This largely consists of my wife and I tweeting our way through the pre-election debate and non-debates over the course of the last three days of the month:
What have elephants done to deserve the end of the ban on ivory sales? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
When you quote sums of money, do you not understand inflation? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
How can you claim to be spending record amounts of money, but none of our institutions have any? Where did our money go? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Are you corrupt or just incompetant? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
What've you got against employees, children, patients, parents, pensioners, students, police, nurses, paramedics, teachers, carers? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Have you ever answered a question? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Don't we deserve to know where the dementia tax cap will fall before election day? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Do you still use Windows XP? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Would we have needed the army on our streets to bolster police had you not cut the police to the bone making our streets less safe? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Why did you lock Cornish journalists in a cupboard? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Isn't pushing back the target for eliminating the deficit by 11 years whilst presiding over a collapse of public services a failure? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
If winter fuel allowance is to be means-tested, where will the cutoff point be? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
How much breakfast does 7p buy you? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
How can you be so certain that @jeremycorbyn's plan won't work, when yours isn't even costed? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Are you trying to deliver the reduction of immigration to tens of thousands by making the UK uninhabitable for the rest of us? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
What was it about meeting @RupertMurdoch that led to you wanting to drop Leveson Part 2? #AskMay— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Tweet along your thoughts on tonight's TV debate and show your support for #votelabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Good to see a politician actually explaining the decisions made and treating us like adults #votelabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
EXCELLENT to hear @jeremycorbyn getting in his passion for lifelong education! #VoteLabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Will be interesting to see if Paxo manages to remain impartial despite his personal conservative support tonight #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Has Jeremy Paxman ever interrogated a politician about their beliefs before? And will he after the break? #BattleForNumber10 @jeremycorbyn— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Turns out @JeremyCorbyn wasn't wrong about the Falklands #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@jeremyCorbyn referred to school fee complainer on backrow as his 'friend', so we can assume Hammas weren't really either #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Seriously, save the NHS as this is the alternative #votelabour @jeremycorbyn for PM #BattleForNumber10 https://t.co/hSjHUbhAxp— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Does Paxo even know what a manifesto is? It doesn't include everything that @jeremycorbyn believes - he isn't a dictator!#BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Paxo been out of the game for too long he's forgotten that an interview only works if you allow an interviewee to answer #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
If Corbyn gets through this without punching Paxman clean in the tits, he's more than fit to enter Brexit negotiations. #BattleForNumber10— Alice Lidl (@AliceLidl23) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer first question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay proves you can't put your trust in bricks and mortar under her leadership. Where is the cap going to be? #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer second question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay makes us envy those that live in Scotland #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay didn't correct the gentleman using the phrase #DementiaTax, official name then #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer third question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay pauses for appaluse before realising it's not for her #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer fourth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@JeremyCorbyn didn't get heckled #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay says education cuts aren't "just about funding" but it doesn't mean that it isn't about funding at all #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer fifth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay says Brexit negotiations begin 11 days after election, implying she should carry on as she's already in situ #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer sixth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay attempts to look a Nurse in the eye and tell her her job #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer seventh question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer seventh question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay bloody difficult to get a straight answer out of #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
