Two days leftbefore the UK changes leadership (or not). Labour leader Keir Starmer and Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak are in the final stages of their election campaigns.
In opinion polls, Labour has a 20-point lead (41%-21%) over the Conservatives.
Sunak who will have a very busy day today, will conclude it with a rally in London. He will try again to impress his voters with his main fear: a Labour “supermajority”.
He was actually trying to make a pun by characterizing Starmer – Sir Sleepy (ss Starmer has the title Sir), but it didn’t work.
However, Sunak denies he failed to campaign properly.
“An election is a choice, it’s a choice between different parties and my view is that if we are to believe the polls and Labour wins a big majority, that will make them uncontrollable, they will overtax us and increase immigration,” he told a rally.
Sunak also seemed enthusiastic about his campaign, despite the polls not changing in his favor. “My job is to focus on the bottom line. To explain to people that if I am enough lucky you continue as Prime Minister, which is what I intend to do for them.”
In a taste of British phlegm, Professor John Curtis told the BBC that “lightning is more likely to strike twice in the same place” than Sunak winning the election.
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Starmer calls for a “strong mandate”.
The Labour leader will make three more stops across the country. The Keir Starmer he said a large Labour majority would be good for Britain and called for a strong majority.
“The most important thing is to grow the economy and create wealth,” he says. “I think that’s been the Achilles heel for the past 13 years.”
“It’s the change of mindset that we talk about. Do we need a strong mandate for this? Yes, we do. Because these changes are difficult and the feeling that the whole country wants these changes is important.”
The bigger the majority, the better. “Better for the country. Because it means we can roll up our sleeves and get on with the change we need.”
A toast to Farage
Meanwhile, Nigel Farage’s Reform UK party often tries to “spot” various errors or mistakes by its (and sometimes its) candidates.
The Times has openly reported—although without much variety– comments by Robert Smith, the party’s candidate, which included insults against women, including former Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, Harry Potter author JK Rowling and European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde.
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Smith called Lagarde a “globalist bitch” and said Rowling was a “savage bitch”. He also said the rainbow symbol used on NHS support posters during the Covid-19 pandemic was “the new swastika”.
In a 2016 post, Smith said of Sturgeon: “After the great David Attenborough legitimised calls for political leaders to be shot, why don’t we start with this bitch?” In 2020, he called her a “stupid, scary bitch”.
Farage has previously apologised for candidates who “should never have been there”. But…