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

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brexitcast indispensable
https://i.imgur.com/nSGmdq8.gif

conrad, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:12 (four years ago) link

LOL that'll be the Brexitcast with two Scottish contributors.

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link

I keep noticing in these Brit politics threads that a sizeable number of Labour MPs are scared of losing their seats in an election. I can't help thinking they should quit whining, stand with the party, and fight for the platform.

A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:28 (four years ago) link

is it sizeable tho -- or is it the same MP anonymously whining to many different outlets

mark s, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:30 (four years ago) link

SNP won my seat by 2 votes, Labour got less than 10%, so I guess I'll vote SNP again.

Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:33 (four years ago) link

I keep noticing in these Brit politics threads that a sizeable number of Labour MPs are scared of losing their seats in an election. I can't help thinking they should quit whining, stand with the party, and fight for the platform.


Wreckers gonna wreck. I direct you to this stunning and never disproven piece of analysis
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Dcd4HbpWsAE4bNN?format=jpg&name=large

gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 18:52 (four years ago) link

is that mrs kinnock

imago, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link

When someone who knows fuck all about football tries to talk about football pic.twitter.com/iGK9G24sAE

— Nooruddean (@BeardedGenius) October 30, 2019

oh no this is so uncomfortable to watch

gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:02 (four years ago) link

ouch my toes curled up

Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link

Chris Mason is even by bbc standards a horrible little establishment toady. I can't believe how angry I've got about him taking over AQ because it was already bad anyway. Also lolled at the brexit-cast producer boasting it is the most popular podcast in the UK. As if four hundred QT watchers saying "wtf is this shite?" counts as fans of the "podcast".

calzino, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:19 (four years ago) link

meant to say four hundred thousand, but it is probably about the right figure for brexit-cast

calzino, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link

Nicky Morgan stepping down now, Tory MPs are dropping like flies.

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:39 (four years ago) link

no using google

can anyone name a second lib dem policy

be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:41 (four years ago) link

grind the poor?

Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link

bollox to corbyn

calzino, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:43 (four years ago) link

all these moderate Tories resigning to spend more time with their directorships is some real Profiles in Courage shit

Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:44 (four years ago) link

Lib Dems also have a "be nice to each other" policy iirc

Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link

ummm, probably something to do with the climate

ت (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:45 (four years ago) link

always punch left

gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link

no they solved the environment with a plastic bag tax and the extermination of disableds and other social undesirables

Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:46 (four years ago) link

Chris Mason is even by bbc standards a horrible little establishment toady. I can't believe how angry I've got about him taking over AQ because it was already bad anyway.

Hell of a coup for Al Qaeda to sign him tbf.

Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link

Ann Coffey also not standing, that’s 2/5 of Change now.

gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:47 (four years ago) link

Make nice noises about climate change policy while pocketing readies from fracking donors?

coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:51 (four years ago) link

xxp
he wished! he wouldn't even make the AQ U21s reserve team bench!

calzino, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:53 (four years ago) link

i hope the lib dems do fuck all in this election, will be sorely disappointed if we're not even allowed that consolation

ت (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link

Imagine talking shit like you have green policies when yr party leader is in Cuadrilla's pocket, shameful stuff.

calzino, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:55 (four years ago) link

...and your previous leader was Mr Shell Oil, fucker-over of Ken Saro-Wiwa.

coup de twat (suzy), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link

We're launching the most ambitious and radical campaign for real change our country has ever seen.

Join me and @peoplesmomentum on a call tonight at 8pm to find out how you can get involved.

