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

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

Suspect this is meant to keep the BBC compliant for the last crucial days of the campaign, rather than being a statement of political intent. https://t.co/At06a7lAiL

— Tom Mills (@ta_mills) December 9, 2019

“Dear fellow citizen” indeed.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Sans-culotte_avec_sa_redoutable_pique_-_Lesueur.jpg/220px-Sans-culotte_avec_sa_redoutable_pique_-_Lesueur.jpg

love to do the "right thing" and vote Lib Dem

That quote in any sane universe would be him done

Thrillingly Johnson has had an absolute stinker, ran the worst campaign i've ever seen or heard of in my lifetime.

The size of the crowd waiting for Jeremy Corbyn in Bristol right now is incredible. I hope they show this on the TV news bulletins. Please share it. #VoteLabour #GE2019 pic.twitter.com/RkX8k9ApoA

— Sarah #VoteLabour 🌹 (@ScouseGirlMedia) December 9, 2019

the size of that turnout in Bristol!

get a job u bums

well according to an old woman I was talking to Corbyn only has the interests of "those that don't work" at heart!

old woman otm, a better world is not possible, everyone needs to work until they drop dead

xp Pretty sure my hair made it into that video around the 0:08 mark lol.

I missed Corbyn unfortunately, he was supposed to be on at 2PM but didn't make it until about 2:45pm and I had to leg it back to work way before then. Good vibes for what I saw, and a wide range of ages - the location was a few hundred metres away from Bristol College so there were easily hundreds of teenagers and students in the crowd. There was a group of about 25 anti-Corbyn protestors with a megaphone but they were kept away and drowned out by soundsystem playing motown classics.

Uplifting lunch break, would recommend.

Apparently the melts are starting to turn on Rob Delaney for giving a shit about the NHS now.

Hancock can't "sort this out" as thanks to the Health and Social Care Act the running of it is entirely devolved to NHS England - why subsequent secretaries of state have had so many projects outside of core NHS roles, like MH's own work on digital. It's just a photo opp. https://t.co/DVwshsuP1Z

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) December 9, 2019

S Bush otm

melts can fuck right off, rob delaney otm

Why? WHY is he going there? A 4 yr old boy with pneumonia lying on a cold floor is exactly how an NHS run by Tories is supposed to work. Any Leeds General docs or nurses want to explain why Hancock & Johnson should fuck extravagantly off into the sun? https://t.co/qr5FUb2Bff

— rob delaney (@robdelaney) December 9, 2019

Easy to argue that Johnson's campaign has been at the least no better than May's but that he's been given an easier ride by the media for various reasons

kuenssberg reporting that someone punched a tory? one of hancock's advisers?

let's hope they don't need to go to a&e

Hope they brought some coats with them.