I wonder if it’s like those scam emails that deliberately have mistakes so that morons end up self selecting as anyone with their head screwed on sees the obvious scam
… OTOH that’s a level of intellect that would be surprising from a Tory
Organisers are reportedly blaming the mistake on a “printing error” and have since removed the chocolate from the bags
Wait a minute. So the organizers dick it up and get rewarded with a bunch of chocolate? This doesn’t seem like proper incentivization.
EDIT: Also, based on recent polling, isn’t Reform the largest opponent, not Labour?
Based on current polling the conservatives would be lucky to get third place. Reform on track to get second or third place depending on the pole, Labour and the lib Dems are fighting for the top spot.
So if we had an election today it would probably result in a Labour + Lib Dem coalition in government and a Reform opposition (albeit one was so little voting capacity that they may as well not exist) with the Conservative sitting on the sidelines. In some very strange universe Reform and the Conservatives may actually just accept that they’re essentially the same party and former a coalition opposition, but I suspect the smugness of the few remaining Conservators will prevent that on this particular plane of existence.
Based on current polling the conservatives would be lucky to get third place. Reform on track to get second or third place depending on the pole, Labour and the lib Dems are fighting for the top spot.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election
This graph has the Liberal Democrats at ~14%, the Conservatives at ~16%, Labour at ~20%, and Reform at ~32%.
A Liberal Democrat-Labour coalition might just edge out Reform, but Reform’s also rising, and Labour’s been getting hammered.
EDIT: Though, of course, this is just showing proportions of popular support, and first-past-the-post may cause that to not directly translate to seats.
Also, based on recent polling, isn’t Reform the largest opponent, not Labour?
She isn’t that bright, she genuinely seems to think her job is to just blame Labour for everything. Actually paying attention to the political landscape seems to be a bit outside of her wheelhouse
They’re just not that familiar with the place.
You know the company printing out all those labels was going “Didn’t pay for the spell check service…”
Wasn’t there a story about some translation service where somebody had sent them the terms of service pour some business or something rather, and at the end they’d put “all that, but in Spanish”, and the company translated that bit into Spanish as well.
Don’t forget the time they sent some signage to a Welsh translator, and they put up a sign with his out of office message thinking it was the translation…
They want to change Britain
That’s the american spelling.
Don’t blame the printing business, own your fucking mistake. If politicians can’t even own insificant mistakes like this then they’re obviously not going to hold their hands up when they inventively fuck something up more critical.
The thing is the printer didn’t write it someone in conservative HQ wrote it and then sent it to the printer to be printed. It’ll be some company that just makes customised chocolate wrappers, I guarantee no human working at the printers ever looked at it.
Somebody saw it. Printers don’t let you send in whatever the fuck you want and then blindly print it. Someone had to look at the initial proof to be certain it matched what was sent it. Then someone had to at least glance to make sure it was coming off the printer properly.
Whether it’s the printers job to inform the client of a spelling mistake or whether they have a policy to print exactly what’s sent them (within policy), I’d lay blame this on the creator.
SOURCE: Managed a print shop.
Yeah exactly, that’s what I mean.
Good call there over at the Grauniad.
At least it was not generated by AI
Probably was.
So do we get free chocolate, or is that socialism?
Why did they hand them out?!
“Are they sure they want this printed this way? Whatever, I’m not giving them out”
later:
“Are they sure they want us to hand these out? Whatever, we didn’t print them”
That’s hilarious
