General Election, December 2019

[gt3]

I'm in a safe Labour seat. Oddly, had the first campaign literature today, addressed to me personally. From the Brexit Party...wtff???

[Flynnie]

Most stuff Novara does is pretty good, but this is absurdly bad canvassing advice:

[URL]https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1203960263227121665?fbclid=IwAR1tOGdCOnlSmOpC6zrqMvJVnIDgSMtoGoU-8vXgB-35vT_LQbWQ47k-aPo[/URL]
Oy vey.

[Flynnie]

Jesus fucking Christ, why the fuck is it impossible for anybody besides Nef to embed a tweet?

[ursus arctos]

https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1203593359211806724

Some devices muck it up when copying the url

[Flynnie]

Ah, the tweet has left the building.

Here's the advice:

[URL]https://twitter.com/LJDLabour/status/1204010040463638529[/URL]

It's shared from a blog/online magazine called Savage.

[Flynnie]

https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/1203593359211806724

Some devices muck it up when copying the url

This article is good but this ain't the tweet in question.

[ursus arctos]

Soz, was guessing.

The one Davies is eviscerating does seem to have been deleted.

[Flynnie]

They just shared a screenshot from a story by someone named Duncan Thomas from Savage magazine.

But yeah, just astonishingly bad canvassing advice.

[Nefertiti2]

I'm in marginal Labour held, but leave voting Bedford & Kempston (789 majority and 51.8% respectively). The vast majority of literature through has been Lib Dem despite them having zero chance (5.9% of the vote last time), I've probably had a leaflet of theirs every three days for a month through the door and a doorstop visit from the candidate himself. My ex-partner had previously expressed interest in voting Lib Dem so it might be that they are directly targeting her despite her not having lived there for 18 months.

Conservatives I've had a couple of leaflets through, not seen any canvassing although the candidate was out last week with Matt Hancock and visited a friend who lives about 5 minutes away. There is a noticeable lack of Tory posters in windows and boards in gardens compared to last time out, particularly in the more affluent areas going out towards where I take my son to play football.

Labour a couple of leaflets too and seen a fair number of canvassers around (certainly more than I remember before) and although I haven't had any turn up myself I've just seen a neighbour post on Facebook that he has just had Eddie Izzard knock on the door so presumably my currently empty house got a knock too.

I was canvassing on Saturday. Labour Vote appeared to be holding up. Saw a bloke from the Brexit Party with a loudspeaker van. “we can agree we don’t trust Boris Johnson “ he said cheerily.

there were dozens of people about.

[DCI Harry Batt]

I think it's probably Salvage

[Flynnie]

yeah that's it, I tried to Google and kept getting gun stuff.

[Snake Plissken]

Johnson actually took a reporters phone off him to avoid looking at a picture of a four year old lying on blankets.

This should be the headline on every news bulletin.

[Nefertiti2]

It’s made headlines in the Washington Post

and Laura Kuennsberg has called it “ awkward”

[URL]https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1204069547172605953?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

Kuennsberg leading with the Tory version

[URL]https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1204078942736572416?s=21[/URL]

[Erskine Bridges]

Johnson looks really ill in that film where he steals the reporter's phone. I mean ready to have a stroke/heart attack type ill. He'd better hope that doesn't happen in a hospital.

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/demarionunn/status/1204081289869090819?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/sakhr/status/1204061451394146304?s=21[/URL]

[Flynnie]

Johnson looks really ill in that film where he steals the reporter's phone. I mean ready to have a stroke/heart attack type ill. He'd better hope that doesn't happen in a hospital.

He's aged in dog years since becoming Prime Minister. He actually can't sleep in until 10.30 every morning and it's ruining him.

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/owenjones84/status/1204088383196319744?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

Both Kuennsberg and Peston tweeting the Tory version of events at face value without corroboration

[URL]https://twitter.com/paulbranditv/status/1204084397500256259?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/peterbale/status/1204088618219905031?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

Kuennsberg has been caught reporting hearsay as fact, contradicted by a bbc colleague

[URL]https://twitter.com/niamh_mcintyre/status/1204089600521711616?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/joncstone/status/1204095282058805248?s=21[/URL]

[NHH]

Another 'mistake' by the BBC. These things happen. People should stop this silly conspiralooning.

[Etienne]

It's almost like the BBC still haven't got to grips with the fact that the Tories will always lie.