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

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"

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.

I think I like dessert but I never want it.

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

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

fuck. I refuse to feel hope

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

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

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

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.

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— Dr Moderate (@centrist_phone) December 8, 2019

Apologies in advance for more Laura K posting but this is hilarious.

Brass neck's been one of central features of this campaign - Johnson on checks (remember he DID admit back in Oct there'd be extra checks under Brexit deal however much he obfuscates over it now - define check, and define customs declaration), or Corbyn on watching the Queen

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 9, 2019

Amazing. Everything that's terrible about her use of Twitter in one message.

I had to read it several times to parse what she was saying as well.

fair and balanced

that is one way of taking on the parody accounts

They are similar because they both represent a danger to the Union.

me reading that laura k tweet

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=http%3A%2F%2F1.bp.blogspot.com%2F-06NpQFp-Cc0%2FT8_cfS3LoFI%2FAAAAAAAABS4%2F_8SoBCn-bD0%2Fs1600%2Fthrowing-computer.gif&f=1&nofb=1

Blessing your timelines:

This absolute hero has sustained the Jewish and Indian left in Harrow for the past couple of weeks. Thanks for the dosa, kindness and patience comrade #votelabour pic.twitter.com/hbhRX7VWGv

— Natasha Dhumma (@natashadhumma) December 8, 2019

Twitter socialists assembling around our new psephological leader pic.twitter.com/0rab9TwZM9

— Red Robbo (@Orwell_Fan_Fan) December 8, 2019

Just bumped into [eminent broadcaster] at the café who still thinks Brexit won’t happen. He said the people he met while on the road were much more intelligent than the vox pop snapshots would have us believe, and reading between the lines he must think we’re headed for hung parliament territory.

intelligence vs legitimate concerns vs get brexit done: a nation decides

Lol

a woman i doorknocked earlier told me she was Jo Swinson’s godmother........ the joke part is she’s thinking of voting Labour 😜

— Morag🌹vote Labour🌹 (@MoragInnes) December 8, 2019

Brian Eno is, and always will be, good.

Truth bomb.

Brian Eno calls out the BBC and press for their biased reporting of Jeremy Corbyn. A study found 75% of media stories about Jeremy Corbyn lacked balance. pic.twitter.com/eekjtTA02B

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) December 8, 2019

notable how many normally pretty reasonable people have (understandably) gone full crank left at the BBC in this election

meanwhile doubtless as a harbinger of things to come, as i lay in bed last night reading to the helldude's legal podcast @ALABseries, i was getting annoyed at the car outside continuously tooting its horn. eventually i looked out of my bedroom window and well might it toot, because it was on on fire, about 100 feet away down in the swimming pool car park, blazing wildly, sending up thick black smoke, the electrics every now and then bursting into showers of sparks. i went up on the roof to see if hackney rioting (the last cars on fire in the square were in 2011, though they were all on the other, wilder side of the square). but i couldn't make anything out. there were distant sirens but there are always distant sirens.

priti patel having a normal one in the telegraph I see

exactly 52 more deaths under Labour, hope future Jormo Crowbin is happy with that on his consicence

itt: mark s posts a bobby gillespie-esque paean to flaming automobiles

I said, "Corbsby, you're beautiful -
These are truly the last days"

We woke up one morning and fell a little further down

Arlene Foster...thank you for the critical support at this trying time.

brb changing my name to "chaosmos s"

Cars will burn whatever the outcome:

Voting this man out of power is urgent but regardless of the outcome of the election we are going to have to work hard to combat the reactionary energies that have been stirred up by this election campaign and the Brexit debacle. https://t.co/zvfdsEzRv2

— Action Short Of Strike continues (@MediocreDave) December 9, 2019

My Facebook wall is getting absolutely plastered with paid ad's from all sorts of dicey anti-Corbyn 'private donors' this morning. Going to be a fun week.

Oh my god 😱 this is nuts @HackedOffHugh the Best for Britain what everyone is going on about is saying LibDem but their own polling now has Labour in touching distance of the Tories with LibDems miles back.. Hugh you have to tell people Dec 12th Vote Labour in Finchley 🌹 pic.twitter.com/UjUnbYkyGu

— ARTIST TAXI DRIVER (@chunkymark) December 8, 2019

Finchley also a massive con!

Huge shout to the guy yesterday who told me he was voting labour, but his "little shit of a son" was a tory.

— Felix Navidad (@felix_cohen) December 9, 2019

blessed #content

Finally a truth bomb from the media on how popular Jeremy Corbyn really is. This is from right now - 2019 election. pic.twitter.com/wN6mZTBsFO

— Della (@poetinpyjama) December 8, 2019

We need an 'Enough Is Enough' demo re Johnson and co's racist outbursts

*throws up hands* well fine, I don't know

given the confusion over who's actually the best challenger, Finchley Imago is now back on Team Labour. besides, who wants Berger as their MP ffs

Of course you don't know

am I gonna have to bump that thread again

Looks like another Priti Scandal may be about to unfold.

Understand at least one media company has obtained sensitive documents from Patel’s time at Shandwick where she was paid by the Myanmar dictatorship to cover for forced child labour on a joint BAT/Myanmar army run factory.

— Nick🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@nicktolhurst) December 9, 2019

Patel is a massive liability with terrible judgement part 784.

she is going to murder one person a week if labour win

LJ - don't know what you are talking about and don't care

Having spent Saturday canvassing, on Sunday morning I went out and bought an Agatha Christie novel. The middle-aged middle-class lady (owner?) behind the till in the crowded, well-to-do bookshop expressed her admiration for Agatha Christie, then nodded to my sticker and said something like: 'Here's hoping for Thursday'.

I felt grateful and expressed my appreciation - and went off to meet canvassers in Hastings.

In the evening I came home via a little corner shop where I bought a bottle of milk from the perhaps Turkish or Middle Eastern owner. As I was about to leave he said 'Labour Party', smiling and approving. I felt warmly grateful again, shook his hand, thanked him for his support.

I reflect:
a) wearing a Labour sticker can get you into encounters that make you feel good (and probably the opposite too).
b) it can also make you seem to others rather like a representative of the party - I found myself thanking these people for their support as though I were a paid member of the campaign, not an occasional volunteer.
c) different kinds of people support Labour.

The day after the 2016 referendum, I was taken to task by Leavers on here for scaremongering. Nothing, they insisted, would change for EU citizens in Britain after Brexit.

And now here we are. The central message of the PM’s final week campaign is xenophobia. How vile. pic.twitter.com/OnY75UA9vZ

— Samuel West (@exitthelemming) December 9, 2019

literally fuck u Boris johnson u malicious thug.

mmm yes hate it when people of colour talent treat the uk as if it's not an insular hellhole

tbf he doesn't think the country belongs to white working class people either

btw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6QhAZckY8w

lmao the guardian have fact checked the patel murder claim

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— Clean Bandit (@cleanbandit) December 9, 2019