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

What a hateful fucknugget.

We'd learn a lot more about the people from going on something like Joe Rogan than going through circus exercises like Neil that don't really tell us anything at all

I reckon Neil would go a bit easier on a bag of shit than the mauling he gave Peppa Pig.

Considering how compromised Neil is the idea that he could derail a Conservative election campaign by being such a bloody toughie is complete nonsense

Laura K Friday again. How she keeps her job is beyond me ffs.

Also, Pom otm re: hateful fucknugget.

How the fuck do you get away with saying shit like 'I’m in favour of people of colour coming to this country but I think we should have it democratically controlled' without being called out on what you are: a fuming pile of racist manure? What does the attribute 'of colour' have to do with anything other than, you know, dogwhistling?

it's not dogwhistling, it's dogfoghorning

boris' endless repetition of brexit's incredible, transformative effect on vat applied to tampons will never not be hilarious to me - is that really the issue that leave voters have been struggling towards?

No one loves women as much as he does, no one.

“The public are fed up with interviews that are all about the interviewer and endless interruptions. The format is tired and broken and needs to change if it is to start engaging and informing the public again.”

^^i mean this is kind of correct!!

― mark s, Friday, 6 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

You trust the tale too much!

Neill comprehensively trashed May in 2017 iirc, not like that’s a high bar

channel 4 have deleted the clip of BJ saying he wants to exert democratic control over people of colour emigrating to britain. what is going on

Xp
That's not even a bar it's a length of wet string or something

boris' endless repetition of brexit's incredible, transformative effect on vat applied to tampons will never not be hilarious to me - is that really the issue that leave voters have been struggling towards?

more to the point it's a complete fucking lie

well, yeah

the eu tax regs on that are due for review within the next parliament anyway amirite?

xp could have phrased this better when we’re talking about the tampon tax

Is tampon tax meant to shore up his support with female voters or something? It’s so clumsy. “Er women...use tampons...nobody likes tax...”
Have to admit it wouldn’t be in my top 300 considerations, and suspect many others feel the same.

they’re claiming he said “people of talent” not “people of colour”

who are you going to believe, cchq or your lying ears

It's laurel vs yanny all over again.

"people of talent" totally normal everyday phrase

Is tampon tax meant to shore up his support with female voters or something? It’s so clumsy. “Er women...use tampons...nobody likes tax...”

genuinely i think this is it, just utter dumbfuckery

Gotta keep that plentiful fifth of his party on side

Must admit I rely on subtitles and almost never play the audio on tweeted clips

Maybe expert lipreader Rob Lowe can weigh in

the other infuriating thing about that immigration clip is johnson blithely saying that we'll have control of our immigration system for the first time in decades when we've never not had control, and indeed previous conservative policy aimed at driving immigration down absolutely proves as much

Boris Johnson says “people of talent” not “people of colour.”

Our earlier tweet was a mistake. We misheard and we apologise.

— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) December 6, 2019

fucking state

can we compromise and agree that he said 'white people of talent'

lmao

Boris Johnson has unveiled a new election poster in a visit to Kent.
It declares: “Get Britain out of neutral.”

The poster does not state which gear the Conservatives want to put Britain in. The gearstick has a choice of gears one to five and reverse.

I've listened more closely now and I'm pretty sure he says either "people of poundland" or "people of Tollund".

Nah, he says 'people of Caller', i.e. the Catalan name for Cagliari.

lol chuka is good again:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELGeLVaW4AAScEi?format=jpg

xxp “I’ve been a lifelong Labour voter for two years but I don’t like that Jeyrem Cromblyn”
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Moorleiche_von_Tollund_J%C3%BCtland_um_100_n_Chr_hingerichtet.jpg

I'm sure this will get as much traction as Stupid Womangate a year ago.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson says there will be no checks on goods going between Northern Ireland and Great Britain

— Sky News Breaking (@SkyNewsBreak) December 6, 2019

stephen bush otm

While both documents perfectly illustrate the case Labour wants to make, neither document is “new”. But Team Corbyn know full well that the only way to get most of the press, particularly our all-important general interest broadcasters, to cover policy is to add the words “Top Secret” in big shiny letters on it. So after an NHS story that revealed nothing we already know, we have a customs and regulatory story that reveals nothing that isn’t in Boris Johnson’s withdrawal agreement. Yet without these leaks, coverage of the content of Johnson’s Brexit deal would be even thinner than it currently is.

