Post Aj4BOWeK6nDlcyQpFY by ChrisWere@toot.wales
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 (DIR) Post #Aj3omIflQZKqHeTOTY by ianb@mastodon.well.com
       2024-06-18T18:39:17Z
       
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       I'm watching the Tory party election broadcast on BBC 1 and... I swear the footage is recorded in SD. It looks like it was recorded on someone's Nokia phone from 1998, it's that pixelated. Also I have no idea who she is but she sounds like a student politician. This is just amateur hour.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj3omJlpLVmNgkJkZ6 by ChrisWere@toot.wales
       2024-06-18T18:40:21Z
       
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       @ianb The Welsh one was just on with Andrew RT Davies (not an MP). He was just blithering in front of a green screen, very low effort from the Tories.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj3s2TNPhJjZyfIEfQ by ianb@mastodon.well.com
       2024-06-18T19:16:53Z
       
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       @ChrisWere Have they run out of money?
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj3sIgt3EbC8VopC0e by ChrisWere@toot.wales
       2024-06-18T19:19:48Z
       
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       @ianb Knowing them, they're probably pocketing it all. Grabbing everything from CCHQ that isn't nailed down before the party implodes.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj4BOV2M6TFwcvezQm by JdeBP@mastodon.scot
       2024-06-18T19:28:27Z
       
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       @ianb @ChrisWere Apparently … yes.  The rumour mill has it that donors aren't wanting to throw their money away over a foregone conclusion.So this is what the CUP would look like without its rich backers: dreadfully incompetent national election materials from people who cannot even pick a decent selection of stock art in a word processor, and incoherent local campaigns.Could be worse, though.  They could have paid cowboys to not vet their candidates.#UKPolitics #Tory #UKGeneralElection
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj4BOWAXtVOy8cV2ps by stuart@social.brainsys.com
       2024-06-18T22:43:46Z
       
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       @JdeBP @ianb @ChrisWereWatched the Tory party political broadcast tonight. Laura Trott (I kid you not) recording of a speech given to an audience somewhere sometime. No eye contact to camera. References to some visuals that were out of sight and hence made no sense. Production cost zero and it showed.The Tories have always been able to outspend everyone else and attract the best advertising talent. No more it seems.No money, no talent, no vision.I'm an actual fan of the Labour campaign of not distracting people from viewing the imploding meltdown. What worries me is the Tories ceding the right to Reform leaving the centre-right vacuum to Labour leaving LD in the centre and a mere 2 or 3 Green MPs as an unviable new left.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj4BOWeK6nDlcyQpFY by ChrisWere@toot.wales
       2024-06-18T22:53:41Z
       
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       @stuart @JdeBP @ianb Although it's highly unlikely, the Lib Dems could come out with 70 seats to the Tory's 60 and the Lib Dems (and friends) could reinvent themselves as the new UK left, in opposition to a massive Labour government.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj4Eu78umDDHeKUjoW by stuart@social.brainsys.com
       2024-06-18T23:33:04Z
       
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       @ChrisWere @JdeBP @ianbMaybe. But I'm not sure the LibDems DNA would permit a radical change. They got a little more left when they absorbed the Social Democrats gang of four but soon reverted to type after Charles resigned. Plus the age demographic compared to the younger Greens means the latter will always be more radical making them uncomfortable bedfellows. But the LibDems can organise on limited resources which means their seat/vote ration is so great.But who can anticipate how such a broad collection of Opposition parties from far right to perhaps not as quite far left will work without a real dominant member? I anticipate it will be a mess each vying to be the real opposition fighting each other rather than the government.
       
 (DIR) Post #Aj4FxuJEX88axXh4hk by ChrisWere@toot.wales
       2024-06-18T23:45:00Z
       
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       @stuart The Lib Dems are - as I understand it - a fully democratic party internally when it comes to policy, even to the point where you can watch their plenary sessions on BBC Parliament if you have no life, lol.A leftest surge to the Lib Dems could easily swing the party out left with some decent organisation and a little time.Admittedly a very long shot, and easier said than done, but it's a thought.