Blame games break out

The Graun: 

Trouble on the doorstep as Lib Dems and Labour fight to appeal to voters 

Lib Dems first:

The failure of a bigger pro-Remain pact looms large....[a LibDem candidate] also admits to some difficulties created by his party’s own policy – its commitment to revoke Brexit unilaterally should it win a majority. “It’s not helped,” he says...“My own view is we should’ve just said we are Remain. We’re for a second referendum, and we’re Remain.[And hit the public with revoke as soon as possible thereafter -- they'll just looklike crafty lying revokers] 

Now Labour:

in Don Valley, one of the Labour seats the Tories are predicted to win...[a voter] had no hesitation about who he will be voting for. “Boris. He’s the only one who’s got the balls to sort this out with the EU,” he said. Caroline Flint, the Labour MP for Don Valley for the past 22 years, does “a brilliant job, but who does she work for? I don’t trust Corbyn and his little gang....The campaign was “tough”, said Flint, who is defending a majority of 5,169. “Clearly Brexit is dominating. I’d say on every other door in our mining villages, it’s Brexit that comes up. Even Remain voters say we should get on with it.”

Losers are already spinning:

Several Labour figures said they believed ..[there].. was a move designed to blame pro-Remain figures in the party for defeat, and deflect from the personal unpopularity of Corbyn or the party’s radical policy platform.

Elsewhere there is another blame game among journalists. Not so much dog eating dog, perhaps, but certainly pots and kettles having a shouting match:

In just a fortnight, the Conservative party rebranded its press office Twitter account into a seemingly neutral fact-checking service; edited BBC footage for a Facebook advert in a move that was called a “completely unacceptable” distortion of the broadcaster’s output; and threatened to “review” Channel 4’s broadcasting licence for its “provocative partisan stunt” replacing the prime minister with an ice sculpture during its climate debate...Then, not long after the sculpture melted, the BBC pulled off its own provocative partisan stunt by giving Boris Johnson a platform to make political capital out of the dead.... inviting Johnson on to the Marr Show to discuss the London Bridge horror, even though he had refused to sit across from Andrew Neil, was “in the public interest”, according to a pompous BBC statement.

Aunty seems to be worrying quite a lot:

Several cock-ups at the BBC have already prompted an alarming number of online conspiracy theories and staff morale is low among those working on the election. Most notably, the broadcasting of Neil’s grilling of Jeremy Corbyn – before a deal with Johnson was agreed – was not only blundering but craven, too.

No need for conspiracy theories for me -- they have been caught out upholding an uncritical ideology in a totally amateur fashion is how I would see it. However, it is not really their fault:

[The BBC] has been brought so low by bullying and gaslighting tactics straight from the Trumpian rulebook..  [There are] bullying emails copied to senior executives as well as programme producers from the Tory campaign team.

And they thought they had it all sewn up with their pathetic complaints procedures?The BBC also needs to learn that when you’re on the ropes, it is wise to avoid smacking your own face...Even before this weekend it was a mistake to edit out the laughter that greeted Johnson’s answer in the Question Time election debate and the BBC took too long to admit it. Forced to trot around the campaign trail to avoid being denied fuller access, the BBC should have thought twice before sharing Boris Johnson’s jam-before-cream scone habit [come again? -- this has made Devonians feel vulnerable?]. There have been other errors, foolish retweets and overly chummy interviews, all of which are seized on by social media. 

The links lead to a Kuenssberg retweet of a D Cummings message and a chummy interview where Johnson's lies were not exposed, not to those ridiculous grovelling 'interviews' where Remainers were allowed to predict chaos and soggy tomatoes without rebuke because they were 'experts'. Back to bullying:

For evidence of this antagonism, just watch Michael Gove ignore a Channel 4 journalist’s attempt to ask questions and, instead, accuse him of launching a “rigorous leftwing case for a particular point of view”

 Back to bullying:I'm a left-winger and I would disagree that the journalist's case was at all rigorous or left wing -- millenial ultra-lib smug virtue-signalling is how I would describe it. Journalists have long ceased to ask questions except rhetorical or leading ones and do indeed deliver their own manifestos. C4 seems to enjoy smacking its own face too:

“Don’t refuse to participate and then threaten our licence, it’s a slippery slope,” [the editor of C4 news] told the Tories

Ooh, scarey! Strangely, after one of the nastiest, prolonged and openly partisan campaigns by liberal media: 

According to Ipso, just 26% of those surveyed trust journalists to tell the truth.