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Schadenfreude: UK Celebs React to Boris Blowout
If you followed the UK election on social media for the past month, you’d have thought Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party would crush Boris Johnson’s Conservatives. The lefties dominated Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and all things online. But the vote isn’t conducted on the internet, rather in polling stations.
Leading up to election day, musicians, actors, and other British celebrities enthusiastically endorse the anti-semitic, pro-terrorist Marxist, and mocked all who opposed him.
Segment from @Channel4News tonight with Steve Coogan.
If you insult voters’ intelligence, do not be surprised if they abandon you. pic.twitter.com/HsnoMbm8wi
— James Johnson (@jamesjohnson252) December 11, 2019
Hugh Grant:
"Anywhere in the country where a Tory can be beaten, they have to be beaten. The country faces an emergency"#GE2019 #Brexit pic.twitter.com/PF62RJXWVp
— Matty 🇬🇧🇪🇺 (@Doozy_45) December 10, 2019
Here's something to put a spring in your step on election morning. If these numbers hold up we are in hung parliament territory with an anti-Johnson majority. Get out there tomorrow and do whatever you have to do to VOTE THE TORIES OUT!! https://t.co/usjvGIMWPA
— Billy Bragg (@billybragg) December 11, 2019
One of my favorite bands of the ’90s took the stage election eve with a giant “[Redacted]-Off, Boris!” backdrop. Many other faves shared tweets that can’t be published on this family-friendly website. Such pottymouths.
But that was only the preview. Once exit polls were released showing a blowout, the mood turned darker very quickly. As did the language, so I can only include the mild ones.
There goes the neighbourhood.
— Hugh Grant (@HackedOffHugh) December 12, 2019
Ken Livingstone tells PA 'It looks like the end for Jeremy. I'm sure he'll have to resign tomorrow' – he goes on to say 'The Jewish vote wasn't very helpful' which may well cause some eyebrows to shoot up
— Laura Kuenssberg (@bbclaurak) December 13, 2019
3 Years of promising non existent Brexit unicorns is enough. a few chaotic months of Boris Jonson is already enough. Lying to the Queen and closing Parliament was plenty already. Enough enough. Perhaps by putting your postcode in the magic box…. The fairytales may stop https://t.co/JB3vQOPJKV
— Thom Yorke (@thomyorke) December 11, 2019
This is dark. It will be a while before we see the light again.
— George Monbiot (@GeorgeMonbiot) December 12, 2019
I wish Twitter would stop showing me tweets from hopeful hours ago.
— Nigella Lawson (@Nigella_Lawson) December 13, 2019
Really enjoying people who support a definitive racist, misogynist, classist, nefarious liar as the leader of our country — with a cabinet full of much the same — objecting to being called a dickhead on Twitter.
— Hannah Jane Parkinson (@ladyhaja) December 12, 2019
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Lily Allen deleted her Twitter account after an extended meltdown.
Other Labour A-listers are sharing Russian conspiracy theories, plotting impeachment, and hoping that somehow the EU will kill Brexit. According to my poll, expect a UK version of The resistance.
The British Left's response to #GE2019 will be…
— jon gabriel (@exjon) December 13, 2019
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Published in General
“The Jewish vote wasn’t very helpful.”
I’d post my favorite Avenue Q song here, but it’s got a nice big CoC-violation in the middle. But I’ll just play it while I read this post again.
The good guys winning never gets old.
Headlines on right this moment about the first post-election protests against Boris.
*sigh*
Kinda like TDS -Trump Derangement Syndrome – now we have Boris Derangement Syndrome.
How nice. Trump wants to do a “massive’ trade deal with Boris which could make Britain America’s gateway to Europe – Yuge for the Brits, Yuge for us. More jobs all around and finally Britain won’t have that EU albatross around their collective necks.
#notmypm Flow chart for the Left…..
The protestors need Baby Johnson balloons.
Hey Corbyn:
“Sppppuuuuuu!!! [sticking tongue out]
The realignment of Labour follows that of the US Democrats. They were the party of working men but have morphed into the party of metropolitans and elites in university towns.
Calls for a British “Mueller Report” by the Fusion Gps guys.
I kid you not.
Puppets. They love puppets.
They never accepted reality before, why would we think they would start now?
Gateway to Europe? We already trade the sheeeit out of Europe. We import and export more with Germany than England.
They’re not allowed to lose. Progress only goes the way they want it, didn’t you know?
Except they dare not do so; they would be hauled into British court and successfully sued under British libel law, ending their little racket forever.
I love how he expects us to believe that he actually cares about anything Boris has done.
Whaaaaa Haaaaa!! This is huge!
By the way, I think Trump will have a similar win in November.
Whaaaaa! Haaaaa!
You know, it’s not really a childishly angry celebrity reaction to an election that didn’t go their way until at least 2-3 of them have tweeted out they’re moving to Canada, because they refuse to accept the voters’ decision (though with Britain, I suppose the angry progressive celebs could move to France, because everything going so great right now for Macron over there…..)
It was a big Venn for Boris . . .
I can’t believe you vennt there.
I was somewhat surprised to see this as she is Jewish and her father is Nigel Lawson who was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Margaret Thatcher. He is somewhat famous for saying that “the NHS (single-payer health care) is the closest thing the English people have to a religion.” Apparently he chaired the Vote Leave campaign.
I remember how Dennis Miller mentioned that he upset Nigella Lawson’s cooking segment once. (I think I remember watching this and not thinking it was a big deal.)
I gotta believe a fair portion of the anger came from being named Nigella.
I’d object.
Venn you got it, flaunt it!
During the worst of the ESPN wokeness kerfuffle with former president of the network John Skipper two years ago, Fox Sports’ Clay Travis made the point that Skipper and ESPN were programming their network based on the idea that angry SJW users on Twitter represented a far higher percentage of their audience than was actually out there. They in essence killed their ratings to make a tiny fraction of people (and possibly their sock puppets) on social media happy, when you can never be woke enough to make those people happy, and you can argue that Disney just did the same thing in crashing their main “Star Wars” franchise, by marketing the latest trilogy towards making angry progressives on Twitter happy, because they somehow have convinced themselves the woke crowd represented the bulk of their young target audience.
Labour did roughly the same thing in the run-up to Thursday’s election, and the question now is whether or not the same phenomenon is going to hit the Democratic Party 11 months from now, when the 2020 election takes place. Are they going to think that catering to the angry woke SJWs on social media is the path to victory, because the vast majority of people under 35 and urban-dwellers all think that way, or are they going to back away before next November and risk the ongoing wrath of the Twitter mobs?