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

good luck uk!!!

some guy turned up at work today wearing smart red trousers. never seen him wear them before. can't tell whether he's telling us to vote labour or if he's just a massive tory

Candidates in this election received abuse or insulting remarks in 16.5% of mentions or replies about them on Twitter, a snapshot analysis has found.

PoliMonitor, supported by a grant from the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust, analysed 139,564 Tweets referencing the 2,503 candidates on the social networking site published on Monday 11th November 2019 referencing.. It found that 23,039 were abusive.

By contrast, analysis on abuse received by candidates in the 2017 General Election by the University of Sheffield found that approximately 4% of Tweets mentioning candidates were abusive, although as the methodology is different, the results are not directly comparable.

Other findings of the PoliMonitor research were:

The three party leaders received the most abuse, with Boris Johnson the most targeted, followed by Jeremy Corbyn and then Jo Swinson.
Most of the abuse was concentrated amongst 150 candidates who received 96% of the abuse. In all, 515 received abuse and 1988 (79%) did not.
Of the top 30 most abused candidates in the 24 hour period, only three were not incumbent MPs at the time the election was called: Richard Tice (Brexit party), George Galloway (Independent) and Liz Jarvis (Lib Dems).
Female candidates received slightly more abusive Tweets compared to Male candidates, 17.3% vs 16.2%, with many directed towards women based on appearance and gender.

Concerns were raised before the election at the number of MPs - particularly women - standing down with many citing abuse, including cabinet minister Nicky Morgan and Heidi Allen, the former Conservative MP who defected to the Liberal Democrats via Change UK. The shadow home secretary, Diane Abbott who was found by a previous study to be subject to nearly half the abusive tweets sent to female MP, was sixth in the PoliMonitor list of politicians receiving the most abuse, behind Michael Gove (Conservatives) and Caroline Lucas (Green party).

Sam Cunningham, CEO of PoliMonitor, said:

While most candidates received little or no abuse, the most prominent candidates received thousands of abusive messages, deterring politicians from having constructive conversations about policies which matter. For some, this abuse is deterring them from taking part in politics altogether.

More positively, the most extremely abusive terms were absent in the data analysed, suggesting social media companies and the public are getting better at stamping out the most abhorrent and unacceptable language.

RATM 2020 tour (little mix co-headlining):

📍Gower to Lewes (5/9)#VoteAgainstTheMachine #GE2019 #GetTheToriesOut pic.twitter.com/g15X5qNYMz

— RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE (@RATM) December 12, 2019

we don't need luck, we have gapes

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the grauniad is bad again

The Guardian: Come for the headline stay for the article pic.twitter.com/vzolKqk0s1

— Dave |🌹vote🌹| (@ChaosDave69) December 12, 2019

was in Crawley yesterday and nobody's seen any Conservatives out and about. one street had three houses w/ Tory placards but it turned out they were all owned by the same landlord.

— Andrew Thomas (@andi_thomas) December 12, 2019

the weather is distressingly filthy round here

xp classic landlord move

I was trying to find the old Chinese communist song about taking away the landlord's stick and beating him with it, but eh probably should get on with work instead.

and actually my current landlord is a nice portuguese guy

My landlady is really good too. Oh the vagaries of the rental market!

you can find a nice leech from time to time

Take your mind off the election with this Mario level I made. #GE2109 pic.twitter.com/jb5xPCZgXa

— Matthew Highton (@MattHighton) December 11, 2019

some guy turned up at work today wearing smart red trousers. never seen him wear them before. can't tell whether he's telling us to vote labour or if he's just a massive tory

I got dressed in the dark this morning and to my horror I realised on the train that my shirt is mostly blue

No coverage of front pages on BBC news page because rules.

Daily mail goes with "Vote Boris, because Maureen Lipman says so"

how’s the low level dread everyone

The front pages weren’t up to their previous game this election, but I guess they didn’t have to be when nobody was observing broadcasting rules

oh god i've just seen Jamie Carragher doing a vote Labour vid, sorry i must reluctantly vote Tory.

Whats wrong with Carra?

God I just realised that the Tories are going to win Derby North because a minority of stupid twats will rally round Chris Williamson.

well amongst other things

A few weeks later I received a phone call. “You won’t believe this, Jay. We’re in the Trafford Centre and Lucas Neill is walking straight towards us. What do you reckon?”

Did I really want Neill to take a crack? “There’s only one problem,” added the voice. “Little Davey Thommo is with him.”

That was that. I could hardly let one of my best mates, David Thompson, now a Blackburn player, become a witness to an assault. Besides he’d have recognised the attackers. The impromptu mission was aborted and I sent a text to Thommo telling him Neill should give him a hug of thanks.

