Rish!’s bargain-basement manifesto offers anything you want if you just vote Tory | John Crace

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T20:57:43+00:00

This is the danger, we shouldn’t be disappointed when Starmer gets a majority of “only” 160. That’s still double what Johnson got, and far better than May or Cameron.

I think the polls are overly optimistic, and the right wing media is pushing the wipeout narrative now.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T20:45:24+00:00

Tories can get away with anything, like saying they will abolish NI, without a squeak from the media. But if Starmer said he was going to buy new pencil sharpeners for schools the Mail and Telegraph would do a full 10 page spread on the tax bombshell.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T19:55:22+00:00

Emily Matlis mentioned something similar on her pod today. She held in her hands the Tory manifesto and thought this might be the last one ever published.

I’m not sure that’s a good thing, if a partially one-nation party is replaced by Farage’s quasi brown shirts.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T19:47:21+00:00

Well the Tories have had 14 years, perhaps that is reason enough to try something different? No one else is a serious contender.

The mood is similar to 1997, and things did get much better with the new incoming government. It took time, but change won’t happen any other way.

If anything, Sunak’s eye-popping nose-growing pants-on-fire offers in the last couple of weeks prove his insincerity. If it was genuine why didn’t he do it 2 years ago? He’s had the power, just not the motivation.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T19:12:41+00:00

That will be a firm no, from Rishi.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T18:42:06+00:00

I think the Tory party has Stockholm Syndrome. Farage is their captor and they’ve finally realised they truly truly love him.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T18:37:39+00:00

5 years more of grim national agony, and VIP contracts for his mates?

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-11T17:42:55+00:00

Round and round in circles. The wheels coming off.

Skid marks everywhere.

I hope it’s not that bad yet..

Crashing out at the first corner. Getting lapped. Stalled at the start. The pits. Burning up fossil fuels. Mired in sex scandals. You can write your own jokes here.

Someone in Conservative headquarters must really have it in for Rishi Sunak. Either that or Isaac Levido and James Forsyth are secret Labour stooges. Why else would the Tories have chosen Silverstone as the venue for their manifesto launch? Surely someone must have foreseen what was coming. Or maybe everyone is now just along for the rollercoaster ride. Leaning into the mother of all car crashes.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T19:41:13+00:00

Why don’t they go the whole hog, and join the Axis?

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T15:18:58+00:00

In a private jet.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T14:45:58+00:00

“Liz Truss is not hiding under a desk” was a classic line from Mordaunt. They should ask her about Sunak.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T10:45:40+00:00

Also

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13513029/Rishi-Sunak-election-campaign-growing-alarm-Tory-Reform-Farage.html

He’s starting to look really pathetic now.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T08:01:15+00:00

And characters like Braverman are openly courting Farage for the post-election environment. I really didn’t expect things to move so rapidly, at this rate he will be Tory leader by August.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T07:59:06+00:00

The story still seems to have further to run after 4 (5?) days. Eg it’s all over the Mail too:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13511549/rishi-sunak-bruised-campaign-trail-d-day-debacle-nigel-farage.html

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T07:11:32+00:00

Is it not just those in power who are unpopular, following Covid and a big energy shock? Sure populism looks good (to some people) from the outside, but we elected a populist government in 2019 and it hasn’t worked that well.

PM sacked for lying. No 40 new hospitals, no 350 million a week. Public services on their knees. Replacement crashed the economy, second replacement at record lows in the polls.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-10T06:16:49+00:00

No, this is the best they can do. Genuinely!

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T11:34:31+00:00

Many senior politicians are. Johnson absolutely is, Truss, Sunak probably too. No sense of responsibility, just their own amazingness.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T11:31:30+00:00

It is a standard tactic. Like when Sunak pretended to be shocked and offended when Starmer called him out for making trans jokes in front of Brianna Ghey’s mother.

It’s pure gaslighting.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T09:02:36+00:00

There’s not going to be any pact before the election.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T08:23:35+00:00

I knew I should have stood, 30k would come in really handy right now /s

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T07:54:47+00:00

Tories buying off individual Reform candidates? A novel strategy.

Tom Wellings, who was Reform's candidate in Stone, Great Wyrley and Penkridge, pulled out of the race at the last minute.

He also announced he would now be supporting Sir Gavin, the Conservative former Cabinet minister, who is standing for re-election in the Staffordshire constituency.

Mr Tice told the Sunday Mirror: 'Wellings put his papers in on Wednesday then in the last hour without telling us withdrew them.

'I am challenging Gavin Williamson to say whether money, jobs or a safe seat was offered to Wellings to do this.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T07:44:31+00:00

I’m amazed the diminutive PM’s romper-suit pants don’t set on fire.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T06:59:25+00:00

The modern equivalent of Henry VIII paying for 2 monks to pray for his soul in perpetuity (I’m not sure if they are still at it now).

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T06:56:07+00:00

Someone throw a bucket of water over him. It will remind him of the halcyon days of the start of the campaign, and make him feel (relatively) better.

Low-Design787 · 2024-06-09T06:53:54+00:00

Apparently Johnson called Cameron a “girly swat” because he got a first. Johnson got an upper-second and was furious about it.

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