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Twitter just hijacked David Cameron’s online election campaign, and the results are fantastic

James Wright by James Wright
5 May 2016
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#VoteConservative was as simple as it was brilliant. David Cameron’s final rallying call on the day of the local elections. A chance for Twitter’s Tories to express themselves.

Conservative HQ then erupted with joy and surprise – #VoteConservative was trending within minutes. But as rapidly as the joy came, it turned to horror:

@David_Cameron I'd rather wipe my anus with a hedgehog than #VoteConservative

— Emilie (@Emilie_Zola) May 5, 2016

Quite a statement. Cameron’s electoral techniques are also coming back to bite him:

https://twitter.com/Brummie_Jen/status/728170895185989633

Sometimes simplicity is the ticket:

https://twitter.com/Mikeofthemoor/status/728170600351576064

 

People are delivering cold, hard truths too:

#VoteConservative and sell the country off to the lowest bidder.

— Marc Loewenthal (@Marcoloe) May 5, 2016

The Conservative government made a record-breaking £26bn through selling off our assets, often at a loss, in 2015. George Osborne and his ilk continue to value short term, one-off financial gains over more profitable long term investment that would leave the taxpayer much better off.

#VoteConservative for more homelessness, poverty and destruction of our public services…asset stripping Britain.

— Jen🔥🐎🌞♍️🌛♒️⬆️♎️ (@Celestite66) May 5, 2016

Also in 2015, the Department for Communities and Local Government reported a 55% increase in rough sleepers since Mr Cameron became Prime Minister in 2010.

If you're happy stepping over rough sleepers on your way to work #VoteConservative. If not, vote to stop austerity & cuts to local services.

— Ben Claimant 💚 Join a Union (@BenClaimant) May 5, 2016

At least Cameron can be happy that blogger Tom Pride takes a moment to honour George Osborne’s record:

If you want more 'growth' like this – then #VoteConservative pic.twitter.com/6crlW93S5T

— Tom Pride (@ThomasPride) May 5, 2016

One Twitter user turned it into a poetry competition:

Hijack #VoteConservative with a poem about the sort of person who votes Tory.

Please RT

Most RTed poem wins a prize

— Will Black 🍓🍄🚀 (@WillBlackWriter) May 5, 2016

Here’s some of the best:

@WillBlackWriter

Corporates get
What corporates lobbied.
Working-class Tories?
Gullibility, embodied.#VoteConservative

— Dr Jonathan Kershaw 🇪🇺 (@jeckythump) May 5, 2016

Smooth. People aren’t forgetting about the Panama Papers:

https://twitter.com/AmnesiacBrian/status/728160839413293056

You lot heat my stables And clean my moat for free
My money's out of the country. I'm keeping it for me #VoteConservative @WillBlackWriter

— Peace, Love & Sour Power (@alanknox) May 5, 2016

Cameron’s rallying call continues to be endlessly trolled:

https://twitter.com/cakeandtweetit/status/728179862326882305

There is abundant advice for Tory voters on Twitter this polling day:

https://twitter.com/YESthatcherDead/status/728175887452114944

You begin to laugh until you realise how close to the truth this is. Here’s some ways the Conservatives have abused Britain’s disabled citizens:

  • The bedroom tax disproportionately affects disabled people and can lead to them being kicked out their home.
  • The Work Capability Assessment (WCA) has been linked to causing 590 suicides and 279,000 cases of mental illness.
  • Nearly 14,000 disabled people have had their mobility cars confiscated after a change in benefit assessment.
  • Punishing those who need help by charging them for ringing to make claims.
  • Needlessly took £30-a-week from disabled citizens through ESA cuts.

Cameron’s support of the tyrannical Saudi regime, which is essentially ISIS (Daesh) with an embassy, also made an appearance:

https://twitter.com/Hapoel4/status/728175187942899712

It’s important to think of the NHS at the polling stations:

https://twitter.com/Hapoel4/status/728168864618524672

If you want to protect the rich & the tax dodgers, privatise the NHS & generally screw over those less fortunate than you #voteconservative

— Louise (@Inwoman) May 5, 2016

#VoteConservative then go home and complain about crap NHS, schools and generally being skint.

— Politicians for People #BLM (@politicians4us) May 5, 2016

What makes this all the more amusing is that the Conservative party spends hundreds of thousands of pounds trying to get an edge on social media, and still falls flat on its face.

For any Tories getting excited click on #VoteConservative

I bet they thought they'd finally cracked social media 😂😂😂😂

— Rachael Swindon #WeAreCollective (@Rachael_Swindon) May 5, 2016

Polling day is the perfect day to hold Cameron to account for the past 6 years of transferring wealth from the already poor to the already rich. The nation’s richest 1,000 families have more than doubled their net wealth since the crisis, while disabled citizens and the most vulnerable have been hammered.

This is not an accident, but the aim of Conservative policies. Hats off to Twitter for showing the true meaning behind #VoteConservative.

Get involved!

  • Remember to get out and vote on 5 May!

Featured image via Twitter (@PMOTUK)

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