THE Tories have blamed a Twitter/X “bug” for their account on the platform disappearing after a humiliating electoral defeat.
Speculation was flying that the party had been so miffed by their failure at Thursday’s poll to win another five years in Government that they simply quit the internet.
But asked about the disappearance of the account on Monday, a party spokesperson told The National: “Would ask Twitter on this – it’s a bug on their end which we are trying to rectify.”
Nonetheless media users were quick to mock the party.
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Dominic Penna, Telegraph political correspondent, posted a photo of the deceased account with the caption: “A self-aware response to the election.”
Another wag put it simply: “THEY DELETED THEIR ACCOUNT HAHAHAHA”.
Pollster Keiran Pedley of Ipsos struck a neutral tone with his observation: “The Conservative Party appears to have deleted their twitter account.”
CCHQ appears to have gone into meltdown over the course of the election.
The House magazine reports that party staff and former special advisers gave up in some quarters preferring instead to spend their days as the party battled for its very survival sipping Diet Cokes in St James’ Park.
The publication also reported one employee of Conservative central office “walking out of CCHQ in the middle of the day and not coming back”.
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It added: “Rows of people who remained were spending time scrolling on LinkedIn for jobs and more senior members of staff were even advising some to leave, campaign for MPs they believed in personally, and secure their next steps in the private sector.”
Defeated former MP Marcus Fysh took the result particularly badly, telling anyone who would listen that the party had to be “put out of its misery”.
He told Times Radio: “I would actually dissolve the corporate entity of the party and I would start again with a new brand, a new leader and everything.”
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