Desperate Tories in dying days with no votes and now no cash

THE sleazy Tory party is already out of ideas and is now running out of cash as well.

The Conservatives raised just £292,500 from June 6-12 compared with £4.4million for Labour. It’s a sign that Rishi Sunak’s rich friends in the City have had enough of this inept Government.

But old habits die hard and the Conservatives will never pass up an opportunity to shake down a room full of possible donors. The Prime Minister auctioned off access to senior ministers while he still could in a fundraising auction to bolster party coffers at the Conservative Summer Party.

The annual bash saw one loaded party backer bid more than £17,000 for lunch with right-wing MP Kemi Badenoch, widely tipped to take over from Sunak as leader. The desperate Tories even auctioned off tickets for a male stripper to get their hands on some cash.

Sunak himself missed the lavish soiree as he was in York appearing on the BBC’s Question Time where audience members laughed and jeered at him.

The Tory bash came just hours after it was revealed yet another senior party member was being investigated after they placed a bet on the timing of the General Election.

Last week it was alleged that one of Sunak’s closest aides placed a £100 bet on a July polling date three days before the PM named the date.

This grasping Tory party are only out for themselves.

And it really looks like they are in the dying days of a rotten government.

Compare their approach with the integrity of Keir Starmer, who speaks today in the Daily Record about his own vision for Scotland and Britain.

More and more, Starmer looks like a prime minister in waiting.

And at the same time, Sunak looks increasingly like yesterday’s man.

Unfair on our fans

THE Tartan Army have won praise from everyone in Germany for their noisy but good-natured conduct at the Euros.

So it is a major disappointment that many loyal fans will miss out on seeing Scotland in the crunch tie against Hungary tomorrownight in Stuttgart.

Germany’s clash against Switzerland is on at the same time as Scotland’s match so authorities in the city are not showing our game in the main fan zone.

That leaves an estimated 90,000 ticketless Scots now desperately looking for somewhere to see the game – with a number of smaller zones around the city unable to squeeze them all in.

The city authorities in Stuttgart need to see sense and get the Scotland game on a big screen with plenty of room for the fans. This game could well be a historic one – so every Tartan Army
footsoldier who has made the trip to Germany deserves the chance to see it.