May on the back-foot here with policing question - keeps saying 'crime is changing' like that excuses it #votelabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Well what is the cap on the dementia tax, Mrs. May? You aren't going to tell them, are you? #VoteLabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Cannot believe May claims more funding into schools - with such massive cuts to some of the most needy #VoteLabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Good to see @faisalislam pulling May back on to the question - and hear the audience who know they're being fed claptrap! #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Great to hear an incredulous audience reaction in response to May's nonsense on education #votelabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Good to see May have to actually face an NHS frontliner and hear the reality of its decimation #votelabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Interesting to see the words 'gain their trust' catch in May's throat... even she knows how unlikely it is! #votelabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer eighth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay Brexit means Brexit means Brexit but I will not explain what that means #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer ninth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay inheritance tax versus dementia tax still means the better off can remain so #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer tenth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay acknowledges some u-turns and not others #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer eleventh question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay presumably wants to "destabilise the country" #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer twelfth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay can't defend her record as Home Secretary, although immigration is the least of her crimes #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer thirteenth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay talks of skilling up Brits, but refuses to fund education sufficiently. You can't have both #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer fourteenth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay surely no deal is a bad deal #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay fails to answer fifteenth question #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay just talks in soundbites #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@TheresaMay gets a one man standing ovation, is that worse than not getting one at all? #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Paxo is being ineffectual across the board - although May seems to be getting to finish her answers #VoteLabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
The choice at this election is between @Conservatives who will deliver for the few & Labour who will deliver #ForTheMany. #BattleForNumber10 pic.twitter.com/nnsKNrehwB— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) 29 May 2017
How will we 'skill people up to do jobs' when you have decimated further and higher education, Mrs May? #VoteLabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
May determined 'no deal is better than a bad deal' on Brexit - when no-one even knows what this means #VoteLabour #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
Nice to hear May is 'optimistic' about Brexit - may be on her own there like the lone man who gave her a standing ovation #BattleForNumber10— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 29 May 2017
@Theresa_May promises that the sky will not fall in, is that in the manifesto? #BattleForNumber10— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
@rustyrockets laugh out loud pic.twitter.com/3ABqtAfynQ— Simon Bate (@simonpbate) 29 May 2017
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 29 May 2017
Well, at least there is one Jeremy that @Theresa_May isn't too scared to debate #BattleForNumber10— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) 29 May 2017
My mate Maurice found his old donor card from the 1980's.— The real Craig Smith (@CraigAllanSmith) 29 May 2017
Absolute belter pic.twitter.com/8XVFBoLUuB
The UK 'Taking Back Control' pic.twitter.com/S8z3X6V6Ju— *Marie-Ann* (@MarieAnnUK) 28 May 2017
The average donation to the Tories is £60,000.— James McAsh (@mcash) 28 May 2017
The average donation to Lab is £22.
In whose interests do you think each party will govern?
I can't believe you saw the same show that I did, but I don't want to fall out over it so I've got you a present: https://t.co/tg2H6oV7j9— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 May 2017
Well it shouldn't. You need to spend the next ten days encouraging everyone else to do the same.— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 May 2017
The British comics industry, 1979. pic.twitter.com/K3bNiFpcH8— Lawrence Miles (@Lawrence_Miles) 29 May 2017
I don't care how you voted.— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 May 2017
We need to encourage people, especially the young people you work with, to vote.
When being insulted/attacked, Theresa May does the same tight smile as Rimmer from Red Dwarf— James Moran (@jamesmoran) 30 May 2017
"I'll explain later," he lied.— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 May 2017
Labour can be attacked over remembering the costings of their policies because, unlike the Tories, they actually have costings.— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) 30 May 2017
