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

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

You would be going in groups so people will have your back if it gets hostile but as you say it's melt central so it's more likely to be ppl throwing a tantrum. All we can do is give it a go! Good luck!!

A senior government source said the document produced by Labour about the impact of Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal on trade with Northern Ireland (see 9.59am and 10.45am) was an “initial appraisal” compiled by junior civil servants that it had not been signed off at a senior level.

The Conservative party said the document had been produced immediately after Johnson’s deal was struck and was not written or used for decision making purposes.

They pointed to a number of question marks in the document, which they said showed it was an incomplete analysis. They added that the deal was fully compliant with the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement.

so uh is anyone going to ask this senior government source whether the document is inaccurate or are we just going to accept that because it was complied by junior civil servants that there is not in fact going to be a hard border in the irish sea and the prime minister has not actually been lying about it for months

I did a leaflet drop door to door last weekend and doing another tomorrow. I only got one person refusing the leaflet and that was only because she was already at the door signing for a delivery (I'm sure a few others would reject these if able to). Another wearily yelled 'we're not Labour voting!' a few seconds after I put it through their letterbox. This is just covering a hundred or so homes in one of the most Remain areas nationwide and barely worth mentioning but it's the closest I've come to any actual engagement with locals lol

https://politics.theonion.com/boris-johnson-worried-anti-semitism-accusations-against-1840242337

xxxxp Sally Ann Heart is the replacement for Amber Rudd in Hastings & Rye - I will delight in voting against her next week

I wish The Onion would go back to doing satire

Johnson stump speech in Rochester cancelled on police advice

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 6, 2019

Incitement to racial hatred?

Obviously Rochester is a hotbed of malevolent Trotskyism

Hatred of talent, crabs in a bucket, that kind of thing.

apparently there were five protesters there who might have heckled him. I thought these poshboys were born to debate.

Only if it's a mass debate

I'm also in Cambridge (just about - other side of the road is in SE Cambs, and parties flyering don't seem to get this at all) and feel like it will still be lab after this election, just from the number of signs I've seen up, haven't met a single lib dem voter. might offer to drive some people to polls on the 12th but don't reckon they'll need it in a built-up area.

Their +5 charisma bonus only kicks in within walking distance of the Bullingdon Club iirc.

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