18 responses to a December election to make you feel a tiny bit better about the whole thing
We’ve lost track of who wants a general election and who doesn’t, mostly because the main protagonists keep changing their mind (and as we write this, might change their mind again).
Anyway, at the time of writing a December general election looks a very real possibility (although slightly less real than when we started two minutes ago).
Which means you better read these quick before it changes again.
1.
In this election there’s a clear choice. You can vote for the parties who fuck things up because they’re privileged embittered sadists, or parties who fuck things up because they mean well but can’t get their shit together.
— Mark Steel (@mrmarksteel) October 29, 2019
2.
Nothing would sum up this period in our politics better than all parties agreeing they want an election and then finding a way for it not to happen.
— Lewis Goodall (@lewis_goodall) October 29, 2019
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Boris Johnson calling a general election on the 12th of December pic.twitter.com/lranK2X3Yf
— Abby Tomlinson (@twcuddleston) October 24, 2019
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BREAKING NEWS: Jeremy Corbyn says that Labour won't support a General Election until Boris Johnson rules out 'Conservative' being on the ballot paper.
— Simon Martin-Redman (@MRSarawak) October 28, 2019
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The UK heading into its second election in two yearspic.twitter.com/mfTCYas5ia
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) October 29, 2019
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BREAKING: Boris’s ‘plan B’ to force general election scrapped after Corbyn fails to decide whether to back heads or tails.
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) October 28, 2019
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Labour are backing a general election in the run up to Christmas; fitting given it’s a time when a man with a white beard and dressed in red is put under pressure to deliver…
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 29, 2019
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Prediction: Britain's general election in December will be one of the top five most exciting British general elections in the next two years.
— Jeremy Cliffe (@JeremyCliffe) October 29, 2019
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“Come. It is time to keep your appointment with the Wicker Man”. pic.twitter.com/UmwmTFBeQx
— Sarah Dempster (@Dempster2000) October 29, 2019
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YOUR COMMENT: I was saving this for Comment of the Day but, since everyone is talking about votes for EU citizens now, I thought I’d share ‘JamesBondisaMan’s thoughts on the subject.*
*Hint: it involves bringing in the army to stop them.. pic.twitter.com/JU6EyfMS5n
— The DM Reporter (@DMReporter) October 29, 2019
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People who clearly aren't going to win celebrating securing a general electionpic.twitter.com/vTibY33VL1
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) October 29, 2019
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2015: General Election
2017: General Election
2019: General ElectionCan we have another referendum?
“No! We must respect the will of the people in 2016!”
— Damon Evans (@damocrat) October 29, 2019
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I'm surprised and delighted that people actually believed me when I promised not to bring the Brexit deal back before the election.
It’s as if they didn’t know I lied to the Queen, cheated on 2 wives and got sacked twice for lying.#generalelection2019
— Parody Boris Johnson (@BorisJohnson_MP) October 29, 2019
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BREAKING: A jubilant Jeremy Corbyn confirms Labour will finally back general election, on basis that they’ve run out of all other options.
— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) October 29, 2019
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I don't understand this. The public voted in 2017 for an unstable chaotic parliament in which nothing could get done, knowing full well that under the FTPA it would last five years, and now MPs want to let them reconsider. What happened to democracy and the will of the people?
— Patrick Kidd (@patrick_kidd) October 29, 2019
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Me, thinking about the Christmas election pic.twitter.com/flIyCQ5iCH
— Eve Livingston (@eve_rebecca) October 29, 2019
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I'm going to make my predictions early –
Dec 12 – General Election
Dec 13 – Hung parliament with no Brexit majority
Dec 14 – Mike Bushell wins Strictly
Dec 15 – Military coup
Dec 16 – Democracy abolished
Dec 17 – Brexit by military decree
Dec 18 – War with Spain— General Boles (@GeneralBoles) October 29, 2019
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At this rate, the food everyone has been stockpiling will be out of date by the time Brexit fucking happens
— Rosie (@TheRosie) October 22, 2019