I know I have said before and will boringly say again, my first active election was in 1959. As a Young Conservative I\u00a0delivered leaflets, canvassed, spoke at meetings as a warm up for the star and on polling day took, in my rather draughty car which was older than I\u00a0was,\u00a0 the elderly, the transport-less and the stragglers to the polling station. Every hour I reported to the local committee room about who had voted and who had not. So, although times have changed and so have I, I do know a little bit about how elections are run. And I can say without a moment’s hesitation that the Tory Party’s current campaign, which seems to have been hijacked by their leader as a personal ego trip, is so bad that it is not only beyond belief but it is also beyond comprehension.<\/p>\n
I do not see how Theresa May, who cannot even write a coherent manifesto, who has done no costings of it, or Brexit, or the hard Brexit which really turns her lights on and makes her eyes shine, either in money or jobs or growth or human misery, how on earth she can be re-elected leader of our country. But I have only one vote.<\/p>\n
Be assured it will not be cast for her. I have increasing confidence that I\u00a0am not alone. The\u00a0latest poll has cut her lead from\u00a025 to 3. Not far to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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