Johnson's Australian friend is the Tories» campaign chief Lynton Crosby, and the «
dead cat strategy» is exactly what we are beginning to see from the Conservative party in the run - up to 2015.
Labour believed they could dominate two full days of the campaign with the non-dom proposal, but the Conservative campaign director, Lynton Crosby, countered with a trademark «
dead cat»
strategy — a tactic best summarised by Boris Johnson as follows: «There is one thing that is absolutely certain about throwing a
dead cat on the dining room table — and I don't mean that people will be outraged, alarmed, disgusted.