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Dec 2019
8:54am, 11 Dec 2019
2,377 posts
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B Rubble
What most saddens me is the toxicity of this current political climate. Irrespective of what Jonathan Asworth said (which should be unsurprising to most people who follow the news) for him to have been betrayed by a former friend who obviously set him up is quite depressing. And why was it headline news on the BBC last night?
Anybody who thinks that this election will be an end to all of the acrimony and "GEt Brexit Done" will lead to a new dawn of wonderfulness is seriously deluded. Whatever the outcome in parliament expect the vile anti-semites, anti-muslims, right wing press, ultra left wing and other assorted extremists to prevail for several more years.
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Dec 2019
8:57am, 11 Dec 2019
31 posts
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Daft Vader
And that DeeGee, I suspect, is possibly closer to the truth here than anything else.
The whole affair just stinks. As does so very much of how campaigns are run these days.
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Dec 2019
8:59am, 11 Dec 2019
5,939 posts
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jda
I thought it was shocking that the rather vacuous phonecall story took precedence over news that exporters to NI were already in the process of planning for the checks that johnson has repeatedly insisted do not exist.
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Dec 2019
9:10am, 11 Dec 2019
24,911 posts
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Wriggling Snake
The reason it was heaglide news is the BBC's preoccupation with even handedness, they had spent a lot of time showing what an unfeeling cunt Bojo is, so they feel the need to have a pop at the other side.
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Dec 2019
9:16am, 11 Dec 2019
33,627 posts
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Merry Christmas & Happy New G(rrr)
My favourite post, and indicator of all that is good and wonderful about Fetch, is Ultracat's last one:
"Thanks jda"
We are such a lovely bunch (well, Ultracat is !)
Is there any chance that some sanity is going to prevail and that Tories won't get a majority? Please Santa, a "not Tory majority" is all I want for Christmas (well, I'm also getting myself a replacement telescope, but I'd give it up to avoid Brexit!)  G
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Dec 2019
9:16am, 11 Dec 2019
33,628 posts
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Merry Christmas & Happy New G(rrr)
And hi HappyTimes *waves* Back atcha - hope you have a fab Christmas mate. G
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Dec 2019
9:16am, 11 Dec 2019
2,378 posts
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B Rubble
I believe you are right WS. I believe in the past they have published the figures of the amount of broadcast time for each party.
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Dec 2019
9:22am, 11 Dec 2019
24,912 posts
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Wriggling Snake
The Cons will win a majority for one very simple message.
"Get Brexit Done"
LD message if we win a majority we will cancel it (anti democratic which they couldn't sustain), but wait we will work with others of we don't but we wont work with the Tories or Labour, but wait we never said that.
Corbyn's message
for 40 years leave, for a week in 2016 remain, disappear, leave/stay, in out shake it all about, dunno you tell me.
B, there was a news item yesterday that showed across all channells on the BBC Cons win in broadcast time, but not by much.
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Dec 2019
9:35am, 11 Dec 2019
22,850 posts
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Sushi.
It shouldn't just be about Brexit.
So many other issues. All.of which have been neglected for 3 yrs now because of Brexit.
Though I know the first sentence if this post is just a dream.
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Dec 2019
9:48am, 11 Dec 2019
15,563 posts
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Chrisull
Laura Pidcock "absolutely no intention of being friends" (with Tories)
Jeers, brickbats , condescension.
Then Jon Ashworth taped by Tory activist friend and leaked to media...
Perhaps a more sensible comment by Pidcock than first divined?
(As an aside - Jonathan Coe's "Middle England" has a story line about a marriage between a Leaver/Tory and a remainer/Liberal fraying under the weight of their own beliefs, and the unchangeability thereof.)
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