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

I think Blyth Valley might end up getting gerrymandered to Wales after the next boundary reforms!

sad to report that baggymp on channel 4 is pulling all the tools from his twatbag

is it too late to join the Labour so I can vote for literally anyone from the left of the party to stop them replacing Corbyn with some Blairite scum?

scottish labour rightists on twitter giving it laldy as if their recipe of unionism and remain was what was called for at this election.

labour in scotland needs to have a conversation about independence if it wants to continue to have any relevance

no colonel poo it isn't!

I'm not trying to hardman but I probably would've had a go tbh

I didn't really expect it as it came out of blue, and I felt dispirited rather than angry

What made me more angry was a lib dem kind of guy that was 'helpfully' trying to explain to people that at least a large majority means Boris can ignore the ERG and have a softer brexit, and mate no one gaf about your soft brexit right now mr slacks

xp or not

I had idle plans to do that anyway expecting this result, but I didn't expect the result to be this bad even though I knew it was likely to be shit

I even went to sign up but balked a bit at the £50-odd a year but tbh I could probably afford that, provided I don't totally shit the bed and tell my job to go fuck itself, which isn't 100% guaranteed I won't do in the next couple of weeks

Def isn't. Join and elect a left leader. Need to keep pushing the same policies. That's fight on the electoral front, anyway..XP to CP

Swindon north was labour til 2010

now 16,000 tory majority

"Nicola Sturgeon is the most divisive politician in Scotland" - Some Tory boy HAHAHA

Labour boy says it's people "down south" nipping at the Scottish

I fear the 86 majority was, if you excuse the pun, conservative, I can see them getting more - they're projected to get almost twice as many seats as Labour as it is.

Join and elect a left leader. Need to keep pushing the same policies. That's fight on the electoral front, anyway..XP to CP

This is correct, though it feels a bit far away right now. This isn't a failure of the last 2 years, its a failure of the last 40 years, and UK isn't alone, its the same pattern repeated again and again. These are things which develop and unfurl over decades not months, no simple redress, not that I'm feeling in a post-mortem mood

Never been an easier night for hard pruning of your Twitter follows

ha, was just about to say the same. bye at last stuart maconie.

oof

2017
Leader - Corbyn
Manifesto - radical, socialist
Referendum - respect result

2019
Leader - Corbyn
Manifesto - radical, socialist
Referendum - have another one

— vote labour today 📈 (@lara_eleanor) December 13, 2019

When I was reading all the stats about voter breakdown by age, I was thinking about the Joyce line about Ireland. That the country is “the old sow that eats her farrow.”

The other thing I’m pondering is the level of contempt older people seem to have for everyone else, including their own children and grandchildren, although I at least have the beginnings of a theory on this.

— Socialist Dad (@shirleymush) December 12, 2019

Yeah 86 is right and unless a lot of chaos comes along they are here for 10 years.

The thing is a lot of chaos might come along, and that is sad and awful.

my worry was there was some rule where people who hadn't been a member for a certain amount of time weren't allowed to vote in some internal Labour election a while ago (Owen Smith maybe? or did I imagine it) so I worry I'll sign up and pay money to a party that will elect Liz Kendall or something. OK that's probably just going to be £50 which I can afford and the risk of me being pissed off I gave money to some dickhead is probably worth a gamble. OK

Absolutely correct. Totally critical that a convincing left-wing alternative is built upon and promoted over the next few years of whatever shit we have to live through.

There are plenty of reasons to expect that the global economy is in for some pretty bad times in the not at all distant future, and we need a credible alternative.

Join labour now.

Many xps

This bbc prediction thing is like one of those zombie movies where tories keep bursting through your windows all over the place

Labour down 18% in Sunderland.

We're getting murdered here.

It’s not just the Tories that own the Brexit to come, the majority of England and Wales does now. And the papers, too. Admitting it was all a mistake will be an impossibility, and so the parties of the left won’t even be able to point out the truth of what has gone wrong in the years to come.

