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

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.

purge 'im!

what makes a person do something like that? what hidden darknesses, what cracks in the moral nature could lead to such a thing?

Endorsements in the 2015 Labour Party leadership election
Liz Kendall

David Aaronovitch, journalist[98]
Nick Cohen, journalist[99]
Philip Collins, journalist
Rod Liddle, journalist[100]
John Mills, businessman and party donor[101]
John Rentoul, journalist[102]
Dave Rowntree, Blur drummer, solicitor, animator, and political activist[103]

posts you had third thoughts abt

just 2nd thoughts bout posting them to the correct thread!

but Rod fucking Liddle?

lol like Aaronovitch or Cohen or Liddle or Rentoul have the interests of the Labour party at heart

― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 7 December 2019 20:21 (thirty-one seconds ago) bookmarkflaglink

Good on @GNev2 for pointing out the link between the apparent rise of racism in society (not just football) and the politics of certain politicians over the past few years. Namecheck for their role model and ringleader, Boris Johnson.

pic.twitter.com/x5fRzitF2e

— Jim Boardman (@JimBoardman) December 7, 2019

well it pains me to say it but good on you, Gary

good greatest hits speech from big john mcd tonight - special guests also included dave ward, manuel cortes, shami chakrabarti (who gave a weirdly rambling speech) and wee dickie leonard

I'm prepping for the #LifeInTheUK test. As a #Polish person, I find the tone of this question jarring, to say the least. The prescribed answer is TRUE. pic.twitter.com/vmCjuDMIci

— Joanna Bagniewska (@JMBagniewska) December 6, 2019

this type of jingoistic ahistorical bullshit being employed to harass EU citizens in the UK is so embarrassingly imbecilic and offensive - I hate this fucking government so much.

angela 'funny tinge' smith's latest video is a joy to a behold pic.twitter.com/JX3zt2sAXN

— jack (@jrc1921) December 6, 2019

xp
although prof D Edgerton notes the acknowledgement that they were a global Empire rather than a small country is baby step forwards for ppl that parrot this shite.

this type of jingoistic ahistorical bullshit being employed to harass EU citizens in the UK is so embarrassingly imbecilic and offensive - I hate this fucking government so much.

I might've mentioned this before at an ILB FAP, but I took this test, and what struck me most was that the WWII section had no reference whatsoever to the holocaust.

There was also the "The UK is a diverse and dynamic nation which welcomes those who want to make a positive contribution to society T/F" question, but frankly I needed the laugh.

That was very good from Gary Neville - presumably in the knowledge it would go viral. Shame about the lack of reaction shots from the rest of the panel.