‘Judge us on our record’ says Amber Rudd. Whoever created this poster did just that

Last Updated: June 1, 2017By

Random anti-Conservative posters have started appearing across London, including the one pictured above. They stand as a sharp response to Amber Rudd’s appeal on the BBC election debate yesterday (May 31) to “Judge us on our record”.

Ms Rudd is to be applauded for turning up, two days after the death of her father – but the studio audience laughed at her for suggesting we should vote Conservative, based on their record of systematically abusing disabled people, spectacularly missed economic targets, the longest fall in wages since records began, NHS cuts, austerity, child poverty, secret courts, contempt for human rights… The list goes on and on but you can read a good summary here.

She managed to squeeze four outright lies into her first 34 seconds of speaking in the debate – as this article explains.

Theresa May – who should have been at the debate but laughed off all criticism of her failure to attend, saying she preferred to go out into the country, meet very small groups of pre-approved Tory voters, and answer their questions rather than those of the electorate-at-large – was roundly criticised by other party leaders apart from Jeremy Corbyn, who chose to rise above such derision. Perhaps he was thinking of Mrs May’s own attacks on him, and her predecessor Margaret Thatcher’s comments about such attacks:

https://twitter.com/SKZCartoons/status/870010105114361856

The tweeting public were less kind:

(Personally, I think Mrs May will get her sanction on June 8, but the sentiment is understandable.)

The right-wing press has reacted to the drubbing in the most predictable way possible:

https://twitter.com/JosieLong/status/870038853981282305

What the Mail‘s writers perhaps haven’t realised is that the audience was picked independently of the BBC, by the ComRes polling company.

If the balanced group was jeering criticism of Jeremy Corbyn, it’s because the nation at large supports him.

Perhaps that’s hard for the Mail – and the Guido Fawkes blog – to take but Paul Mason gets it right in his tweet:

All the Mail has achieved with its headline is a further consolidation of support for Mr Corbyn and Labour.

The public have had enough of the Conservatives, who lie to cover up their failures and try to fool us into supporting further fails.

We want honest politics.

That’s why we’ll be voting Labour on June 8.

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3 Comments

  1. NMac June 1, 2017 at 10:59 am - Reply

    Everything the Tories say and do reinforces the slogan JC4PM.

  2. Zippi June 1, 2017 at 12:27 pm - Reply

    “Ms Rudd is to be applauded for turning up, two days after the death of her father.” While this is admirable, she should not have had to. My understanding is that this was the £eaders’ Debate. Where was her leader? Amber Rudd should have been allowed to grieve in private, not have her business made the subject of an election campaign. Theresa May should be ashamed, for putting Ms. Rudd in that position. If she [Theresa May] was hoping to engender sympathy, or show strength in crisis, she has failed to convince me.
    Re: The Mail saying the Jeremy Corbyn treats taxpayers’ money like Monopoly money; the Tories treat it like real money and steal it!
    £eft Wing audience(!) The people of this country are waking up, at last!

    • Mike Sivier June 1, 2017 at 1:20 pm - Reply

      I do agree that Ms Rudd shouldn’t have been there and her private affairs shouldn’t have become a public issue.
      On Theresa May’s absence, Martin Odoni has written very well about it on his blog, and I’ll be doing an article linking to it shortly.

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