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Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

I've got ten quid on Labour taking the most seats, let's loving do this, goons. :dance:

And yet shamefully you're not on the sweepstakes https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/101ShRNc4MC1YtBI2XE0ru8rda4aTlNBaIytsutD-QIc/edit#gid=1959274628


No cat pic on my phone today so instead have this



Microplastics fucked around with this message at 17:01 on Dec 11, 2019

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Trickjaw
Jun 23, 2005
Nadie puede dar lo que no tiene



goddamnedtwisto posted:

PM me (or DM me on twitter - @CouncilCulture) if you happen to end up at my one (going to be there from about 10). Although you'll have to remind me *which* Thing, because there's a couple of them.

Well, that's me excommunicated. I've just tweeted filth at the Vatican. THANK YOU TWISTO. As if I didn't have enough to recant on my death bed.

Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021

Dan Didio posted:

How many hours until exit poll, like 30?

Yes.

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Grey Hunter posted:

Irony Be My Shield posted:

Wow can't believe the DM is endorsing Labour this time.


The interesting thing here is in the main text

quote:

The bombshell result must put more pressure on those thinking about voting for the brexit party to switch to the tories to ensure the UK leaves the EU

Even the Mail knows the only place the tories are picking up more votes are from the Brexit, while everyone else can get the undecideds, who have been exluded from the polls up until now (for obvious, and well grounded reasons).

Yep, and there's a real fear that low-information BXP voters may only find out the party isn't running in their constituency when they get to the polling station. If that happens, do we think they'll quietly vote Conservative instead, or do we think they'll explode in a shower of gammony rage at this betrayal and go home to furiously post Daily Heil comments? :D

Here's me gloating about this when it was raised in the thread:

Braggart posted:

This could actually be beneficial. If they only find out at the polling station and their rage only begins then, I suspect they won't then vote Conservative because they haven't had time to come to terms with that being their only option. I reckon they'll storm off in a huff, and then some of them will regret not voting CON in the coming days :D

...which I hadn't even thought of when I gloated about this a few days before:

Braggart posted:


gently caress me this is incredible :D

There's so much to laugh at! The rage in the comments at this betrayal, the clear careful planning and editing that went into this shitshow (they're shook), the delivery of some lines, the fact that they thought this was a good idea, the fact that they've cheerfully attached their own names to an act of betrayal of their voters, the fact that the clip they've tweeted makes zero attempt to explain their smugly-delivered decision so people are gonna be WTFing as they go to click on the main video, the fact that they've done this after the postal votes are in. Oh my god where do I begin?

:hmbol:

They know full well that they have a lot of low-information voters, because normally they knowingly take full advantage. But now it could gently caress them over and they are bricking it. Check out the comments on the tweet. Also check out the comments on the Youtube vid oh wait you can't because comments were closed when they started to get real bad :D

Pencils R Cool
Feb 16, 2011
https://twitter.com/ZamzamMCR/status/1204708868690976768

BXP going after the gammon vote by... dancing to Power by Kanye West outside Debenhams and Betfred in Sunderland city centre? Areet.

josh04
Oct 19, 2008


"THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"

This title contains sponsored content.

https://twitter.com/ElectoralCommUK/status/1204790546675437573?s=19

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Trickjaw posted:

Well, that's me excommunicated. I've just tweeted filth at the Vatican. THANK YOU TWISTO. As if I didn't have enough to recant on my death bed.

Not that tweeting filth *isn't* a good thing, but you've lost me entirely here...

pippy
May 29, 2013

CRIMES
The conservatives have sent me two pieces of kindling today instead of the usual one.

A fake hand written letter from Ruth Davidson herself. Do olds actually think it's handwritten?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Pencils R Cool posted:

https://twitter.com/ZamzamMCR/status/1204708868690976768

BXP going after the gammon vote by... dancing to Power by Kanye West outside Debenhams and Betfred in Sunderland city centre? Areet.

Don't really think you can call that dancing tbh

Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021

Pencils R Cool posted:

https://twitter.com/ZamzamMCR/status/1204708868690976768

BXP going after the gammon vote by... dancing to Power by Kanye West outside Debenhams and Betfred in Sunderland city centre? Areet.

I told you the political right has youth clubs.

I WARNED YOU ABOUT THE YOUTH CLUBS.

