The Question IRL posted:

I hear that you had to run past a goat to be allowed buy that newspaper.

Bundy posted:

Guavanaut posted:

Progject posted:

Sorry if this is a repost, but man, The Guardian are being arseholes: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/dec/10/the-baddies-are-going-to-win-again-a-brutally-honest-guide-to-election-night-tv

Let me believe for a bit

xtothez posted:

https://twitter.com/JayMitchinson/status/1204344653174181888

OwlFancier posted:

Look just because we told people to gently caress off with catastrophising doesn't mean you need to go find the guardian to indulge you lol.

Android Blues posted:

Despairing of Ashworth. He's the Shadow Health, on the exact day where the Tories are facing a major PR crisis over the NHS, and instead of effectively taking them to task on that he's going to be fielding questions like, "do you believe Jeremy Corbyn is a threat to national security? Is it true that you hate your own party leader and want him gone?".

Android Blues posted:

Despairing of Ashworth. He's the Shadow Health, on the exact day where the Tories are facing a major PR crisis over the NHS, and instead of effectively taking them to task on that he's going to be fielding questions like, "do you believe Jeremy Corbyn is a threat to national security? Is it true that you hate your own party leader and want him gone?".

Progject posted:

Force of habit. Was in my news apps rotation until recently.

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There is a large, vocal, passionate crowd here," Dan says.

"We perhaps haven’t seen the same sizes of crowds that we saw in 2017 at some of those huge rallies - maybe that just tells us something about a wet and windy election campaign being fought in the middle of December.

"There are some detractors here too - I spoke to one man who said he’d voted Labour all his life but would never support a communist.

PST posted:

Pearson has now deleted her libelous claim about the mother faking the whole thing. But of course not written an apology.

Braggart posted:

It's a hell of a lot easier to just dash off some copy based on whatever is going through your head at the time, or better yet, delegate it to some peon who already has a million other things to do so won't apply any more due diligence than you would have. Then you can rush off to the fun parts of the job, like schmoozing, drinking and

If the bubble likes you, then you will have easy access to the bubble! Sorted!

And if (when) you get something wrong, you can simply memory-hole it! Everyone does it, so it's like no one does it! Brill! Your journalistic reputation is built on being known as a reputable journalist, so who cares if something you say turned out to be wrong? Just don't bring it up ever again, no one else will! Everything you say comes from the mouth of a respectable journalist, and is quickly replaced by more things from the mouth of a respectable journalist! These new things must be true, we assume!

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Officials from the Department for Exiting the European Union have warned that the government would struggle to implement the systems and infrastructure needed for Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal by the end of the transition period in 2020.

HJB posted:

A Politwoops equivalent for journalists would be fascinating.

Jose posted:

holy poo poo

https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1204382786825728002?s=20

Jose posted:

holy poo poo

https://twitter.com/ToryFibs/status/1204382786825728002?s=20

Braggart posted:

Sometimes the oppressed internalise the views of their oppressors. It's part of how the whole edifice works.

mediaphage posted:

I’m aware. Doesn’t mean it doesn’t make me angry.

PST posted:

Surprising nobody

https://www.civilserviceworld.com/articles/news/dexeu-warns-major-challenge-implementing-brexit-plan

Braggart posted:

It's like the part of the movie where Scrooge starts to realise that he's a bad person and understands the need to change, except that Bozza will just racist monster his way onward until he is finally taken down.

zhar posted:

If I become a Labour member can they use the funds for the election?

namesake posted:

Anyone know of a good place to rent a room/place to meet in the evening in Bristol? My usual place has become unavailable when I wanted in and am trying to find somewhere in the centre that's not awful. It's only going to be for 6-12 people but I don't want to just occupy a corner of a pub like we often do.

zhar posted:

If I become a Labour member can they use the funds for the election?

PST posted:

Had someone telling me how Corbyn is going to be bad for businesses in the UK and was very satisfying (well, also kind of depressing) being able to respond that i've spent 3 years doing Brexit risk-management, which has seen billions moved out of the UK as well as over 100 jobs from my company alone, but if Corbyn is so bad, why don't we have a single working project on the subject, as opposed to the 5 or so we've had for areas of the business on Brexit.

To be fair, they then asked questions on the subject as somehow they still believed the 'no jobs lost because of brexit' lie. Not sure they switched but they were asking 'why has no one reported it then and where they could read about it' which of course means they read the Mail.

Jedit posted:

I saw a tweet today that I hadn't seen before, which said "GET BREXIT DONE is an anagram of BEING EXTORTED".

RockyB posted:

It takes a double payment the month after you sign up, so the money won't be available right now. I'd advise donating directly.

Rob Delaney has been on fire about the NHS this election

https://twitter.com/robdelaney/status/1204363960801222656

I am almost literally on the floor crying. "I'm an immigrant & I turned a loving cash hose on & sprayed it up the NHS’s rear end the second my plane landed."

Guavanaut posted:

Visited by chain top boo boys, a drunk loser, and a burka who didn't even speak English who's letting all these people in?

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Many of the ads have not contained misleading claims, but the issue has also been addressed by the non-profit organisation First Draft. It looked just at every paid-for Facebook ad from the three main UK-wide parties run over the first four days of December:

* for the Conservatives, it said that 88% (5,952) of the party's most widely promoted ads either featured claims which had been flagged by independent fact-checking organisations including BBC Reality Check as not correct or not entirely correct. The figure includes instances of the same claims being made across multiple posts. One example was that Labour would spend £1.2 trillion at a cost of £2,400 to every household, which was contained within 4,028 ads. Those sums are significantly higher than others' analysis of Labour's plans
* for the Lib Dems, it said hundreds of potentially misleading ads had featured identical unlabelled graphs, with no indication of the source data, to claim it was the only party that could beat either Labour, the Conservatives or the SNP "in seats like yours"
* for Labour, it said that it could not find any misleading claims in ads run over the period. However, it noted that the party's supporters were more likely to share unpaid-for electioneering posts than those of its rivals.