Election 2017: MEDIA WATCH.

[Danger Man]

It would be most satisfying in Lucy Liu gave me a blowjob.

But that's looking less likely by the minute.

New page old joke.

[HappyTree]

Shoulda done your homework Vol. 2

https://twitter.com/LabourEoin/status/866232173216616448

She'däve been better off saying "Oh, I'm sorry" rather than "Ok but why did you still write for them?" Like duh. You can't claw this back, stop digging.

[Rich Uncle Skeleton]

Just needs a "Thug Life" on the end there.

[Blumf]

You know in Star Trek, where they're having a big to-do with another spaceship and they get thrown around the bridge...

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

What's behind The Independent becoming a slightly more legit looking version of The Canary then?

Just trading on a long gone reputation? Apparently their click throughs have been enormous since  becoming Labour cheerleaders.

[ajsmith]

In a way it would be more satisfying if she won, but with exactly the same majority as before, so everyone could see exactly how pointlessly she wasted 6 weeks of everyone's time.

That kind of result would be too easily spun into a victory by the press.. after all it would still ensure the Tories stay in for an extra 2 years than they would have otherwise, so it would get spun as
'the core electorate that really matter restating their faith in strong and stable' or some bollocks.

I wouldn't find that satisfying at all, as a) it's the most likely result anyway and b) The Tories campaign has been so fucking dreadful it's very hard for me to see how they're going to gain any significant additional floating voter support through their interminably rubbish conduct. I really feel in as objective non partisan way as possible that they deserve a nasty shock for their truly pathetic complacency.

[Mr_Simnock]

What's behind The Independent becoming a slightly more legit looking version of The Canary then?

Just trading on a long gone reputation? Apparently their click throughs have been enormous since  becoming Labour cheerleaders.   

It's a struggling newspaper so if they have an increase in reporting that less right wing than the other press they will just increase it, be nice to see another paper than just the mirror being pro labour.

[HappyTree]

Having abandoned the Guardian, The Independent is my only other option it seems. It's not great but at least it's not unfairly anti-Corbyn like just about all the rest of the media.

I wonder what will end up costing May more: the dementia tax or pretending to u-turn on it. It's not even an actual u-turn it's just "Oops I now have to pretend I'm not going to do this."

[MoonDust]

I wonder what will end up costing May more: the dementia tax or pretending to u-turn on it. It's not even an actual u-turn it's just "Oops I now have to pretend I'm not going to do this."

Maybe a mixture of both. Apparently the dementia tax hasn't been going down well on the doorstep, and Conservative activists and campaigners were telling the Guardian they're relieved by the "u-turn" because they thought it was horrible too.

If the media give this u-turn a lot of negative press it could decreases their chances of winning. It's certainly clear as day now that doing a u-turn on a manifesto pledge after it's been published isn't a sign of stability at all. Indeed, to add insult to injury, the social scientist David Butler said "In the 20 general election campaigns I've followed, I can't remember a U-turn on this scale - or much that could be called a U-turn at all."

[Twed]

Having abandoned the Guardian, The Independent is my only other option it seems. It's not great but at least it's not unfairly anti-Corbyn like just about all the rest of the media.

I thought it was just an arm of The Guardian.

[MoonDust]

Plus I reckon the Evening Standard's two headlines of "Now May goes into reverse on social care costs" and "Strong and stable? PM's care u-turn policy turmoil" could have an effect on people. I know it's a London-based paper, but the fact George Osborne is now the editor and the headlines, under Osborne, are massively scathing towards May, this could have the national papers and the BBC talking about it as a news story, which will attract non-Londoner's attention to this quite damning yet correct headlines.

[Thomas]

Where everybody else seems to be keenly economically literate, I'm struggling to understand what the 'dementia tax' is.

Do I have dementia?

[MoonDust]

Where everybody else seems to be keenly economically literate, I'm struggling to understand what the 'dementia tax' is.

Forget about it.

[Quincey]

Profile of U-Turn May http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-39809420

She owns 100 recipie books. Why? And how does she know there are 100? Did she count them?

Chose a subscription to Vogue as her luxury item on Desert Island Discs. Ugh.

""Theresa is a bloody difficult woman... I get on all right with her and she is good. She's too narrow on her department... She's been at the Home Office far too long... she doesn't know much about foreign affairs," veteran Conservative MP Ken Clarke (said)"

[TheFalconMalteser]

The Tory press do seem to be rinsing May at the moment. What's that about?  I am genuinely a bit puzzled by how critical they are being.

[katzenjammer]

I just came here to say that.  The Mail have laid into May the last couple of days and the top comments, which I assume are heavily 'moderated', are quite Labour/Corbyn positive.  It's peculiar and unnerving.

[Twed]

The Tory press do seem to be rinsing May at the moment. What's that about?  I am genuinely a bit puzzled by how critical they are being.

oh you cannot possibly be real

[Kelvin]

I just came here to say that.  The Mail have laid into May the last couple of days and the top comments, which I assume are heavily 'moderated', are quite Labour/Corbyn positive.  It's peculiar and unnerving.

As with the Tory party's own recent tactical mistakes, I think it's hubris. They're so confident that the Tories can win, that they want to remind her and the Tories whose boss. Give 'em a little scare. 

[Replies From View]

You know in Star Trek, where they're having a big to-do with another spaceship and they get thrown around the bridge...

"FORWARD TOGETHER, ONE AND ALL."

That's "LEANING TO FART", Theresa.  You're getting your slogans muddled up.

[Thursday]

Ummm....

[imitationleather]

Ha. I think teens can access porn quite easily without going through Facebook.

[Captain Z]

I've probably got more friends than you've got recipe books. How many recipie books have you got?

She owns 100 recipie books.

Yeah, I've got 104 friends.

[Bobloblawslawbomb]

Credit where credit's due, Andrew Neil gave May a hard time today, the transcript of the interview makes her look like a maniac. Even Kuenssberg had a decent pop in the press conference.

The Tory press do seem to be rinsing May at the moment. What's that about?  I am genuinely a bit puzzled by how critical they are being.

You are an embarrassment

[pancreas]

Credit where credit's due, Andrew Neil gave May a hard time today, the transcript of the interview makes her look like a maniac. Even Kuenssberg had a decent pop in the press conference.

Yes. She was actually doing her job for a change. I don't expect it to last.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Facebook allows kids to see dangerous diet plans says The Actual Daily Mail

[Jittlebags]

WEAK and WOBBLY

Frankly, she is fucking rubbish.

[Replies From View]

Ummm....

Sun "negotiates" with ex-IRA killer in attempt to smear Jeremy Corbyn.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

Corbyn there with recognised politician Gerry Adams who met the Queen at a later event.

[Shoulders?-Stomach!]

WEAK and WOBBLY

Frankly, she is fucking rubbish.

Weak and weary fits better than the nom de plume. Although May has diabetes so might be a bit harsh either way.

[olliebean]

Headline on The Sun's website, half an hour before the Manchester bombing:



Headline on the same article, a couple of hours after the bombing:



Fucking shameless.