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

Seems legit

dominic raab's excuse that he wasn't breaking the law when making claims about postal votes was that he was just talking speculative bollocks and really had no way of knowing if what he said was true. probably not an excuse you want to use if you're a journalist though!

— Jon Stone (@joncstone) December 11, 2019

Dominic Raab is a lawyer though so guessing he knows what he can get away with saying? Even so
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/newpix/2018/08/26/00/4F548DCB00000578-0-Dominic_Raab_s_sweat_laden_performance_last_week_he_was_forced_t-m-25_1535241225917.jpg

re laura k, all behaviours are learned behaviours, shes gotten away with so much, so blatantly that its quite credible that she thinks shes done nothing wrong.

taking fox news et al out, and taking the state broadcaster onus into account, idk am i just not remembering a comparable figure in modern reporting who has had a run quite like her? i struggle to think of anyone on her scale tbh.

something quite apt about this thread and the "grim resignation" thread sitting next to each other on site new answers.

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re laura k, all behaviours are learned behaviours, shes gotten away with so much, so blatantly that its quite credible that she thinks shes done nothing wrong.

taking fox news et al out, and taking the state broadcaster onus into account, idk am i just not remembering a comparable figure in modern reporting who has had a run quite like her? i struggle to think of anyone on her scale tbh.

that was a slip

that’s what they want you to believe

And here we have a BBC reporter exposing the agenda by way of a Freudian slip and saying “If Boris Johnson gets the victory he SO DESERVES”! pic.twitter.com/XAEPAAbYNA

— Just one more thing (@johnjh67) December 11, 2019

.@PeoplesMomentum announce that 28,000 people have used https://t.co/gIAllegJ8y tool to plan Election Day campaigning for @UKLabour across 1100 locations in key marginals all over Britain #GE2109

— Jack Shenker (@hackneylad) December 11, 2019

Corbyn calls for aid pic.twitter.com/vGSfnk9yjc

— bread and poses (@MrJackGrant) December 11, 2019

She audibly said 'disserves'.

xp

I was saying avoision

The Serbs iirc

The serfs.

"the victory he sold the serfs", sounds right

Based on my postcode Momentum suggest I go to Dagenham, Crawley or Peterborough tomorrow. I was thinking Puney but all London areas seem well catered for now.

Delicious. pic.twitter.com/LdapQkekYg

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 11, 2019

Cool that Corbyn stopped by Broxtowe today. Not noticed much from Soubry at all in this campaign and of course it's in reach.

Even the winner of GBBO can’t make a good looking pizza. GREEN OLIVES? is that supposed to represent something?

Yeah green olives on a pizza is very rong but on the other hand now I want a pizza

Fuckton of salt in that sauce too, that guy is a one man health crisis

Peter Oborne just endorsed Corbyn!

green olives popular and normal on pizza in sicily, nice and malta

and Blackburn Rovers reserve goalkeeper Bob Gulag too

Green olives not normal on Nice biscuits

They're all coming in now, Michael Hamas, of Hamas & Hamas Caravans is onboard

I'm sorry we didn't get to this in time but we've been swamped with complaints about Laura Kuenssberg. Is it still there? https://t.co/dinxYKkXmT

— Met Contact Centre (@MetCC) December 11, 2019

Blackburn Rovers reserve goalkeeper Bob Gulag popular and normal on pizza in sicily, nice and malta