Poor little Rishi Sunak. So far, the Tories’ campaign has gone from him doing his best drowned-rat impression to a run in with a well-known supermarket brand. However, the Conservative Party’s general election campaign reached two new lows on Monday 3 June – one of them thanks to an inspired drag by the Lib Dems.
Cruel Britannia
First, eagle-eyed X user Mark Woodward spotted a problem with the Tories new campaign video.
No. It wasn’t every single word of it.
Woodward spotted that the nincompoops at CCHQ had managed to put their old-so loved, repeatedly shagged Union Jack the wrong way up:
What an insult. The Union Jack is upside down in your party political broadcast. Indicates a ship in distress. Well after today's poll, the Tory ship is sinking fast. pic.twitter.com/Cy9vtFC3gm
— Mark Woodward (@Markwmw_02) June 3, 2024
Nuff said, really. Although you do have to wonder whether the Tories’ comms team are doing this all on purpose:
So Rishi Sunak has been photographed with:
– Moron
– The place where the Titanic (a sinking ship) was built
– An exit sign
– And him building a red wall.You can't make this shit up lmfaoooo
Someone is having a right laugh in the campaign department is having a right laugh haha pic.twitter.com/L8qfa1u6JT
— Conor (@PissedOffAutist) May 24, 2024
Next, the infinitely comical (often intentionally during this general election, too) Lib Dems seemingly thought:
We know! Let’s wind things back to some 2013 vibes!
NO! Not us being student-hammering, Tory-enabling shits!
Let’s photobomb Sunak!
However, the real deliciousness of it comes from the fact it seemingly wasn’t planned.
Slick, Cooper. Slick.
Deputy Lib Dem leader Daisy Cooper was taking a general election boating jolly in jolly-good Henley – when she spotted the Tories:
It’s a small world…..This was the moment Lib Dem Deputy Leader Daisy Cooper spotted something was happening at the Leander Club in Henley. She came back later with a boat-load of placard-waving Lib Dems to photobomb Rishi Sunak pic.twitter.com/irN7abe2fJ
— Helen Catt (@BBCHelenCatt) June 3, 2024
Spoiler alert: this journalist was good friends with Daisy Cooper as a teenager – and she’s always been a wily character (in a good way, Daisy – in a good way).
So, not one to miss an opportunity to paint the Lib Dems as the only ones actually enjoying this general election campaign, Cooper performed the pitch-perfect ruination of Sunak’s moment:
Don't think Rishi Sunak was aware that a boat filled with Lib Dems popped up behind him on the campaign trail today…
And I'm pretty sure that's the Lib Dem Deputy Leader, Daisy Cooper on it too… pic.twitter.com/BJhEox9XlQ
— Shehab Khan ITV (@ShehabKhan) June 3, 2024
At the Canary we’re waiting to see what Cooper and the Lib Dems to next.
Running up behind Keir Starmer and giving him a wedgie with his neatly pressed-and-starched tighty whities? (You know that’s what’s going on under those trousers). (And likely all that’s going on, as well).
Laying a trail of strategically-placed banana skins outside of Nigel Farage’s office? Here’s an artist’s impression of what the result of that may look like:
Or maybe – just maybe – the Lib Dems might talk about chronically ill and disabled people – seeing as all the other parties are ignoring them completely. Now, that would be the shock of 2024.
Regardless, it’s the Tories that are coming off worse, day in, day out, during this general election. Highly predictable after 14 years of misery, war, death, privatisation, and corruption, we know. Meanwhile, the clear and present danger is of course Starmer’s Labour Party.
General election: please vote for who you want
If the snivelling centrists at Best for Britain are to be believed, then tactical voting to get the Tories out is CRUCIAL when Labour is predicted to have 485 seats and thus wipe out the Tories, based on polling at the time of writing:
🚨In the face of apocalyptic predictions for the Government, it’s crucial that all of us who are determined to lock them out of power for a decade do not lose touch with reality.
We can't get complacent.
Tactical vote recommendations launching soon at https://t.co/KofceZh5Vi. pic.twitter.com/T4CVJZViKz
— Best for Britain (@BestForBritain) June 3, 2024
Of course, Best for Britain are only saying this nonsense to prop-up their mates in the shiny (old) new right-wing Labour Party – and therefore, the status quo which suits these middle-class, right-leaning liberals:
Deeply cynical behaviour from @BestForBritain.
Now their predictions of a Reform-Tory pact prove wrong, and Farage will help crush the Tories, they will try and harangue people into not voting Green.https://t.co/Q6LhtW0L85
— Owen Jones (@owenjonesjourno) June 3, 2024
So, please ignore these centre-right, establishment stooges and vote for whoever the hell you want – preferably Greens, independents, or if you must, Lib Dem.
The Canary will, starting this week, be featuring interviews with some of the leading independent candidates from across the country – from groups like Collective.
Meanwhile, we leave you with this wide-angle video of the Lib Dem’s Sunak photobomb:
🚨 NEW: Rishi Sunak has been photobombed by the Lib Dems on a boat behind him
Lib Dem source to @StephSpyro: "This is just another small boat Rishi Sunak can’t deal with."
Sunak's team attempted to move him on but it was too latepic.twitter.com/gkcJdtJ7pR
— Politics UK (@PolitlcsUK) June 3, 2024
Sunak probably thought he was safe in upper-class Henley.
No where is a safe seat, Sunak.
No where.
Featured image via the Canary
