The UK Politics and EU Referendum thread - merged

[neeko]

My guess tories 25 seats short, election next March.

[DaveShoelace]

5 seat majority

[4KSuited]

23 seat majority

[Alverton]

4.6m views of the Joe Pike 4 year old in hospital Boris interview video on twitter in half a day.

It makes no difference though?

Zero difference.

18 majority

[aaron1867]

I’m not sure why NewsNight keep saying this election balances on South Yorkshire. It doesn’t.

[ripple11]

4.6m views of the Joe Pike 4 year old in hospital Boris interview video on twitter in half a day.

It makes no difference though?

Of course similar stories now follow until Thursday......ie Mirror again tomorrow.  

[aaron1867]

4.6m views of the Joe Pike 4 year old in hospital Boris interview video on twitter in half a day.

It makes no difference though?

7.2m now.

[aaron1867]

4.6m views of the Joe Pike 4 year old in hospital Boris interview video on twitter in half a day.

It makes no difference though?

It's twitter though, i'd be pretty surprised if more than about 7 people on twitter are floating voters

Oh come on 7? It now has over 7m views, why are people watching it? This is also on the national news too.

There are still tens of thousands of Labour leave voters who are playing with their conscious whether they can vote Conservative. I think folk who are very unsure or who might tick the Labour box, reluctantly, will be swayed by this. Or at the very minimum choose to vote for the BXP.

I think this is the moment. I think he's made a big ass blooper here and his advisors must be furious with how he's handled it.

Forget about Andrew Neil roasting Corbyn or Corbyn being neutral, this the calamity of the campaign

If they don't get that majority on Friday, then I think this will have swung it.   

[nirvana]

A & E waiting rooms gonna have to be kitted out like a first class cabin so everyone can have a lie down while they wait

[Jon MW]

A & E waiting rooms gonna have to be kitted out like a first class cabin so everyone can have a lie down while they wait

He wasn't in an A & E waiting room, he was in a treatment room after being assessed and treated already - they were waiting to admit him to the hospital.

They should have had a bed for him while he waited to be admitted onto the paedeatric ward but they did have chairs.

He evidently found it more comfortable to lie on a stack of coats while he waited than sit in a chair.

If it was an adult in the same situation - and there probably were many of those on the same night as this in that A&E - then the wait to be admitted is bad, but nobody would think it was particularly out of the ordinary.

It was a stupid journalistic trick to tug at emotions rather than a sensible jounalistic article - like if those super busy nights were increasingly common because of austerity - but people are always going to care more about a picture of a child than they are about a table full of numbers.

Having said that, kudos to Johnson for managing to handle it in the worst possible way.

[RED-DOG]

Having said that, kudos to Johnson for managing to handle it in the worst possible way.

That's what I thought, Why couldn't he just look at the picture and react in the same way that any normal person would?

[nirvana]

A & E waiting rooms gonna have to be kitted out like a first class cabin so everyone can have a lie down while they wait

He wasn't in an A & E waiting room, he was in a treatment room after being assessed and treated already - they were waiting to admit him to the hospital.

They should have had a bed for him while he waited to be admitted onto the paedeatric ward but they did have chairs.

He evidently found it more comfortable to lie on a stack of coats while he waited than sit in a chair.

If it was an adult in the same situation - and there probably were many of those on the same night as this in that A&E - then the wait to be admitted is bad, but nobody would think it was particularly out of the ordinary.

It was a stupid journalistic trick to tug at emotions rather than a sensible jounalistic article - like if those super busy nights were increasingly common because of austerity - but people are always going to care more about a picture of a child than they are about a table full of numbers.

Having said that, kudos to Johnson for managing to handle it in the worst possible way.

Last line is great and mirrors my immediate thoughts. Was thinking of another pic I saw today of a baby having a snooze in a & e

[TightEnd]

Another big scoop, from a leaked conversation

Ashworth: Civil Service Machine Will Have to Move Quickly to Safeguard National Security from Corbyn

https://order-order.com/2019/12/10/ashworth-civil-service-machine-will-move-quickly-safeguard-national-security-corbyn/

[kukushkin88]

A & E waiting rooms gonna have to be kitted out like a first class cabin so everyone can have a lie down while they wait

He wasn't in an A & E waiting room, he was in a treatment room after being assessed and treated already - they were waiting to admit him to the hospital.

They should have had a bed for him while he waited to be admitted onto the paedeatric ward but they did have chairs.

He evidently found it more comfortable to lie on a stack of coats while he waited than sit in a chair.

If it was an adult in the same situation - and there probably were many of those on the same night as this in that A&E - then the wait to be admitted is bad, but nobody would think it was particularly out of the ordinary.

It was a stupid journalistic trick to tug at emotions rather than a sensible jounalistic article - like if those super busy nights were increasingly common because of austerity - but people are always going to care more about a picture of a child than they are about a table full of numbers.

Having said that, kudos to Johnson for managing to handle it in the worst possible way.

Last line is great and mirrors my immediate thoughts. Was thinking of another pic I saw today of a baby having a snooze in a & e

The NHS is absolutely on its knees though. I’ve been spending loads of time in hospital recently and it’s carnage. There are wards where people recovering from having diseased organs removed ring their emergency assistance alarm and the only people in a position to help immediately are other patients, has to be seen to be believed. Looks like I won’t need to be in again for a while and I’m grateful for that but I feel desperate for anyone and everyone who is in hospital at the moment.

[kukushkin88]

A & E waiting rooms gonna have to be kitted out like a first class cabin so everyone can have a lie down while they wait

He wasn't in an A & E waiting room, he was in a treatment room after being assessed and treated already - they were waiting to admit him to the hospital.

They should have had a bed for him while he waited to be admitted onto the paedeatric ward but they did have chairs.

He evidently found it more comfortable to lie on a stack of coats while he waited than sit in a chair.

If it was an adult in the same situation - and there probably were many of those on the same night as this in that A&E - then the wait to be admitted is bad, but nobody would think it was particularly out of the ordinary.

It was a stupid journalistic trick to tug at emotions rather than a sensible jounalistic article - like if those super busy nights were increasingly common because of austerity - but people are always going to care more about a picture of a child than they are about a table full of numbers.

Having said that, kudos to Johnson for managing to handle it in the worst possible way.

Last line is great and mirrors my immediate thoughts. Was thinking of another pic I saw today of a baby having a snooze in a & e

The NHS is absolutely on its knees though. I’ve been spending loads of time in hospital recently and it’s carnage. There are wards where people recovering from having diseased organs removed ring their emergency assistance alarm and the only people in a position to help immediately are other patients, has to be seen to be believed. Looks like I won’t need to be in again for a while and I’m grateful for that but I feel desperate for anyone and everyone who is in hospital at the moment.

https://mobile.twitter.com/ApertureImage/status/1204022937478684674/photo/1