Sounds like he and his party are scared because they are having a gaffe-ridden campaign launch... and that they don’t have a good reason to be elected.

Cleverley has to be one of the most ironically-named politicians.

Kay Burley's fuming on Sky News at present as James Cleverley's in their building for an interview but refusing to come on after he's seen her questions. They're showing an empty chair lol.

 

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Cleverley is doing a fantastic job this morning

 

 

Cleverley has to be one of the most ironically-named politicians.

 

 

Well to be fair neither he nor his parents could choose his surname.

Well to be fair neither he nor his parents could choose his surname.

 

I think it's really funny how Tories criticise Diane Abbott so much when they have HIM. :lol: Such an embarrassment.

I think it's really funny how Tories criticise Diane Abbott so much when they have HIM. :lol: Such an embarrassment.

 

 

Well maybe he can add up. :D

Well maybe he can add up. :D

 

Don't bank on it, dear. That man doesn't know his arse from a hole in the ground.

 

I hope the time Sky would have devoted to the interview with Notso Cleverly counts towards their coverage of the Tory campaign. We've already seem Mogg potentially being barred from the television studios. I assume the next step will be for the Tories to issue a list of ministers broadcasters are allowed to interview.

Kay Burley's fuming on Sky News at present as James Cleverley's in their building for an interview but refusing to come on after he's seen her questions. They're showing an empty chair lol.

 

From context, I assume he's a Tory...

I hope the time Sky would have devoted to the interview with Notso Cleverly counts towards their coverage of the Tory campaign. We've already seem Mogg potentially being barred from the television studios. I assume the next step will be for the Tories to issue a list of ministers broadcasters are allowed to interview.

 

 

 

Now he says he was doing an interview with someone else in the Sky studios at the exact same time so someone's lying. :rolleyes:

Yes. It's Cleverley. Possibly. He did show his schedule but that could also have been doctored.

 

But let's not focus on Tory spin, because it's far better to watch them self destruct instead, getting called out for doctoring media footage, getting called out for horrific comments about Grenfell, their Universal Credit lying about poor people coming to light today, it just highlights what a bunch of heartless, incompetent morons are at the top of the party and anyone with any sense is not believing or taking heed of a word they say.

Yes. It's Cleverley.

 

But let's not focus on Tory spin, because it's far mto watch them self destruct instead, getting called out for doctoring media footage, getting called out for horrific comments about Grenfell, it just highlights what a bunch of heartless, incompetent morons are at the top of the party and anyone with any sense is not believing or taking heed of a word they say.

 

 

Let's see what these gaffes do to the opinion polls then. Could be interesting. Tories still between 8 and 10 points ahead in latest ones.

Meanwhile, in actual good common sense response to recent events: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comment...u_whats_common/

 

Opinion polls may not show a whole lot of movement initially because most of the publicity is on Tory gaffes and little else, there's been Swinson and the Lib Dem graphs but Labour have been pretty controversy-free. It'll trend off the 'no publicity is bad publicity' rule for a while.

 

However this is very reminiscent of how 2017 went so far (i.e. it wasn't just that May was inept at running an election campaign, it's the entire top end of the Tories who are inept at doing so), so we might see a narrowing in a week or two should this continue.

Once Boris gets out on the campaign trail though we should see a huge Tory surge.

Pleaase ban the troll. He knows fine well Tories COLLAPSE and don't increase.

Pleaase ban the troll. He knows fine well Tories COLLAPSE and don't increase.

 

 

This election is different. May wasn't a campaigner but Boris is and won the Mayoral election in London twice.

FYI...

 

Seats that would be lost on <5% swing :

 

Con 67 seats

Lab 53 seats

SNP 29 seats

LD 8 seats

 

Seats that could be won on a 5% swing :

 

Con 59 seats

Lab 78

SNP 16

LD 9

 

I can do the calculation for a 10% swing too, if anyone is interested?

Incredible how marginal the seats are in Scotland.

 

Statistically, the SNP don't have a single safe seat, but in reality I'll be extremely surprised if they lose a single seat.

Lady Sylvia Hernon has announced that she's not running for her North Down seat this year. She's one of the few MPs in recent times to have been elected as an independent - she was originally elected as a UUP MP, but became independent in 2010, and has been re-elected at each GE since.

North Down is now very likely to be a DUP gain but hopefully that will be balanced out in at least one of the Belfast seats, as well as Foyle getting a sitting MP.

Incredible how marginal the seats are in Scotland.

 

Statistically, the SNP don't have a single safe seat, but in reality I'll be extremely surprised if they lose a single seat.

Think there’s a couple of extremely vulnerable seats like Perth and NE Fife the SNP will lose to eejit remain supporting unionists caring more about the SNP than stopping Brexit