Former Olympian standing in Colchester adds: ‘If one of my teammates got caught for cheating they’d be dead to me’
On July 4th Britain goes to the polls in an election which is likely to put the Conservative (or Tory) government out of its 14 year misery.
The Conservative Party has conducted what has to be one of the most hysterically inept campaigns of the past 50 years.
The latest wrinkle is that some Tories, including people in Prime Minister Rishi Sunak's circle, are part of a gambling scandal which used apparent insider information to place bets on the timing of the election.
In a highly ironic touch, a 2018 ad by the Conservative Party with the theme "don't gamble with Labour" was recently rediscovered.
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Things are so bad for the Conservatives that one of their own candidates called his party a "shower of shit".
James Cracknell, who is standing to be a Conservative MP, has called the Tories a “shower of shit”, in a video he posted on Facebook. The former Olympic rower, who is the Conservative candidate for the key Labour target of Colchester, said: “Two weeks out from the Olympics, if we are competing against the Conservative party my teammates and I would be saying they are a shower of shit. “And if one of my teammates got caught for cheating they’d be dead to me. That abuse of trust is unforgivable.” His comments emerged over the weekend as more allegations surfaced that Tory candidates and officials bet on the date of the general election before Rishi Sunak announced it.
The election is Thursday July 4th. That's a national holiday in the US, but I would recommend to my fellow Americans to catch live UK election coverage on the BBC (or wherever) online after viewing the traditional fireworks displays. This will be one for the history books. And if things go as expected, it will be fun to hear reporters and analysts run out of adjectives when describing the election results.
