Infighting on the beaches: behind the scenes of the D-Day debacle
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/infighting-on-the-beaches-behind-the-scenes-of-the-d-day-debacle-6rlvt8nr6
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Infighting on the beaches: behind the scenes of the D-Day debacle
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/infighting-on-the-beaches-behind-the-scenes-of-the-d-day-debacle-6rlvt8nr6
Posted by TheNotoriousJN
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Wow this is a wild article from the Times
The Tory party is now pretty much dead. Farige will likely take the helm after the GE
**He left them on the beaches**
Sums it up perfectly. If Labour wanted to put the boot in, they could just run it as a poster campaign, but I suspect they are going for the high ground as the wheels come off the Tory campaign.
“I’m more patriotic than you!” Who cares just people that want your votes,when we they get down to what’s wrong with the country,cost of living,potholes,welfare wages,crap train system,shitty water in rivers,trying to buy a house at 40 years of age
So let me get this right…..
1) He left the DDay commemoration early, and the public perception (fairly or unfairly) is that he was rushing back to record this interview.
2) Now, there will probably be more interest in this interview than there otherwise would have been because this is what he was doing instead of staying at the commemoration.
3) The interview doesn’t even go well for him, and he’s presented as being a rich guy who’s out of touch.
4) This reinforces the public perception that he’s out of touch, which was recently stoked by him leaving the DDay commemoration early and recording this interview. Which more people will now watch.
It’s like a fucking ouroboros of incompetence.
Summary:
The article “Infighting on the beaches: behind the scenes of the D-Day debacle” by Tim Shipman in The Sunday Times provides an inside look at the events surrounding Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s early return from the D-Day commemorations, which is described as a potential defining mistake of the election campaign.
Key Points:
•Sunak’s interview with ITV’s Paul Brand, where he faced tough questions about his personal wealth, was a concern for his aides leading up to its broadcast.
•However, the real blunder was Sunak’s decision to return home early from the D-Day commemorations, allowing Labour leader Keir Starmer to upstage him by meeting with Presidents Zelensky and Macron.
•This incident revealed cracks in the Conservative campaign under extreme pressure, while Labour appeared more adept at seizing opportunities.
•The decision for Sunak to attend only the British parts of the D-Day events and skip an international event was made weeks ago.
•The D-Day fiasco halted the momentum the Conservatives had gained from Sunak’s performance in the ITV debate against Starmer.
•In a subsequent BBC debate, Tory chiefs urged Penny Mordaunt to take the fight to a subdued Angela Rayner.
The article portrays the D-Day debacle as a significant misstep by the Conservative campaign, allowing Labour to capitalize on the situation and potentially impacting the election outcome.
It was always unclear to me how “itinerary decided weeks ago .. before the election campaign” was compatible with cutting trip short for an interview that’s only taking place because of the election.
This article says that (its buried quite far down) the answer is he was coming back anyway for a manifesto sign-off meeting. That’s why ITV were offered this particular date.
Such a meeting is also election-related but could have been envisaged in the short period before he announced but after he told enough of an inner circle to start writing the manifesto and setting the campaign diary.
Which means the itinerary may have been decided before the public campaign began, but not before Sunak and his team had begun theirs. It’s a weasel form of words, just as was his tease about the second half of the year (oh, july counts, fooled you). He’s so desperate and unpleasant
Unbelievable political faux pas. Regardless of plain decency, how anyone can think this was a sensible decision is beyond me.