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

The Tories have doubled their vote since Steven Gerrard was appointed Rangers manager the IndyRef.

God I am longing for the day Gerrard gts to completely fuck up a bottom half Prem team

LOL @ this collection of sex pests and losers:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/dont-vote-labour-warn-former-17397217

i knew that post was gonna get a tom d response

It's completely normal and rational behaviour for these reluctant Labour departees to be vigorously campaigning for the most fascist government the UK's ever been threatened with and it really speaks to their integrity and moral character

LOL @ this collection of sex pests and losers:

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/dont-vote-labour-warn-former-17397217🕸🕸

well, yeah

TODAY: I feel that these four stories sum up the country at the moment. pic.twitter.com/lvbegTT3Gj

— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) December 11, 2019

Muk Home

huh interesting, i wonder why the electoral commission felt moved to revive a thread from december 5 with this new post, today of all days

It may be an offence to communicate any information obtained at postal vote opening sessions, including about votes cast, before a poll has closed. Anyone with information to suggest this has happened should report it immediately to the police.

— Electoral Commission (@ElectoralCommUK) December 11, 2019

LauraK is going daaaahn

yasss laurak is gonna get locked up

xp damn

LOCK HER UP

not a lawyer but am pretty sure those rules only apply after polls have actually opened. hence all the pictures of dogs we're going to get tomorrow.

and they say that andrew sullivan is a bad writer of shit-tier takes

[Johnson] has done what no other conservative leader in the West has done: He has co-opted and thereby neutered the far right. The reactionary Brexit Party has all but collapsed since Boris took over. Anti-immigration fervor has calmed. The Tories have also moved back to the economic and social center under Johnson’s leadership. And there is a strategy to this. What Cummings and Johnson believe is that the E.U., far from being an engine for liberal progress, has, through its overreach and hubris, actually become a major cause of the rise of the far right across the Continent. By forcing many very different countries into one increasingly powerful Eurocratic rubric, the E.U. has spawned a nationalist reaction. From Germany and France to Hungary and Poland, the hardest right is gaining. Getting out of the E.U. is, Johnson and Cummings argue, a way to counter and disarm this nationalism and to transform it into a more benign patriotism. Only the Johnson Tories have grasped this, and the Johnson strategy is one every other major democracy should examine.

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/12/boris-johnson-brexit.html

xp oh fuck the bloody dogs again

omg that is transcendent

Ruth Davidson talked about how she and some activists had taken "tallies" of postal votes opened in the build-up to the indyref which looked good for her side. The electoral commission cleared her and declined to make the findings of their investigations public.

I for one am certainly not advocating that journalists be dragged into the gutter and beaten to death by members of the public

Mate in South Yorks Police just messaged me saying they stopped Laura Kuenssberg's car 20 minutes ago and she's been taken into custody. I am a prison abolitionist and take no pleasure in reporting this

— Heraclitus (@DreamboatSlim) December 11, 2019

rip laura k, heaven needed a cchq stenographer

xp oh fuck the bloody dogs again

If the polls are right...
If the polls are right
and the Tories win
and the last leftist antisemite
the last alleged leftist antisemite
and the last friend of the last alleged leftist antisemite
has been removed from the public stage
there should be no antisemitism left
to worry about.
Is that right?

In power will be Boris Johnson
closely working with Dominic Cummings
who talks of 'the likes of Goldman Sachs
writing cheques for Remain'
with 'fingers in every pie'
in the 'cess pit' of the EU
splashing cash around for their own benefit;
Dominic Cummings
who tells us how Brexit will free Britain
from this corruption.

The 'likes of Goldman Sachs', he says?
The 'likes of'?
Whatever could that mean?

Circling around will be
Jacob Rees-Mogg
with his gags about his Jewish colleague
Oliver Letwin being one of the 'illuminati',
his concerns that Europe is dominated by
Soros - the much-loved antisemitic trope of his
east European antisemitic friends,
his retweet of a tweet from the
far-right Alternativ für Deutschland
his dining with the Traditional Britain Group.

Suella Braverman who used the alt-right
antisemitic jibe about 'cultural marxists'.

Or Toby Young, educationalist, and
controversy-lover
projecting on to Philip Hammond
his thought
that the word 'banker' means 'Jewish.

This is how the Right racialises banking
and racialises a criticism of banking.

But the Right has no problem with banking.
They hi-jack our fears of what happens
when banks crash
and hitch them to who they think
is the wrong sort of banker.
The problem for them seems to be if it's
Jews doing the banking.

They seem to think that Jews get in the way
of some kind of national economy
that they want to create.
An economy that is no better for the mass of people
than the one they claim is so bad.

And this
we shouldn't worry about?
This has no echoes from the past
from people who came to power
claiming that it was the internationalism
of Jewish finance that had brought
their country to its knees?

But when the last leftist antisemite
the last alleged leftist antisemite
and the last friend of the last alleged leftist antisemite
has been cleared away

there will be no more antisemitism to worry about?
Is that it?

