Sunday, 1 May 2022

Oliver Dowden - You’re A Clown

The crawling sycophancy displayed by rather too many in our free and fearless press towards alleged Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and his coterie of ineptitude seems to have gone to the heads of some in that group, and especially party chairman Oliver Dowden, who gives the impression he is trying a little too hard to tell Bozo that he might only have been to a state school, but he isn’t an oik, honestly.

That's not a good idea, Ollie

To this end, Dowden has written a jolly stern letter to Labour leader Keir Starmer which begins “It has come to my attention that Labour has stood down candidates in swathes of the country ahead of next week’s local elections”. What the merry fuck does it have to do with him whether The Red Team put up candidates against the Tories? But there’s more.

“There has been a considerable amount of media reporting of the existence of an electoral pact between Labour and the Liberal Democrats in recent months. It now appears that your plans to deny voters a clear democratic choice are coming to fruition. I would appreciate your responses to the following questions which I am sure you will agree are in the public interest”. Who does he think he is, the Head Prefect? But do go on.

“When did Labour and the Liberal Democrats agree to this pact? [none of his business] … Were party members and MPs in the affected regions consulted about the pact? [What pact?] … Why have you attempted to conceal this from voters?” What does Head Prefect Ollie think he’s going to do, put Starms Major in detention? Give him 1,000 lines?


Yet the delusion does not stop there: Dowden Tweeted out his letter with maximum pretentiousness: “The secret Labour/Lib Dem elections pact has been revealed. Read my letter and the questions that Sir Keir Starmer must answer”. This “story” was duly briefed to the increasingly wayward Mail on Sunday, where political editor Glen Owen, assisted by not even slightly celebrated blues artiste Whinging Dan Hodges, have duly gone OTT.

With a front page headline sufficiently ranty to satisfy the most discerning rant connoisseur, the MoS thundered “As PM is rattled by resignation of porn MP, the Tories’ chairman accuses Starmer and Lib Dems of … SECRET ELECTION PACT TO STITCH UP BORIS”, claiming an “exclusive”, perhaps because no-one else wanted it.

So, as Jon Stewart might have said, two things here. One, it’s good of Dowden and the inmates of the Northcliffe House bunker to let the world know that the Tories and their press pals are scared shitless of being handed the mother of all shellackings come next Thursday. And Two, it’s also good of them to remind us just how much the right-leaning part of the press has invested in The Adoration Of The Boris.


Meanwhile, Lib Dem leader Ed Davey has flatly denied the existence of this mythical “pact” of which Head Prefect Ollie speaks. Starmer can be expected to do likewise, for the simple reason that there isn’t one. So Labour and the Lib Dems are concentrating their scarce resources where they can inflict most damage on the Tories? That’s what opposition parties do. I’ll go further: that’s what opposition parties should be doing.

But good of Ollie to admit that Bozo and his pals are bracing for big losses next week. They could, of course, limit the damage by binning the incompetent, narcissistic, uncaring, sexually incontinent liar in 10 Downing Street. Government physician, heal thyself.


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6 comments:

  1. Simon1 May 2022 at 16:04

    Presumably there was equal outrage when Farage stood down his troops in Tory seats at the last election?

    In any case, 'democratic choice' surely includes the choice not to stand at all?

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  2. Anonymous1 May 2022 at 16:15

    Skunks fighting in a sack.

    You can tell by the stench.

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  3. iMatt1 May 2022 at 16:21

    The idea that Labour and the Lib Dems ought to work together to unseat Tories in marginal constituencies is hardly new. I can remember this being mooted prior to the 1997 election, where of course Labour won a stonking majority without the need for an electoral pact with the Lib Dems.

    That said, at a local level in Tatton, there was a pact during that election where Labour and the Lib Dems deliberately chose not to field candidates in order to let the independent Martin Bell have a clear run at the sleazy Kneel Hamilton.

    Perhaps Dowden can remember how during the 2019 election, the Brexit Party stood down 200 or so candidates giving the Tories an advantage in several marginal seats. Was this a pact too? Or a 'gentlemen's' agreement?

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  4. dedm1 May 2022 at 17:51

    As well as the whole Brexit party pact at the last GE, in council electiond the cons also have a habit of 1) not putting their name on leaflets 2) running as "Local Conservatives" (whatever that means) or 3) Just running as independent and then voting consistently with the con block on the council (in my neck of the woods we just got a town councilor who won as "independent" when he literally stood for the conservatives in another ward just a few months ago)

    Physician heal thyself indeed.

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  5. Richard T2 May 2022 at 06:07

    I think the exact words cited in Pressdram v Arkle are the only response to this idiocy.

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  6. Anonymous2 May 2022 at 16:26

    Dowden isn't the only one.

    On BBC TV "News" a suited up propaganda prick just referred to "the Rwanda deterrent".

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