One of the troubling things about this election is that, outside of the specialist press and Sky News, the policy detail of Johnson’s Brexit plan has barely been scrutinised. That matters not just because of the election and how it might change the result but what happens next. Trade policy isn’t, largely, about things that are hidden from view: it’s about the granular detail of things like the withdrawal agreement – the kind of thing that the BBC’s Brexitcast podcast, the most influential Brexit podcast, frequently describes as “nerdy”.

It’s not nerdy – it’s essential, and it shouldn’t require the leader of the opposition to treat things we already know as top secret for it to be covered properly.

'Breaking'? It sure is..xp

Even Limmy is getting serious (he might do this now and then I don't follow just see the odd tweet in my timeline):

Who remembers the welfare state? Who remembers social security? What would happen is we'd all chip in a portion of our tax to make sure that people down on their luck weren't starving themselves for days. https://t.co/6zDrZcj6i8

— twitch.tv/Limmy (@DaftLimmy) December 5, 2019

As expected:

It said: “Boris Johnson says ‘people of talent’ not ‘people of colour’. Our earlier tweet was a mistake. We misheard and we apologise.”

A senior Tory Source:

This shows why it has been impossible to cooperate with Channel 4 News, they are campaigners in this election – inventing the most damaging things possible to further their campaign against Brexit.’ This sort of thing is why so many media organisations have collapsing audiences. We sadly do not expect the senior management at Channel 4 to take this terrible mistake seriously and we expect more of the same.

pure trumpism, you love to see it in british politics

Bodes well for the transatlantic deal to come.

weird that they didn't come out swinging when bbc errors made boris look better

Looking at BJ’s mouth, short of a Nick Park animation it couldn’t be more clear that he’s saying ‘colour’ there.

There are two videos which sound remarkably different

Laura's cracked

PM admitted there would be some checks in this interview here - acknowledges this was compromise with EU to avoid checks on Irish border - he won’t admit it today https://t.co/bEum1Lcarc

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 6, 2019

Boris Johnson has unveiled a new election poster in a visit to Kent.
It declares: “Get Britain out of neutral.”
The poster does not state which gear the Conservatives want to put Britain in. The gearstick has a choice of gears one to five and reverse.

saw this on the Beeb while in the dentist's waiting room, it was more excruciating to watch live than the subsequent prodding of my teeth

the two have extremely similar mouth shapes. i reckon he did it on purpose as a plausibly deniable dogwhistle (with the side-aim of getting to wreck the libs when they LIE about what he said - the narrative is now an attack on Corbyn's strength, his honesty - see the queen's speech thing - and by extension the honesty of the entire left, because obviously he's a ducking walking falsehood)

duck sake

xxp

just had a filling this morning done by a nervous student dentist who kept having to leave the room every 10 minutes to get the qualified dentist to come and check her work - oh the joys of being non-paying NHS scum!

v cool that laura k is now acknowledging that boris is full of shit based on, er, an interview she herself did with him less than three months ago

that's the kind of mastery of the facts you need from a bbc politics correspondent

oof, tough crowd for this masterclass in saying the quiet part loud

Conservative candidate Sally Ann Heart defending her view that Disabled people / those with learning disabilities should be paid less as they ‘Don’t understand money’! Actually unbelievable. Audience do not agree... #GeneralElection19 #tory #jc4pm pic.twitter.com/zg5CVvGqea

— Rosie Clarke (@Rknepper_) December 5, 2019

Wonderful. At least people are trying.

RE: Volunteering for Labour.

I just wanna say, to people like me who're shy and anxious while it may seem all the "Canvassing with Labour is amazing" stuff is hyperbole it really is a good experience.

Fellow members are great and 99.9% of the public are at least polite.

— Third Sector Workhouse (@LamentablyAwake) December 6, 2019

I’ve been dithering about getting involved this weekend, I think they need all the help they can get - labour squeaked ahead in 2015 and won comfortably last time round, but we’ve been fucking carpet bombed by Lib Dem shit these last few weeks and apparently there’s some sort of issue with lab activists not showing up. Plus anecdotally Cambridge is melt central, just based on pub chatter &c

What’s stopping me isn’t just anxiety about speaking to potentially hostile strangers but also what aps said above, I feel like someone like me showing up at the door turns ppl off / confirms something about labour supporters in their minds