Westminstenders: 10 day count down

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10 days to go...

... Wake me up when the shit show is over.

So far CCHQ have refused to put Boris Johnson on the C4 leaders debate against Jeremy Corbyn, the C4 Climate Debate, Julie Etchingham for Tonight on ITV, GMB for ITV, the Sky News debate and now Andrew Neil on BBC1. Invitation remains open to appear on #C4News

@krishgm

Perfect opportunity for Boris to explain that he meant to say talent even if it did accidentally come out sounding like colour.

I think if some people think they hear one thing and others hear others probably best to let it be, give the benefit of the doubt

There's a million other Johnson racist comments to pick from anyway.

What about the irish border?? And the overt lying there? Any of the visiting tories care to comment? Of course not.

twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1202913424243601408

@Channel4News

Boris Johnson says “people of talent” not “people of colour.”

Our earlier tweet was a mistake. We misheard and we apologise.

Channel 4 just apologised for pushing fake news. I thought fake news was the worst thing in the world and a stain on our democracy, no? But now you don't even believe C4's explicit retraction and apology for doing it.

Hypocrites, much?

What we need is someone to put clips together of Johnson saying the words 'colour' and 'talent' from different speeches and then we can judge for ourselves how he says them.

Some southern English accents do pronounce a u as an a, but then they tend to drawl an a into a longer sound.

Is this going to end up as one of those "Yanni/Laurel" things?

It already has. Which may have been the intention all along.

'Talent'. Absolutely no doubt. He's still a twat though.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/election-2019-50683887

12:08

Highlights from the Northern Ireland document

Chris Morris

BBC Reality Check

This Treasury document sets out things that trade experts have been saying pretty clearly, but that the government has refused to accept lied about.

Under Boris Johnson's EU Withdrawal Agreement, it says, customs declarations and documentary and physical checks on trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland will be "highly disruptive to the Northern Ireland economy".

The document notes that 98% of businesses that export to Great Britain are small and medium businesses that are "likely to struggle" to bear the cost.

None of this is a huge surprise to anyone committed enough to have read the Protocol on Ireland and Northern Ireland carefully, but it is not what the prime minister has been saying about his own deal.

Another striking line from the leaked document says the Withdrawal Agreement "has the potential to separate Northern Ireland in practice from whole swathes of the UK’s internal market".

That is why, in a nutshell, Boris Johnson lost the support of the Democratic Unionist Party in Northern Ireland; and it was his lack of a working majority in Parliament that led in turn to this election.

What we need is someone to put clips together of Johnson saying the words 'colour' and 'talent' from different speeches and then we can judge for ourselves how he says them.

Why ? It would be like fitting wheels to a tomato.

Kuenssberg is on full damage control as far as the NI documents are concerned, shes almost frantic in her tweets right now, anyone else following her?

If you encourage fake news and lies, you can't complain when they are used against you.

I think it's hilarious. I also think Johnson needs elocution lessons. What a fucking useless muppet he is.

Why DGR? Does he normally say cal-ler for cul-ler which would rhyme with talent? I suppose with an old Etonian drawl it could be difficult to tell. With a northern accent the words could not be confused.

Perfect opportunity for Boris to explain that he meant to say talent even if it did accidentally come out sounding like colour.

He doesn't need to explain anything - he clearly says 'talent' the more I listen to it. James O'Brien couldn't be more 'anti Boris' if he tried - he was jumping up and down with glee at first - he doesn't read out apologies lightly.

Hmm - makes you think 'Cavalcade pronounced success'.

Definitely heard 'talent' (and I was waiting for 'colour'!). Listen to this:

So Michael Gove gave out the number for Downing Street on BBC5 live encouraging people to call Boris Johnson’s diary secretary to find out if he’ll sit down for an interview with Andrew Neil: 0207 930 4433

And people have been calling it

What a bunch of amateurs.

Should have added, at around 3 mins 40 onwards

Why DGR? Does he normally say cal-ler for cul-ler which would rhyme with talent? I suppose with an old Etonian drawl it could be difficult to tell. With a northern accent the words could not be confused.

Because it doesn't matter, does it ? Why waste considerable time and resources on a project that isn't going to have the slightest effect on world events. Remember you're living alongside morons people who "just believe" the entire Apollo programme was a hoax. You are living amongst people that would happily risk their childrens health based on no more than "bloke says".

Kuenssberg is on full damage control as far as the NI documents are concerned, shes almost frantic in her tweets right now, anyone else following her?

No. Why ?

Why did nobodies in the labour party who had already been suspended saying don't vote for Corbyn get wall to wall news coverage, but no one is reporting JOHN MAJOR saying don't vote tory???

Our media is a pathetic sham. I need to sleep.

Should have added, at around 3 mins 40 onwards

I've reached it at 2:45.

I take no notice whatsoever of anything the lying PM says, it's not worth untangling lies from any residual truth there might be.

Is this the same clip? I will grant he said talent in that clip. Then he blabbed on about broadband, better education. Don't kid me mate, you are not interested in better education for the majority. As for broadband - er wasn't this the Labour policy?

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I'm with DGR in this talent/colour business.