General Election 2015: Tory candidates' election tweets not as 'spontaneous' as they appear
Conservative HQ has been feeding candidates lines to tweet to their followers
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Your support makes all the difference.Tory MPs and ministers are getting daily instructions on what to tweet to their followers – but are being told to make them look “spontaneous”.
Every day Conservative Campaign Headquarters has been feeding MPs, ministers and candidates different lines to trot out on Twitter, in the hope of stopping their supporters going off message.
But their command that the tweets should appear spontaneous and personal has been adhered to with varying degrees of success.
Here’s how some of the politicians have been getting on:
Nothing to see here. Just a couple of people simultaneously pondering Liam Byrne’s note that ‘there’s no money left’. And then coming up with the same witty riposte that ‘Our economy is no laughing matter/ Our economy is no joke’.
If some of us say ‘2 million jobs in 5 years' and others say '2 million jobs since 2010’, it will look like we come up with this stuff ourselves, right?
We all just casually woke up on the morning of the SNP manifesto launch with the idea to refer to it as a ‘ransom note’. Honest.
And sometimes, to the PRs' dismay, the copy and paste button gets all too tempting for some candidates after a long day of campaigning and the ‘spontaneous, personal’ touch goes out the window
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