General Election 2019

Sinn Fein stand down in three seats to aid Remainers.

If the national press did a little more research,
they may be able to substantiate the (local) claim that dePfeffel's
resignation as Foreign Secretary, after May's Chequers meeting
cost Hillingdon Hospital its place on the redevelopment list,
as Jeremy Hunt consequently moved from Health to FS before he could sign off the plan.
(Door) Matt Hancock of course had no intention of signing off any existing plans.

I wonder if it's coincidence that the government have reduced the terror threat just like they did a few weeks before the 2017 election.

Nah, it's those brave American dogs.

“LDs - harder to say. mid-30s maybe? 50 would be a GREAT night looking at the electoral map and swings needed”

stand by this from a month ago - 30 optimistic I think

This is really on the wall in CCHQ

How do I vote from overseas?

Unbelievable

Found it now: https://www.gov.uk/voting-when-abroad

Yes

Tories have given us, among many other things:

Internment
Brexit chaos
Bedroom tax
Universal Credit
Poll tax
Tax cuts for the wealthy
Spending cuts for local authorities

The Liberals shot Rinka.

No reasonable person could trust or vote for either.

I read "GCHQ" and was really concerned for a second

Don't forget that you can apply for a Postal Proxy vote (where by your proxy gets to vote for you by post).

This may be important this time due to the short timescales, and timings around getting postal votes out and back again from abroad.

jo swinson... is not good at this

suggest the conservatives may also want to lock JRM in a cupboard somewhere for the next 6 weeks

I’d rather they let JRM be abhorrent- but with the Great British Public there is the risk that they’d gain more votes than they’d lose.

No 10 saying no vote on extension to withdrawal period which paves the way for no deal. Barring a mistake, I see no reason to announce this other than: an attempt to gain brexit party votes or something necessary for a brexit party electoral pact.

Tories already unleashing the fake news.

https://twitter.com/BBCDanielS/status/1191732381306277890?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1191732381306277890&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fpolitics%2Flive%2F2019%2Fnov%2F05%2Fgeneral-election-news-latest-corbyn-brexit-speech-gove-says-labours-claim-uk-us-trade-deal-cost-cost-nhs-500m-per-week-nonsense-live-news

I was going to post this as well. Just so bloody underhand

Totally cuntish behaviour but will likely be met with an uninterested shrug and “all politicians lie”

Presented without comment.

So, this is evidently going to be a particularly disgraceful campaign:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/nov/05/tories-unrepentant-about-doctored-video-of-keir-starmer-tv-appearance

The incident highlights the difficulty in reporting on misinformation and online duplicity during a general election. The extra attention given to misleading social media posts often creates a feedback loop, with algorithms on Twitter and Facebook responding to the high levels of user engagement by pushing it into more people’s feeds.

This has led to fears that there is very little to be lost by political parties reinforcing lies and deceptive material in a media environment where the aim is often to get attention at all costs and by any means. After the misleading edit of the video was highlighted by the BBC journalist Daniel Sandford, the video attracted hundreds of thousands of additional views.

fake news

Can I make a plea not to use that term if at all possible?

It's a sneaky conceptual confusion.

News is news. It's only news when it's true. There is no such thing as 'fake news'. If you use that term, you either denigrate news (if you call something true false) or elevate something false to the status of 'news' (even if, as someone opposing it, you want to say it is false), in the process devaluing actual news by calling something false also 'news'.

The sooner this contradiction in terms, generally used either maliciously (in the former case) or innocently self-defeatingly (as in the second case), disappears from popular usage, the better.

Isn't it funny how all these people with Russia connections somehow seem to do things that help Putin?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/05/johnson-delay-on-russia-dossier-helps-putin-says-litvinenko-widow

Litvinenko said on Tuesday: “Putin’s goal is to create chaos and instability. He wants to interfere in elections in the US and Europe. The report makes recommendations to protect our system. By delaying, it looks like we are playing the same game. Putin can say we’re no different.”

She said May’s refusal to publicise the facts surroundings her husband’s state-sponsored killing emboldened Moscow. Last year, Sergei and Yulia Skripal were poisoned with novichok in Salisbury – a plot May blamed on Russia’s GRU military intelligence agency. “We have another crime,” Litvinenko pointed out.

oh my god, boris' campaign launch on the front of the telegraph..... so bad. what is their pitch to the country? "corbyn is stalin" pmsl

what odds can you get on both him and swinson losing their seats?

I'm a 40-something grammar school boy and I have to Google "Stalin+kulaks"