UK General Election, 12 Dec 2019

[Alan B]

I had a 'personal' letter today from Boris Johnson. Now, should I frame it as an example of lying bullshit or shred it?

[PsychoSerenity]

You could do both like Banksy.

[rainbow]

I had a 'personal' letter today from Boris Johnson. Now, should I frame it as an example of lying bullshit or shred it?

You could wipe your arse with it.

[Scot Dutchy]

Would not do the job though; wiping shit with shit.

[PsychoSerenity]

Channel four are hosting a leaders debate on the climate emergency. Johnson and Farage have declined to turn up, so they've been replaced by ice sculptures.
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status ... 1170937859

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[Brian Peacock]

[JimC]

...which presumably will steadily melt during the debate...

[Brian Peacock]

It's a stolid affair. In the absence of the recalcitrant and wingnut right (well, Jo Swinson of the soft-right Lib Dems was there but polls show their support sliding by the hour) everyone seemed rather keen to score points by dogpiling Corbyn about the "costs" of his parties green policies, with the underlying assumption being that it's somehow unreasonable for society to cover the cost of transitioning to a greener, de-carbonised economy - or at least unreasonable for a future Labour gov to ask that of the nation.

The one bombshell that was dropped just before the credits rolled was that everyone's least favourite fag Michael 'no experts please' Gove did try and take part for the Tories but he was sent packing because the event was specifically for leaders. I expect the right-leaning press to be in full #OUTRAGE mode about that snub tomorrow.

information: 4/10
entertainment: 2/10

[Brian Peacock]

What did I say?

...The Conservatives accused the broadcaster of bias for not allowing Michael Gove to take Johnson’s place, accusing them of “conspiring” with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to block the party from making their case.

Gove had turned up to the studios but was turned away by Channel 4 who said the debate was for party leaders only. In a response designed to overshadow the programme, the Conservatives immediately complained to broadcasting regulator Ofcom and threatened to review its broadcasting licence....

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... redentials

[pErvinalia]

[L'Emmerdeur]

He's a dead cert.

[pErvinalia]

I'm not convinced it's actually real. But in these times it's too hard to tell.

[Hermit]

I'm not convinced it's actually real. But in these times it's too hard to tell.

It's real enough. Johnson even earnt a round of applause for his alleged reply.

[L'Emmerdeur]

It appears to be an approximate (and condensed) transcript of his reply to Rowena Mason of The Guardian. Video available here. A somewhat more detailed transcript from that video:

Erm, well, Rowena, I'm afraid that the er, er, er, twittersphere is not really my er, my province, er but what I what I can say is that erm, I'm I'm informed that erm, y'know the, Labour have some sort of operation which is erm, very similar to this, but erm, what I what I, I d--I haven't followed this, this Twitter stuff with perhaps the intention that that you would like, Rowena, erm, I will I will I will apprise myself of the detail of this. But y'know, when it comes to, erm, as I say, when it comes to trust in politics, and erm, and and the facts of this election, there--what we need to know, there is one giant fact, the, which we continue to, to chase down. There is one elus--like the, the hunting of the snark, or or or the quest for the answer to Fermat's Last Theorem, or the Riddle of the Sphinx, or the Bermuda Triangle, er, we still, the the the the one fact, er, the one that we wish to discover, the one hard crouton of fact that we search for in the minestrone of of Labour's policy on Brexit is, what is the position of the leader of the Labour Party on whether he wants to come out of the European Union. And I and I have to say, if you cannot answer, if you cannot supply a fact like that at this stage, with only with barely eighteen days to go before polls open, I do not see how you can credibly take this country forward, er, next year, or credibly get a deal--[applause from audience]--that is the, that is the issue. We don't know--[applause continues]--you know. Rowena, Rowena, the mystery continues to deepen, and I invite you to I invite, er, all all wonderful colleagues in the media to to redouble their efforts to er, send out search parties, to to to find this--

As I say, a dead cert.

ETA: I checked out Hermit's video, and note that Mr Johnson threw in Shergar right at the end. What a guy.

[JimC]

The recent stabbing deaths via an early-released terrorist plays right into Johnson's hands...