those halcyon days of a 200 ton paedophile and then a murderer leading the LibDems seem so far away now
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:04 (four years ago) link
apologies ..just misquoting alexi sayle
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:06 (four years ago) link
would probably take attempted murder over sharing responsibility for austerity tbh
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:07 (four years ago) link
oh definitely. they aren't even soft tories this lot, just remain tories.
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
Before the Coalition years I worked with Lynne Featherstone (batshit insane but nice) and Jo Swinson (lifetime Dorothy Perkins shopper) on a body image in fashion project, and I wouldn’t have reckoned on JS being given responsibility for anything much bigger than that.
I think a coalition with Labour won’t be up to her in the end, because she will lose her seat to the SNP, and I will bathe myself in sweet, sweet schadenfreude.
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
Swinson in danger of losing to the SNP, Boris looking over his shoulder in Uxbridge and now Corbyn facing the challenge of Alaric Bamping, it's all change in British politics.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:16 (four years ago) link
I wonder whether Bamping knows that his namesake Alaric I, the Visigoth king who sacked Rome, was born in modern-day Romania.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
cold bampin’ with labour
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:43 (four years ago) link
the wee bamper
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:45 (four years ago) link
one thing i find increasingly hilarious is the footage of swinson the lib dems are putting out *on purpose* that supposedly shows her communicating a message effectively or something. like if this is the best u got
― plax (ico), Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:47 (four years ago) link
for the official party of people who work in PR they are very bad at it
There are going to be some very disgruntled and vocal activists who have put the legwork in only to get bumped from winnable seats to make way for these cocks.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 September 2019 09:52 (four years ago) link
Can see them pissing away a few seats.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 15 September 2019 10:17 (four years ago) link
cold bampin’ with labour:D
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Sunday, 15 September 2019 10:27 (four years ago) link
watching swinson on marr this morning it is v strange that this person is being taken at all seriously
― plax (ico), Sunday, 15 September 2019 10:34 (four years ago) link
All centrist MPs in this country need to do to get favourable coverage is punch left. Doesn’t matter who they are. Policies and history don’t matter. You accepted an MP who wanted gay asylum seekers with HIV blocked while meanwhile the Labour frontbench was agitating for gay rights for decades? Lol who cares, all that matters is the narrative and who cares is splitting the vote in some Con/Lab marginals hands the Tories a majority?tl; dr:
is corbyn a marxist?https://t.co/PwoPmsAcl2 pic.twitter.com/Dygm9ZezwK— acid womble (@acidwomble) February 20, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
Proudly parading ex-Tories around is just going to remind wavering Labour voters why they didn't vote for them last time but it might help peel off more wavering Tory voters. Labour may yet benefit for this.As for the LibDems themselves, either they're a completely incoherent party whose members are just pretending they stand for the same economic and social goals or... they aren't.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:23 (four years ago) link
TL:DR - so they win a majority and stop Brexit. Then what?
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:29 (four years ago) link
Probably going to play out like that bit in TTOI where they promise a big grant for a business bank while they’ve got a homeless nurse committing suicide outside a government building.
― gyac, Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:37 (four years ago) link
with lots of different types of ISAs
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:38 (four years ago) link
Also, inviting Guy Verhoefstadt to conference was a stupid and probably damaging idea
What an absolutely lamentable argument for the EU - the future is a world order based on empires pic.twitter.com/v0I8RF67Pf— Tom Kibasi (@TomKibasi) September 15, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:50 (four years ago) link
imperialist homophobes. big conservative energy
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:54 (four years ago) link
How the Hulk was created - Brexit edition (apologies to Stan Lee) pic.twitter.com/uroPTHh5fd— (((Alex Sobel MP))) (@alexsobel) September 15, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 15 September 2019 11:57 (four years ago) link
Cheers pals on Twitter for pointing out Jo Swinson’s uncanny resemblance to Richard D James - SWINDOWLICKER!
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 15 September 2019 12:22 (four years ago) link
British politics, pick a side. pic.twitter.com/lW1PQtBZnq— Andrew Ellis (@Ellis_Samizdat) September 14, 2019
― prorogue mahone (||||||||), Sunday, 15 September 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
looking forward to post-brexit hulk britain breaking free of our chains then going on a massively destructive, infrastructure-shattering rampage before shrinking back into a weeping remorseful weakling
― don’t bore us, get to the aeon of horus (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:32 (four years ago) link
Yes, but experimental gamma bomb = EU.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:36 (four years ago) link
How does this keep happening:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/14/tories-extend-poll-lead-to-12-despite-week-of-political-chaos
― pomenitul, Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
Tiny samples and push-poll style questions?
