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

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Fixed it. pic.twitter.com/8H8LPdxxEK

— Balcony Shirts (@balconyshirts) December 8, 2019

lol what a risible tool

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 17:51 (six years ago)

Contemplating Rangers getting beat, get it up you

éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 December 2019 17:56 (six years ago)

lol get fucked

😬 pic.twitter.com/4IBehi0XWT

— 🚩 The Election Leftorium 🗳️ (@LeftoriumThe) December 8, 2019

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:05 (six years ago)

if IDS isn't doing good in their constituency polling then perhaps they might not like boris either

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:45 (six years ago)

I am not sure at all that many Labour voters will sling a vote to the LibDems in most constituencies with the exception of some of the more affluent areas in or around London where the LDs might genuinely oust the Tory incumbent. Swinson has quite conspicuously failed to detoxify her party among most Labour voters.

Matt DC, Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:48 (six years ago)

He’s definitely rattled. He’s my local MP and he turned up on our doorstep last week. Never seen him before. He told us that If we voted Labour we would lose our house. Really weird conversation. Voting Labour of course pic.twitter.com/ByS5Qt9FD3

— Will Goring (@willgoring) December 1, 2019

Good taste, bit Victorian but who isn't? (jed_), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:51 (six years ago)

I’ll feel ill if LDs undermine Emma Dent Coad out of her seat in Kensington because Sam Gyimah is such a schmuck.

santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:53 (six years ago)

god i would love it if IDS knocked on my door

éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:54 (six years ago)

https://timeentertainment.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/nosferatu.jpg

mark s, Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:55 (six years ago)

i want to see if he can do the levitating bolt upright thing irl

éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:00 (six years ago)

i feel bad for count orlok now tbh, yes a bloodthirsty demon without scruple but he surely hasn't earned this dismal association

mark s, Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:02 (six years ago)

The only campaigning I've been doing is throwing mudballs and clumps of dirty leaves at two Vote Conservative signs near my house and I told some Tory leafleters to fuck off, but even if I had movie star looks and charm I couldn't bring myself to tell someone to vote LibDem - even in a tight marginal. Fuck them forever.

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:03 (six years ago)

between IDS, Rentoul and Frank Field it's possible that the undead have been traduced enough

éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:03 (six years ago)

LibDem voters in Putney, please vote Labour for Fleur Anderson as you should for Faiza Shaheem inChingford Meanwhile Labour voters return the favour and vote tactically LibDem in both Westminster and Kensington. Our voting system imposes brutal choices. https://t.co/VpEMFWSmIA

— Will Hutton (@williamnhutton) December 8, 2019

This could just kill us all in the end

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:14 (six years ago)

Lib Dems need the Labour vote in Richmond Park and a few other places in greater southwest London and nowhere else.

santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:28 (six years ago)

and Finchley ;)

would you believe there are people still going on about the queen's speech thing on the football forums

imago, Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:43 (six years ago)

you on follow follow ?

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:48 (six years ago)

nah wait what

imago, Sunday, 8 December 2019 19:54 (six years ago)

Finding the whole ‘Corbyn fans want us to tactical vote now but were hostile to us for being centrists’ v. depressing. Yes, no one should’ve been preachy or divisive. But honestly, as if it matters. I doubt kids starving due to Universal Credit care what’s happened on Twitter.

— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) December 8, 2019

I like Frances a lot but...no begging from me, centrists can get fucked.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:03 (six years ago)

after decades of been arrogantly told no opposition party is credible without appealing to them - just totally fuck them and let them start another party for the lols.

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:07 (six years ago)

I like Frances a lot but she has a blind spot with certain Labour melts who awarded huge contracts to ATOS for WCA that actually caused disabled people to die.

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:23 (six years ago)

They tried that this year and it got them the square root of fuck all. Most of them (except for Jewish people who are cross with the current leadership) have such demanding-to-speak-to-a-manager energy and one friend got very cross with me for objecting to his use of ‘politically homeless’ (he owns two flats but I did not mention that).

I think what’s necessary is to find a new non-pejorative term for centrist/moderate because these assumed liberal bias people are neither of these things. They are quick to build strawmen into their arguments, quick to cast aspersions on others, and extremely condescending to even those of us who are polite in our disagreements. I fucking hate having to manage their emotions to prevent them from damaging or insulting me.

santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:24 (six years ago)

🐦[Finding the whole ‘Corbyn fans want us to tactical vote now but were hostile to us for being centrists’ v. depressing. Yes, no one should’ve been preachy or divisive. But honestly, as if it matters. I doubt kids starving due to Universal Credit care what’s happened on Twitter.
— Frances Ryan (@DrFrancesRyan) December 8, 2019🕸]🐦

I like Frances a lot but...no begging from me, centrists can get fucked.


Whole load of smugness emanating from centrist twitter this evening, that whole dangling their vote out as though they were going to vote Labour anyway. Cool, let’s have a government that continues to kill people through policy, that reforms the electoral system so you can’t vote them out, and that you profess not to stand. Politics is a game to these people, and they were never the bastions of civility that they now claim politics was pre-Corbyn. Guarantee you search 90% of these peoples timelines you won’t find anything about the Labour campaigners assaulted, about the Windrush deportees, about universal credit. I voted for Miliband even though I didn’t like his policies, even though they used immigration as a literal selling point. But people expect endless ~civility from the left that they never extend themselves. Cunts.

gyac, Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:29 (six years ago)

Never mind Miliband, some of us saps voted for Blair! More than once too!!

