All four candidates have been desperately trying to win over the members with all sorts of shiny merch. Tom had Tugend-TAN, Kemi had “There’s no BAD in Badenoch” mugs (whatever that means), and Cleverly had “power to the members” portable chargers. Jenrick stuck to the simple baseball cap with the words: “We Want Bobby J” written on it. If only he knew what that meant…
Turns out those fans wearing the hats are asking for a little more than they may have bargained for. Bobby J is actually slang for something else, according to Urban Dictionary:
Maybe his team should have done a little more research before making the caps the flagship merch of the campaign. Or perhaps they did…
Lucy Powell on LBC, asked by Tom Swarbrick for her reaction to Labour MP Samantha Niblett’s call for a ‘summer of sex’ debate in Parliament: “I personally don’t own any sex toys, but each to their own… I’m not really sure that’s the right place for it, no.”
