#2335

Maybe they’re still expecting that orange wave to crash hard into the central belt :large_orange_diamond::large_orange_diamond::large_orange_diamond:

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#2336

There’s also other egs in England and Wales where they recommend voting against the labour incumbent. Can’t remember and not clicking on it again.

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#2337

Christ that isn’t the only fake-report going around, and the fourth tweet screenshotted here is jaw dropping:

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#2338

Yeah, the Sam Gyimah one leapt out although, TBF, I guess he really might do well there. He’s certainly a well known figure. The fact he’s not contesting his own old seat says a lot for how liked he must have been

#2339

I’ve been awake for 20 minutes and this day is already weird

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#2340

He was my local MP, known as Silent Sam. He was pretty useless, but the Tory voters particularly hated him.

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#2341

Listening to Electioncast from the BBC. Apparently the footage of the person pointing while a Tory adviser walks into his arm was recorded by a BBC producer. Which makes Kuenssberg’s comments a million times worse. She really needs to go on a fucking course.

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#2342

Did anyone see that Johnson got a private jet from Doncaster to Darlington yesterday? Unbelievable stuff

#2343

Yep was it a proper G6 or more like a Sopwith Camel.

#2344

It was a plane I believe

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#2345

This is the literature that my parents received yesterday. They live in York, however for some reason the Lib Dem leaflet is for their candidate standing in Bexhill and Battle?!

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#2346

lol what

#2347

would be delicious if Allison Pearson faced the sack. Obviously she won’t because these ghouls aren’t held to any standards whatsoever.

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#2348

I really hope that’s not Mike Edwards from Jesus Jones. :smiley:

#2349

Have felt really optimistic this whole campaign but for some reason I just feel bleak now. hold me

#2350
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#2351

The mention of ‘blue boys’ and the style of tune makes that very like something you might hear sing around Glasgow. :smiley:

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#2352

Yeah this particular episode is specifically related to social media, and twitter most pertinently. At the end of the day these people are ‘news people’ or whatever which means they’re beholden to narratives and understanding what the news IS in any given context. Not going to argue the toss about how and why it got there but the narrative and the “news” re: Labour continues to be “the leadership are irregular and different from conventional politicians, that’s weird!” and “the leadership’s followers are an aggressive leftist mob”.

Hear some news from a source that fits that narrative perfectly? Bang - it’s out there. In conventional ‘news generation’ it has to get through a lot of filters and before it’s out there. But on twitter, which rewards impulsivity, exclusiveness and rashness above all else? It just goes straight out. As news.

Don’t know what the solution is. Seems an unresolvable conundrum. You can’t stop these people having twitter accounts but you also can’t have them being slow to react to a news cycle and they’re hardwired to do so. Guess we’ve just got to lump it.

#2353

Would’ve been delicious of she’d launched into a full-on anti media/BBC News rant then mic-dropped and walked out after pointing out to all the people in the audience asking about ‘trusting MPs’ etc what we’re collectively up against in terms of news media being unaccountability shite.

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#2354

As with 2017, there are an unusually high number of undecided voters. They are disproportionately female, who tend towards citing ‘the NHS’ as their most important electoral issue. Undecided female voters at the last election broke heavily for Labour. It genuinely could make a difference.

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