The fall of the Tory party

Yes, General Election day.

Yes, but I can't imagine that Labour wouldn't have different plans based on many election dates and are just waiting for the date to be announced.

And from Sunak's view, how will his funders be reacting to the polls that are going around at the moment? Seems like they might think that they could be throwing good money after bad?

I'd like to think that the Tories will try concentrate on fighting Farage (2016 repeated) rather than on going toe to toe with Labour.

The day after International Labour/Workers Day would be a bold flex

Bob Selley on Newsnight was spectacular. But not in a good way.

Didn't he have to give up his green card. Will it be as easy for him to just up and fuck off now?

Also I doubt labour could be caught off guard. Starmer has had labour on an election footing for almost two years now.

Will it be as easy for him to just up and fuck off now?

Yeah, he's fucking rich and can buy another one if anyone is bothered about him not having one.

Another 9months to give a few more government contracts to Infosys and his wife's other businesses is probably worth hanging on for.

Was told on client call yesterday that many charity sector policy and campaigners teams are expecting the GE date to be set depending on reaction to the early budget.

Thank you for this information.

Labour has managed to sneak its Sunak attack ads onto Conservative Home:

https://conservativehome.com/

I do'nt have much time for 'bants' in politics but this is pretty funny.

The general mood that the Conservatives will lose the election (whenever it is) heavily has the feeling that it might be them pushing it. Then they can say "it wasn't as bad as most predicted" when they do lose anyway or sneak a hung parliament or something.

That cannot be real?

Is it all spoof?

Nope, it's the real conservativehome website - pal of mine wrote for it a few months back, it's the same one. Not the official tory website but it's very much affiliated.

May 2nd? As in the date?

Yes the date - she's not having another go is she 🤔

Tory with a conscience??

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-67895246

Conservative MP Chris Skidmore says he will stand down as an MP next week in protest at plans to issue more oil and gas licences.

The former minister said he was resigning as a Tory MP ahead of a vote on a bill on Monday that would guarantee annual licensing rounds.

The move will trigger a by-election in his Kingswood seat in Gloucestershire.

He added his constituents deserved a new MP after his "personal decision" not to continue as a Tory MP.

#rep

https://nitter.net/bmay/status/1580281365899096065#m

jeez - i totally didn't believe this and had to go and google to check it was the actual conservativehome website. which it does appear to be.

the actual articles on it make it even harder to believe it is real. beyond parody.

Was it allowed to happen for a reason? I sell ads for a living and this sort of thing doesn't happen by accident.

My guess was that Conservative Home outsource their advertising to a third party which handles multiple websites, which didn't check the appropriateness for Conservative Home in particular. Is that possible?

Not only is it still there but it repeats itself as you scroll down and sits as a pop up banner at the bottom as you scroll.
It seems to repeat itself more than when I first looked.

It’s all over the daily Mail website as well :)

It’s available on open exchange via programmatic DSPs.

Anyone with access to the marketplace can put whatever they want on there, as long as it passes the DSPs safety checks etc.

The site can block individual tags on the bidstream but only after the fact.

Dont think it even matters when you are that rich or have the money his wife does.

In the hall of RC+ primary school we have the kids tennis classes, I noticed a big pinboard dedicated to "British Values".

The boxes were:

• Democracy,
  
• the rule of law,
  
• individual liberty and
  
• mutual respect and tolerance.
  
  

I couldn't help but think what a stark contrast they were to the current and recent governments.