[Youngian]

Truss and Sunak participated in BBC local radio interviews and the presenters kept asking clever clogs questions. Can’t have that, where’s Laura?

I’ve never seen more election boards in gardens while driving in North Norfolk, last week. It’s a hot election up there between the Lib Dems and Conservatives.

[Youngian]

An image of a masked burglar with a swag bag should resonate if you read the Beano in 1955.

[Abernathy]

Christ, it's fucking tragic. You marvel that the Tories have become so desperate that they've resorted to these shitty crude mendacious cartoons.

[Andy McDandy]

Demon eyes, double whammy, Salmond picking your pocket, Gerry Adams in your pocket....

Other than "Britain isn't working", I can't think of any genuinely good advertising they've done.

[Oboogie]

An image of a masked burglar with a swag bag should resonate if you read the Beano in 1955.

Reminded me of Madness album sleeves of the early '80s.

[Youngian]

Other than "Britain isn't working", I can't think of any genuinely good advertising they've done.

‘Labour isn’t working’ which was an even better slogan. Inspired by Marxist agitprop pioneer John Heartfield.

[Andy McDandy]

Doh! Of course it was! Apologies.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Greens on the brink of a shock in Hyndburn, apparently.

The Can't Win Here Tories merely beat the Greens by 46.5 points last time.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Tories apparently can't win Lancaster and Wyre, having won a notional 48% last time. This is spectacularly dishonest

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Greens of course aren't the only ones who do this, but they do make a lot of their honesty.

[Youngian]

Day Today’s Brant is now working on Tory ads

[Tubby Isaacs]

Yeah, Labour. You with your Defence shortfall.

This is so transparent. Get Labour on either not spending enough on Defence or raising taxes to spend more on Defence.

[Andy McDandy]

Missing the point that this isn't a projection - this is the state of the armed forces now. After 14 years of performative flag shagging and stripping the actual forces to the bone.

[Abernathy]

As we get closer and closer to polling day and the prospect of a brand new government, I’d like just to take a moment to reflect that the last 14 years of Tory government have been nothing less, collectively, than an obscenity. Austerity, Brexit, Partygate, Pandemic mishandling and corruption, Truss.

It’s going to be such a refief and pleasure to be seeing the back of them.

[Crabcakes]

Day Today’s Brant is now working on Tory ads

Only a Tory ad could show inflatable boats being attracted by a magnet.

The fucking morons.

[Andy McDandy]

I'm too young to have properly experienced Thatcherism. Major, for all his weaknesses, seemed to be leading a bunch of people with no clear plan besides self-preservation. While there were competent people in there, they were outnumbered. While there were well-meaning people in there, they were incompetent.

But nothing, any of them, compared to the sheer hubristic vanity and sadism of this lot. Indeed, the only thing that's saved us has been their sheer ineptitude (and what does that say about us?). Fourteen years of being run by emotionally stunted overgrown schoolboys, who get their kicks from using magnifying glasses on ants.

Off they fuck into history.

[Arrowhead]

Went for a long traipse round the leafy backstreets of Knowle and Dorridge earlier today. Precious little indication of an imminent GE, the placard/sign count was as follows:

Labour - 2
Lib Dem - 2
Tories - 0
Reform - 0

I still think the Tories will hold onto this area reasonably comfortably, it doesn't feel very Reform-y (despite Farage summoning 5000+ to a gammon rally at the NEC the other day). I remember getting excited by the amount of Labour placards I was seeing in posh areas such as Lapworth and Hampton-in-Arden in the run up to GE2017.......and then the Tories ended up recording the biggest ever majority in the history of the constituency

[Crabcakes]

New 20,000 person mega-poll out at 5pm. Apparently it has ‘some changes’. But to be honest even a bit of poll tightening isn’t going to change things now - and that’s assuming if hasn’t got *worse* for Sunak.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Big argument in Wales over rail. Plaid Cymru are taking about £4bn of Barnett consequentials for HS2. There can't be any Barnett consequentials because rail infrastructure isn't devolved. It's an England and Wales project because every project in England and Wales is an England and Wales project. In terms of rail infrastructure, Wales is basically like an English region. As far as I know, there's been no great movement to get rail infrastructure devolved because (I presume) sums were done and it wasn't worth it. But I would think HS2 changes the calculation. I don't know. I think it would be good for some sort of devolution deal to be done on rail infrastructure in the near future, with appropriate borrowing powers. With my Labour party politics hat on, lots of infrastructure could get built without UK central government borrowing.

Talking of Labour, they're surely schooling Plaid on this errant campaign, right? Wrong. Jo Stevens (likely the next Welsh Secretary) has said exactly the same in the past. As far as I know, she's not corrected. So can't really complain about Plaid saying it, can she? Whoops.

[Crabcakes]

Amazing bit of framing by the Standard here. Read the headline and you'd think the Tories were rapidly closing the gap. In fact, labour have gone up and the Tories have *also* gone up, the latter almost certainly because of Farage's outfit fucking up.

15 points is also not 'narrowing the gap'. It's a marginally less wide chasm.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politic ... 68011.html