Tory Wets Ramp Up Anti-Trump Activism Ahead of Election
With just hours to go until polls close in the US presidential election, wet Tories have gone into overdrive in their anti-Trump fervour. Ex-Tory leader William Hague has been busy promoting his latest Times opinion piece on Trump titled “We all need him to lose.” Wannabe-Oxford Chancellor Hague pours pro-Labour rhetoric into his impassioned defence of Kamala:
“Isn’t Britain’s new government influenced, in its ambitions for renewable energy and deficit spending to fund public investment, by the confidence of the Biden administration in pursuing those goals? Wasn’t the ill-fated Tory mini-budget of two years ago based on a misreading of Reagan’s tax-cutting agenda all those years ago? Whatever our past affiliations, we should all be Democrats.”
This is echoing arch-wets like erstwhile Tory minister Robert Buckland, who defended Labour’s volunteer campaign for Kamala and said: “I feel that the record of Donald Trump in the presidency is an affront to those who believe in traditional Republicanism.” Meanwhile anyone who wants to talk to podcaster Rory Stewart can barely get a word in between his pro-Harris bleating…
Hague’s tweet of his own article has been seen 1.2 million times. He wrongly claims “no American voter is likely to be influenced by our views” in Britain. There are of course around 200,000 American citizens who can and do vote in US federal elections like this one. Emily Maitlis reckons Taylor Swift’s endorsement of Harris has “fundemantally changed the race” – Hague must have figured his heroic intervention would have a similar effect…
