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

Things haven't changed that much except now every single programme on the BBC ends with the voiceover of a disillusioned worker explaining that they've always voted Labour but...

I don't watch TV but surely there must be at least a couple of instances of 'I've always voted Tory but…'

BBC drama in the 70s (into the first half of the 80s at least) was a hotbed of radical agitprop Fred, which is one of the reasons us olds are so disillusioned and cynical now

I think I saw my first instance of that last night, now you come to mention it, the guy was voting Lib Dem instead. (xp)

Just reading this thread and fascinated how someone as right wing as Kinnock got portrayed this way

The 1992 general election was so tight that The Sun claimed their coverage 'won it' for the Tories.

A reminder of the bizarre lengths the paper went to in portraying the ‘Nightmare on Kinnock Street’... pic.twitter.com/KXyjvRPrMV

— Tides Of History (@labour_history) December 10, 2019

He has moved to the right over time tbf.

It's been nice not noticing a peep out of Skinnock for so long.

yeah Kinnock Sr was geniunel on the moderate Left of the party in the 80s and the platform was probably not much further Right than 2019's, tho of course the country has got a lot worse since then

haven't heard much from jess phillips either - long may it continue

the bbc really want this jon ashworth thing to be a thing don't they

Laura Pidcock entirely validated. Before this I’d have said the PLP were a lot better this campaign.

[Thread] If you're on Facebook recently, you've probably come across ads from a variety of seemingly non-partisan pages attacking Corbyn and the Labour Party.

— Nick Srnicek 👉 https://mypollingday.com/ (@n_srnck) December 10, 2019

This is unsurprising but useful to know.

lol / sob

A Pretty Grim Encounter pic.twitter.com/35ruWQPcg3

— Captain Howdy (@MajorPazuzu) December 10, 2019

A+

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/dec/10/break-embargo-expose-press-lies-labour

Brutal and efficient from big Jon

Get over yourself, David. You’re a self-hating ex-Commie Troll who works for Murdoch. I value quality objective journalism, great drama & free-to-view sport, I just think that government may now have to find a new way of making them happen. The BBC is failing at its job https://t.co/CaMZN5VMyj

— Jon Lansman (@jonlansman) December 10, 2019

Our Joel shared one of those Johnson holding up a placard memes but his has got Mario and Luigi snogging on it

praxis

Our Joel shared one of those Johnson holding up a placard memes but his has got Mario and Luigi snogging on it

contrast the dignity and strength of david merritt (who has just lost his son) with the craven and shameful cowardice of boris johnson

Polling station: come over
Me: I can’t, it’s too cold outside
Polling station: Boris Johnson is going to sell off our NHS
Me: pic.twitter.com/4JybDw7vc9

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 10, 2019

you dropped this, king 👑

omg that picture looks like the bit where Islington North bleeds into Hackney North, what say you SV? I’m sure I’ve gone there a million times.

what am amazingly dishonest way of presenting this information pic.twitter.com/06CGo74ofv

— Shaun (@shaun_vids) December 10, 2019

in a just world, this would immediately disqualify johnson from running for the position of prime minister

I am in a JCB factory with Boris Johnson and I regret to inform you that this just happened: pic.twitter.com/C8aFoXOcA8

— Heather Stewart (@GuardianHeather) December 10, 2019

Sounds like you hate contemporary art.

that contemporary art in full

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fpbs.twimg.com%2Fprofile_images%2F993905969758441473%2FZpCpMZAH_400x400.jpg&f=1&nofb=1

behold noris grimlock in his wobbly digger

Wishful thinking on my part:

https://pbfcomics.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/PBF143-Kids_Are_Thirsty.png

It's very Partridge-like.

xp :D

Javid claims there will be economic 'crisis by Christmas' if Labour wins

LOL

“FAKE NEWS”, shout the corbynistas. “MEDIA BIAS”, they bellow. “MIGHT I POINT YOU TO INDEPENDENT VERIFICATION THAT THIS IS DEMONSTRABLY FALSE”, they shriek cultishly

xp whereas it will just continue its downward spiral as is for the next 5 years if the tories do?

well, no matter how bad things get (even death, lol) at least Corbyn managed to get the Bill Oddie endorsement

from a grauniad piece today on how jewish voters have turned away from labour

“Jews have deserted the Labour party for two main reasons,” said Jonathan Boyd, executive director of the Institute for Jewish Policy Research (JPR). “First, the party has lurched to the left; and second, the party has failed to understand or recognise how antisemitism manifests itself in leftist politics and as a result allowed it to fester and grow.

“To regain the support of Jewish voters, it would have to shift on both fronts: move back towards the political centre and root out the leftwing manifestations of antisemitism that exist – not only in the party itself, but in wider society.”

oh okay, labour just need to end antisemitism as a phenomenon in british society in order to win back jewish voters, seems reasonable

labour just need to end antisemitism as a phenomenon in british society

Tbf one may reasonably assume that the most effective means of achieving that goal is a Labour government.

You need to invest, particularly in transport, he says. He says he is obsessed by this issue. He would focus on roads and rail. But also broadband, he says.

If you are going to start a business, you need fantastic internet connections.

We need full-fibre broadband, he says.

Boris campaigning for the Labour Party now.

profiles in courage

The Johnson Q&A is over.

He only took three questions from journalists.

yougov poll shows 67% of leave voters don’t buy “get brexit done”. that would really worry me if I was in CCHQ right now

yes but only because they can't afford it

yougov poll shows 67% of leave voters don’t buy “get brexit done”. that would really worry me if I was in CCHQ right now

Problem is that labour aren’t likely to get Brexit done any day soon either, whatever timescale they’re bandying about

We probably need to come to terms with the likelihood Javid is correct and anything other than a comfortable Tory majority will prompt an instant crash. ‘Investor confidence’ is going to tank as it does more or less every time a left-wing (or in the case of Argentina, a slightly less right-wing) government gets a surprise victory, even before you get to deliberate destabilisation. It’s going to be a hard fight.

don’t disagree albeit UBS chief economist was saying he is sanguine about the prospects of a LAB majority government (suppose this has to be seen through lens of their perceptions on plausibility).

Trying to talk down the prospect.of.a mildly social democratic government and getting on with business as usual if one happens to get in are very different things

Hot take - they aren't worried about mild social democracy (in fact the infrastructure spending will probably boost a lot of UK stocks and UK investment). The thing that frightens the British establishment is the prospect of Corbyn (and it's specifically Corbyn, rather than anyone else from the Labour left) overturning decades of UK foreign policy.

... and releasing a big bunch of classified files (to the extent there’s any left).

There’d be tons left if they didn’t destroy them or keep losing them in “accidental” fires 🙃

(anecdotally I know people are bricking it in the city about a JC govt. including v senior civil servants. which is good imo.)

Giving Remain one last heave should keep some of them busy

jermey should do his own DEADLOCK video without the JCB.