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

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"

They scarpered to certain online lefty spheres to carry out their nefarious misdeeds

"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"

Was the BBC always like this though? Should it really be lumped with the guardian?

Real chaos - burning cars and tactical voting sites

one burning car

(so far)

Serious question: when you’re constantly lied to by sources (on any side), does there come a point where you feel you should name and shame them? After all they can make you look foolish.

— Gary Lineker (@GaryLineker) December 9, 2019

Nice 1 @BoardofDeputies ya picked a real championhttps://t.co/w3CckWEga1

— jewdⒶs // ייִדהודה (@jewdas) December 9, 2019

its an apology, lets not

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

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 9 December 2019 20:15 (twenty-five minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

well no she's often caught tbh

The Joe Pike clip is so weird because you can't see him pocket the phone. Even though it's out of shot you'd imagine you'd still be able to see evidence of it happening but nothing seems to happen at all. In addition it almost impossible to get your head around why he did it / why he thought it was okay / why he thought he'd get away with it.

xp We'll need a "What is apologising and has the meaning changed" thread but I'm not going there. Not with this specimen.

apology fetishism yes

i know i keep coming back to this but as someone who always runs away from the difficult bits -- a massive coward with only a very few coping tactics under a LOT more stress right now than he ever bargained for -- this is him responding with everything he has

apology centrism morelike

This was surprisingly fun. pic.twitter.com/Tjl60l70bl

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 9, 2019

THIS IS TOO ADORABLE

bet you those logs were chopped in siberian gulags

pic.twitter.com/Hczb3lc5aI

— Waluigitifo (@waluigitifo) December 9, 2019

holy shit that is excellent!

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

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

Aye, just saw it was the lead on the NOS. That's the same story (and invoice) sent three times over, dominating the news cycle about the GE here for days on end.

There'll be dancing in the streets of Bolsover.

Angela Rayner totally cracking me up on this QT election thing, already killed swinson and farage with her sarcasm

she’s great isn’t she??

WOULD YOU NATIONALISE SAUSAGES

Haha yes wtf

i so wanted rayner to say "no", smile patronizingly and ask where barnett got that one, laura keunssberg's timeline?

Rayner is a force, it's taken a while for people to notice and even the melts who have condescendingly insulted her for years must be slowly realising she is much better at the media bullshit side of the game than any of their gallery of top melts they kept nomming for GNU or insisting would have Labour 20 pts ahead of this shower etc..

I love her.

I can think of no better example of a politician perfectly matched to a ministerial position than Angela Rayner as education secretary and this is possibly the most exciting outcome of a Corbyn government to me personally.