It will be like trying to change “labour caused the crash” on a massive scale.

Gareth Snell was already on the list, but what a total cunt. At least stfu until you've actually lost your seat, dickhead.

Oh good here’s Aaron Banks

Labour down 18% in Sunderland.

Say what you want about the Lib Dems but I think we can all agree that Jo Swinson was on to something with that nuclear button

I would say I'm going to emigrate, but after Brexit I won't be able to. the scum have not only fucked this country but made it so we can't leave it. where would I go anyway. this world is a crule ringmaster or something

It's this or nothing. I know a lot of us are trying to formulate what it will look like, but a militant and caring anti-fascist movement is more urgent day by day. https://t.co/ElufngJGVX

— ciao! ciao! ciao! (@MediocreDave) December 13, 2019

As someone with a British and euro passport I wouldn't think of leaving.

Solidarity and love to the UK. Seeing a lot of reactions that feel like how it felt in Australia last year.

I do sometimes wonder if I have too much faith in humanity that I expect anything besides what has happened here.

The trend in the Anglosphere is increasingly people only giving a shit about what they and their immediate family need and absolutely fuck everyone and everything else. There are so many reasons for this, politically and culturally, that it feels like an unstoppable train. I sometimes feel that a huge, visible disaster on a global scale is the only thing that could possibly shock people into thinking about the humanity of someone other than themselves in this current social and political climate.

Who is this wanker on bbc now

Not that one or that one, the other one

Excuse sincerity, but (a) I'm desperately proud to be in the same party as the people I'm in the same party as, and (b) people will tell us it's because we weren't sufficiently racist or vicious to the poor, and they will need to be told very firmly to fuck off

— PDK "you should’ve voted labour" Mitchell (@pdkmitchell) December 13, 2019

I sometimes feel that a huge, visible disaster on a global scale is the only thing that could possibly shock people into thinking about the humanity of someone other than themselves in this current social and political climate.

Bet on the USA leading the way there.

The trend in the Anglosphere is increasingly people only giving a shit about what they and their immediate family need and absolutely fuck everyone and everything else.

I think we're actually past that now, we're approaching a nihilistic stage where people don't even seem to care if their own lives are fucked.

Yeah this isn’t people thinking about their families ffs

You’ll still see people suggesting Keir Starmer would have done better (!)

One of those people being Keir Starmer.

I feel so empty. I have an appointment with my GP tomorrow morning first thing. My ailment feels so meagre in the face of all this it feels ridiculous going in now.

I love how the whole Tory campaign was ‘get brexit done’ and after the exit polls all the tories were like ‘this was all about brexit’ and now the standard labour wankstains are all ‘this was nothing to do with brexit it’s all about Jeremy Corbyn we need to bring back soft labour’

That's where the fight will be in the next few months.

Yep

/The trend in the Anglosphere is increasingly people only giving a shit about what they and their immediate family need and absolutely fuck everyone and everything else./

I think we're actually past that now, we're approaching a nihilistic stage where people don't even seem to care if their own lives are fucked.

Just noticed Quadrophenia is on Film 4, never seen it before.

Is there any channel covering this election where everyone isn’t a complete dongburger?

The trend in the Anglosphere is increasingly people only giving a shit about what they and their immediate family need and absolutely fuck everyone and everything else. There are so many reasons for this, politically and culturally, that it feels like an unstoppable train. I sometimes feel that a huge, visible disaster on a global scale is the only thing that could possibly shock people into thinking about the humanity of someone other than themselves in this current social and political climate.

― triggercut, Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Easy to be seduced by this line of thinking but people got Brexit on their heads. The ref in 2016 must be fulfilled, whatever the consequences.

And now it will.

Or rather, people don't think of consequences..not sure this can be mapped to Australia.

Caught a bit of C4's 'comedy' coverage a while back - Johnson Sr said women in burkha's shouldn'y be allowed to fly fighter planes. Nish Kumar tore stips off him tbf but still what the fuck