And if by chance the eyewatering amounts of
debt left over from the last crisis
and the eyewatering amounts of debt
that we have as we buy the stuff we
can't buy with our depressed incomes
leads to another bankers' crash

we won't see Johnson, Cummings, Rees-Mogg
and others
telling us that the problem is
say, the 'likes of Goldman Sachs'
the 'illuminati,'
Soros
or the corrupt influence
of 'cultural marxists'?
Is that it?

Antisemitism will have left the stage
will it?

But then let's ask what forces might they want to unleash
to create their corruption-free
national economy?

Who will they tell us are in their way?

Micheal Rosen

Zac Goldsmith is probably going to lose, and six other reasons to be cheerful this election. Here I am, trying to look on the bright sidehttps://t.co/T86wUDB8SN

— Jonn Elledge (@JonnElledge) December 11, 2019

the_fear incoming sometime soon I reckon. oscillating wildly between two poles for days now

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/second-lib-dem-election-candidate-endorses-labour-rival-for-his-seat-a9242541.html

good luck, Britishes!

Thank you thank you

HUMANS OF EARTH, HEED MY PARTY POLITICAL BROADCAST! I call upon ALL fellow Uxbridge and South Ruislip candidates to get behind the ONLY human candidate who can actually BEAT Boris: @ARMilani_! #VoteTactically #GeneralElection2019 pic.twitter.com/8ztA99hEa6

— Lord Buckethead™ (@LordBuckethead) December 6, 2019

Hey if the worst comes to the worst there's always violent bloody reprisals.

Lord Buckethead will surely be expelled from MRLP, whose leader Howlimg Laud Hope is a massively humourless racist little englander and hates his candidates getting involved in actual politics.

rip lord buckethead, heaven needed a former guns n' roses guitarist

#sackkuenssberg is trending on twitter, surely the bbc will definitely do the right thing now

(NARRATOR: they definitely didn't do the right thing)

that reminds me i was gonna tweet that an anonymous source tells me Laura Kuenssberg punched a child in the face, brb

Two wrongs don't make a… ah, fuck it, please do it.

i got a heart from Laura Pidcock!

The kuenssberg thing seems both incredibly important (as opposed to merely 'telling') but also as has been pointed out, incredibly unlikely to lead to anything. Which is incredibly enraging.

Seems likely that she is just repeating the line her Tory contacts are feeding her, rather than getting secret information from multiple sources at returning offices around the country, but it shows spectacularl lack of sense to toss a mention out in passing.

#sackkuenssberg is trending on twitter, surely the bbc will definitely do the right thing now

(NARRATOR: they definitely didn't do the right thing)

Shows privilege in action too; she doesn’t have to be careful about what she says and rarely faces any sanction for her actions. Yet Naga couches an opinion about racism in qualifiers and...¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Even if you don’t think she is a partisan hack, the only alternative is that she’s terrible at her job and doesn’t know you aren’t supposed to reveal votes, doesn’t know what a ‘shoot to kill policy’ means, doesn’t do the basic due diligence around fact-checking that reporters working for the Halifax Cobbler seem to manage, etc.

Her “don’t shoot the messenger” thing is maddening but also says the quiet bit loud.

hey remember this from 2017?

The BBC’s political editor inaccurately reported Jeremy Corbyn’s views about shoot-to-kill policies in the aftermath of the terror attacks in Paris, according to the BBC Trust.
The broadcaster’s regulator concluded that a Laura Kuenssberg report for the News at Six in November 2015 breached the broadcaster’s impartiality and accuracy guidelines, in a ruling that triggered an angry response from the corporation’s director of news.

The News at Six item included a clip of the Labour leader stating: “I am not happy with a shoot-to-kill policy in general. I think that is quite dangerous and I think can often be counterproductive.”

Kuenssberg had presented that as Corbyn’s response to a question put to him on whether he would be “happy for British officers to pull the trigger in the event of a Paris-style attack”, but the Trust concluded that Corbyn had been speaking in a different context.

The Labour leader had been responding to a question asking whether he would be happy to order police or military “to shoot to kill” on Britain’s streets – and not specifically regarding a Paris-style attack in the UK.

she must have felt unimpeachable after that

Well she’s probably corrupt too, but everything she does is consistent with her actually thinking her job is to be a messenger on behalf of her sources, and her sources are tories.

brass neck has been a feature of this campaign

You would hope that now the BBC is under OFCOM they can't just disregard any ruling like that time. Although?

I’m fully prepared to believe that Laura K doesn’t know that ‘shoot to kill’ refers to a policy of pre-emptive execution of terrorist suspects not posing a direct threat, and was used against Republicans with massive scandal at the time, but she obviously can’t do her job if she doesn’t.

yeah, incompetent and biased aren't mutually exclusive

i’m sure it’s a rich mix of blithe ignorance, personal prejudice and active stupidity that leads to such piss-weak reporting

lanark & hamilton east that is the constituency where i grew up - uddingston and bothwell - and has the misfortune of including a combination of some of the wealthiest suburbs of glasgow (so tories) and some of the most loyalist parts of scotland (also tories). i mean on the bright-side double the amount of people who vote tory will vote snp or labour, but if the tories sneak in i'll be scunnered.

my dad has been canvassing for labour in the constituency. said larkhall was a lot of fun. a lot of "corbyn is a terrorist sympathizer" patter