The Tory campaign is getting even weirder as polling day closes in. CCHQ have been sending letters to Conservative/Reform target voters in the guise of the recipients writing to themselves in 20 years’ time. The letter urges recipients, some of whom are former Tory members who have cancelled their memberships, not to vote for the Reform party. The two pager starts off:
“Yes, it’s me. Or it’s you, I should say. I’m writing to you from July 2044, twenty years on from the day you voted Reform. I wanted to let you know how it all turned out for you. And for me. Long story short, not well.”
The letter hammers home the supermajority line: “I’ve been living with a Labour supermajority for the last two decades…You wanted to give the Tories a kicking, and I wasn’t alone…But I didn’t want to see them almost wiped out for good.” Not particularly optimistic for the 2029 election…
The letter from the voter’s future self finishes strong: “I made the wrong choice…I’ve got a really strong feeling i’m going to thank you for it twenty years from now…” The clearest indication yet that Reform has the Tories running scared…
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Richard Holden’s campaign is going from bad to worse. It started off on rocky ground when local Tories were furious over the “stitch-up” of the Tory Chairman being parachuted into the rare safe seat last minute – only his name was on the selection list. His team have been fighting hard to secure the seat, managing to send at least 2,500 campaign leaflets to punters in Essex. The only problem is they were sent to the wrong constituency…
It appears there’s been another error from CCHQ, who fumbled the use of Vote Source and sent out thousands of postal leaflets to addresses in Mark Francois’ seat in Rayleigh and Wickford, rather than Basildon & Billericay. Some sources say there could be as many 6,000 Holden leaflets sent to his colleagues’ constituent-hopefuls. To be fair, it’s not the first seat aside from Basildon that Holden’s tried to win…
Bloomberg reports that some Tory candidates were told yesterday that funds and favourable access to party activists were being withdrawn, while “other activists in different parts of Britain would have been told to head to the constituencies of Cabinet ministers seen as under threat.” A less-than-tacit admission that the campaign has retreated to last resort defence…
The situation is worse than it looks. Guido hears as early as the 13th June candidates were informed that their campaign managers, responsible for crucial on-ground operations, were being moved to seats with 10,000+ majorities. Resources were even taken away from Cabinet ministers…
Inside CCHQ fears that the party would return 60-80 seats, which were once dismissed as overly dramatic, are now the expectation. Yesterday’s MRP blitz has hammered that point home…
Speaking at his speech on how to achieve “progressive capitalism” Wes Streeting fired a dig and Andy Burnham:
“Bond markets are not bond villains and fiscal rules matter.”
