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The Owen Jones Podcast

Tory Campaign Implodes: This Is Beyond Belief

The Owen Jones Podcast

Owen Jones

Politics, Government, News & Politics, News

4.41.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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This is beyond catastrophic.

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0:00.0

Watching the collapse of the British Conservative Party after 190 years of its existence has been quite experienced

0:06.1

but this latest twist is frankly just out of this world. The party's campaign director and two Conservative candidates

0:12.1

have been embroiled in what is being described as a row over alleged

0:16.1

betting on the general election day. The Tory campaign's director, Tony Lee, is the husband of Laura

0:22.4

Saunders, the Tory candidate in Bristol, Northwest, who previously

0:25.6

worked in Tory Party HQ. Now she's facing an inquiry. Now this Tory campaign director has gone on a leave of absence. Now some of you might be surprised to hear the toys even have a campaign director given how things are going, but it's two weeks before general election and the governing party has just lost its campaigns

0:43.1

director that frankly is completely nutly insane but also pretty funny if

0:47.4

we'll be honest now last week it was revealed that the closest aid of

0:50.9

a she select prime minister for another, placed a 100 pound bet with

0:54.9

lad Brooks at 5 to 1 on a July poll.

0:57.4

Factory could the gambling commission to order the bookies to go through all significant bets that

1:01.6

had been placed on an election in July.

1:04.0

It gets even funnier.

1:05.0

Yesterday, the choice put out a video with the text.

1:08.0

If you bet on Labor, you can never win featuring a gambling machine.

1:12.0

They then deleted it. Not quite sure why they did that.

1:15.2

Obviously they've never heard of a strizzan defect. Do look that up if you would avoid the same

1:19.4

faith. But then it gets truly disturbing. Jim Waterson, political media editor, The Guardian,

1:23.9

has put out a graph which is data scraped from Bet Fair

1:27.1

on Betts made on a July election.

1:28.8

It shows amounts matched on such an election

1:31.4

from 13th of May to 21st of May the day before Roushe Senac announced the general election.

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