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 15 September 2019 13:57 (four years ago) link
I think you have to take polling with pinch of salt.
This poll is done by Opinium. The same company had the Tories with a 19 point lead in late April 2017, roughly 6 weeks out from election date. They did gradually downgrade that, but still gave the Tories a 7 point lead on election day.
Maybe they've improved their methodology since then. I'm not saying they're wrong, but I wouldn't have any confidence in them being right either
― anvil, Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:10 (four years ago) link
It's almost as if polls are propaganda weapons
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:15 (four years ago) link
the pollsters that got it bang on last election: Survation have the tories on a 5 pt lead and i wouldn't be surprised if their own private internal polling data is telling them much different. And I can live with that because they are on course to lose if true.
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:19 (four years ago) link
The polls aren't there just to bolster the Tories but they get it wrong because things are so febrile and polarised and they say nothing about the geographical picture. There's no reason to get either excited or worried by them right now.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
boris spending half his life in northern marginals these days says that he is worried, and if they don't make gains there and lose to the libdems in some of their own turf, and theyve already lost scotland: bring on the fucking coalition of chaos.
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:23 (four years ago) link
but I'm not getting carried away, but see some glimmers of hope and reckon they will be making Cummings lose sleep as well.
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:28 (four years ago) link
I'm not remotely optimistic, the Tories will win the election, and they'll be relying on the Lib Dems for a majority this time.
― The Inner Mounting Phlegm (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:32 (four years ago) link
I'm taking those last few Scottish polls as a given that they will lose at least 10 of those 13 seats there to the SNP. They've got hell on to make gains in the north and a wouldn't a ConDem alliance be a bit problematic with both of them on different drugs atm?
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:40 (four years ago) link
A Labour government would back a Royal Commission into "all" drugs lawsIf experts back decriminalisation or legalisation of cannabis, cocaine or heroine, Corbyn likely to follow Diane Abbott says all options on the table. War on drugs could end https://t.co/VhLwe2QyTW— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) September 15, 2019
― gyac, Sunday, 15 September 2019 14:48 (four years ago) link
It is a good policy and they should pay it no mind unless it creates electoral advantage
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:16 (four years ago) link
The only positive about Tom's scenario will be the reaction of FBPE Twitter when the LibDems go back into coalition in exchange for a Soft Brexit.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:17 (four years ago) link
Obviously a Labour government is way more likely to give them what they actually want, ie no Brexit at all, so obviously they're railing against the very idea.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
Swindowlicker was not interrogated in the least as to why she finds government as the junior partner to Corbyn-led Labour so objectionable if there’s a chance of no Brexit through winning a ratification referendum. Andrew Marr doing bad journalism part 674664754 obvs
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:38 (four years ago) link
Also, this is LOL:
Boris Johnson asks a fortune teller for her prediction. He didn't predict she would destroy him and his politicspic.twitter.com/WeB1kD7OBE— #BlackSwan (@TheBirmingham6) September 15, 2019
― coup de twat (suzy), Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:46 (four years ago) link
articulating what she doesn't like about Labour would require her to admit that she loves the austerity and taking money off big fracking etc.
― calzino, Sunday, 15 September 2019 15:50 (four years ago) link
They're not going to get a soft brexit, they'll agree to no deal in exchange for a ban on vaping.
― Frederik B, Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:01 (four years ago) link
^
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link
''
― a wagon to the curious (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link
Ban on Easter Eggs if I know Swinsonhttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/_XMm2OsWNvVg/S69pJs_likI/AAAAAAAABc0/8qlC6eNA1nc/s1600/jo-swinson-easter-egg.jpg
― Stevie T, Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:33 (four years ago) link
She is such distilled essence of Liberal Democrat Wasteman it's absurd
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link
I choose not to use the feminine conjugation of wasteman
― Aston "Family Court" Barrett (Bananaman Begins), Sunday, 15 September 2019 16:37 (four years ago) link