The Conservatives’ core vote is leaking away in the run-up to the election with just a quarter of pensioners planning to back the party, a new poll suggests. The Mail has the story.
Just 26% of over-65s say they plan to vote for the Tories at the next election, according to a super-poll of 5,000 people by Redfield & Wilton Strategies.
This is down from an estimated 60% who backed the party under Boris Johnson at the 2019 election.
Some 32% of pensioners now plan to vote Labour, giving Sir Keir a lead over Rishi Sunak in every age group of eligible voters.
But in a sign that is likely to cause more concern at CCHQ, there was a marked surge in support among pensioner for the Reform Party when [Sunak] sacked Suella Braverman as Home Secretary last year.
It suggests that a sizeable chunk of Right-leaning pensioners are drifting away from the Tories, with the small boats crisis and deportation flights to Rwanda the latest trigger. The party has not had the support of more than 50% of pensioners since the resignation of Owen Paterson over lobbying in 2021.
Maybe when the Conservatives promised at successive elections to slash immigration and control borders they should have actually done it rather than liberalise immigration rules and fail to stop the boats. Just a thought.
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A new headline for the green lobby “Cars being recycled by foxes”
“Recent photos show multiple cars covered in blue plastic for protection after a spate of attacks”
What these car owners don’t realise is that the planet-mauling plastic previously used for these blue tarpaulins has been replaced by planet-loving woad dyed hemp;
A substance known to be both delicious to foxes, and one which sends them into a dope-fuelled violent frenzy.
Residents of Worthing beware!!!
Goodness me! Won’t somebody save the poor foxes? Eating soy is so bad for them!
Soy fox.
Mmmmm.
And there was me chilling in the garden with sun on face, sipping a cold beer, and thinking life doesn’t get much better than this. Then this beauty – the genius of food based insulation used on exposed parts!!!
. The icing on the cake.
But what is the icing made of? Or the cake, for that matter?
Probably the same stuff they’ve started making tyres from!
Someone please tell me I haven’t just read this headline, please!
Having enjoyed myself taking the Mickey over this article a more serious thought occurs to me:
If it is actually true that foxes have taken to nibbling cars what about creatures or fungi or moulds that would be much harder to keep away from the car’s vitals? Could an infestation of some sort of beetle feasting on the cabling ruin a car or make it unsafe?
Again, if it’s true, surely some sort of testing should have been done before introducing such a change?
The Telegraph article feels like it ought to have been published on April 1st.
Mice, rats, squirrels also like a good chew.
Here in Thailand it’s the rats that go for it.
And what about the rats? They are the usual cable chewing animals on certain types of cable, traditionally. There are some places where they have to be careful about proper protective anti-chew coverage on cables that are accessible in places where there are plenty of rats.
There was a ‘Grand Designs’ where a guy built a house in the woods that he owned using timbers and shingles etc that he had cut himself. The main walls were straw bales shaped with a chain saw and covered in lime plaster. He was off-grid and had a small bird-chopper windmill to charge batteries for power. He cabled the place using orange metal sheathed ‘pyro’ cable. He said is was expensive cabling but cheaper than rebuilding after the fire if the mice chewed the ordinary cabling he might otherwise have used.
A bit of a rich eco-nutter but a lovely house when he’d finished.
See what happens when the Blob interferes with natural, rural life – bring back fox hunting with hounds, that should solve the problem.
Foxes might be drinking brake fluid but they’re not addicted to it because they can stop anytime they want.
Pretty soon the Animal Rights people will set up the BFA (Brake Fluids Anonymous). The wily old foxes can gather in a church hall to tell the story of how they became addicted to the pretend to save the planet brake cables.
Sloppy article written by someone who doesn’t know the difference between brake cables (handbrakes) and brake pipes, usually made of steel or alloy, that contain fluid under pressure (when braking applied).
So just what are foxes eating?
How much land and water is being used to make useful things from food?
So let me get this straight, there is hydraulic fluid in brake wires/cables and chewing therough the insulation allows a fox to get to glycol in the fluid?
When I last worked on car brakes, admittedly on my AH Frogeye from 1959. the brake fluid was contained in fairly tough steel tubes. They had to be tough because of the extremely high pressure developed when braking.
I am puzzled by the need to insulate these pipes since the ethylene glycol in the brake fluid is also used in the cooling system to stop water freezing!
I realise technology has moved on somewhat and there may be brake wiring actuating, for example a brake servo, but those wires contain electricity not fluid.
My conclusion is that this is technologicl rubbish.
PS Ethylene glycol is said to be an intoxicant, but I have no personal experience of that.