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

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

*shouldn't. damn phone

Jesus fuck

It's coal, climate change and the right to be a racist/sexist/homophobic/islamaphobic cunt rather than Brexit here - but the effect is much the same.

Australia is largely on the vote for yourself and fuck your immediate family tip, given that the last election largely fell on franking credits for retiree homeowners

“Corbyn delivered Hard Brexit” doesn’t quite work when he gains 50 seats offering a soft Brexit but loses 70 offering a 2nd referendum. You wanted a Brexit election, you got high on euro election voting. Own it.

— Vote Labour - Downing Street Source (@judeinlondon2) December 12, 2019

anti China whilst taking their money is in there somewhere as well

xpost w/ Ed - those are absolutely major agendas of the government, not sure they were as prominent with voters in May as they are for policy in November

C4 comedy has been full of centrist shite anyway. the Last Leg was fairly lefty until Corbyn came along, then suddenly a moderate social democractic manifesto suddenly becomes "pissy Corbyn" and his wacky marxist ideas

plus that bloke looks shit with that beard

Climate change just hasn't played a part.

As I often said in the thread there was a feeling that Corbynism merely arrested the decline of Labour in its poor Northern regions for a while. Too little, too late. I don't quite see how you map it to Australia.

In 2017 the Lab manifesto got a hearing.

XP to Ed.

Of course the racism toward migrants as cover for the decline in public services due to austerity got a hearing too. But it isn't the whole story

feel cold about the gloating, but more assured of who has my back. have been ringing despairing friends and comforting. any centrists gloating or told-you-soing are, obviously pricks, and I stand by my repeated opinion that they’ll get us all killed. Maybe it was naive to challenge nihilism with hope, but at least I know who the real threat is.

btw looks like two cities will fall to labour so the efforts of xyzzzzz and TH not entirely in vain :)
― gyac, Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Richer London areas voting for Remain then, lol.

Labour win Putney

... fairly comfortably.

And even with the lib dems getting a decent chunk of the vote

Turnouts are pretty dire.

At least labour’s brexit position should be greatly simplified next time round, think they’ll do a lot better not being compromised on that

Hard to know whether to be angrier at the utter pricks who have small-minded my votes in these scum, or the fucking ghouls who are using this as an opportunity to try to snuff out the movement towards a more caring society.

Realistically I’m very far from being materially harmed by this shitshow, but all I can think about is my sister whose mental illness has meant she literally hasn’t left her tiny flat in 4 years and yet she has been consistently told she is fine to return to work, and my niece whose autism has been totally unsupported by her school and has tried to kill her self twice before her 16th birthday. So many people don’t give a fuck about them and would happily see them dead if it means fewer brown people live in the same country as them.

I’m not on Twitter etc and everyone else has gone to bed and I’ve opened another bottle of wine and I know I basically post here about 5 times a year but I need a void to scream into and this is it I guess, sorry for the emo screed.

Some marvellous typos in there but you get the picture

Ah here’s Alistair Campbell I feel much better now

Scream away BF, I hear you and I too feel so fucking bleak this

Campbell is pure maggot

Someone give jezzer a hug :(

People really need to QUICKLY counter the fallacy that this means ‘Corbyn’s’ policies are dead

IDS got back in ffs

Absolutely, I think he’s lit a spark for a lot of people

Fucking LDs handing Chingford to IDS.

Faiza, you were robbed.

Canterbury held.

Dodds gone?

DUP source confirms @NigelDoddsDUP has lost his North Belfast seat.

— Tracey Magee (@Tracey_utv) December 13, 2019

I can't even celebrate that tbh.

Haven’t you heard - Dodd is dead

Not what I heard, I heard Nigel Dodd's dad's dog's dead.

Slap it up him. Turnout in N. Belfast between 70 and 80%

DUP never gained N Down, lost to Alliance from a vacated independent seat

SDLP polling well in S Belfast

Burnley - Tory Gain - first time since 1931

— Britain Elects (@britainelects) December 13, 2019

what a bunch of dyche-heads

Tories gain Ynys Mon from Labour. YouGov MRP had it down as a Plaid Cyrmu gain.

the shires have fucking lost the plot

Disgusting, depressing result.

I think the only consolation is that it was quite obviously Brexit which propelled Johnson over the line and he won't have that next time. Indeed it's more likely that he'll have to contend with a dip in the British economy after Brexit happens.

It's a dark night though. There really are a lot of small-minded arseholes in Britain. When you see the Tories taking seats in places like Halifax and Middlesbrough you know it's bad.

So much for all those queues around the block at the polling stations (though my heart sank when it became obvious that all of those photos were taken in London, where Labour is invariably strong anyway).

When you see the Tories taking seats in places like Halifax and Middlesbrough you know it's bad.

Not Middlesbrough. Labour still got over half the vote there.

Bye bye zac goldsmith