Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

Reform wants the Tories destroyed

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issue 08 June 2024

There was a very excitable young man on Sky News last week, talking about the Sky/YouGov MRP poll which suggested that the vast majority of Conservative MPs would lose their seats on 4 July and that those who didn’t would be stung to death by invasive killer Asian hornets which, reputedly, can eat up to 50 Tories in a single day. This would leave the Labour party and the unimaginably ghastly Ed Davey with the sort of majority reminiscent of those regularly recorded in the USSR or Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.

They are looking for their pound of flesh from a party they believe has gone awry and reneged on principle

‘This is a poll of such staggering consequences that all of us will remember exactly where we were and what we were doing when its results were made public exclusively on Sky News. In a sense it is much more important than the general election itself, because it tells us what might have happened if people voted the way we have suggested they will vote,’ he didn’t quite say, but came close to on a couple of occasions.

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