bojo is king, brexit is on, stuff is fvcked, tomorrow starts here -- new govt new thread new battle

this feels crushingly otm

... so it has taken four years for low engagement voters to absorb it fully. The real charge against Corbyn is that he fundamentally believes that British/white lives are of equal value with the lives of others. 5/

— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019

The cenotaph. Gerry Adams. Prosecutions of historic crimes in N.I. Laying wreaths in foreign cemeteries. Poppies. Diane Abbott. Pushing the button. Watching the Queen at Christmas. 7/

— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019

it's a good thread, by which i mean it's extremely depressing

Boris had people at his count chanting “no surrender”

It is absolutely wild that the Tory vote only went up 1.2%. That's a figure worth remembering.

The party that made the biggest advance, percentage-wise, was ... the Lib Dems!

jo swindon we need u now more than ever

https://images.991.com/large_image/Jimmy+Shand+Will+Ye+No+Come+Back+Again-644479.jpg

uh-oh

I can this morning announce that as government advisor on antisemitism that I will be instigating an investigation this January into the role of the Canary and other websites in the growth of antisemitism in the United Kingdom. https://t.co/e76OcSydZm

— John Mann (@LordJohnMann) December 13, 2019

How can one pick a side between Lord Mann and the fucking Canary!! Fuck!

I was thinking perhaps the seeing the end of the trying-to-lie-more-than-tories Swinson LibDems might cheer me up a bit if the result was absolutely terrible. But it is has only delivered a wee morsel of grim satisfaction. Still pretty much winded from that gut punch of the exit poll last night. The weather is fucking horrible as well.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELrOa__XUAE8ME8?format=png&name=large

The issue is distribution as much as that breakdown

by the time the cohort has aged away from power it'll be too late for the climate, fuck everything.

The world itself will change, and the people in it will need to adapt to survive. The result of this election doesn't change that. Even if Labour had won it.

Something tells me a lot of you need cheering up, so here you go (even though I can already feel the stick I'm going to get!)...

Six reasons for the left to be cheerful https://t.co/Zh8LHchmQz

— Tom Clark (@prospect_clark) December 13, 2019

sorry everyone :(

The world itself will change, and the people in it will need to adapt to survive. The result of this election doesn't change that. Even if Labour had won it.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/six-reasons-why-the-left-need-not-despair-labour-conservative-election

straight into the veins

huh that was meant to quote the previous post, sorry

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

it got one mention on page 72 of the manifesto, so I think the real answer is "frack till it hurts then salve the wounds with coal"

What Tory climate change plan?

Priorities priorities but also who's the Commons Daddio now that Clarke and Skinner are gone?

If it’s not Bill Cash, it should be.

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

Tory climate change plan = do whatever sinister shadowy interests want, cover up with meaningless bluster. Same as their plan for everything else.

I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn’t expect this result but here’s how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep. 1/

— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019

oh sorry I see some of this was posted earlier

Xps, Peter Bottomley apparently.

climate change will basically be ethnic cleansing on a global scale and i do not expect the tories to give one single fuck about it

Mr. Personality himself. (xp)

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

machine-gun climate refugees at dover iirc

More realistically, take a look at what the US are doing - a network of concentration camps already being set up to detain climate change refugees, for example - and do the same. Remember that scene at Dover near the end of Children Of Men? That kind of thing. While scrapping over the spoils of newly-uncovered fossil fuels in the arctic, uncovered by climate change no less. Plus fracking. And blaming the resultant Armageddon on refugees.

climate change will basically be ethnic cleansing on a global scale and i do not expect the tories to give one single fuck about it

― one nation under a gloom (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Australia RIP

More realistically, take a look at what the US are doing - a network of concentration camps already being set up to detain climate change refugees, for example - and do the same.

Britain already has this btw

A 32 per cent vote share is 9 points down on Tony Blair’s second landslide, and indeed eight down on Corbyn’s own splendid defeat in 2017. But it is appreciably more than the 28 per cent score the party had in its 1983 Waterloo, and also up on the 29 per cent Gordon Brown scored in 2010, Ed Miliband’s 30 per cent in 2015, and Neil Kinnock’s 31 per cent in 1987. And it is only three points less than the 35 per cent share which produced the third Blair government in 2005.

This is... a parody?

It's facts, or don't your feelings care for it?

Is that a Ben Shapiro riff?

I'm grateful for people posting articles and tweet threads that put this in context, or provide any sort of grounds for optimism, for the record. Also all the canvassers.

It feels like the only option right now is to try to switch off and not give this more power than necessary while there's little to be achieved, but we will of course all be angrily refreshing screens like an inverse Male Online screaming "they're doing what?!" for the best part of ten years

We were young, once

a comprehensive green new deal, like the one labour was offering, would have put the country in a much better position to adapt, though
― Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

I know what you mean but given the reports of what's already happening it will need heavy coordination between many countries at a time. Green new deal is definitely a template for things that still can be done at some point.

Agreed. Shout out to all the canvassers, including comrade alphabet. Mad props.

I remember when "the government has announced ..." wasn't immediately met with dread or suspicion.

Xp

Children of Men was Bexhill, not Dover, not important but interesting to me as my mum lived there at the time.

thanks pom.

So many canvassers on twitter saying how 'they failed' but we were doing the little we could, too late. It turned to be a bit too much to turn around what was in front of us. Stuff that was building for two decades.

i'm so sorry you all, this is very grim. solidarity.

The only comfort I can offer is that without all that incredible mobilization it would certainly have turned out even worse.

Righteous fury from the guy in the neighbouring constituency

Re-elected Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle pledges to fight Conservatives in the street in fiery acceptance speech @lloyd_rm #GeneralElection #GeneralElection19 #generalelections2019 read full report 👉👉 https://t.co/ilKUjhMncU pic.twitter.com/hNBFnUZJ6d

— Jody Doherty-Cove (@JodyyDC) December 13, 2019

Same lad who grabbed the mace in parliament btw

take the lols where you can imo

TV gold here from @adamboultonSKY 😂pic.twitter.com/UblhRsxRfP

— Nick Jones (@resophonick) December 13, 2019

Our leader in waiting.

pic.twitter.com/nfQg9hsv21

— Zack Breslin (@zack_breslin) December 13, 2019