@theresa_may looks desperate in latest Broadcast. "Just 11 days so vote for me because I already know where the toilets are" #VoteLabour— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 30 May 2017
"Hi, I'm Colin Baker and welcome to Jackass!" #DoctorWho— Pip (@pipmadeley) 30 May 2017
More nonsense here: https://t.co/mcTN63PI4u pic.twitter.com/E63WD8vtnB
— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
For some bizarre reason, @Theresa_May wants you to think about @JeremyCorbyn naked.— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
Paul Nuttall claims @JeremyCorbyn would take us back to the seventies. Isn't that exactly what UKIP wanted all along? #BBCDebate— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
Rudd's never played Monopoly, has she? How you trust her economic competence? #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
Rudd's never played Monopoly, has she? How you trust her economic competence? #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
Amber Rudd doesn't know how to play Monopoly #BBCDebate #votelabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
@jeremycorbyn clear on immigration again, despite being expected to come up with an imaginary figure #BBCDebate #votelabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
Labour will roll out 30 hours of free childcare a week to all 2-4 year olds to give all our children the best possible start in life. pic.twitter.com/1uOhjAkKdB— Jeremy Corbyn (@jeremycorbyn) 30 May 2017
— Mark Davis (@33MarkD) 31 May 2017
@LeanneWoodwants to know why @WelshLabour haven't enacted manifesto promises? Because top 5% don't pay enough tax yet #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
Is Nuttall just spending all the time any woman is speaking saying 'She's not called Natalie' repeatedly in his head? #BBCDebate #votelabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
Good to see everyone getting the boot into Rudd - she's trying so hard to look like a grown-up #BBCDebate #votelabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
'Judge us on our record' - Rudd. Cue audience hilarity, appropriately #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
'We have to control our spending' - Rudd, on behalf of the party who've seen the national debt spiral out of control #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
Might need a gif of Amber Rudd's unhappy, blinking face when the audience laughed at her "Judge us on our economic record."— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) 31 May 2017
Amber Rudd "I'm gonna level with you". It's a bit late. #BBCDebate— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
If Paul Nuttall's Prevent referral statistics are true, doesn't that mean Muslim population still batting well above its weight? #BBCDebate— David Black (@Davetweetedthis) 31 May 2017
The BBC caption writers aren't taking any prisoners tonight. #BBCDebate pic.twitter.com/FYDCfUD6Q8— The Poke (@ThePoke) 31 May 2017
Good response from @jeremycorbyn on education - of course a Welsh council can't act on these policies - they are crippled by Tory cuts!— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
I'd never vote Lib Dem again, but Fallon is better tonight than I've seen him #BBCDebate #ToriesOut— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
Why would anyone believe UKIP on the NHS after Nuttall's desire for privatisation and the big red bus £350m bullsh #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
When ever Amber Rudd speaks at the #BBCDebate, can everyone reply to her with "can I please speak to your manager?"— David Morgan (@thisisdavid) 31 May 2017
Rudd claims they had to cut police budgets to ensure we 'lived within our means'. Yet... https://t.co/dbw5W2w7G3 #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
So weird that Theresa May is watching Amber Rudd doing this - presumably screaming "DON'T LOOK SO FUCKING GUILTY!" at the TV.— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) 31 May 2017
Absolutely nothing Amber Rudd has said has received the tiniest smattering of applause.— John Niven (@NivenJ1) 31 May 2017
Nuttall's comments risk making those who already feel segregated feel all the more distant, a known trigger to radicalisation #BBCDebate— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
Great to see someone pointing out that terrorists are not all Muslims to Nuttall the blinkered, racist idiot #BBCDebate #VoteLabour— Sarah Williams (@uppityfabulous) 31 May 2017
300,000 people elected me as leader of this party. #BBCDebate pic.twitter.com/nchwl2s7Ng
— Ronan Warde (@Ronan_G_Warde) 31 May 2017
.@Conservatives have barely any tweets on their manifesto policies, instead it reads like a drunk rant against Corbyn. #BBCDebate
— Amy (@thisisamy_) 31 May 2017
The lady's not for turning up. #bbcdebate
— Jeremy Corbyn for PM (@JeremyCorbyn4PM) 31 May 2017
"You don't call a general election and say it's the most important election in your lifetime and then don't show up to debate" #BBCDebate pic.twitter.com/P5MEgBbwju
— han 💫 (@hannahlouisep__) 31 May 2017
Paul Nuttall. #BBCDebate pic.twitter.com/7yo2jEyln0
— Political Partridge (@PoliticalAP) 31 May 2017
Seriously... if that was a Coalition of Chaos - I want it.
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) 31 May 2017
That CoC just hit TM clear out of the park.
#BBCDebate
BREAKING: Theresa May sanctioned for not attending job interview #BBCdebate pic.twitter.com/DaiLtUIWDz
— Jennafer 🌹Small (@Jennafooj) 31 May 2017
Jeremy has gone straight out of the debate to meet and greet everyone hanging around outside. Tireless. #CorbynWins #BBCDebate pic.twitter.com/Ibrdt5ic4T
— Jeremy Corbyn for PM (@JeremyCorbyn4PM) 31 May 2017
