[Tubby Isaacs]

[Bones McCoy]

Jings, Crivens.

"Desperate" (((Dan Hodges))) comes down against Sunak.

https://x.com/DPJHodges/status/1798306248158498870

Parties routinely weaponise and distort each others policies. It's all in the game.
This is different.
The Prime Minister claimed the civil service had independently costed Labour's tax plans at £2,000.
That was false.
It's the most blatant lie I've seen in an election campaign.

[Crabcakes]

Nice sighting of Penny Mordaunt. But why is she doing this? Oliver Dowden is the Deputy Prime Minister.

Because I suspect the Tories know that as they have nothing else to offer they will have to be personal, and a man insulting a woman will go over badly. So they’re getting a woman to do it instead.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Rather like the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee getting in Rachel Mitchell to question Christine Blasey Ford?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Don't know if posted this before, but it's dreadful.

Kemi blames strikes for waiting lists coming down. When challenged, she says "I'm not getting into blaming NHS workers".

It's like she's been briefed "blaming NHS workers goes down very badly". The point is not to do it, not to do it and say "i'm not getting into blaming NHS workers".

[Andy McDandy]

It's those roving gangs of picketers floating from hospital to hospital...via the railways!!!

[Watchman]

When even Fraser Nelson is not supporting you.............................

https://t.co/p7wwWkCtgQ

[Killer Whale]

Don't know if posted this before, but it's dreadful.

Kemi blames strikes for waiting lists coming down. When challenged, she says "I'm not getting into blaming NHS workers".

It's like she's been briefed "blaming NHS workers goes down very badly". The point is not to do it, not to do it and say "i'm not getting into blaming NHS workers".

Apart from anything, they're in charge, they're their strikes. They are responsible for the NHS and keeping the workforce at fucking work.

Yet more acting like someone else has been in government for the last decade and a half.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Apart from anything, they're in charge, they're their strikes. They are responsible for the NHS and keeping the workforce at fucking work.

Yet more acting like someone else has been in government for the last decade and a half.

Yep. Kemi ought to have done a Ted Heath "Who Governs?"

Wouldn't have been hard to settle this strike. Why did Sunak make that promise then not settle?

[Tubby Isaacs]

Richard Holden might have some problems in Basildon and Billericay. Local Tories don't seem to want him.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I'm not sure Farage can keep this up. But if he does...

[Tubby Isaacs]

Oh dear. It's one thing pulling strokes like this on Tom Hunt, it's quite another pulling it on the Cabinet.

It's a Kipperish seat (19.8% in 2015). Holden could well lose it.

[Youngian]

That would be fun, his old man is a Tory big wig in Cambridgeshire. Even your own son now thinks your party’s useless, Bill.

Exclusive:

Tory candidate Tom Hunt weighing up defecting to Reform after an extraordinary selection row with Richard Holden, chairman of the Conservative party

Hunt is the candidate for Ipswich but was asked to run for neighbouring seat of Central Suffolk & North Ipswich after defection of Dan Poulter

He spoke to CCHQ and Holden directly about the move, but ultimately decided to stick with his current constituency

But he was furious to discover Holden himself was on the shortlist for the seat when it was announced. Holden withdrew, but there is bad blood. https://x.com/steven_swinford/status/17 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

[Abernathy]

Is a bucket of cold sick worse than a bucket of hot, or even luke warm sick?

I’m not sure it is.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

I couldn't manage a whole bucket. Usually it's just a cup.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This is indeed ridiculous.

On the other hand it's not lying about the civil service, so I suppose it is a bit different.

[Youngian]

Andrew Neil’s laying off the dafty juice for the election and gives Tice a rigorous going over.
https://x.com/timesradio/status/1798342 ... Dkr8MiQKBg

Reasonably optimistic so far that the media aren’t going to let the Tories and Reform get away with running a Brexit II campaign of unaccountable lies without serious scrutiny.

[mattomac]

Victoria Derbyshire lay right into Claire Countiho on debate night over it.

Was good to see to be fair.

Latest policy dreamt up is harsher prison sentences. Again why now at the point when overcrowding is at breaking point.

[Youngian]

They’re letting cons out on early release. And Reform will just respond with even harsher sentences.

[Youngian]

Couple of other major GEs haven’t gone as incumbent governments planned. Modi’s expected landslide in India failed and has lost his majority. Unlike most demagogues he has a good economic record to sell but his muscular nationalism upset the south and other non Hindi speaking regions as well a religious minorities.

Meanwhile in South Africa, the ANC is searching for coalition partners that may include prototype Trumpian moron Jacob Zuma whose party had a respectable showing despite being the architect of the dire state the country is in. Less successful was Marxist populist loudmouth Julius Malema who failed to hit 10%.