After this brutal self-own, the Tories must be wondering why the hell they’re still on Twitter

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Hashtags are used on Twitter so that people can comment on topics. They’re also great for awareness campaigns, like when people recently drew attention to #DWPcrimes. What you shouldn’t do, however, is start a hashtag to attack a political opponent that more readily applies to you. Especially when your side isn’t all that good at the internets:

Shots fired (feet hit)

Early on 23 September, the Conservative Party’s Brandon Lewis said Corbyn is “not fit to govern our country”. He doesn’t historically have the best judgement, though.

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Lewis is the Conservative Party chairman. This means he’s in charge of the seldom-followed Tory ‘respect pledge‘. He’s also in charge of sweeping the Tory Islamophobia scandal under the carpet. Beyond that, he recently ‘broke’ an agreement with a woman on maternity leave for political gain – something he claims was an “honest mistake”. Nice guy.

The geniuses at the CCHQ Press Office presumably saw Lewis’s comment and decided to turn it into Twitter gold:

And they did create gold. Just not the sort of gold they could take to the bank:

The horror

Of course, when you’re pointing out the reasons why the Tories aren’t fit to govern, most of it is no laughing matter:

Inch by inch

When talking about Tory social media strategy, we can’t forget this tweet from 2017 – a tweet which only grows more potent with time (like a fine wine or a John McDonnell):

The #UnfitToGovern hashtag has given one person a chance to tell the Tories exactly why they’ll never understand social media:

Next time the staff at CCHQ have a bright idea, they should probably just type #UnfitToTweet and take the rest of the day off.

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– Contact Brandon Lewis the next time you see a Tory failing to uphold the ‘respect pledge’.

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