Thread 40: Sunak -failure to plan, or planning to fail?

[DuncinToffee]

Or will the fuckitty fuckwits please fuck off

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credits notonthestairs and dontcallmelen

And Andrea Jenkyns? Really? Well best place for her.

I know!! @everybody I know!!!! 😳

Oh dear

Tories delete social media post plugging Britain with a US jet, a Canadian car and a defeated football team | Conservatives | The Guardian

One of the most ridiculous things about this is the football team - the Lionesses would have been a much better choice but presumably too "woke" for the ultra right leaver vote they crave.

Well, tbh, neither is a good choice because neither is British. Twas ever thus.

I see the Daily Fail is still on about Rayner. They have found proof she was lying. The proof is a cushion or something.

Just saw this on Xwitter. Yet more shady goings on from the Conartists.

I just want them gone.

That looks pretty desperate @Spandauer

Yep!
Followed by this. 😡

I hope Hall not only loses, but by a big margin so everyone can see where her kind of lowest common denominator campaigning gets you.

I don't understand why Hall and her supporters think it's sensible to campaign by telling easily disprovable lies. In fact, I don't understand why Hall is a candidate at all. You would think Sunak would have been desperate for someone capable of putting up a decent performance after all those by-election disasters. Does he think they can sit back and let Ulez resentment sweep her into power?

They haven’t got a decent candidate to put up. The decent Tories don’t want to be associated with this iteration.

If I remember rightly, Shaun Bailey used fake County Hall leaflets in his unsuccessful 2021 Mayoral campaign and who can forget LittleLordFauntleroy's Zac Goldsmith's distasteful "specially targeted" leaflets to the South Asian communities in West London in 2016? Still lying through their teeth - all of London and they can't come up with anyone better than Susan Hall? (Thank God)

The problem is some people do believe them. That's what they're counting on.

Boris Johnson should be charged with treason (unlawful suspension of Parliament) and corporate manslaughter (by his inactions there were deaths of government employees and he can be shown to be the controlling mind).

Misconduct in a public office would just be an addition.

My lifelong opposition to the death penalty is the sole reason I don't want him to be hanged.

Most of the ULEZ resentment I suggest is for people who live outside London and travel into it for work. Who have no vote for London Mayor.

There was a thread on this recently (surprise!). Most of the anti ULEZ types did indeed seem no to live in the area and be making things up

Many of the vocal supporters lived in London.

I've never seen evidence of anyone campaigning against the ULEZ scheme here nor do I know of anyone living in my (admittedly somewhat "leafy") London borough who is against it. 90% of petrol cars that are driven in London meet ULEZ standards.
https://tfl.gov.uk/info-for/media/press-releases/2023/march/over-90-per-cent-of-cars-driving-in-outer-london-now-meet-the-ulez-standards

This surely must be illegal?

Also a good way to get people to ignore actual tickets. And I'd find it very stressful if I had one on my car. I'd probably be extremely angry to find it was an advertising con.

I did hear that the parties are having a massive problem getting their message out as noone watches the news or reads MSM as much, plus membership has plummeted. But that really is scraping the bottom of the barrel

I saw a tweet the other day from a Tory candidate claiming how nice it was to meet people in her constituency whilst standing in front of a closed door trying to put a leaflet through the letterbox

I’d be posting it back to the local office without a stamp.

I stayed with my dad for a few months last year and joined some of the local village FB sites for tradesmen and road traffic updates. I can confirm that the Biggin Hill group was spectacularly anti ULEZ - I'd say 90% of the posts were laughing at the signs being sprayed over, vandalism to the cameras and general bad mouthing the scheme because they had to drive their diesel vans in to London for work. I had to leave the group because it was so aggressively male I decided I didn't want any of them in my dad's house!

The bookmakers seem fairly sure who will win.

https://www.paddypower.com/politics/uk-london-mayoral-election