General Election 2019

removal of sugar from dr pepper

still hurts

See 154.

seems like a reasonable analysis on farage
https://averypublicsociologist.blogspot.com/2019/11/is-nigel-farage-labours-new-best-friend.html?m=1

who remembers when joanna lumley frogmarched phil woolas out in front of the national media and made him promise to be nice to gurkas?

Economist poll tracker.

I just read about that in delayed gratification.

Nigel is going to be too busy campaigning to find the time to actually contest a seat in this election.

And if you had "Cummings has suspect ties to Russia" on your bingo card The Times has got your back

If it comes back that Cumming's has been the involved in No 10 delaying the report into Russia interfereance it starts to look properly ropey, sadly I don't think people care that much so will just get dismissed as a non-issue by Boris

Apols if repost just popped up on fb. Crazy if true.

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Some more articles on what a crapshooter Johnson is:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/03/telegraph-forced-to-issue-correction-to-boris-johnson-column

This is the third time this year that the Daily Telegraph has been forced to issue a correction to material by Johnson

Johnson allegedly knew about Vote Leave's overspend:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/02/boris-johnson-vote-leave-overspend-eu-referendum-labour-mp-ian-lucas

And the murky affair around the dossier on Russian interference in British politics, which appears to be either being held by Johnson/Cummings or not yet published because of incompetence (Johnson potentially not taking care of business while distracted by election 'campaigning'):

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/02/dominic-grieve-calls-for-release-of-report-on-russian-meddling-in-uk

Has this been verified do you know?

Anyone volunteering with Labour?

What is happening there - evidence of fake FB posters ?

waves

Off to a persuasive doorstep conversation workshop thing on Wednesday

Have you done it previously?

No - it's trolling. People pretending to be bots for the lulz

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-50218615

People pretending to be bots pretending to be people to trend on sites aggregated by bots to be read by people...

Always should be someone, you really love

Nope. No idea how it'll go. I kinda look like yuppie green supporter, not sure how that'll go down door-knocking in Bolton.

There's this article: https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/blogs-trending-50218615 (as others posted above)

#rep

From memory, the only European nation not to receive Marshall Plan money was Spain (the USA hated Spain).

Going back there with my parents in the early 70s felt like stepping into the middle ages, it was fucked... No roads, no electricity, you had to get water from the local spring on the back of a donkey unless you had a well... FUCKED...

I'll do some Labour leaflet deliveries but not door knocking.

Talking to the general public? **shudders

Well, don't we desperately want to win the election?

A No 10 source said that such reports normally took about six weeks to be cleared for publication, and that there was thus nothing unusual about the delay. But this is disputed by Grieve, who says that 10 working days are normally required.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/04/no-10-blocks-russia-eu-referendum-report-until-after-election

This was an enjoyable read.

Wouldn't it be amazing if Boris lost his seat. It'll be nearly as good if he feels the need to run off to safer seat, the PR of that would be dreadful.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/03/hes-got-a-battle-on-his-hands-could-uxbridge-unseat-boris-johnson