By Phil Twitterfeeds
SINKING in the polls and led by a Prime Minister disliked by 52% in a recent survey, the new Labour Government is about as popular as an arrow through the neck with a gas bill attached.
Having gone after pensioners, farmers, businesses, Council Tax- payers and then flaying anyone with grooming gang concerns as being on the “far-right bandwagon”, you would think now might be the time for wiser heads in the Party to give urgent reconsideration of its election promises?
Not a bit of it…
Apparently, the word coming down from the top to local members in Cumbria is that the Party’s plummeting popularity is all the fault of, er, you know who.
A new Labour Party “memo” seen by the Chronic and sent out from a regional office blames the “Media and right-wing forces” for undermining the Government and “Stirring up division”.
The finger is firmly pointed at Reform UK and “toxic Tommy Robinson supporters,” as well as other “Hard right” factions.
(Let’s face it, that could include anyone these days including your life-long Labour-loving Nana who insists on keeping her coal fire and enjoys watching Jeremy Clarkson.)
The purpose of the memo to local members in Cumbria is to join the fight back in the sewers of social media by joining the Party’s so-called “Digital Rapid Response Team”.
The DRRT is not just about increasing the number of tweets, likes and posts glowingly supportive of Labour and the Government’s general all-round amazingness, it’s about: “Beating back the hard right and shifting the narrative,” or so huffs the memo.
“We need an army of digital leaders,” the Unchurchillian-like letter implores. “People who are brave enough to step into the tough, vicious online battleground and push back. People who will stand up for Labour’s values, challenge disinformation and make sure our message is louder, stronger and clearer than the hate and division.
“If you have a SmartPhone you’re halfway there. What we now need is your voice, your courage and your commitment to something bigger than all of us. This won’t be easy but it’s how we win.”
Every Party in Government gets an endless kick up the arse from the public every day. But having not held office since 2010, it’s quite possible, that the Party’s young generation of sensitive social media gurus have never known what it’s like when the wind blows the other way and you’re the one in Government getting dogs abuse.
Could it possibly be that the Party has sprinkled its memo with the trigger word of “far right” – to try and galvanise its quieter, older members into action on their phones?
Like the Tories – who could never acknowledge the electoral damage and disenchantment that they were causing – all political parties seem to have a built-in blindspot for their own failures and have to find a bogeyman to deflect attention away.
This inward-looking, blinkered view only ever results in voters being driven into the open arms of other parties as a punishment vote. The rise of Reform UK is a symptom of political resentment in this country, not the cause of the disease. (See Memo…Failure To Deal With Menace Of).
As a local Labour supporter tells the Chronic…the Party should have foreseen the shit storm coming its way with some of the wildly unpopular decisions it has defended.
In the Chronic’s far-off rural parts, the Winter Fuel Payment clawback has predictably bombed as has the farming tax grab.
Cumbrians with no background in agriculture possess a dog-like devotion to the landscape and the hard graft of local farmers.
And only those due for a long enforced minibreak at the Loony Left Funny Farm want to be seen on their friends’ social media timelines defending the Government’s approach to, er, rape gangs.
As our friend seethed: “What flies in north London doesn’t bloody fly in north Cumbria!”
So for Number 10 to now ask loyal local foot soldiers to go into bat on behalf of the PM is a “bit bloody rich”, he huffs.
Bloody was not the word he used.
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