Tory betting scandal will "lead to disaster" for Rishi Sunak | Election 2024 | The New Statesman

[@NewStatesman]

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[@simonmenzies3142]

Reform reform reform. To save this country🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 Good working class people who have gone out to work for their country. Something you lot would never connect or align with.

[@ignoranceisbliss6259]

Police officer: suspended and arrested. Tory MPs: no consequences.

[@progtom7585]

Don't vote Tory. Simple

[@StevieSpiers-ru3mf]

Yet.

[@progtom7585]

July 4th, consequences

[@factstrumpprejudice6740]

You mean the Tories are crooks? Who'd thought!

[@ignoranceisbliss6259]

@progtom7585 it is a sad indictment of the country, that those in power only face consequences every five years.

[@DarkFire515]

Wait, the tories had a campaign director? Incredible.

[@andybrice2711]

Is it Alan Smithee?

[@bernardfox9078]

I hear Mr Blobby has stepped down 😂

[@petersz98]

Zero seats! Zero seats!

[@RichardFraser-y9t]

One seat, Sunak needs to stay and be held responsible, maybe he should win by fewer votes than Binface

[@gregorymunn484]

Vote Green 💚

[@MKHNitro]

More Tory corrupt behaviour but Sunak takes no action Says it all

[@jasbirhanspal8750]

Spineless, is the word for fishy Rishi

[@lizdocherty3067]

How many times have we heard the Tories go to comment "an investigation is ongoing and will wait for the outcome before commenting"

[@robertsaunders6511]

That’s because the law doesn’t apply to Tories remember party gate they don’t deserve a single seat in the next parliament

[@S10wGuY]

yeah this campaign really showed what integrity means for Sunak - leaving D day, gambling when you know the outcome - he really understands what regular people are going through

[@jirom71]

What’s more shocking ? They are corrupt or that the Tory’s have a campaign director.

[@hanselmansell7555]

😂😂😂

[@gregorymunn484]

I'm a communist but I'm pretty sure I could run a better campaign for the Tories 😂

[@SebAnders]

The Tory party, snouts in the trough one and all.

[@fatfrreddy1414]

Is Labour any different? WEF Puppet, Starmer is being handed power on a plate.. the Mega-Rich know their money is safe with Reeves and Starmer....

[@GaryV-p3h]

Tory Wipeout to Help Out YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU 🫵

[@Steven-jx7ch]

India is the economic greenhouse FYI

[@sararichardson737]

Full marks!

[@mildlydispleased3221]

​@@Steven-jx7chWhat?

[@willrelf1377]

To be replaced by more Tories

[@michaelkavanagh5947]

We can all agree ANY party but Tory. ANY!

[@GaryV-p3h]

Another day, another Tory sleaze story, business as usual in the Tory camp.

[@GaryV-p3h]

The most shocking news to me is that the Tories have a campaign director, I assumed they were just winging it by how bady it is all going.

[@alynch9846]

It is not gambling when you know the outcome already.

[@therealrobertbirchall]

No it's theft.

[@user-nl4cn1ew4w]

Basically insider trading

[@davidwright8432]

Ah! if it's not gambling. the can't have gambled illegally! The defense rests, M'lud.

[@HappyAwesomePower]

Criminals just can’t help themselves

[@thetragicyouth]

Using the privilege of government to enrich themselves until the very last moment: typical snout-in-the-trough Tories.

[@iraceruk]

We all try to 'enrich ourselves'. We're all Human. We're all greedy. You can't blame them...

[@UnionJack-k7x]

@@iracerukOh that makes everything they’ve done ok then…

[@iraceruk]

@@UnionJack-k7x Nope. Just stating a fact.

[@nickharvey7233]

​@@iracerukspeak for yourself

[@iraceruk]

@@nickharvey7233 So you're not trying to earn more money? Good on you 👍

[@wedwardes]

Many decades ago I worked on Saturdays in a betting shop while doing an undergraduate degree in Probability. They were called "Turf Accountants" in those days. The Turf Accountant told me: "Son, never bet on a horse that talks." i.e. don't bet on anything where a human can manage the result or know the result in advance.

[@martinnewtonholmes]

Good advice

[@GordonSmith-nd4oy]

I left the Conservative Party about twenty years ago as it was clear to me that its leadership and up-and-coming ‘stars’ were uniformly incompetent and occasionally unethical. It’s just got worse since then.

[@johnbennett9630]

1min 52sec in - "they're gambling on the future of the country - it's remarkable". Where did Sunak's millions come from? Didn't he make his money from betting on the UK economy to crash?

[@Lynnefromlyn]

He did. He shorted the £ and bet against the UK. Treasonous.

[@ianworley8169]

From the very top, to the bottom. That party is as bent as a suitcase full of £9 notes.

[@gregorymunn484]

As an American I clearly don't understand this reference 😂

[@GarethMachin-rb2sg]

Tim Montgomery said some of his tory mates have already resigned over this betting scandal. He also said he thinks another 6 people are involved. This will cut through and dominate the next couple of weeks. It will be mentioned in same breath as Partygate. This will open a lot of unhealed wounds.

[@daydays12]

the same mentality as party gate

[@musicman5075]

Professional Gambler (who bet against the UK at Goldman Sachs) recruits gamblers as close advisors shock.

[@ronaldsmith2013]

Sunak broke the law twice how can he make a statement on law breaking.

[@homehere21]

Let’s not Forget Sunak Broke the Law at Party Gate.

[@hanselmansell7555]

Stealing the sink on the way out... absolutely and completely Tory.

[@paulterry7672]

What about the MPs in the pocket of the betting companies so many are corrupt

[@Lynnefromlyn]

Including Sunak who gave our tax money to a new gambling company in the form of a very big juicy contract.

