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

when the going gets tough it's time to dig the old spirograph out

In the interests of balance, let’s have a tangled web of Johnson’s links to Bannon, Orban, Atlantic Bridge, various Russians who’ve paid £160k to play tennis with him - you get the drift!

isn't there a report about that waiting to be leaked

From the Tory manifesto costing document - learning disability and autism support eliminated totally by 2024 pic.twitter.com/fC7nJm4kkK

— Christmas Eve ain't what it used to be (@bloonface) December 7, 2019

YouGov debate sample included just 36 voters under 24, but included 409 over 65. Hmm 🤔#YouGov #BBCDebate #BBCLeadersDebate pic.twitter.com/I5nOeIIAtT

— Shaun Bonsal (@shaunbonsal) December 7, 2019

frankie boyle immortalised by '3G Wodehouse'

Are we expecting the suppressed Russia report will be leaked closer to the election?

No.

i'm sure Laura will explain how there's nothing in it that we don't already know and anyway it's not true

No - and the whole reason Tories are being all ‘Russians leaked to Reddit’ is to undermine the next few days of 10am press conferences where Corbyn shows some receipts.

As though Russia wouldn't prefer a Johnson-led hard Brexit.

Not too happy that we've ended up going down the piss tape route tbh - always waiting for that bombshell to drop that will conclusively swing the election, that bombshell which never comes.

which if it came would barely alter the support because the support is based on happily accepting/ignoring that the lad you're voting for is a monster

Celebrating trolldom, more like.

as long as the snowflakes are crushed who gives a fuck who's doing the crushing?

Unless said snowflake is you, which simply cannot compute to begin with.

No - and the whole reason Tories are being all ‘Russians leaked to Reddit’ is to undermine the next few days of 10am press conferences where Corbyn shows some receipts.

very unclear that reddit's "evidence" here is any more than ben nimmo and the atlantic council's unsourced say-so -- this isn't independent confirmation of the claim, it's reddit passing the buck to save themselves intrusive spook grief down the line

Also, this is not 'disinformation', the documents are genuine and had been on Reddit for weeks.

Sure to both of you. I’m just saying “this was leaked by gru” is not an untenable position to take in good faith.

I'm sure the Tories will leave it at "this was leaked by Russia".

I can recall some mentions of Reddit and Salisbury in a famous hit song by those visionary phrophets Chas & Dave

there ain't no pleasing gru

LOL

Гертча!

off to see big john mcd speak only glasgow. will report back

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talking of all this Russian stuff, this is something I didn't know about Prof Adam Tooze:

Tooze is a grandson of the British civil servant and Soviet spy Arthur Wynn and his wife, Peggy Moxon. Tooze's 2006 book, The Wages of Destruction, is dedicated to them.

I see our local Conservative candidate has now been accused of antisemitism and islamophobia, "we should be able to exploit the disabled" not enough. she'll still probably end up winning

what concerns me slightly is that around Hastings in 2017 there were loads of Labour posters in windows. this time I'm hardly seeing any posters for any party. guess people are fed up with elections

I requested a window poster last week when Labour phoned me and they still haven't sent me. Have they run out or something?

Westminster Voting Intention:

CON: 42% (=)
LAB: 36% (+4)
LDM: 11% (-1)
BXP: 4% (+1)
GRN: 2% (=)

Via @SavantaComRes, 2-5 Dec.
Changes w/ 2-3 Dec.

— Election Maps UK (@ElectionMapsUK) December 7, 2019

decent sized crowd here already (starts at 5) for a dreich saturday night

SavantaComRades

I can't have my hopes raised like that. It's bad for me. I'll end up crying on the bus.

I always said the only pollsters that really know what they are doing are those SavantaComRade lads.

what concerns me slightly is that around Hastings in 2017 there were loads of Labour posters in windows. this time I'm hardly seeing any posters for any party. guess people are fed up with elections

I almost get dewy-eyed at childhood memories of endless rows of Vote Labour posters throughout the whole estate. Some of these weirdos used to put Christ Is Risen posters up at Easter as well!

I was about to say how weird that is, before remembering how almost all my relatives had those sacred heart of Jesus things on their walls

lol there's one round the corner from me got the "Vote Labour" poster up and a handwritten "Religious people please don't knock here" next to it

lol Friends of The earth have said Labour are greener than the Green Party atm and Caroline is having a boo about crude tickboxes!

"all my relatives had those sacred heart of Jesus things on their walls"

with the little red light? when I was a kid i thought: Cool, all year round xmas decorations

went canvassing today a lot closer to home, in Walthamstow, and man what a different vibe from Westminster/City of London! Labour posters everywhere, in windows, in vans, everyone totally friendly. two "don't knows", one Green, everyone else on our list Labour. extremely good for the soul if not exactly crucial given how safe the seat is. my son very happy that he finally got to do the spiel on the doorstep a few times all by himself, which tickled quite a few people.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELMhEqrWsAAdq5f?format=jpg&name=small
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELMhFD6WoAAsTmQ?format=jpg&name=small

respect!

Sure sex is good but have you ever convinced a woman in her mid-50s, who’s almost always voted conservative, to vote labour on her own doorstep

— Simon Renshaw (@SiRenshaw) December 7, 2019

Christmas Canvassing. Gotta love it! ⁦@UKLabour⁩ pic.twitter.com/6OE3fHmuJW

— David Rowntree (@DaveRowntree) December 7, 2019

Blur is good again.

Let's not get silly

Dave Rowntree endorsed and voted for Liz Kendall in the 2015 Labour leadership election.

Blur is bad again.