Individuals unfurl a provocative anti Corbyn banner at a pro Corbyn rally and provoke a reaction shocker.

Some people (on both sides) are thick/uninformed/angry/gobby. Again, shocker. Moving on. 🙄

I still haven’t decided. I don’t want the Tories in as Boris is a lying prick, dont like labour either as Corbyn is an idiot but the bigger issue for me is if they won the Abbopotamus would be home secretary which is a worrying thought 😱

Which party is giving out the free sweets 😂

Individuals unfurl a provocative anti Corbyn banner at a pro Corbyn rally and provoke a reaction shocker.

Some people (on both sides) are thick/uninformed/angry/gobby. Again, shocker. Moving on.

It *is* shocking. You just don’t get those sorts of scenes from the other Parties. Can you find a vid with that kind of behaviour from the Lib Dems? Or the Torys? Or the SNP? Or the BP?

It really is unique to Labour.

John MacDonnell on rioting:

his praise for violent rioters as ‘the best of our movement’.

“Having seen that, gone through that period and that acquiescence all since the,.. throughout the 90s and in the early 2000s to see that momentum build up, just showed the best of our movement, and just showed you what there was out there in terms of resources,” McDonnell told a Unite the Resistance Emergency Meeting, on the 16 January 2012.

“It just needed the one small spark way back in November before last, of the students kicking the s**t out of Millbank and then that spark lighting all the combustible material – that then brought people out in March, June and then November, and that’s the best of our movement and it’s still there, you know it’s still there.”

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Individuals unfurl a provocative anti Corbyn banner at a pro Corbyn rally and provoke a reaction shocker.

Some people (on both sides) are thick/uninformed/angry/gobby. Again, shocker. Moving on.

I feel racism should be called out wherever it is, whether that is Islamophobia in the torys, Anti Semitism in Labour or general racism in the BNP/EDL/UKIP/Brexit party.

IMO simply “moving on” is unacceptable and legitimises this kind of behaviour. A modern, forward thinking Britain has no place for such ideology.

Yes, useless can be guided by the Civil Service. Dangerous zealot is exactly that.

If you would like to feel slightly optimistic about getting Boris out, have a read of this

I put that up a while back.

It didn’t matter what the last word was on that banner. There are places where anything pro jew on it is seen as a provocation by some people regardless of their political party allegiance.

Try unfurling the same banner with #Luton at the end in Luton. Some people don’t grasp that furthering their religious cause in some situations is counterproductive, or was that organised by the Brexit party to discredit both? Not sure who I find most odious, those provoking or those provoked. Only losers there.

Postal voted last week, and found out yesterday that even MrsB (not Scottish and only ever voted Labour or Lib Dems) will be voting SNP for the first time, as it’s pretty much a two-horse race in our constituency between them and the incumbent Tories (in by a slim majority in 2017)!

Progress sometimes happens in small steps, although tbh I’m not at all optimistic about the wider results later, as can see Labour demolished across the UK in a similar fashion to the Lib Dems in 2017.

My in laws, in a slight non stereotypical shocker, are really nice, gentle, Christian folk. But they buy the Daily Mail, believe the stuff that’s presented as fact, and take it personally when anyone dare suggest that that rag is an evil, hate filled, xenophobic mouthpiece of Russian billionaires that once ran stories supporting Hitler. Don’t ask me how I know this… 🙄

That’s my parents too, except they also read the Sun!

Just back from voting in the local Tesco. Right next to the display of 24 pack beers on offer. Someone has taped a bit of paper next to the big price sign and written on it “Drown your sorrows tonight for cheap, price goes up soon as the pound tanks!” which is rather high-brow considering the clientele the place gets on a normal day!

The good news is that the old granny doing an exit poll hinted that the Cons are doing poorly so far, she even smiled as she said it. She did say though that a lot of the older folk haven’t been in yet, just the parents after the school run, probably because it’s raining. Might change through the day.

first independent costings of Brexit I have seen on the BBC in a long time

True. But it was still looking at the costs as if evenly spread across the whole of the UK… there are areas that will be smashed by what Johnson has in store for us… where as there are other areas that can just shrug it off and have another Pimms.

t didn’t matter what the last word was on that banner. There are places where anything pro jew on it is seen as a provocation by some people regardless of their political party allegiance.

Try unfurling the same banner with #Luton at the end in Luton. Some people don’t grasp that furthering their religious cause in some situations is counterproductive, or was that organised by the Brexit party to discredit both? Not sure who I find most odious, those provoking or those provoked. Only losers there.

Again, I somehow doubt you’d be saying that if it were Muslims at a conservative rally in Manchester.

I suspect that Tory racists are generally a bit better at hiding their bigotry, as they are generally white people in positions of (relative) power. The vocal sounding off that was unpleasantly demonstrated there was that of the ignorant bigotry of people who perceive themselves as the underdogs, rightly or wrongly.

Plenty of white bigots in that video.

Again, I somehow doubt you’d be saying that if it were Muslims at a conservative rally in Manchester.

I would.

Perhaps the Muslim community understands that counter demonstations at rallies for main stream parties are not the best places to further your cause.

I’m happy to be proved wrong if you have peaceful examples of Tories shaking hands with Muslims holding similarly provocative banners at Tory rallies.

Not sure who I find most odious, those provoking or those provoked.

…agree but only the provokees are asking for us to vote for them today.

Plenty of white bigots in that video.

Agree and they seemed the noisiest and most intimidating to me. …but even if we it’s acceptable, “ignorant bigotry of people who perceive themselves as the underdogs” still isn’t a good electoral look. Corbyn in front of his fire looking civilized and calmly reading tweets works *far* better.

Brexit shall block that option too.

Not for a year or more if it ever happens, and if it does happen I’m sure people moved to France before we joined so just go anyway.

Not for a year or more if it ever happens, and if it does happen I’m sure people moved to France before we joined so just go anyway.

I’m sure that sounded easy when you typed it 😟

Will prob start another thread about UK emigration.

I do hope the rain puts some folk off, in a totally unbiased way of course. Ahem.

I said a couple of pages back, I’d have thought it more likely to dissuade first-time / younger voters. A spot of rain would never have deterred my gran from going out.

They give away FREE SWEETS at the polling station you guys.

At my local polling station they have red pills and blue pills.

At my local polling station they have red pills and blue pills.

Red – you end up living in fear in a giant sewer, eating vile reconstituted slop.
Blue – the dream of a prosperous and successful life continues!

Was there an orange pill, you take it and it has no effect whatsoever?

…while living in a sewer eating sh!te

Strictly speaking, while plugged into a machine being fed the liquefied remains of your fellow humans.

That’s actually from page 27 of the Tory Manifesto under ‘welfare reforms’.

Good to see high turnout, in lots of remainy areas if u believe twitter

wonder if its just this morning or will hold through the day

meanwhile a nervous wait for BoZo

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Took my 89 yo mum to the polling station in calderdale – both she and her pal that we bumped into voted labour (no reason to doubt either!). Here in the upper valley it’s apparently inconceivable that the permatanned Whittaker could be MP – no blue posters or leaflets. The same applies in reverse to the lower valley. Labour have been canvassing hard there though, so I think there is hope. You need a wee bit of hope, eh?

Just voted.  Outside our polling station there’s a Labour exit poll / person doing nothing more than politely greeting and saying goodbye to people.   There isn’t a Conservative version.