A new book reveals how David Cameron aide suggested Momentum dump animal faeces outside the former London mayor’s home
reveals just how desperate No 10 became to demonise Johnson, the co-leader of Vote Leave with Michael Gove, and get the young pro EU vote out.to suggest a number of options: “As panic set in among all parts of the remain coalition, the ideas got increasingly desperate and elaborate.
“The most fanciful suggestion was hiring a lorry-load of animal dung, ditching it in the road outside Boris Johnson’s Islington home and then press-releasing the incident under the title ‘you’re full of shit’; the establishment press would, apparently, give us rave reviews.” “So by this point they were – rightly – panicking. Momentum was a young, dynamic organisation that could inject some energy and anti-establishment drive into the campaign, and they must have seen that and thought it could help out. It was such a feeble and superficial attempt to engage with the problem, and by this point it was all too late.”
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