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Another person describes the running dead strategy as a "self-fulfilling strategy for decline".

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Next! FGM is what I call a "dying cat" issue, in honour of Tory election strategist Lynton Crosby's "dead cat" strategy.

Conservative election campaign manager Lynton Crosby is a known advocate of such a "dead cat" strategy - the idea of "throwing a dead cat on the table" to distract people from a topic you wish they would stop discussing.

"The main thing he is known for is introducing the concept of aggressive negative campaigning, or as Boris Johnson described it: 'the dead cat strategy' [which involves distracting the public from a politically difficult issue by creating shocking news].

In fact, it's so odd that I wondered whether the story was put out by the government's spin doctors as a dead cat strategy, to divert attention from the junior doctor shit storm caused by vulture-faced health secretary Jeremy Hunt, currently circling over the deteriorating NHS like some sort of monstrous, scavenging bird of privatisation.

They needn't use what their general election strategist Lynton Crosby called a "dead cat strategy", which is to throw something so grotesque and alarming into the public debate that it distracts everyone from anything bad that you're doing at the time.

Nowadays, everyone talks knowingly of Cameron election guru Lynton Crosby's "dead cat strategy".

The prized "dead cat" strategy – distracting us with a single dire act while everything else falls out of focus – is in play.

It is a dead-end strategy.

Proponents of the Senate bill say Mr. Sessions's dead-mackerel strategy will not work this time.

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