We all know that the Tories are bankrolled by a rogue's gallery of right-wing billionaires and that they're awash with cash for this general election right?

We also know that they have absolute contempt for the electoral rules after they deliberately misdeclared expenses at the 2015 general election don't we?

We also know the increasingly important role big data is playing in elections, and how psychological profiling and targeted social media adverts helped to swing the EU referendum and the 2016 US election right?

Tory dark ads

Well what the Tories have been up to during the 2017 general election is absolutely shocking. They've been creating all kinds of fearmongering shock adverts, paying Facebook to target them at people, and refusing to provide examples to the Electoral Commission of what they've been sending out.

What is worse is that in the days before the voter registration deadline they used their secretive dark ads to deliberately undermine a young adult voter registration drive, by replacing the voter registration adverts with their own nasty smear jobs on Jeremy Corbyn.

   "It was always going to be the case that the polls would narrow during the course of the campaign, as Labour's policies received greater media exposure, but the YouGov poll implies that public opinion is more volatile."

It sounds almost as though the Guardian, which has been denigrating Corbyn since his election as Labour leader nearly two years ago (along with the rest of the British media), does not want him to win. Let's put that another way. It's almost as though Britain's only supposedly left-liberal newspaper would prefer that May and the Conservatives won. This, let us remind ourselves, is the same Conservative party that has made the once-surging, far-right UKIP party largely redundant by adopting many of its ugliest policies.

It's because by not being mediagenic and still getting voter registration without their blessing he makes them look like the out-of-touch, biased fools they are.
He takes back the power they insisted on controlling, making them come to him now so they don't come across as even more irrelevant.
Media has been used to influence old voters to vote for middle-aged politicians.
Now young people sign up in droves for an elderly man, in spite of the MSM's best efforts to smear him into oblivion.
The increasing terrorist attacks make her look weak, her efforts to diminish Corbyn make her look petty and unsportsmanlike, and she has no disarming charm to elegantly play the overdog, reverting to rabid at every opportunity, (when the public love the underdog).
Her cowardice in not debating Corbyn flies in the face of her 'strong' image, and her wobbly meltdowns when interviews have gone internationally viral, making the 'stable' pitch ludicrous.
I wish Corbyn would attack her for her flagrant conflict of interest with her husband's financing arms deals which she helped broker, and her appalling handling of Libya as Foreign Secretary, (the shenanigans with the 'Manchester Boys').

Then we'd see some serious sparks fly.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty