Yug wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 11:02 pm
Andy McDandy wrote: ↑Sat Jun 08, 2024 9:32 pm
Also, what is it with the Tories and their opponents being "in the pocket/having strings pulled" by someone else? They've been using variations on this for years.
Well, having been in the pocket of big business and having their strings pulled by media magnates for years, I suppose this is a rare example of Tories actually speaking from experience.
And they're still wrong.
It's classic "Accuse your enemies of that which you do".
I reflect:
This is the first election the Tories have had to contest without all the cheat codes.
* Split Libdem / Labour / SNP opposition - but now they've opposition on their side of the left/right divide.
* Much of their funding lost after Oligarchs embargoed.
* Utter talent vacuum in the wake of De Pfeffel's Brexit purge.
* Newspaper influence fading relative to digital sources.
Also Sir Kier is one jammy General.
* Sunak's ineptitude makes Theresa May seem like a campaigning colossus.
* Reform UK are eating Sunak's dinner.