Election Thoughts

 I’m such a suspicious person that I’m sure they are doing it on purpose.

The betting on the date of the election scandal rolls on. At least 4 people from the Conservative Party and one policeman, who was working as a protection officer have been identified by the betting commission. The police officer has been suspended but ‘no action will be taken’ regarding the MPs until after the enquiry and, conveniently, they say, the betting commission have told them they can't talk about it. 

Now, call me naive but no one can really be that bad at politics during an election campaign, can they? 

 But what if the only way of winning an election was to dupe the voting public into thinking that the other party are going to win every seat so that if you want the current government out then you don’t need to bother to vote? They wouldn’t do that would they? 

Whatever you want to happen there will be some Conservative MPs and this is no time for complacency. These dodgy tactics have arisen because since Nigel Farrage (or Farridge if you are from Essex because he says his name rhymes with garage) there are now two credible parties on the right compared to the four on the left. This balance has spooked them. It used to be one against four.

The Daily Mail are on board with this tactic and have gone with a headline that warns against the disaster of a Starmer super majority. The splash talks about how a wild imbalance threatens the democracy of the country, which they didn’t comment on in 2019. 

However, the reform party are using this as a selling point, explaining that by voting for them people can destroy the conservatives majority. 

I’m expecting the Prime Minister’s next comment to be some kind of Brechtian twist where he suggests that the government dissolves the people and elects some new ones. 

It all feels quite surreal at this stage of the election campaign. 

The Long Suffering Husband and I planning to go to our local election hustings tonight. It’s a safe Conservative seat in a place that voted for Brexit, with a long standing MP who lives in the town and works quite hard and is being challenged by Reform in a way that from the posters might make you think they have support until you look more closely and see how they have been annotated. Labour is the party that is second in the polls, which always surprises me, as there are never any Labour posters. We are looking forward to some lively debate. 

Please don’t tell me that I don’t know how to have a good time.