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

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

Surprise!! We have been working very hard on making this little film over the past two weeks, very excited to share it with you today. Please RT and share widely. Lots of love, Grace, Jack and Luke xxx #CleanBanditChristmasWish pic.twitter.com/Aex6aGBivL

— Clean Bandit (@cleanbandit) December 9, 2019

Tried to show @BorisJohnson the picture of Jack Williment-Barr. The 4-year-old with suspected pneumonia forced to lie on a pile of coats on the floor of a Leeds hospital.

The PM grabbed my phone and put it in his pocket: @itvcalendar | #GE19 pic.twitter.com/hv9mk4xrNJ

— Joe Pike (@joepike) December 9, 2019

He could shoot someone in the middle of Oxford Street and they'd still vote for him.

love to studiously avoid looking at an image of the devastation my government has wrought and turn it into a 'get brexit done' soundbite

what an absolute monster

top comment on that joe pike tweet is giving me rage

Why didn't he just say look, the NHS has been in decline for decades, long before I took over as PM, mainly because of the strain that uncontrolled immigration has put on the UK infrastructure & partly because previous soft touch governments have allowed health tourism to thrive.

— JJ (@ECFCJJ) December 9, 2019

when there's a football team in the username

even cuddly old Exeter, sorry Tim

We've always had more than our fair share of right-wing nutjobs, I'm sorry to say.

there's a persuasive argument to be made that we invented right-wing nutjobs

Right.

The absolute boy is giving a speech in Bristol about 200 metres from my office in half an hour, going to pop down and have a look

*from somewhere off in the distance, the sound of a penny dropping*

Johnson says he doesn’t want to make policy on the hoof, then says you have to ask if TV license is sustainable given how media is changing ...

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 9, 2019

BJ getting pelters from all angles on the joe pike thing

yeah, even pesto's getting in on the act on twitter

He’s doing a press conference now and getting hammered by all the journalists.

it was a breathtaking moment for sure, absolutely shocking

i'd love to think that it's not happening solely because boris was rude to their mate but... y'know xp

Gift horses, mouths

twitter user @lafargue's essay on corbyn and actual real liberalism is good: https://tribunemag.co.uk/2019/12/jeremy-corbyn-defender-of-liberalism

(i mean it's probably a doomed point in respect f the ppl who actually need to read it)

He’s doing a press conference now and getting hammered by all the journalists.

Surely the ones from the Times, Telegraph, Mail, Sun and Express are giddily encouraging him to go further.

So an ice cream truck (or van, if you prefer), eerie chimes and all, just drove by my place which I found rather odd at first given the season but it in fact came with a pre-recorded message that loudly stated ‘VOTE FOR THE BREXIT PARTY THIS THURSDAY’. What the fuck.

Three Lib Dem leaflets just came through our door today! Two in the last twenty minutes. Amusingly, the first one came all together with Labour, Conservative, and UKIP leaflets.

“Dear fellow citizen” indeed.
https://i.postimg.cc/YSRdyRPr/D34826-E2-44-C9-4-CEE-92-A6-32331336-BF0-F.jpg

And...Lib Dems lost their deposit last time, and haven’t a single councillor in the area.

No shortage of commas in that leaflet

'mr corbyn's ultra-left friends want a neo-communist state'

there's that libdem commitment to truth in politics that voters are so powerfully drawn towards

opens with an exciting promise of destroying the world with nukes, hat tip Jo Strangelove

a vote for the libdems is a vote for j. posadas

i tell you there are few small things in life more satisfying than intercepting all the tory leaflets dropped through your flats' communal letterbox and slowly tearing them up ready for recycling

Lots of inverted commas as well. I enjoy “English, Welsh,,,,Ulster.,Scots”

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 42% (-)
LAB: 36% (+1)
LDEM: 12% (-1)
BREX: 3% (-)

via @ICMResearch, 06 - 09 Dec
Chgs. w/ 02 Dec

See more polls:https://t.co/m1hoBpI81D

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 9, 2019

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELWpBUnX0AAE9Ro?format=jpg&name=900x900

lmao

also otm

Has he thrown the TV licence thing out there to distract the BBC's attention from the phone in the pocket thing?

Corbyn has run the most hate-driven, xenophobic electoral campaign we've seen by a major party in UK politics since probably the 1920s. It's important for our political integrity that we prove the politics of hate does not win. And yes, Corbynites, Anti-Americanism is xenophobia.

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) December 9, 2019

been an absence of Lolico on this thread for a while, thought this was a cracking post!

lolico also left this belter of a comment on joe pike's boris interview clip, he's having an extremely normal on online today

Good on him. This kind of "gotcha" journalism is pathetic.

— Andrew Lilico (@andrew_lilico) December 9, 2019

Thrillingly Johnson has had an absolute stinker, ran the worst campaign i've ever seen or heard of in my lifetime with absolutely not one thing going his way. It must be weird having self-groomed for the role for 5 decades only to have people collectively wake up to the fact that you're nothing but a posh fucking crook.

And yet this shit show could get a landslide!

boris: eu migrants treating the uk as if it's part of their own country

also boris:

Asked why Tory candidates in Sunderland are not from the area, Boris Johnson says it would 'not be fair to discriminate against people on the basis of where they come from' #GE2019 pic.twitter.com/JbVK34p49I

— ITV News (@itvnews) December 9, 2019