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

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.

2xp

if you'd left out the 2xp there I'd have had to set the Pitt Club on you

That's good mfktz, been a bit worried about Cambridge

It’s hilarious that Johnson is campaigning in Rochester when the local MP, Kelly Tolhurst, hasn’t been seen for months. You genuinely wouldn’t know there was an election on. Last time she put some posters up but they got vandalised, so she had apparently just decided not to bother. She’ll probably get a majority of 30k.

I always confuse Rochester, Rochdale and Rotherham, obviously quite different places.

https://farm5.static.flickr.com/4055/4398771692_5d1e2d6e4b_o.jpg

God was it Johnny Nobhead Depp who made some shitty film about Rochester or did I hallucinate that?

I' th' isle of Britain, long since famous grown
For breeding the best cunts in Christendom,
There reigns, and oh! long may he reign and thrive,
The easiest King and best-bred man alive.
Him no ambition moves to get renown 5
Like the French fool, that wanders up and down
Starving his people, hazarding his crown.
Peace is his aim, his gentleness is such,
And love he loves, for he loves fucking much.
---Nor are his high desires above his strength: 10
His scepter and his prick are of a length;
And she may sway the one who plays with th' other,
And make him little wiser than his brother.
Poor prince! thy prick, like thy buffoons at Court,
Will govern thee because it makes thee sport. 15
'Tis sure the sauciest prick that e'er did swive,
The proudest, peremptoriest prick alive.
Though safety, law, religion, life lay on 't,
'Twould break through all to make its way to cunt.
Restless he rolls about from whore to whore, 20
A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
---To Carwell, the most dear of all his dears,
The best relief of his declining years,
Oft he bewails his fortune, and her fate:
To love so well, and be beloved so late. 25
For though in her he settles well his tarse,
Yet his dull, graceless ballocks hang an arse.
This you'd believe, had I but time to tell ye
The pains it costs to poor, laborious Nelly,
Whilst she employs hands, fingers, mouth, and thighs, 30
Ere she can raise the member she enjoys.
---All monarchs I hate, and the thrones they sit on,
---From the hector of France to the cully of Britain.

I bet Depp has never even been to Spotland, the clueless cunt

I would like to see a version of Jane Eyre with a Mr Rotherham

EY UP LASS YOU'LL NEVER PLAY FOR YORKSHIRE

Def encouraging xp, in contrast I’ve seen way more LD signs than labour but that was also the case in 2017. idk quite worried in general so it’s prob good to go and do something positive, no point despairing until fri 13th when we will all be too busy leaning against wet paint & being splashed by buses driving through puddles anyway

I counted the signs when I cycled down Sedgwick St the other week, it was 10 labour to 4 lib dem, have seen a couple of green signs about, not a single conservative which is interesting when we are surrounded by them on all sides. Lived in Ely before and the signs were like 60% tory, and that was in the city.

It’s hilarious that Johnson is campaigning in Rochester when the local MP, Kelly Tolhurst, hasn’t been seen for months. You genuinely wouldn’t know there was an election on. Last time she put some posters up but they got vandalised, so she had apparently just decided not to bother. She’ll probably get a majority of 30k.

― Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 6 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

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whoever is running labour's social media for this campaign deserves a raise

We can’t let him get away with this. pic.twitter.com/iL5hdRZUUV

— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) December 6, 2019

Oof

Where are we with one week to go? A thread:

In 2017 I went to a pool club in Northfield, near where I grew up in Birmingham. Whatever was being said nationally, it was where I realised the Labour vote was holding up. https://t.co/EAT7lxpax1

It didn’t feel like this time.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 6, 2019

Worth mentioning again that those historic abuse investigations he derides include his old prep school.

The Midlands swallowed Thatcherism whole in the 80s and has never really gone back, the Birmingham/Cov and environs megalopolis is an island of multiculturalism in a sea of reactionary self-satisfied bourgie swine

Yes I think if it's bad next Friday then I think we can conclude that Corbyn was merely arresting a kind of long-term Lab decline in 2017.

I am not sure why Facebook ads seem to be doing a job on Corbyn. I am sure the Tories are ramping it up but the IRA stuff was very strong in 2017 too. Something Lewis is picking up but I wonder if he will examine properly.

In the meantime he has carried on with the thread:

Then just across town, there’s the young. Every single one of the under 25s voting Labour. Virtually all of the 30 somethings too: “best Christmas present we could have is a Labour govt” one said. Excitement is real.

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 6, 2019

I dunno if the IRA Corbs/Diane Abbott is stupid memes have ever been shared by or influential on anybody who isn't a reactionary Tory cunt tho, it's hardly hearts and minds stuff

I think lewis is generally p.good. it's just when 40% of the country voted labour just two years ago, and we never hear about those people (only about the people who are now soft labour or 'lifelong labour now tory')... it does make you sceptical. perhaps this time round he spoke to some of the people from edelman's 2017 birmingham focus groups? (editor's note: all birmingham labour MPs were returned with larger majorities)
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/leave-voters-must-vote-tory-if-they-believe-in-democracy-says-focus-group_uk_590afe60e4b02655f8448327

Well Lewis is saying I went to x place and the vote was holding up now it isn't. All will be revealed in a week. We may need the young vote to increase the vote by 10% from last time.

Someone in the comments said "young ppl don't bother with fbook" so whatever is happening in social media isn't reaching them.

there are lots of activists' reports saying that the labour vote is holding up in those places though (and they'll have the 2017/15/10 canvass returns to compare against.) as you say, we'll see in a week and don't doubt lewis' good faith reporting (unlike e.g. paul brand's "lifelong labour voters" are all telling me they'll vote tory... turns out he's speaking to people in tory market towns.)

Lol who is on fb, I'm not even young but it's just aunties

not gonna fret over one of the ten Birmingham seats finally flipping blue for a while just because ex-Kippers there are getting antsy again especially seeing as went to the one seat in that region with the biggest risk of it

not as bad as bloody Paul Brand concern trolling over factory workers in Derbyshire Dales who said they always voted Labour but now aren't without emphasising that's one of the Toriest seats north of Northampton