Let's Get Political!

[pauld]

By way of some light relief - Tory candidate can't be bothered to turn up for hustings debate on climate change so sends a local councillor instead who decides not to stick around for the Q&A, but leaves via a rear exit after making a short speech. Only to find it's a dead end, doesn't want to go back through the hall because she'll look a twat and ends up stuck in a back yard for 45 minutes before having to climb over bins to get over the fence:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/dec/03/no-great-escape-tory-scales-fence-and-bins-to-exit-climate-hustings-lewes

[horlock07]

Nice to see, based on the present forecast its due to snow just about everywhere on polling day.

Classic Dom.

[Mister Lorenzo]

Looks like Diane Abbott has been at the calculator again.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1202183745169690624.html

Free money doesn't add up shocker.

Vote Labour! Get free money! Honest guv! Pay nothing until the IMF arrives! Then adopt the position!

[pauld]

Looks like Diane Abbott has been at the calculator again.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/120218374516969...

Free money doesn't add up shocker.

Vote Labour! Get free money! Honest guv! Pay nothing until the IMF arrives! Then adopt the position!

Although I bet she can copy and paste a URL:

404: Page not found.
No route found for "GET /thread/120218374516969..." (from "http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=55431.msg1521939;topicseen")

[Mister Lorenzo]

Although I bet she can copy and paste a URL:

404: Page not found.
No route found for "GET /thread/120218374516969..." (from "http://thetownend.com/index.php?topic=55431.msg1521939;topicseen")

oops, sorted now!!

[Mister Lorenzo]

Speaking of dear Diane. Firstly complete removal of her from the national election campaign. like she has been airbrushed out of the party lineup altogether.

Last week a significant terrorist event and no proper statement or her as Shadow Home Secretary, just a couple of hasty tweets on the day and then a sly couple in the days later attempting to get a dig into Boris Johnson, still nothing about what she would do about it if she changed from Shadow to "proper" Home Secretary on Dec 13th. As I say airbrushed out.

Also last week not only does her son (he of the private education remember) actually manage to get sacked from the Foreign Office, but then goes on to bite and assault a police officer? Which she's then picked up the airbrush and tried but failed to keep out of the press?

[pauld]

Speaking of dear Diane. Firstly complete removal of her from the national election campaign. like she has been airbrushed out of the party lineup altogether.

Last week a significant terrorist event and no proper statement or her as Shadow Home Secretary, just a couple of hasty tweets on the day and then a sly couple in the days later attempting to get a dig into Boris Johnson, still nothing about what she would do about it if she changed from Shadow to "proper" Home Secretary on Dec 13th. As I say airbrushed out.

Much like Rees-Mogg then? All parties have their embarrassing incompetents they'd rather people didn't examine too closely. It's why Johnson keeps bottling that Andrew Neil interview

[RobertT]

What does her son have to do with anything?  I don't very much liker her, but we'd be in trouble in life if we were judged by others an not ourselves.

[horlock07]

I just cannot put my finger on why people single out Diane Abbott for specific vitriol its really strange, its almost like there is something specifically about her that offends or riles many right wingers?  

[Arriba]

I'm sure the figures Labour give will be questioned. Fair enough, but I'd rather they were wrong in trying to do good than just blatantly misleading like the Tories extra 50,000 nurses lie, for instance.
Imagine the ridicule Abbott would have received if she had come out with those bizarre calculations. They were laughable but now we hear nothing about it. Abbott has been bombarded with abuse and jokes since the last general election for getting some numbers confused with a slip of the tongue. Nowhere near as bad as adding 19,000 existing staff to numbers and stating they are new. Lies...

[Reg Smeeton]

What does her son have to do with anything?  I don't very much liker her, but we'd be in trouble in life if we were judged by others an not ourselves.

At least Abbott can count the number of her offspring, unlike Johnson.

[pauld]

Anyone here who's Mum went out to work? You're a mugger, according to Boris Johnson
Working class? Drunk, criminal and feckless
Single child? Ill-raised, ignorant, aggressive
Poor? Chavs, losers, burglars and drug addicts
Gay? Tank topped bumboy
Black? Watermelon smiled picanninnie

Think that's probably most of us covered.

[The Grim Reaper]

I just cannot put my finger on why people single out Diane Abbott for specific vitriol its really strange, its almost like there is something specifically about her that offends or riles many right wingers? 

Being thick as pig shit most likely.

[pauld]

Being thick as pig shit most likely.

Can't be that or they'd all be piling into Raab and Mark Francois

[Flashheart]

The tories have released tens of thousands of dangerous criminals, children are hungry, the NHS is struggling to cope, and the prime minister (and others) have been found on numerous attempts disrespecting the working class as well as making racist statements.

... but Dianne Abbott gets her numbers wrong sometimes.