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

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

Strong "back to Albert Square with revenge on my mind" energy pic.twitter.com/Xgr4Q7jZDd

— Andy Silke (@andysilke) November 13, 2019

sry 4 marina hyde content but fucking hell jo swindon is posting cringe again, this time in a boxing gym in hornsey & wood green

Ever keen to put on a broadcastable show for the news cameras, Swinson had lined up a bit of coaching from the gym’s founder. For this she donned a pair of yellow gloves, and got into the ring to the strains of Roots Manuva’s Motion 5000, wearing a “girly swot” T-shirt with an additional printed spider-brooch tribute to the president of the supreme court, Lady Hale.

The main thing Swinson would like you to think, as she jabbed for the cameras, is that she has that same lovable underdog energy of Rocky Balboa, being absolutely determined to show people she ain’t some bum from the neighbourhood and has a chance of pulling off a million-to-one prime ministerial upset. “I don’t think either of them would be a good PM,” she judged of Johnson and Corbyn. “I could do a better job.”

“I look forward to taking them on in the debates – unless they’re scared of taking on a girly swot.”

very powerful over-eager head girl vibes

like Tracey Flick but with none of her sense of humour

(xp) Totally. And posh Glasgow head girl vibes to boot.

You can take the girl out of Milngavie...

we can but hope that the voters of east dunbartonshire choose to return her there

talking of Jo, buses and Milngavie.

There was a thing in Milngavie last year where she basically let them pull a bus (the 15) that wee old ladies and schoolkids used every day. The Greens guy saved it despite not being MP.

So yeah wee bit sceptical she'll stop BREXIT.

— Don Lyall (@Don_lyall) November 5, 2019

She's probably got a statue of Thatcher in her back garden. With one of her hands triumphantly holding a bottle of milk aloft that she's stolen off a starving waif and a dead squirrel that she's just battered to death in the other.

jesus which cchq strategist thought it would be a good idea for BJ to have a sit down w people impacted by the floods ? p uncomfortable footage for the so-called born campaigner

very powerful over-eager head girl vibes

What she actually reminds me of is the nice, diligent colleague who gets one promotion and immediately starts throwing their weight about like they're the CEO in waiting.

i notice boris didn't drink his coffee...

gove on radio this morning doing his usual squirmy thing. "we have taken swift action to deal with any conservative member involved in anti-muslim language" and yet boris is still pm...

Gove still in office

Oh good

Johnson says British workers will get priority under Tories on public procurement projects after Brexit

Johnson says, when the UK leaves the EU, the government will insist public sector procurement projects hire British workers.

given the screeching about JC’s comments on abu bakhr-al’baghdadi today thought I’d mention something that no journalist seemed to pick up on, question etc. the morning after his killing there was an interview on today with someone from the neighbouring compound. he said that marines told him “go inside, we are going in there, there will be a big explosion, and then it will all be over.” now - entirely within range of predictability that ABAB would be wearing a suicide vest as standard but no one seemed to question why the marines said definitively there’d be an explosion if (as stated) one of their objectives was to arrest him.

Johnson had a muted response to that in his q&a, weirdly

We have 29 days until the General Election..

We can win this, but only with your help.

Join @johnmcdonnellMP on a mass video call at 7pm to find out how to get involved.

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— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) November 13, 2019