I went to a 'manifesto blind tasting*' event yesterday and someone brought along a box of these trojan Tory election campaign leaflets.
They're styled in the same way as a normal Tory leaflet, but the info on them is anti-Tory.
I especially like the line:
'Elected in 2010 on a promise to ensure that the whole county has Superfast Broadband. We are still waiting'.
I've never seen this sort of thing before: the trojan campaign leaflet, but it must be quite common.
Anyway, it amused me hugely and I couldn't help but grab a few with the intention of going and shoving them through a few local letter boxes.
It probably won't make any difference to outcome of the election. My Hereford constituency is quite firmly Brexit which means the Torys are almost certainly going to get elected.
But at least I can wind a few Torys up between now and then.
*The blind tasting was pretty interesting - a bunch of us were presented with 50 policy snippets without knowing which party proposed them, and we discussed and voted on our top policies.
We ended up with four green policies and one conservative policy as our top five - somewhat unsurprising given the huge green party representation at the event.
This is pretty much the only engagement I've had with this election campaign. I can't see the point in getting involved heavily, the Tory victory is a foregone conclusion and it's just too depressing paying attention to it. Today's Daily Mail content was particularly offensively pro-Tory.
I comfort myself in the knowledge that nation state politics is largely irrelevant to solving most of our local and global problems anyway. So whoever wins, it's a total anachronism.
