The trouble with that and other articles like it (and I rate Oborne, btw) is that people dont care...or, rather, they wont care enough about it to stop them voting Johnson and his party in. This is not an election, it's being used and viewed as a referendum.
That's staggered me, tbh, because I never thought it would be taken that way. The media, of course, are repsonsible for creating the weariness over Brexit. But nothing will shift the dial here now: not the NHS, not Riussian scandals, not Johnson and his lamentable behaviour. Most people intending to vote Tory to get Brexit out of the way probably know that the next 5 years will be a massive gamble with their lives in terms of standards of living and health issues. They'll still vote for them though. That's how much of a national sickness this is. It's a vote that's done on a wholly negative basis. There's no other circumstances in which a Tory party headed by that dishonest imbecile and the policies they're peddling would ever persuade 40%+ of the electorate to vote for them. People have been pummelled into the ground over it in the most cynical of ways, and the type of radical boost to the economy and health, education and welfare system that's called for now will have to wait at least another 5 years. It's an utter tragedy.
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