Register for the call here: https://t.co/EKFD6iupc3

— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 30, 2019

last time they did this el Gato and Johnny Mc were there

gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:10 (four years ago) link

could've arranged this when the Wolves weren't playing, for shame Mr Crumhorn

Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:13 (four years ago) link

Someone tell the Mail he’s doing this instead of watching Arsenal in the Carabou Cup

gyac, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link

these strategic voting sites are out of control

?????? pic.twitter.com/zDQr0sexnF

— Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor (@eff_hey) October 30, 2019

Simon H., Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link

Nice. It would indeed make a massive difference.

pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:21 (four years ago) link

fs they're not standing in my constituency

be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link

we sometimes get the Yorkshire Party who are affiliated iirc

Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:25 (four years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2vP_H-Ulwg

pomenitul, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 20:28 (four years ago) link

is the conservative election slogan really "britain deserves better" ? 🤔

be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link

conservatives otm tbf

non-euclidean lenin (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:16 (four years ago) link

no, I think Britain is getting moreorless what it deserves

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:19 (four years ago) link

i think so too but it's horrible that the ppl who will get it most in the neck are the ones who've earned it least :(

mark s, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link

Sorry, got a lot of posts to wade through before I catch up, but Michael said upthread "(There are fewer constituencies in the capital than there were, mind)."

Why is that the case when the population of London must have gone up by 1 or 2 million?

the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link

tories were planning a redrawing of constituency boundaries, which don't just redraw themselves when ppl move -- but this hasn't happened yet (i guess it was one too many hot potatoes in the trifle)
.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/10/uk-parliamentary-boundary-changes-final-plans-unveiled

mark s, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link

Seriously do not think I can face 5 weeks of film crews leaving London to find 'ordinary people' in the North and the Midlands who are prepared to say, "I've voted Labour all my life but..."

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 23:00 (four years ago) link

We've already had three years of that

the salacious inaudible (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link

same. xp

Heavy Messages (jed_), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link

Why is that the case when the population of London must have gone up by 1 or 2 million?

Good question, though the population of London fell, census by census, from the '30s (when 18% of the UK lived in the capital) to the '90s (when it was more like 11%) so there was probably an overdue corrective to over-representation? London had 93 constituencies in the '70s, 84 1983-92 and 73 since the 1997 election. But the growth of London has outstripped the rest of the country in the last 20 years, so really there should be more like 80-85 again now.

Big old pain in the arse to redraw boundaries though.

Michael Jones, Wednesday, 30 October 2019 23:22 (four years ago) link

Seriously do not think I can face 5 weeks of film crews leaving London to find 'ordinary people' in the North and the Midlands who are prepared to say, "I've voted Labour all my life but..."


".... I like Boris because he's really been trying hard to get things sorted"

lefal junglist platton (wtev), Wednesday, 30 October 2019 23:30 (four years ago) link

We've already had three years of that

Not every single day though.

Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 31 October 2019 00:05 (four years ago) link

mark s at 9:25 30 Oct 19
i think so too but it's horrible that the ppl who will get it most in the neck are the ones who've earned it least :(
yes, true, also this includes lots of non-British people

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 31 October 2019 00:14 (four years ago) link

Good thread on yesterday's fiasco

Your "tactical vote dashboard" is telling voters to vote Lib Dem in Truro & Falmouth.

Here was the 2017 result in Truro & Falmouth:

CON: 44% (-)
LAB: 38% (+23)
LD: 15% (-2)
OTH: 3% (-17) https://t.co/vUFsUa5V17

— Stats for Lefties 🌹 🌹 (@LeftieStats) October 30, 2019

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:21 (four years ago) link

Check out the small print on this. The @LibDems are not a serious political party. https://t.co/nzNC7qpV0b

— Greggs Truther (@invisibleste) October 31, 2019

LibDems employing more deceptive bullshit in their desperate scramble for tactical votes.

2017 result

Conservative

Jacob Rees-Mogg Votes28,992 header_vote_share53.6% Net percentage change in seats+3.9
Party
Labour

Robin Moss Votes18,757 header_vote_share34.7% Net percentage change in seats+9.9
Party
Liberal Democrat

Manda Rigby Votes4,461 header_vote_share8.3%

calzino, Thursday, 31 October 2019 08:42 (four years ago) link


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