As word got back to Blackburn about the near miss, or should that be hit, their coach Terry Darracott, a Scouser, appealed to one of my friends to call the boys off. I agreed.

me attempting to parse this post

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Interesting movement on Oddschecker - Labour minority has gone from 12/1 yesterday to 11/2 today. Likewise Con majority was I think 1/6 yesterday and 2/5 today.

my guess is that will be a relatively small number of bets from people having an optimistic punt on where the "value" is

I sadly made some bunce by putting money on leave when the first rumours came through from sunderland

never change, tories

The Tories are sending targeted ads from the PM to voters in specific constituencies saying their seat is “one of the nine seats needed to Get Brexit Done” ... but they are sending them out to dozens of constituencies.

The adverts have been posted to voters in more than 40 constituencies, saying they are “one of the nine”.

missed this from a couple of days ago, a masterclass in optics

Tremendous afternoon canvassing in Bayston Hill. Never before have I found such strong support for Conservatives in this ward! Vote Conservative this Thursday! pic.twitter.com/dQum3T3PAJ

— Daniel Kawczynski (@DKShrewsbury) December 10, 2019

10/10

well amongst other things

Thats the kind of Momentum Thug Activism that warms the heart

bayston hill is the suburb of shrewsbury that genesis p.orridge's parents retired to (i have no idea how i know this, maybe it was mentioned in the parish magazine)

tallest MP in history pictured, GPO's ancestors are i think no longer with us

of course the heaviest mp in history also spent a good deal of time on yewtree drive

cursed image

looooooooool pic.twitter.com/sRZIA4VA7h

— tyron, the creator (@TyronWilson) December 12, 2019

From the Guardian's live blog:

In the EU’s eastern half, the election campaign has been viewed with bemusement, with the main focus on what will happen to the rights of the millions of EU nationals living in Britain after Brexit.

The rightwing governments in Hungary and Poland have appreciated the Tories staying quiet on rule of law issues and not adding to the chorus of EU complaints over backsliding in the country.

Aware that Poland and Hungary may be two of Britain’s closer friends in a post-Brexit EU, British diplomats have sought to cosy up to the governments rather than criticise them, and the ruling parties in both countries will be hoping for a Johnson win.

In the opinion section of Hungary’s pro-government Magyar Hírlap newspaper, author Daniel Deme writes that these are the most important British elections since the second world war, claiming that Boris Johnson wants to “preserve national sovereignty and identity” against Corbyn, whom the author calls a radical Marxist in favour of mass migration.

Poland’s Lewica leftwing coalition, which made it into parliament in recent elections, gave a ringing endorsement of Labour’s manifesto and called on all Poles eligible to vote to vote for Corbyn.

But the predominant reaction is confusion at the mess of British politics and what effect the election will have on Brexit. According to independent Hungarian outlet HVG, the only thing at stake in this election is “who will be the ringmaster in the long-running Brexit circus”.

Good job, Tory Britain.

Aware that Poland and Hungary may be two of Britain’s closer friends in a post-Brexit EU, British diplomats have sought to cosy up to the governments rather than criticise them

impossible to imagine what criticism the uk government could have for hungary

God I just realised that the Tories are going to win Derby North because a minority of stupid twats will rally round Chris Williamson.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELlyvJsW4AAJLP-?format=jpg&name=small

just had a walk around islington and there were people queueing outside polling stations!

in the miserable rain!

CW is reportedly polling at below 2%,the Lab candidate at 37 and the Tory at 50

So CW isn't splitting the vote but whether the apparently comfortable Tory gain is at his feet or mostly due to Brexit Brexit Brexit stuff idk

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― koogs, Thursday, 12 December 2019 16:00

go on, horrible geese, and steal the votes from anyone who looks a bit Tory

*honk*

CW is reportedly polling at below 2%,the Lab candidate at 37 and the Tory at 50

So CW isn't splitting the vote but whether the apparently comfortable Tory gain is at his feet or mostly due to Brexit Brexit Brexit stuff idk

truly nourishing #content

Get back to your lessons.#VoteLabour. pic.twitter.com/dDwPH1TWRX

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) December 12, 2019

"What's wrong with Carra?"

I'm sure Carra has a strict moral code and he will exhaust all other diplomatic options before flegging at children in Man U shirts or steaming in with the "Kirby kiss"!

has anyone got a list of at risk tories?

CW is reportedly polling at below 2%,the Lab candidate at 37 and the Tory at 50

So CW isn't splitting the vote but whether the apparently comfortable Tory gain is at his feet or mostly due to Brexit Brexit Brexit stuff idk

― Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Thursday, December 12, 2019 4:09 PM (forty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

dumb question from foreigner here: who is CW?

The CW Television Network is an American English-language free-to-air television network that is operated by The CW Network, LLC, a limited liability joint venture between CBS Corporation, the former owners of United Paramount Network; and AT&T, whose WarnerMedia subsidiary is the parent company of Warner Bros., former majority owner of The WB

This guy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Williamson_(politician)

xp

Goddamnit, broken link as usual. You'll need to copy/paste it.

british voters are demanding a further season of arrow

Defending this posting with my life.

The only vote in Scotland that will deliver a Labour government is a vote for Labour.

End of.

— Jeremy Corbyn - Vote today 🌹 (@jeremycorbyn) December 12, 2019