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006

OwlFancier posted:

I think there's a general belief among alot of people and media people that islamophobia isn't real, or is actually good. They pay lip service to it, but they don't actually care.

both islamophobia and antisemitism is very real in the UK and very not good

https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1204727148801605632

El Grillo
Jan 3, 2008
Fun Shoe

El Grillo posted:

mycampaignmap.com is saying I should spend tomorrow in Peterborough, Dagenham/Rainham, Ipswich, or Thurrock. I can get to any of them and have a car... anyone have an idea where the best(most helpful) place for me to go would be?
Having searched around a bit, looks like Peterborough & Ipswich need the most help out of this lot... think I will go Peterborough as it's further from London and the gap in the MRP estimates was wider there.

big scary monsters
Sep 2, 2011

-~Skullwave~-
I had a prophetic vision while I slept last night that I was visiting a shining socialist cloud city, possibly Leeds, following a stunning electoral victory by a "coalition of not cunts". If somehow reality doesn't match up with this after tomorrow then it's reality that's wrong, not me.

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006
they are loving shook and on the back foot - keep campaigning and get out the vote tomorrow all!

https://twitter.com/oliver_wright/status/1204767076415672322

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

pippy posted:

The conservatives have sent me two pieces of kindling today instead of the usual one.

A fake hand written letter from Ruth Davidson herself. Do olds actually think it's handwritten?

You'd be surprised what olds think.

Lord of the Llamas
Jul 9, 2002

EULER'VE TO SEE IT VENN SOMEONE CALLS IT THE WRONG THING AND PROVOKES MY WRATH

Tried to add an entry but it says protected?

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

Braggart posted:

Big man Bozza is turning out to be a right tosser. He's making proud Tories into shy ones, too depressed to vote in some cases :getin:

:yeshaha:

I do not like the phrase "shy Tory". Call them Liberal Democrats like everyone else, please.

fuf
Sep 12, 2004

haha
https://twitter.com/ElectoralCommUK/status/1204790546675437573

currently dialling 999 on laura k

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

El Grillo posted:

Having searched around a bit, looks like Peterborough & Ipswich need the most help out of this lot... think I will go Peterborough as it's further from London and the gap in the MRP estimates was wider there.

Yeah I didn't see your original post but Labour were asking London-based members to head out of town if they at all could last night because they're very short-handed, and both Ipswich or Peterborough were on the list.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Tried to add an entry but it says protected?

Gah, lemme fix

E: i extended the range yesterday but the range protection exception didn't extend with it :argh:

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

I'm excited to see what occurs tomorrow.

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Doccykins posted:

both islamophobia and antisemitism is very real in the UK and very not good

https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1204727148801605632

Of course the comments are full of people saying "And?" and "phobias are unjustified, I'm anti Islam" "read the Koran" "one can hold the view that Islam is dangerous to our society without viewing muslims negatively :smug:" etc etc etc


Thanks for proving the point, fuckers :crossarms: :fuckoff:

Carrier
May 12, 2009


420...69...9001...

it will never happen, but god would I love to see her actually get charged for this poo poo

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

Carrier posted:

it will never happen, but god would I love to see her actually get charged for this poo poo

Just bail conditions forcing her not to use the internet would be enough for me.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
Btw nice work whoever ordered the Interesting Seats sheet by declaration time

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006


Now this would be really loving funny

The Deleter
May 22, 2010
I think it would be better to let Laura stew in her own juices as a Labour government implements Levenson. She'd either play ball or gently caress off on her own, so we'd see the back of her either way. I'm always having to check that my dislike of her isn't coming from a bad place and I get a bit worried sometimes that legit criticism of her will get lumped in with other people being vile.

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Doccykins posted:

they are loving shook and on the back foot - keep campaigning and get out the vote tomorrow all!

https://twitter.com/oliver_wright/status/1204767076415672322

drat right.

Do not let up the pressure!

They never gave us a breather while they were trying to kill us. They never gave us respect, dignity or honesty. Do not let the crocodile tears fool you. The instant they feel they can they will put the boot back onto your neck.

Fight these monsters until you die, and bring back real kindness and hope to our society! :hai:

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
I don't understand why the BBC haven't just told Laura K to get the gently caress off Twitter.

Chuff McNothing
Sep 9, 2019

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

peanut- posted:

I don't understand why the BBC haven't just told Laura K to get the gently caress off Twitter.

she's doing her job

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
I'm hearing police scrambled to go + arrest, and it turned nasty when they arrived - a journalist has punched a cop

Azza Bamboo
Apr 7, 2018


THUNDERDOME LOSER 2021

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

Btw nice work whoever ordered the Interesting Seats sheet by declaration time

Link?

