Tory MP calls anyone earning less than £150,000 “dog-end” voters

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class, economy, elections, Tories

(not satire – it’s the Tories!)

Let’s hope – for Tory MP Mark Garnier’s sake – that his constituency of Wyre Forest has a LOT of voters earning more than £150,000.

Because Garnier has just been caught out referring to anyone earning less than that as  “dog-end” voters living in “the outlying regions of the country”:

Mark Garnier comments on ‘dog-end’ voters

I’m no electoral strategist but can’t help feeling it might be a little bit of a risky strategy for the Tories to be basing their re-election campaign on writing off and insulting 98% of the British electorate.

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