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

Lost their fucking minds

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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

Nah just Twitter.

that guy should take his fluorescent jacket back, think the hi-viz has stopped working

Here's the "punch" on Matt Hancock's adviser outside of Leeds General Infirmary@bbclaurak @Peston @PaulBrandITV resign you absolute clowns pic.twitter.com/nJitUvyFaL

— 🚩 The Election Leftorium 🗳️ (@LeftoriumThe) December 9, 2019

grim electoral violence 2019 style

Here's the "punch" on Matt Hancock's adviser outside of Leeds General Infirmary@bbclaurak @Peston @PaulBrandITV resign you absolute clowns pic.twitter.com/nJitUvyFaL

— 🚩 The Election Leftorium 🗳️ (@LeftoriumThe) December 9, 2019

grim electoral violence 2019 style

lmaoooooo

Actually I take my lmao back and would like to replace it with a ;_; dem tories and their cronies done it again to turn attention away from BJ's normal and calm phone debacle.

The evidence is grim.

Laura K. has cost me quite some laptops and computer screens already but hey *throws another laptop through the window*

Twitter should think about introducing strict age restrictions - no-one over the age of 13 should be allowed to use it.

Laura’s grim fairy stories

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Mq59ykPnAE

ARR OY GRANDAD ALWAYS USED TO SAY THERE WERE NONE OF THAT SOCIALIST MEDIA IN OUR DAY

'Apologise' is now trending. We live in strange times.

Perhaps twitter should also have mandatory health warnings that some of these parody accounts could make you break your spleen/shit your pants with laughter, eh Tom?

I cannot add to the accurate posts above about this incident.

Scandalous. You'd laugh if you didn't cry.

just heard another radio vox pop including some alleged undecided voters, i really really really don't know what the fuck is wrong with people but a serious slap round the head is the very least some of them need

the brain donor from Stoke "the coalmines have gone, the pots have gone, it's time for change I'm voting for the Tories"

twitter accelerating some of the worst structural distortions of legacy media is combination good and bad tbh

good: everyone gets to see them!
bad: everyone gets to see them :(

me 20 years ago: i greatly distrust the bbc and the guardian, they are really in many ways not better than the tabs or the times or the telegraph, if only everyone saw this
me now: everyone sees this and the result is the total collapse of trust and endemic chaos (except in a bad way)

yr pal chaosmos s

the brain donor from Stoke "the coalmines have gone, the pots have gone, it's time for change I'm voting for the Tories"

― calzino, Monday, December 9, 2019 7:42 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I was amazed (*) to read several big ~reportages~ in Dutch media this weekend about Labour's 'red wall' in coal mine country possibly turning blue for the first time in forever. Vile journalism, done because it's a quick buck. Tonight I heard the same journo writing it unloading his voice recorder in a repo on the national news radio station. Same subject, same quotes. Quick buck.

This thread keeps me sane (-ish).

(*) I wasn't amazed

if the era of trust was the background to the first half of the Blair presidency (which it kinda was, despite the foregrounding of Campbell et al) then i'll take the chaos

on the fourteenth of July there wasn't enough freedom to be found among the ruins of unitary power to prevent the ruins themselves from becoming another prison

but every set of ruins is at least another chance

No offense Mark S, as yours are the best (!), but I wish I could de-wire, unlearn my brain to not experience this "I get it, but where does this leave me, or any of us? I'm lost" sinking feeling I get every time I read a "me: / me also:" or "no one: / also no one:" type take.

(ban twitter prob)

Twitter is not journalism - in fact it's almost uniquely badly designed for it - but public broadcasters need to either admit that and stop using it to break stories OR they need to apply the same stringent rules they use for everything else. This mess in the middle benefits no one least of all the institutions themselves.

grim thing is if there hadn't been a video, it would have been tomorrow's headlines and dominated the news cycle for 24 hours

As it is it draws attention to the fact that a boy was sleeping on coats on a hospital floor, terrific work Tory HQ.

Twitter is good again.

at work, has kuenssberg resigned yet

Tory advisors out here having the pain threshold, and politics of, Patrick Bamford

they need to apply the same stringent rules they use for everything else

the rules that currently exist are in my opinion not really that stringent, certainly nowhere near stringent enough: the pressure twitter brings is revealing this

(viz peston not revealing who the "senior tories" are who lied to him) (dispensing with this particular omerta is ultimately why gawker was casually allowed to be smashed)

Oh great, it’s all hands on deck at Fondue Towers because people have the temerity to object to “politically homeless” as glib in the face of the housing crisis now.

jesus, kuenssberg actually apologised, as did peston

did not actually anticipate that

now i wonder why the tories told them to

The next 3 days are going to be lit

Rumours beginning to circulate that momentum thugs are planning bio-attacks at a number of polling stations. Sources believe there may be Assad involvement. Veracity of list being verified as we speak

must feel pretty sweet

After getting snubbed from his campaign bus, the Daily Mirror has produced two splashes that have derailed Johnson’s campaign — The comments about single mothers & the photo of the Leeds hospital boy. pic.twitter.com/MONJa8fVtL

— Mark Di Stefano 🤙🏻 (@MarkDiStef) December 9, 2019

Possibly a hoax as evidence confusing, may not be real weapons, suggestions merely designed to depress turnout rather than maim

jesus, kuenssberg actually apologised, as did peston

did not actually anticipate that

now i wonder why the tories told them to

Tomorrow will make three https://t.co/LNKtlxlbns

— Kevin Maguire (@Kevin_Maguire) December 9, 2019

i'd be (mildly) interested to know how much the punch story derailed the phone story on facebook (which i seem to have set to avoid all politics all the time except when oor neechie posts something): the attention-span dynamics are very different there

kberg did not actually apologise just "happy TO apologise"

"happy to apologize" = "i was caught out so, for once, i'll let you have this one"

"happy to apologize" = "i was caught out so, for once, i'll let you have this one"

"On this particular occasion it was a false alarm. We did our best but missed the momentum thugs by a couple of minutes. Will update as soon as we locate them"