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This could be the death knell for the Tory party. The over-50 early retirement crowd is squarely in their voter group. Calling them out in the blame-game of a
by binarymax 4y ago
This could be the death knell for the Tory party. The over-50 early retirement crowd is squarely in their voter group. Calling them out in the blame-game of a failing economy is a perfect way to turn your own voters against you. Well done.
- smcl 4y agoI thought they had already signed their own death warrant after the Truss mini-budget debacle. I don’t know what it looks like now, but at the time polling suggested they’d lose so many seats there was a real possibility they’d be the third party, with Labour having a huge majority and SNP as the opposition
- ben_w 4y agoThe Truss era polling put them forth, after both the SNP and the LibDems; since then their polling has been upgraded from "existential crisis" to "disastrous". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_U... Edit: 4th by seats, not by percentage of the votes, given FPTP.
- smcl 4y agoOh you're right, I must have forgotten how low they sank at their worst.
- pharmakom 4y agoI don’t think they will make the link. “Everyone should stop being a lazy retiree but I’m not a lazy retiree because I worked hard all my life!”
- Drunk_Engineer 4y agoThis Spitting Image sketch never gets old: https://www.facebook.com/inmynewsfeed/videos/stupid-voters-spitting-image/1147529021924342/ https://www.facebook.com/inmynewsfeed/videos/stupid-voters-s...