He’s been leading the Tory party around by the nose for a decade now.
Open primaries for the next Conservative leader could see him get the job... anyone paying attention to the last Conservative conference and the events around it would consider that possible.
Let’s see what happens. I think they’ll hit a point where they just need paper candidates (also I keep thinking it’s Friday for some reason so I thought the deadline was today 🤦♂️)
A lot hinges on whether Reform will run in every seat, especially tight con/lib Dem marginals
I can't decide what would be funnier Holden being blocked from standing at the very last minute. Or him standing and losing a safe seat because he's been so dishonest & unpleasant that all the locals hate him
https://twitter.com/breeallegretti/status/1798749150932316355?t=5f0bOeyclvdYpCM8MQewEw&s=19
Like Badenoch is possible, actually Badenoch less so as there’s a decent chance she won’t be an MP
Being in the Social Housing market is definitely not a way to make money.
Totally correct I'm sure but that's why the state has to do it in the first place, surely? It's correcting a market failure.
They can leave the right wingers to Farage and move to the centre. This could be good news for us because we’d end up with two centre parties
We have been there and done that. We end up with the majority of the population unrepresented and pissed off and the country spiralling downwards because policies that appeal to the centre dont work well for the country as a whole.
How about we have a left wing party, a right wing party and a centrist party?
It’s correcting a market failure.
And a shitload cheaper than paying benefits to pay high rents.
Did someone mention my name while looking in a mirror?
If you’re after odds then just go on Oddschecker.
For the Lib Dems to be the opposition is presently 6/1. Might well be worth a punt, that
I’m still not cashing out this one.
4 weeks to go to lining up the drinks by the telly.
Realistically reform will join with the tories and come the next election we will have the biggest scumbags ever likely to gain power.
One thing the last few years has taught me is that any joy I have from tory misfortune is short lived.
We have been there and done that. We end up with the majority of the population unrepresented and pissed off and the country spiralling downwards because policies that appeal to the centre dont work well for the country as a whole
If you keep on doing what you've always done, you're gonna keep on getting what you've always got....
So I think Dissonance is actually making a case for PR and electoral reform....
Sorry to hark back to a couple of days ago on the thread, but.....
In the constituency I live in it hasn't changed hands for 114 years (100 and f*ckin 14 years 🤬) ....and there are many other s of a similar, but less extreme, scenario
....which is why UK politics is so dysfunctional. So many people are disenfranchised here, feel their votes don't matter or make a difference that they just don't bother. If our votes meant something many more people would engage meaningfully.....
The only other country in Europe w FPTP is Belarus, which is not auspicious company.
Germany's post-war electoral system was built by the UK, US and France as a PR system to keep dictators out. It's been pretty successful.
I think that will seal the deal for Labour. Along with perserving the nuclear deterrent, they have my (tactical) vote.
Realistically reform will join with the tories and come the next election we will have the biggest scumbags ever likely to gain power.
What’s left of the Tory party will fly off hard to the right on losing the election, under the ‘leadership’ either Badanoch or Braverman. Reform will get one, maybe two MP’s, if they’re lucky
They will then set off on a taibanisation of the far right, getting more and more extreme all the time. Pulling out of the ECHR, bringing back hanging, carpet bombing the French coastline, firing immigrants into the sun, each time becoming less and less appealing to anyone who isn’t absolutely ****ing mental.
Two bald men fighting over a comb
Christ on bendy bus
Sunak left the D-DAY ceremony early, so Cameron had to stand in
So he could go back to the UK and do an ITV interview where he failed utterly to convince anyone that he he didn't lie about the £2000 tax thing
https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1798805100153983394?t=dsyuUbwebjeEkiXl0nXDdg&s=19
Is he deliberately trying to lose?
What the **** is Sunak and his advisors thinking.
Sod the politics, he's a bloody disgrace of a person.
Tim Montgomerie of ConservativeHome on Newsnight is spitting feathers about this
We all knew his judgement was awful, but this is truly next level.
Skipping the D Day commemorations to do a bit of campaigning is going to go down like a cup of cold sick with everyone, but particularly with the Tories core vote.
Farage will have an absolute field day with this. Reform will have overtaken the Tories within 24 hours. He’s starting to make Theresa May look like a master campaigner
https://Twitter.com/jamiesont/status/1798827150323179830?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
Farage will have an absolute field day with this.
I doubt he can quite believe his luck.
What are the odds on Sunak quitting before the election?
What happens if he walks? Would anyone even notice,?
Edit: Deleted as it occurred to me it's not appropriate for today.
^^ Pictured to scale.
Farage to win a seat, some mentalist like Badenoch to become Tory leader post election, then when that falls apart, Farage to defect to Tories and become leader…..what a terrifying thought
I doubt anyone remembers but I made a similar joke on here years ago about little rocket man, Trump and Boris in the same room and look what happened!
How stupid can you be . Did no-one around him say " you know this might look bad " .
Just for being that thick he doesn't deserve to be anywhere near any position of power let alone prime minister.
Poor minister on Radio4 didn’t really try and defend him, just pled ignorance…
”I’m quite a junior minister, I don’t know precisely where the PM was”
Emergency apology from the PM.
My summary so far
a) the Tories are so stuck in their ways for throwing money into (their) bank accounts, they think promising the same to the electorate - via invisible funds no doubt a lie to be U turned - that knows they were defrauded, embezzled and lied to will win them the vote
b) on the same theme as a) they/Sunak havent an ounce of compassion beyond their own ambitions and continue to demonstrate that.
There is now way - albeit it’s a done conclusion anyway - Sunak and his bench are fit to run this country.
Either Sunak’s advisors are crap or he thinks he knows best and doesn’t listen to them.
Do his advisors realise what they are meant to do for a living, or does he think he knows better. It's remarkable how rubbish he is at politics
I'm going to go with both being crap and if they occasionally have a good idea he won't listen anyway.
He clearly doesn't want to be there and just wants it over as quickly as possible so he can go back to an easy life without having to talk to anyone beneath him
Rishi doesn't appear to have strong advisers. He needs a Malcolm Tucker style figure to say "you're staying here you ****ing idiot".
That photo of Starmer with Zelensky is damaging. It looks like foreign leaders are now proceeding on the basis that Starmer is the man to speak to (this is probably true, but the public impression is not necessarily the same). Aside from the basic issue of respect, surely it was clear that if Starmer was sticking around, Rishi needed to be seen as well?
He is just not good at politics - and neither are those around him.
Sunak is the only person who was in control of the dates for this campaign. D-Day commemoration as a date has been set for 80 years. No excuses. He has tried to make some political campaigning headway while other leaders were sticking to their expected roles. But it should have been obvious that would back fire. Too committed to pushing his desperate £2k bullshit above all else.
I’m just waiting for one of his advisors to resign, with a statement of ‘ oh, what’s the *ing point?! He won’t listen to anyone anyway! He just ignores us all and does whatever the * he likes”
When it comes to his advisors, this is the comment from someone who was rather good at that kind of thing. I can’t see him letting any of this nonsense happen. Not that he’d have needed to.
https://Twitter.com/campbellclaret/status/1798832927708741896?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
When you’ve lost the Daily Mail, the gigs up…
https://Twitter.com/dpjhodges/status/1798965521062502839?s=46&t=1lK7Dw1b6RqGJyvufO-trQ
Clearly not at this election, but at some point, I get a horrible feeling Farage will end up as PM.
