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

ouch my toes curled up

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".

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

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

no using google

can anyone name a second lib dem policy

grind the poor?

bollox to corbyn

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

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

ummm, probably something to do with the climate

always punch left

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) October 30, 2019

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

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

these strategic voting sites are out of control

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

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

Nice. It would indeed make a massive difference.

fs they're not standing in my constituency

we sometimes get the Yorkshire Party who are affiliated iirc

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

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

conservatives otm tbf

no, I think Britain is getting moreorless what it deserves

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 :(

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?

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)
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/10/uk-parliamentary-boundary-changes-final-plans-unveiled

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..."

We've already had three years of that

same. xp

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.

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..."

We've already had three years of that

Not every single day though.

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 :(

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

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%

don't worry guys i'm sure the national media will be all over this fake news scandal

As has been pointed out, the small print says 'imagine if it's a content between Rees-Mogg and the Lib Dems and no other party had any chance of winning, who would you vote for' and they still lose by six.

The takes are scalding hot lads

Any tactical voting tool will have glitches and teething trouble. If you demand transparency, how about some in return? There’s no tactical voting tool a Labour apparatchik will like, because you don’t want people to vote tactically. Your aim is to frame this as a two-horse race.

— Alex Andreou (@sturdyAlex) October 30, 2019

It’s data. The critics emphasise the 2017 GE. The site includes 2019 local and EU elections.

Let’s just sift through the various probabilities than cry ‘liar’ all the time.

Save that for Johnson

— Peter Jukes (@peterjukes) October 30, 2019

TACTICAL VOTING ADVICE: Try the tactic of voting for the Labour Party, because they represent the only hope for a better society.

— Avery Edison (@aedison) October 31, 2019

Terrific story. Brexit Party instructions to prospective candidates: “Important. Please all go DARK on social media. DO NOT respond to any questions about where we [are] standing, what the strategy or plan is from now on. Things will be made clear . . . very soon.” https://t.co/dyg8fVQkvG

— Tony Bonsignore (@Tony_Bee) October 30, 2019

Any tactical voting tool will have glitches and teething trouble although the fact that the glitches all work to benefit one party must be some kind of long odds coincidence.

it's very early in the campaign to be in a murderous fury, hat tip to the Lib Dems and the FBPE massive

love the Brexit Party's SAS fantasies showing in public let's go DARK

Read a really interesting thread on the kind of unregulated modelling of data that produces these kinds of tactical voting sites