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

peanut- posted:

I don't understand why the BBC haven't just told Laura K to get the gently caress off Twitter.

Because she's doing exactly what she's paid to do

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

The Deleter posted:

I think it would be better to let Laura stew in her own juices as a Labour government implements Levenson. She'd either play ball or gently caress off on her own, so we'd see the back of her either way. I'm always having to check that my dislike of her isn't coming from a bad place and I get a bit worried sometimes that legit criticism of her will get lumped in with other people being vile.

I think Laura's hosed. She's painted a massive target onto herself and has become nationally hated, a symbol of the establishment lying to the little guy to gently caress them over. I don't think her bosses will try to save her. I think they'll try to offer her up as a sacrifice to save themselves.

So let's offer her a deal :getin:

TheRat
Aug 30, 2006

https://twitter.com/johnjh67/status/1204770212014370818

:wtc:

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006

thanks, also just put mine down. If you've got 0 for 'other' you've forgotten the Speaker seat

RockyB
Mar 8, 2007


Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good
Vice article is very good, Corb's views on how poo poo mainstream media are cut through a lot more here than I've seen elsewhere. Which is why the canvassing is so important, and so high energy this year.

Screw the 'low energy' bullshit from the traditional media. Jeremy is barely even targeting you.

https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/zmjjp8/jeremy-corbyn-battle-bus-tour-election-2019

quote:

We’re trying to reach past the mainstream media that has consistently abused our views and denigrated my party,” Corbyn tells me, having waded through a procession of backslaps and selfies, and climbed once more aboard the battle-bus. “I feel constantly frustrated by the political classes and the mainstream media.” He sighs, leans back in his chair, and gazes out the window. “But I also recognise that there’s a very different world out there. And ours is a different kind of campaign.”

Despite the punishing schedule, Corbyn’s energy and enthusiasm seems undimmed. In part, he credits that to the much broader ground war being waged by Labour supporters nationwide; with an unprecedented number of volunteer canvassing and phonebank sessions organised across the UK, it appears as if this election may end up being a record-breaker when it comes to mass participatory campaigning.

You go round the country, there’s no Conservative campaign in the streets, there’s no Conservative campaign doing the door-knocking that we do,” Corbyn claims. “There is a very expensive and targeted Conservative advertising campaign, and then there’s us – outside all the time, funded by an average donation of £25, a popular campaign of ordinary people.”

That approach – focusing on the persuasion of voters face-to-face, rather than relying primarily on marketing budgets and media narratives working in your favour – is partly the product of necessity; academics have concluded that the UK print press has shown an overwhelming bias against Labour throughout this campaign, while according to the latest set of election funding figures, the Conservatives took in seven times more money than their rivals, including one million-pound donation from a single billionaire financier.

But Corbyn also sees it as a virtue, reflective of the kind of grassroots politics he wants to bring to both his party and the country at large, and who it engages. “The community organising model that we’ve put into Labour, it has changed the nature of the party and the people who participate,” he says. “At the events I’ve done, those involved have been more working-class, more ethnically diverse, there’s more women attending. No one event is a complete microcosm of the whole country, but they look more representative of what this country is about than they used to.”

A sense of the normal rules of formal politics being rewired pervades this election on the Labour side, and not only with regards to the campaign tactics they are depending upon to win it. The party’s manifesto – far more ambitious and forward-looking than its 2017 equivalent – represents a definitive break with the Thatcherite economic consensus that has gripped Britain for several decades, and it has attracted visceral hostility from large parts of a political and media establishment that continue to operate largely within that ideology’s borders.

God I've gotten very little actual work done this week. Vibrating with impatience for GOTV and results tomorrow.

Microplastics
Jul 6, 2007

:discourse:
It's what's for dinner.
The most interesting thing about this election is that it has really pushed "BBC tory bias" into the mainstream. We've known it for years, but where is it ever discussed except on the Internet's lefty holes? Now the other big outlets are talking about it, everybody's aware, and the BBC had to defend itself.

After years of the mail and express claiming the BBC was biased left-wards, the narrative has done u-turn in a remarkably short time

Shageletic
Jul 25, 2007

https://twitter.com/bitfantastic1/s...agenumber%3D794

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goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe

I wonder if - once you take journalists out of the attendance - Johnson has appeared in front of as many people *in total* as the smallest individual event that Corbyn has done.

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