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Date: 2022-11-29 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-29 01:52 pm (UTC)Lord Ashcroft is a Tory, so Tory he was deputy chairman of the party and sat as a Tory peer.
Why the hell should anyone trust that these polls aren't, well, total lies?
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Date: 2022-11-29 02:07 pm (UTC)And basically because although he is definitely a Tory he has an interest in accurate information because he seems to be not an idiot (being from the "making a lot of money in business" side of things rather than the "inherited a fortune and has no idea how the world works" side of things), and realises that *most of the time* if you want to succeed you need to understand what is actually going on. And also because he knows that if it is discovered that his polls aren't accurate that he will lose any trust people have in them.
Also, he's not spreading any kind of good news about them, which makes him more believable :-)
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Date: 2022-11-29 02:22 pm (UTC)Fair enough, in terms of the meat of your answer.
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Date: 2022-11-29 05:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-29 06:26 pm (UTC)(Although not always)
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Date: 2022-11-29 11:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-11-30 08:20 am (UTC)Ditching Ashcroft significantly weakened the Conservative Party's ability to win elections!
...And it is likely that Rishi Sunak is bringing Ashcroft back into the fold.
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Date: 2022-11-29 11:22 pm (UTC)Maybe it's because I'm American, where the term "Tory" is a black mark dating back to 1776. But nowadays I feel the same way about Republicans, which I didn't 50 years ago, whereas I would have about Tories if I'd been paying any attention to British politics in those days.