentials are impeccable

yeah there's more substance there than the Tory manifesto

I get all pedantic about the ahistoricity of druidism tbh

yolo morganwg

stephen bush thinks the tories’ private polling must be bad

... because they’re starting to make incoherent promises

Where is he saying this? Hope he’s right. Feeling very down today.

What is this private polling we always hear about and why is it better than regular polling? Honest question, sorry if it's a stupid one.

it’s in his morning call email. you have to subscribe but it goes on their website eventually

it did strike me yesterday that them making uncosted random policy announcements this late in the game... was not a good sign for them. if they’re engaging, they’re losing I think

I assume private polling is their canvass returns

I keep reading conflicting opinions on the LibDem campaign flop. Some saying it's good for the Tories who won't get squeezed as hard in marginals. Some that it's bad for Tories because it means Labour are succeeding in winning the remain vote they were hoping would split. Probably a bit of both, varying from region to region. But I still think LibDems might perform better than the polling suggests. I mean who the fuck would want to own up to voting for them at this stage?

things could pick up for the lib dems again, think they call it dead squirrel bounce

they’re not appealing to remainers or people who renounce austerity

their only hope is to pick up tories with a guilty conscience. if the polling numbers stay quite wide on polling eve, socially liberal tories may plump for them in the south. if polling narrows significantly further, the prospect of letting JC in via the back door may focus minds

letting JC in via the back door

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi.gifer.com%2Forigin%2F0d%2F0d88984570310e486dfa5ba2b32813fb_w200.gif&f=1&nofb=1