Hello and Goodbye
While client journalists like Christopher “No” Hope of the increasingly desperate and downmarket Telegraph were pretending that the mini budget was A Very Wonderful Thing, bleating “The Tories need to get into overdrive asap to explain last week's mini-Budget. A local media round with the PM and a clip with the Chancellor is not enough”, the warnings were coming in.
Former Tory MP Gavin Barwell tried to break the news gently to Hope: “It. Is. Not. A. Comms. Problem.” Still the tribalists in the bunker refused to listen: former not-so-ace Brexit negotiator David Frost was penning more rubbish for the Tel, while Dan, Dan The Oratory Man was doing something similar for the Mail, telling its readers that the IMF and the markets didn’t really understand.
What happened during the afternoon was a more effective means of telling the political flat earth brigade just how much trouble the Tories were in. Survation told “Westminster Voting Intention. Largest Labour lead (21 points) we've ever recorded”. Labour was on 49%; the Tories on 28% - a lower share of the popular vote than the party managed in 1997.
Then, the Labour poll lead was 12.5%, and their subsequent majority 180. Were the Survation numbers to play out at a General Election, that majority would probably be over 200. And that was not the worst poll news: that came from YouGov, which has in the past been accused of favouring the Tories.
A third poll showed a Labour lead in the high teens. All showed Tory support on the slide. The effect was to peel away a little more support from those Tory MPs not totally committed to the Truss and Kwarteng project, leaving a smaller core of true believers and unswerving tribalists to pretend that The Blue Team was not on the verge of electoral wipeout.
We were seeing not only, as was claimed last week, a Labour moment, but a run on the market and a run on Sterling followed in short order by a run on the Tory Party. They were warned about electing Liz Truss; now have come the inevitable consequences. The Daily Mail was instrumental in getting her elected, with its knocking copy aimed at Penny Mordaunt.
Some Tory members have short memories: it was the Mail that successfully campaigned for South African athlete Zola Budd to be given a British passport so she could compete in the 1984 Olympic Games. That ended in disaster when Ms Budd had a coming-together with Team USA’s Mary Decker, taking the latter out of a race she was expected to win.
The malign influence of those in the Northcliffe House bunker has now struck again, with yet more severe consequences. Repent at leisure, Tories.
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3 comments:
Ultimately this won't even scratch the surface of British politics, occasional pr bullshit aside.
Parliament is merely a tenth rate administrative bureaucracy for organised thieves. Policy decisions are made elsewhere. Blue and red tory appeasers simply do as they're told.
Which is why this winter will again feature thousands of hypothermia deaths caused by the paymasters of blue and red tories. Their media will of course yet again shrug it off.
And Quisling Labour will knuckle its forehead, grovel for crumbs and show itself to have the reforming zeal of a dying moth. Polls or no polls.
Tsk tsk, Tim.
You'll be in trouble calling this Labour party 'Labour'.
Do I see Hugh Dalton? I do not. Where is Sir Stafford Cripps? Ernie Bevin's been keeping very quiet. Ellen Wilkinson seems notable only by her absence. And who's going to set up the new NHS? Wes Streeting? I think not.
And foreign policy? Who'll be able to take control of the Malayan Emergency? Batang Kali men aren't going to massacre themselves you know. And Korea? I can't see David Lammy wanting to suck up to the Yanks by sending our boys to defend Seoul.
No, Tim, you may be cheered that a man with a suboptimal haircut has achieved a 35% lead in the polls and stands a good chance of putting an end to 12 years of Tory bastardy but until he starts performatively eating sausage and mash with Bisto gravy, washes it down with pints of tepid mild and restyles his missus with a Bessie Braddock makeover, he and his kombucha-quaffing M25-dwelling followers will never have earned the proud name 'Labour'.
Can white men sing the blues?
17:03.
Yeah, yeah.....put apart from standard red tory trolling, let's talk about ISSUES raised by this blog.
Like, y'know, a quarter of the population in poverty, thousands of our most vulnerable citizens likely to die this winter through inflicted hypothermia, blue and red tory promotion of thievery of national assets, sabotage of the Labour Party by Starmer Quislings as exposed by Al Jazeera, Blair/Brown mass murder illegal wars that cost a minimum of £40,000,000,000, inflicted education "fees", cowardly privatisation of the NHS, a country on the verge of disintegration....and that's just for starters.
While you're at it, wipe that white foam of your trolling top lip. It's not a good look.
Only here to help.
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