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

pic.twitter.com/T4SsHHvNNg

— 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.

McCluskey legitimate concerning:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/13/mccluskey-tells-corbyn-defy-calls-extend-freedom-of-movement

Jeremy Corbyn’s key union supporter, Unite’s Len McCluskey, has told the Labour leader that victory in the general election means winning over the party’s traditional working-class supporters with a tough line on free movement of workers.

In a wide-ranging interview, McCluskey said:

Labour needed to get the election debate off Brexit and on to the day-to-day issues that really mattered to voters.

oh yeah, such as what?

White working-class supporters of leave in the 2016 referendum would be driven into the arms of a hard-right party unless their concerns about migration were dealt with.

c'mon jezza, bring back the racist mugs for xmas

lengimitate mccluskerns

No shortage of racist mugs about lol

mclunkey!

Unemployed Indian men in Leyton also "concerned" about Eastern Europeans if my doorknocking is anything to go by. Don’t limit your racist strategy to whites, Len! It could be a real winner across the board.

<extremely johnny vegas voice> Mclunkeh!

Lucas is...good again?

https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/top-stories/caroline-lucas-says-lib-dems-don-t-give-a-f-k-in-joe-interview-1-6370262

McCluskey sounds like a bit of a national socialist.

In light of recent events I have decided I need to stand down as PPC for Filton and Bradley Stoke and resign from the Green Party.

Potentially long-ass thread:

— The 2010-15 Rememberer 🍉🌍 (@tomvahkiin) November 8, 2019

a counterpoint, as they say!

Idk maybe my access to photo editing software is bad pic.twitter.com/4aVIleu5vM

— lichen fairy (@pylonfan) November 13, 2019

Remain Alliance going well, I see?

is aoibhinn libh é a fheiceail

So what about Ilford South @angelasmithmp why are Lib Dem’s standing against @MikeGapes a committed Remainer & the only candidate who can beat Corbyn’s candidate??? https://t.co/7Y4vCYQjmw

— Joan Ryan (@joanryanEnfield) November 13, 2019

xxp

no imprint. fair does

Excellent knitwear from Alex Sobel

Proud to be the @UKLabour and @CoopParty candidate in Leeds North West again after my nomination papers were accepted. Looking forward to the rest of the campaign on my proven record of action for our community pic.twitter.com/S0wZ5bZ2Fm

— Alex Sobel for Leeds North West (@alexsobel) November 13, 2019

jealous of Sobel's jumper but not of any of his playlists

please meet my new wife pic.twitter.com/xbZUFIx9jp

— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) November 13, 2019

boris getting owned again