‘Bring Back Boris’ marketing campaign ‘inundated’ with messages after by-election losses

Feb 16, 2024 at 7:42 PM
‘Bring Back Boris’ marketing campaign ‘inundated’ with messages after by-election losses

Furious Conservative members and voters have “inundated” a marketing campaign to “Bring Back Boris” with messages of help within the wake of the by-election humiliations final evening.

As the mud started to decide on the Wellingborough and Kingswood by-elections the place two protected Tory seats turned the most recent to be gained off them by Labour, Conservative supporters desirous to oust Rishi Sunak began to ship messages to a mothballed marketing campaign to deliver again Boris Johnson.

The Conservative Post marketing campaign was launched in the summertime of 2022 to provide Tory members the possibility to vote on whether or not Boris Johnson‘s resignation as celebration chief needs to be accepted.

But it seems that tons of of Conservative supporters rediscovered the marketing campaign by Googling “Bring Back Boris” as fury rose with Rishi Sunak and the celebration management over the by-elections and distance behind Labour within the polls.

Conservative Post editor Claire Bullivant shared the messages she has obtained which now stand at greater than 36,000 since she first launched the marketing campaign.

One particular person wrote: “Please re-instate Boris. Tory had no proper to alter what the British public voted for. Our democracy is a scandal. Rishi Sunak is a waste of house. Fed up with the tax hikes engineered by him [Sunak] and [Chancellor] Jeremy Hunt.”

Another stated: “This is ridiculous, Boris is the best leader since Maggy and Winston, I’m a farmer in Suffolk and I’m sick to death of this pussy footing around of lame leadership as we are seeing with personal fund gaming fishy Rishi, I’ve had enough, change your leadership or I’ll change my vote.”

There was anger on the manner the Privileges Committee performed its inquiry and gave Johnson a 90-day suspension which compelled him to stop Parliament.

Another stated: “I refuse to vote Conservative while Rishi is leader because of what he did to Boris – not only ousting him but, aided by his supporters and Harriet Harman, expelling him from Parliament and grinding him into the dirt to prevent him making a comeback. I think Rishi is a vile, malicious plotter. However if Boris did come back in any form I would vote to support him, and hope it would show the party what a dreadful mistake they made.”

Another added: “He should never have been forced out…I was angry about it at the time and am still angry now. He was a fantastic Prime Minister, who actually cared about our country, ‘talked the country up’, saw the positives, spoke with passion, a real inspiration! His job was made so much more difficult by the Pandemic, which I believe he handled well, and Brexit, which all these years on certain groups still won’t accept. We need Boris back to have any chance whatsoever of keeping a Conservative government after the next general election.”

There had been warnings in regards to the electoral penalties of sticking with Sunak, as most MPs seem to need to do.

One stated: “Bring again Boris Johnson or see Starmer turn into PM. That could be a catastrophe if Labour had been to ever win a normal election once more and Suella Braverman as Foreign or Defence Secretary.”

Another stated: “I have always voted Conservative and was utterly dismayed by the way Boris was displaced by his party. It was a ‘witch hunt’ from start to finish, resulting in the forced dismissal of the only person capable of saving the party. He stands out as a great politician, and leader and we desperately need him back to lead us to victory. Without him as leader? We will not win the next general election.”

A 3rd added: “I was a member until the bastards struck the knife in, I take the old fashioned view that it was for the voters to decide.”

These are a handful of tons of of messages obtained within the final 24 hours on the marketing campaign web site.

Ms Bullivant informed Express.co.uk that she was shocked to see the alerts for actually tons of of messages.

She stated: “I’m being inundated with signatures on the Bring Back Boris petition I launched on the Conservative Post.

“People should be Googling and discovering it as I have never put it anyplace since Boris stepped down.

“But woke up to a flood of signatures and messages this morning.”