I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:37 (six years ago)

I was pleased to see a friend of mine who lives in Putney constituency and is a card-carrying Lib Dem say he will definitely be voting Labour.

santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:40 (six years ago)

just been chatting with a LibDemer elsewhere: "I can't abide Corbyn even though I'm voting for him. I simply loathe Johnson and all he stands for."

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:43 (six years ago)

plenty on the left held their nose and voted for war criminal tony blair - am sure they can do the same to help lift 4m children out of poverty

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 20:58 (six years ago)

"I think what’s necessary is to find a new non-pejorative term for centrist/moderate because these assumed liberal bias people are neither of these things."

A lot of the time it's like a kid having a tantrum and that's what I hate so much when the usual suspects on here or twitter have 'issues'. Like some of it is valid but in the end I don't want to spend my time babysitting. Just stfu, vote Labour, don't brag and act like you are doing everyone a big favour.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:01 (six years ago)

... also stop filling your nappy in public (particularly in the midst of an election) and instead, organise, develop new ideas, and try to win the argument.

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:10 (six years ago)

I pose as an undecided when I meet a Lib Dem* I use the phrase politically homeless, but then say Jo has lost me recently and well Labour are offering a referendum, oh I know he's just awful, but what can you do? I can't say I'm happy about it but I'm going to have to vote Labour (just for the referendum of course)

This has happened precisely once. I'm still unconvinced that actual Lib Dems exist

anvil, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:12 (six years ago)

bit unsettling that ben elton is good again -- however i shall stfu as requested and not mention his bad novels for a few days anyway

mark s, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:22 (six years ago)

brb checking out rory mcgrath's voting intentions

mark s, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:22 (six years ago)

at least you can safely cast aspersions on Richard Curtis' politics or just carry on calling him a cunt!

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:25 (six years ago)

be funny if rory mcgrath was a MI5 agent going deep cover to bring down Momentum

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:29 (six years ago)

I see Rory around Cambridge fairly often and have to pretend not to recognise him. At the radio station where I have a monthly show, they have a clipping from the newspaper where they've sent a youngish female presenter to join in one of his restaurant reviews in what looks superficially like a date, it feels a bit wrong in the current climate to do this with a man recently convicted of stalking, guess maybe it was all her doing and I shouldn't judge, but still.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:49 (six years ago)

yoikes!

calzino, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:51 (six years ago)

> I’ll feel ill if LDs undermine Emma Dent Coad out of her seat in Kensington because Sam Gyimah is such a schmuck.

yeah, i don't understand observer saying to vote LD here.

2017
Lab 16,333
Con 16,313
LDem 4,724

especially as this is where Grenfell tower is

koogs, Sunday, 8 December 2019 21:57 (six years ago)

Went to see some solo improv jazz tonight where the performer exhorted us to imagine that Corbyn had won already as a means of making it happen in reality. I was very cheered by this and am now focussing on doing exactly as she advised.

plax (ico), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:00 (six years ago)

I will say that the answer to your question koogs is that the observer hates Corbyn, Keynesian economic approaches, politics focused on social justice, global demilitarisation, reducing wealth inequality.

plax (ico), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:03 (six years ago)

Etc

plax (ico), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:03 (six years ago)

centrists: "how dare you call us Tories, we are simply grown-ups who want what's best for everybody but aren't deceived by the empty promises of the Trots"

also centrists: "think i might have to reluctantly vote for the dismantling of the welfare state because some of those Momentum kids are really mean"

éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:05 (six years ago)

It's this very strange contortion to be attached to the idea that you are in favour of things that you are consistently actually not in favour of. It's how I feel about dessert.

plax (ico), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:07 (six years ago)

I think I like dessert but I never want it.

plax (ico), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:08 (six years ago)

Anyway, I encourage you all the vote for labour and to have positive thoughts

plax (ico), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:11 (six years ago)

But if you mark in the last two weeks of leader visits, the PM (black crosses) appears to be avoiding that zone. As is Corbyn (red crosses). They're both focussed on narrow Tory defences. PM's visit today to Chingford fits that pattern. (3/4) pic.twitter.com/DxYvgIDdbK

— Chris Cook (@xtophercook) December 8, 2019

Just when you think #ge2019 can’t surprise you any more. On the ground Labour are feeing bullish about...Wycombe. Activists from Oxford, Slough and the rest of Buckinghamshire all being directed to help there (to the irritation of marginal Reading West).

— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) December 8, 2019

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:13 (six years ago)

fuck. I refuse to feel hope

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:14 (six years ago)

look where the assumed front line is in the chris cook tweet...

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:14 (six years ago)

I've been monitoring their facebook advertising at the constituency level.

In the last few days they've swerved massively to defence. They are running ads in only 24 Lab-held seats.

By contrast, they are running ads in 62 Con seats (43 threatened by Lab, 19 by LD)

— Dr Moderate (@centrist_phone) December 8, 2019

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:18 (six years ago)

Corbyn generally goes places where he’ll get good coverage on regional news.

santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:34 (six years ago)

I think that probably explains the visits in the bottom right quadrant

further update from the telephone on the ad spend - trust no threads/polls etc

This analysis correlates with the battleground seats being visited by Boris Johnson in the below thread.

The Tories are pouring resources into their own seats.

The only sensible conclusion is that the Tories are far from confident of a majority.

ENDhttps://t.co/daTjf655sm

— Dr Moderate (@centrist_phone) December 8, 2019

tony blair electric chair (||||||||), Sunday, 8 December 2019 22:52 (six years ago)


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