From a \u2018Downing Street Party\u2019 to a \u2018drowning\u2019 Conservative Party. An electoral expert has predicted that the Conservatives would lose “hundreds” of seats in today’s general election due to Boris Johnson and his team\u2019s recent controversies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sir John Curtice, writing for The Independent, predicted that the Conservatives would suffer significant losses in the first major poll since the Partygate incident made headlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, the leader of one grassroots Tory group said that resentment with the No 10 parties, compounded by concerns over growing living expenses, resulted in the party’s members remaining at home on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPeople most affected by lockdown \u2013 those who missed weddings and funerals \u2013 still consider it a scandalous disgrace, and now they are feeling the impact of higher taxes and energy costs as well,\u201d said John Strafford, head of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe renewed \u2018partygate\u2019 focus has made an indigent situation for the \u201cConservatives\u201d even worse by persuading even more Conservative adherents not to turn out at the local elections,\u201d verbally expressed pollster Martin Baxter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThe results could now be lamentable for Boris Johnson, especially if the Conservatives lose many hundreds of council seats and key flagship councils like Wandsworth or Westminster,\u201d he perpetuated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It follows claims from Angela Rayner that Tory election candidates are ashamed to be linked with the prime minister, by running as \u201clocal Conservatives\u201d and pleading with voters not to \u201cpunish\u201d them for the Partygate scandal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt speaks volumes that Boris Johnson\u2019s own Conservative candidates are ashamed to be associated with him and trying to pull the wool over voters\u2019 eyes,\u201d Labour\u2019s deputy leader said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On Thursday, a huge portion of the British and Irish people will vote to determine the near future of local politics in the United Kingdom, with concerns such as the Northern Ireland protocol, Partygate, and the Channel Migrant Crisis likely to influence who voters support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A slew of other crises \u2014 including one Tory MP being convicted of child sex offences, another leaping to his MP’s defence and calling the conviction a “miscarriage of equity,” and another discovered to have watched porn in parliament \u2014 are unlikely to help Boris Johnson, who is also said to have a weather ocular perceiver on potential coup attempts arising from within his own party.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
From a \u2018Downing Street Party\u2019 to a \u2018drowning\u2019 Conservative Party. An electoral expert has predicted that the Conservatives would lose “hundreds” of seats in today’s general election due to Boris … <\/p>\n