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

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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

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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

especially his pipe (my dad also smoked a pipe back then, it was a thing).

I heard somewhere recently - I think it was on Bargain Hunt, where they had some Wilsonian memorabilia! - that Harold was actually more of a cigar smoker but adopted the pipe for image-building purposes. It worked, clearly.

Wait, what?

xp

This is covered in the thoroughly accurate TV show The Crown xp

xxp

yeah he was a secret cigar smoker. But I refuse to believe there was anything contrived about the the photo of the triple title winning Hudds Town team he kept in his wallet.

gyac, is there some cultural difference that I’m not getting here? I lost my maternal grandmother, who raised me for the first few years of my life, to Alzheimer’s after almost a decade of memory and identity loss, and my mom and I don’t view such jokes as off-limits.

Though Gyac meant you confusing anvil and dl was the worst thing you said itt. I didn't pick up on the geriatric thing either.

xp I legit mean the recent revelation that we’re the same age, lol

re: Wilson
https://i.postimg.cc/Qdjy3fJ0/9764-D752-885-E-495-C-9-AB0-E88-B4-BACC6-C3.jpg

Oh lol I see now.

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).

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 11 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Even that praise of Ken Loach was rubbish but I didn't say anything at the time! Ken made a soppyish pro-Corbyn video yesterday!! He is fighting rn to get people voting Lab!

reading the chad wilson diagram as "MARRIED TO A POST" and thinking HELL YEAH

i could never settle down with just one

I think if we’re all honest with ourselves we’ll admit that Wilson was a daddy

evidence of blobbyposting entering the collective unconscious

Why are all of Boris’s election stunts like something from Noel’s House Party?

— edgarwright (@edgarwright) December 11, 2019

Blobby Driver

married to a flag post

whatever the tories are paying their media relations people isn't nearly enough, this is flawless

"Conservative sources insisted that Johnson was 'categorically not hiding' in the fridge, from which Johnson emerged carrying a crate of milk bottles – but instead his aides were taking a moment to prep the PM for a separate, pre-agreed interview." https://t.co/CV4lMy3MZS

— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) December 11, 2019

hold up - the SNP don’t have any BAME candidates?!

xp milked it

could almost whoop at the chagos & yemen parts of lowkey’s election vossi bop remix. it has hardly been mentioned in this election but people CARE about that shit

It’s not that they necessarily believe this to be true, it’s that it’s impossible to know if anything is true

this is where I don't post the Arendt quote I didn't post last time bcz that would be square and meltish, again

but I was thinking about the idea of flooding the (ahem) discourse with falsehoods & noise until nothing seems verifiable/true again wrt the Tory leaflets saying "vote for change" (as my local one does, don't know if it's just this constituency), because OK we have been not-Tory locally since 2017, and maybe Leavers are tuned into Brexit = Change messaging, but still the party of 9.5 years in govt saying "vote for us, vote for change" seems v obviously bullshitty

but perhaps this is in fact not a Leaver-grabbing slogan but to undermine any faith in claims of "change" from politicians on all sides: well this is just so much bullshit but isn't it always, whoever you vote for it's always the government that gets in etc etc, no need to listen to Santa Corbyn promising nice changes either (better things aren't possible, as Twitter puts it)

anyway this is an aside from the real struggles and there are much bigger questions from this election even on the mendacious psy-ops side; thanks to everyone who's gone out canvassing etc, and gl uk

How can something be oven ready if it's straight out of the fridge?

and avoids heat at every turn

over-ready straight from the fridge is how packaged microwave food works i believe:

https://thumbs.gfycat.com/AstonishingIncompatibleJavalina-size_restricted.gif

pic.twitter.com/WO38TgVFYH

— Gonçalo Sousa (@goncalosousa) December 11, 2019

lol

X2

Well done, that man.

A last-minute push for tactical voting has seen one Lib Dem candidate in a highly marginal seat effectively endorse his Labour opponent, advising local people to support him to avoid the constituency falling to the Conservatives.

In a series of tweets, Brendan Devlin said that while he could not support either Labour or Jeremy Corbyn, the incumbent Labour MP, Paul Williams was “an honest, sincere man, and if I needed help, I know he’s reliable and committed to social justice”. He added:

"To be crystal clear: vote tactically for someone who cares about the NHS and social care. Those are important in Stockton South".

Nationalise Sausages and Shut the Fridge, me in the guardian on friday

(this is not the piece i'm working on, i'm posting it here so it doesn't end up in a fkn footnote my scholar's brain is entirely broken)