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

Weather looks shite across much of England tomorrow. Would hope it would put off older right leaning voters, but who knows.

alex massie said the CON campaign against JC would be the easiest in history and that they’d strip the bark off him. he should have taken up a management consultancy job the day after the 2017 GE

BJ wet the bed already today I see. hiding (in a fridge) from the mirror while his aide swears at the reporter

he does not look good in the clip lads

It’s part of the curse of working in the same office as a bunch of Surrey-based, commuting middle-managers but i’ve overheard three conversations along the lines of ‘the picture of the boy on the hospital floor is very sad but if you look into it, people are saying that they were in a bed and were put in the floor by their mother for the picture - and maybe that the Russians are involved’. These are not low-information voters in any meaningful sense. It’s not that they necessarily believe this to be true, it’s that it’s impossible to know if anything is true so any analysis of bad stuff, or factoring it in to their decision-making process, is futile.

Those people weren’t going to vote Labour anyway. At most they might not bother voting. They probably live in safe seats anyway.

Boris in the fridge is fucking classic, makes him look like a massive coward when doing a five minute interview wouldn’t get the traction at this late stage regardless of how it went for him.

BJ wet the bed already today I see. hiding (in a fridge) from the mirror while his aide swears at the reporter

Tory aide Robert Oxley rang in to GMB to complain after the incident, says Piers Morgan on air: "He didn’t assault our man, Jonathan Swain. Alright, he didn’t assault him. What you were was extremely obnoxious, very aggressive, foul mouthed and repulsive. Does that work?"
😬

— Dan Bloom (@danbloom1) December 11, 2019

profiles in courage pt. 92

GMB have clerkin’d him !

Astonishing scenes. Boris Johnson's press secretary just told a @GMB reporter to “fuck off”. Then Johnson went and *hid in a fridge* to avoid being interviewed. #GE2019 pic.twitter.com/tvNk2X0wYb

— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 11, 2019

"It’s part of the curse of working in the same office as a bunch of Surrey-based, commuting middle-managers but i’ve overheard three conversations along the lines of ‘the picture of the boy on the hospital floor is very sad but if you look into it, people are saying that they were in a bed and were put in the floor by their mother for the picture - and maybe that the Russians are involved’."

Working with Fred B types = now that's what I call a curse.

at this point the russians have provided more actual scoops than britain's alleged journalists during this campaign

Btw this was utterly rotten, some heavily qualified melt backing and this guy is 'happy' ffs.

The Guardian backs Labour.

I’m so happy reading this. Yes I disagree with the politics of its Westminster coverage, and some of its columnists, but on reporting, unlike elsewhere, it pursues the truth. The truth matters. https://t.co/CMflC0r8DW

— Aaron Bastani (@AaronBastani) December 10, 2019

Are these snide little shout-outs really necessary? Whether it's Fred or lj or anvil or myself or someone else, It's a veritable constant with you and it drags the thread down tbh.

2xp

HARDER BETTER FASTER STONGER

If the Conservatives can’t even spell ‘strong’ what hope have we actually got? pic.twitter.com/4Lnaxv0TSu

— Donna Wishart - What the Redhead said (@genuineplacebo) December 9, 2019

anvil or myself or someone else

Do not worry about me. I am made of sterner stuff, usually forged or cast steel

I don't doubt it and I even think altercations with ILX nemeses are fine, I just take issue with the absentee sniping. Fred last posted to this thread yesterday and it was in praise of Ken Loach. Wait for him to get here and say something you manifestly disagree with before dissing 'Fred B types' (which is a special kind of contemptuous btw).

I don't remember being unkind toward anvil!

It's disciplinary. Only centrist melt pom types would derail this thread one day before the election with a discussion of civility. Now we know who the centrist melts are. You will get in line.

You have to remember that xyzzzz is a fascist authoritarian at heart, he just reads the tankie echo chamber instead of the alt-right.

The cruelty is the point, as they say.

Yeah anvil is grand

I think I got anvil mixed up with someone else whose name also begins with an a (I think).

Keep on keeping on, xyzzzz

The real thing you do have to remember is that words have real meanings and comrade accelerationist is actually out there canvassing & doing the hard work. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It is unnecessary to club together to chip away at my stylish and exciting post about being made of forged steel. Especially on the eve of an important election.

I personally do not identify with tanks but I have no problems with fists, which are a perfectly acceptable way to solve not just disputes, but elections

but on the other hand, the civil turn of phrase is mightier than the left hook so who knows

Are you a member of the Ukrainian parliament?

Went to BBC News homepage for the first time in a long while - pic of Johnson with Get Brexit Done slogan front and centre next to pic of Corbyn clutching a little red book. Just finding it funny at this point really.

SNP have shifted their targeted ads to central belt LAB/SNP marginals

Jeremy Corbyn is in their somewhere. It’s 8am in Govan. Something is stirring. pic.twitter.com/xmLphY38lF

— Aidan Kerr (@AFK103) December 11, 2019

my thoughts are with all of Britain at this time

Are you a member of the Ukrainian parliament?

Dnipro? I donetsk, tbh

but especially with anvil for being confused with dog latin

Remoind me how many times Fred been banned now.

No idea why Comrade Alphabet feels it necessary to keep winding him up though.

bcz i am tired and stressed and on deadline with something that could hardly be less election-relevant i shall forego my (yes irresponsible, yes shallow) impulse to translate "forged steel" as "fake stalin"

It is unnecessary to club together to chip away at my stylish and exciting post about being made of forged steel. /Especially/ on the eve of an important election.

Ah ffs mark beat me to it.

Remember last election Corbyn got a great reception in Glasgow, here’s hoping they can retain more Scottish seats. Nicking a couple more seems outrageously optimistic though.

" am made of sterner stuff, usually forged or cast steel"

I read somewhere Harold Wilson(trying to shake off his grammar school poshboy shackles), in tough as gammon Yorkshireman mode once tried some bullshit "men aren't born int north - they are forged int steelyards" type line to which their was an obv witty repartee about what a superficial pillock he was! I'm not feeling much Harold Wilson energy today, more like Neil Kinnock energy :(

Ah yes dl was the name I was looking for rather than anvil, going to book an appointment at the geriatric clinic forthwith.

This is easily the worst thing you’ve said itt, fuck’s sake pom

A terrible man in many ways but still have a lorra lorra love for Harold Wilson.

a much nicer class of bullshit merchant than our current pm

Wait, what?

xp

We don't exactly have a lot of Labour Prime Ministers to choose from :(

I'm changing my vote

This forged steel is faulty

chatting w/my sister last weekend -- hola hastings massive -- she reminded me that as a tot (born 1963) she was just an obsessive harold wilson stan, she LOOOOOOVED HIIIIIIIIM and today declares herself a pioneer and a prophet, pleased and vindicated that non-phoney wislonmania has unexpectedly spat out the dust it had bitten and re-emerged stronger than ever

i too am fond of him for similar warm&comfy 60s childhood reasons, especially his pipe (my dad also smoked a pipe back then, it was a thing).

all politics is forged: it's a term of excellent derridean ambiguity *back to work ffs*

Melts can't melt forged steel