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

Swamp’s been drained, haven’t you heard? Nobody left in Langley to do the work.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EJNIfZoXUAAR8Ua?format=jpg&name=large

Judging by Alexander Downer’s remarks, Australia is ready to do Langley’s dirty work again.

This man is 10/10 on fire. 🔥

BBC screws up and accidentally interviews a Remainer... then can’t stop him.
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— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) November 12, 2019

Re: Canterbury etc, how much evidence is there that these Lib Dem voters are just going to vote Labour if there's no LD candidate? I get the idea that it splits the 'Remain Vote' or whatever but how true is this?

Narrative seems to be that LD top brass dgaf about remain but their voters do - and that definitely seems to be true on the ground in Canterbury as local LDs want to not field a candidate (so these will presumably vote tactically for Labour?). But the ones that are going to stick LD in these circumstances....I don't see how they would switch to Labour if they had no candidate, surely they would go Tory to keep Corbyn out?

There must be loads of LDs that aren't bothered either way about Remaining, it seems a stretch to say Labour would get these votes if LDs stood down

Again, compare the national party's willingness to stand their candidate down for former Tory Attorney General Dominic Grieve. https://t.co/Y6d9Hj9tyy

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) November 12, 2019

Lmao pic.twitter.com/ukxEZWwWjn

— Loki 💀🔶💀 (@Lokinash06) November 12, 2019

Re: Canterbury etc, how much evidence is there that these Lib Dem voters are just going to vote Labour if there's no LD candidate? I get the idea that it splits the 'Remain Vote' or whatever but how true is this?

Have you not got to how do we actually know the Earth isn't flat yet?

The Lib Dems’ Paula Ferguson says the party will field a candidate against Labour’s Rosie Duffield in Canterbury as people should "have a chance to vote for a Remain candidate.”

Earlier today the Lib Dem's candidate stood down over fear of dividing the Remain vote#Newsnight pic.twitter.com/sDIAM9X6Ji

— BBC Newsnight (@BBCNewsnight) November 12, 2019

That woman had a truly horrific combination of rising inflection and starting every sentence with 'So'.

Canterbury is a city with a big student population and probably a reasonable chunk of affluent liberals who either commute into London and work in Kent.

But it's traditionally been very Tory of the garden variety Brexity type and the candidate is very on message and will hoover up a lot of votes. But she's likely to be anathema to most of the people who would be tempted to vote LibDem whereas Rosie Duffield comes across as quite nice basically and a passionate Remainer and not one of those nasty Corbyn types. Most liberals would be perfectly comfortable voting for her.

In any case, you don't need the entirety of the LibDem vote to go Labour, you just need to stop enough of the Labour vote seeping over to the LibDems. Its very finely balanced. I'd expect whichever candidate the LibDems put in to tank.

Mr Corbyn, with your horrendous footwear decisions, you have made it impossible for me to vote Labour.

open toes in a kitchen = HSWA transgression, surely?

Tldr version my guess is that Rosie Duffield is a lot more appealing to LibDem voters than Jo Swinson is and certainly more appealing than the Tory candidate is. Which won't be enough to persuade all of them to put an X next to Labour but it might well be just enough and just enough is all it takes in a knife edge marginal.

Corbyn delivering the new manifesto like pic.twitter.com/FAMnidTd8v

— Bertie (@bert_slide) November 11, 2019

Whatever the outcome of this election at least there are people out there...posting like their lives depended on it

Whoa there!

This is what I looked like before Brexit! https://t.co/UmIzT2JXWp

— Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) November 12, 2019

xxp brilliant

Angela Rayner seems to be very prominent in this campaign which feels like a wise decision.

hope this is the beginning of a proper LD meltdown

The Lib Dem candidate in High Peak, @GuyKiddey says he may stand down.

It's over a row in the party that began yesterday when Canterbury candidate @ThatTimWalker decided to stand aside, to avoid splitting the remain vote.

— Chris Doidge (@BBCChrisD) November 13, 2019

Guy Kiddey says he'll pull out: "unless the party retracts its implicit threat to candidates, drops its intended disciplinary proceedings against Mr Walker & apologises unreservedly. I doubt it will, in which case I too will stand down & resign my membership & I will vote Labour"

— Chris Doidge (@BBCChrisD) November 13, 2019

Bit louder for the people in the back: the lib dems are not a remain party, they are not concerned with 'stopping brexit'.

xxp Angela Rayner comes out with some daft stuff on social media sometimes but she's very personable and a natural born campaigner who always remains calm under pressure. I've often totally disagreed with her comments and takes on that 90's era of Labour Party history but still like her a lot.

