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

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.

i hope this despicable act of anti-tory violence receives the same level of media coverage as the 70-year-old labour supporter whose ribs were broken and the 72-year-old whose jaw was broken while out campaigning

really irresponsible reporting from LK

she didn’t see it she was just told it - she’s regurgitating sources again (into a climate where various LAB activists have already been physically attacked)

she has also not retweeted the video of the top political story of the day to her 1.1M followers. craven

'a relatively flat campaign' eh

Not entirely clear what happened, but Tories suggesting Labour campaigners offered to pay cabs for activists to go and heckle Hancock - fair to say today not panning out as anyone had expected in what has been a relatively flat campaign

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 9, 2019

what are labour campaigners suggesting, i wonder

we may never know

Minister Heckled & Doctor Jibes

vg+

she has deleted it. idiot

JOURNALISM

The story never had the ring of truth, I mean, why punch one of Matt Hancock's advisers when Matt Hancock is right there.

N Eardly just described it as a non-story (accidental collision and (sadly) he says no punches were thrown), get A Joshua on the campaign trail to school them on how to punch tories ffs!

Andy McDonald was just very impressive on PM

they are r a t t l e d and I love it

The BBC have reported that 100 Labour Activists were ferried in a taxi to this very scene and this very moment & punched a Tory Staffer in the face.

Here is the video footage so you can judge how accurate the BBC report was. pic.twitter.com/MS1b0b0qTo

— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) December 9, 2019

[squinting at footage]

[Jim Ross voice] THAT MAN'S GOT A FAMILY GODDAMMIT

DO TO HAVE NO HEART

DO YOU HAVE NO SOUL

do they even accept bikes in cabs?

the posting equivalent of a 4-2 win there from biscuits

momentum thugs must have menaced the terrified taxi driver into carrying their socialist two-wheeled mode of transport

guardian now reporting that an assault happened:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/09/matt-hancock-adviser-assaulted-during-leeds-hospital-campaign-visit

great job british media, you’ve done it again

sure did look like someone got murked up there, x-rated heckling delivered with middle class accents is no laughing matter.

@PaulBrandITV
Labour sources say it is untrue that people were paid to go to Leeds General Infirmary. But the Conservatives are circulating messages which appear to show a group of activists organising the protest via WhatsApp.
4:54 PM · Dec 9, 2019

Damn, got us with the old 'Labour activist leaks Whats App messages to the enemy' again

god these momentum monsters, organising a protest using a form of communication designed to facilitate group conversations, is there no low to which they will not stoop

meanwhile in the golden haze of our island history:

From 8-22 December, we will be (re)tweeting #OnThisDay accounts of violence during the General Election of 1832, 187 years ago. We will be tweeting a grand total of FIFTY-SEVEN violent events discovered thus far, including riots, & at least twelve deaths.

— Victorian Election Violence UK (@VictorianEV_UK) December 5, 2019

Jesus fucking Christ, just saw the other video of the “punch” and LKs clarification

Have video from Hancock leaving Leeds General just come through so you can see for yourself - doesn’t look like punch thrown, rather, one of Tory team walks into protestor’s arm, pretty grim encounter pic.twitter.com/hD1KwA72gG

— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 9, 2019

are you fucking shitting me

lmao @ "grim encounter"

not a word of apology for her earlier bullshit obv

Guardian have now changed their headline to from 'assaulted' to 'in altercation', come off it you fucking twats

Lost their fucking minds

@Peston
54m
It was @MattHancock adviser @jnjokugoodwin who was whacked in the face by a protestor as he tried to help Hancock into his car outside Leeds General Hospital. Police on scene. All sounds very unpleasant

love when bush gets salty:

The trade-off that society makes for a broadcaster whose funding model - backed, for now, by the coercive power of the state - with its suffocating implications for other competitors, is that it has the freedom to be slow, considered and therefore right.

— Stephen Bush (@stephenkb) December 9, 2019

For some reason, "Why's that boy sleeping on the floor?", made me LOL.

“doesn’t look like punch thrown” is beautiful in its cravenness

Ban Laura K from Twitter, then ban Twitter.

Video later emerges showing adviser walking into protester’s arm

Oh, the humanity!

grim!

Ban Laura K from Twitter, then ban Twitter.

― pomenitul, Monday, December 9, 2019 7:07 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ban everyone on twitter, except for Laura K imo

Damn, got us with the old 'Labour activist leaks Whats App messages to the enemy' again

arseholes can write, ban books