I think she views herself as a party unity type which might explain those comments - she's also a very vocal Corbyn defender of the "we're all on the same side" type.

More pertinently she doesn't come off the standard MP conveyor belt, isn't from London or representing a London seat, and comes across as the sort of person that a lot of voters already know and like.

Been humming this last few days

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— pixelatedboat aka “mr tweets” (@pixelatedboat) November 10, 2019

Heard some superb rumours last night that many in the PLP absolutely loathe Jess Phillips, that she’s just plain rude to colleagues who are not Diane Abbott too.

Whodathoughtit?

I know, but confirmation from a top-class source is another matter.

obv they are just a bunch of metropolitan snobs who can't deal with such a working class pit-prop bringing such energy to PMQ's that she has to be James Brown stylee carried out off the stage by medics.

off the back of Cam's tweet

#bristol pic.twitter.com/IVaDJzVTRU

— Nikesh Shukla (@nikeshshukla) November 13, 2019

are we going to talk about the PM putting the image of his elderly opponent self-pleasuring out into the public imagination?

not aware

Please join @UNISON_GSTT and @AngelaRayner in supporting the @SRTRC_England #wrd19 campaign. Please also buy me a comb pic.twitter.com/566tyLxruT

— UNISON GSTT (@UNISON_GSTT) June 19, 2019

always appreciated Angela Rayner's willingness to continue to rub shoulders with the unwashed rabble in the trade union movement that launched her political career

corbyn in scotland for two days from today - might finally get some reporting/insight into a part of the election where 78% (!) of seats are marginal

And yet everyone seems to be taking an SNP sweep there as a foregone conclusion?

xps speaking of hair, the only red thing either of you is wearing is hers lol, get with the program!

there had to be a poppy lying around

aren't the tories already doing Scot Labour a solid by repeatedly saying they will enable indie ref 2, even though I heard Barry Gardiner getting booed by a recent Glasgow QT audience for playing down such a prospect.

I think SNP will go up a few but Labour should too - if the latter can take at least half of the Glasgow seats back that were theirs ten years ago that'll be a start.

xps speaking of hair, the only red thing either of you is wearing is hers lol, get with the program!

I'd only just found it was a thing, it wasnt on that day!

article is worth a read:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/1802­6376.general-election-2019-contenders-th­ree-key-scottish-marginals-explain-campa­ign-techniques/

“Broadly, if you put the latest polling numbers into a seat predictor, you come up with 50 seats for the SNP. But there are many reasons to be cautious.

First, the aforementioned lack of up-to-date polling. Second, with so many marginals it doesn’t take much deviation from a national swing to cause some interesting results in individual seats.

Third, there are likely to be different campaigns and narratives running in different parts of the country. What a national predictor assumes is that all seats behave in the same way, for example that all the Tory gains in the north-east of Scotland will go back to the SNP.”

some nice bigotry from this church of scotland minister

Here’s a video clip of the moment Jeremy Corbyn was heckled in Glasgow pic.twitter.com/ALiSjiZ77W

— Tom Rayner (@RaynerSkyNews) November 13, 2019

Ba'-faced bigot emboldened by Rangers' promising form in Europe this year.

Meanwhile uluv2cit

"I'm not very happy about talking to you... you've not helped us"

A member of the public refuses to speak to Boris Johnson on a visit to a flood-affected part of South Yorkshire

[tap to expand] https://t.co/iqr7npsTFK pic.twitter.com/TizkvKEj5D

— BBC Politics (@BBCPolitics) November 13, 2019

lol owned

Every time Boris goes to the North he creates another viral video hit for Momentum

First it was "spaffing it up the wall", now Johnson claims Corbyn would lead the nation into "onanism" - what is Boris Johnson's obsession with masturbation? https://t.co/gsqlQps0bq

— Jonathan Walker (@jonwalker121) November 13, 2019

never mind the gammon, richard leonard always makes me think of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_slime :(

Johnson's teeth really do match his hair colour.

Richard Leonard is fucking awful. I'm not into all that X Factor bollox but he's very much the opposite of Rayner in that he's someone I'd tell to fuck off on the doorstep even if I was reluctantly voting for him.

I only learned recently that the investigation into historic child abuse that his spaffing money up the wall comment was about includes his old prep school, which was notorious for it back then.