[@Lynnefromlyn]

It transpires ( Friday news) that there are many more, the graph showing business in gambling outlets shows an astonishingly high spike the day before the date was announced.

[@tombblades]

LETS MAKE THE 4TH JULY BINDEPENDENCE DAY!

[@Boghopper9999]

Love binface but sad that he actually risks splitting the anti Sunak vote even further

[@rennyleach2190]

All corrupt.

[@nicksherreard1215]

Just completely out of touch with how normal people behave. This is the same entitlement that brought us partygate

[@simonmeadows7961]

All we need to know now is whether Riahi Sunak has placed a bet on who will be Tory leader by Christmas.

[@Boghopper9999]

It's not a bet when dealing with certainties 😋

[@andrewjones-productions]

That's easy though. It will be Farage and it will happen by the end of the summer, let alone Christmas. Farage being the opportunist he is, will approach what's left of the Tory party and will absorb them into Reform, keeping the Tory name. Effectively, making him the leader of the opposition, assuming of course, he isn't beaten at the ballot box by a dolphin.

[@MegaRugster]

Who cares.. Tories.. nuff said.

[@grahamturner1290]

Vote the Tories OUT.

[@VinceLammas]

If corruption is proven, I will be suprised. However, the incomprehensible incompetence is the gift that keeps on giving.

[@hannahsmith-dg9jt]

Was thinking exact same, give give give when it's trash, sleaze and scandals 😮

[@SuzanneJones-qy3zh]

One scandal after another what happened to honesty integrity and accoutability im still waiting spive the lot of them totally corrupt

[@stevenhoward3358]

Tory gamble, a last roll of the dice... I'll bet they're sick of this. Odds are they wanted their last grift.

[@paultaylor7082]

The Tory roulette ad is now been withdrawn, another clanger.

[@daydays12]

well put - 'their last grift'! great

[@philiphoward4966]

NOTHING CHANGES - PPP Contracts, House of LORDS it makes sick in the stomach. Don’t tell me ED DAVEY insists they must resign

[@gio-oz8gf]

Of course you're not naive, Rachel. BTW, I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine. He's a Nigerian prince, and he's got an intriguing business offer to put to you.

[@oulton101]

going....gone.....but not forgiven

[@bigginsd1]

I assumed the Tory campaign director was Armando Iannucci. It has certainly felt like his work.

[@blackroseangel123]

At least they gamble with their own money and not just ours 😂

[@kev8816]

It was probably expensed 😂

[@GaryV-p3h]

They've already lost all ours.

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

Remember when they gave millions to their buddies for not supplying PPE? Pure duncery.

[@stevenwilliamson6236]

People got 80% of their wage. Not 100%? Why not?

[@AgentGreyFox]

We pay their expenses

[@Bluebluepoodle]

I hope they’re extending the investigation of this insider fraud to into the circle of gamblers to all their relations. It is beyond offensive! Sleaze, sleaze, sleaze!!

[@albertbrammer9263]

The Tories just do not care. Sleaze? Normal in that party. Integrity, you pint-sized liar? None in the Tory party.

[@bobrogers6742]

This is a replay of the Covid era parties in number 10. One rule for us and one rule for the proletariat One day there will be a revolution

[@martinnewtonholmes]

Tell us when We`ll get our money on

[@coolboy2811]

3 Tories have resigned thank god 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@nickinthefield4202]

Vile as the tories are and I literally loathe them, more vile still and incredibly concerning are people being drawn away from them, to an even more evil ideology…

[@ashroskell]

The campaign director must have known the day and the hour, or he wasn’t directing squat, so I think it would be equally ridiculous either way. But the fact that Sunak is not firing people for their patent corruption, using the excuse that the law must determine whether a, “crime,” was committed or not, is utterly appalling! We can see corruption that need not be designated a, “crime.” This just shows that Sunak cannot.

[@faradaycool4058]

Politicians and former politicians are above the law in the UK. Democracy indeed

[@MrDeadhead1952]

The MP who placed a bet is liable for being charged with the same offence as the police officer 'misconduct in public office'. And it's immaterial whether he had prior knowledge of the date.

[@d2d2505]

Tories not suspending losing candidates, maybe because some winnable candidates that we don't know about are also involved in it?

[@Mr.Showbiz]

Just LOOK at the number of scandals ascribed to them over the last couple of years alone… abysmal conduct, and this is just the stuff that has come to public attention. Makes you wonder, how much have they managed to get away with… Chuck these shysters in the bin.

[@EnglishAbundance]

It's perfect. I love it. If someone asks you to sum up this grotesque government, you can just point to this simple example of corruption.

[@pms9838]

Clueless

[@stevec6232]

This is an ultimate low point for Rishi...

[@lyudmilakutsenko7045]

And for the first time in history thank you, the new statesman. For this Brazilian series. That's so interesting who is married to whom in the background of the elections. Personal life of all the MP are gossips but tell so much about your channel, the new statesman (that isn't new though).

[@jontalbot1]

Another day, just another scandal. They have a death wish

[@Maggie_n_Mitch23]

5/4 !! No one gets nicked ?🤔. 😂😂😂

[@NikoHL]

There are about 20 involved, including cabinet ministers...

[@richardb8503]

Has Sunak put a bet on being wiped out?

[@red.aries1444]

If you consider how he runs his election campaign, it's most likely that he made a bet he will lose. Let him win ... his bet... and charge him for manipulating a bet... after the election. 🙂

[@BoyeeSmudger]

I'm running out of popcorn, been great watching faulty tories.

[@vronw5782]

😂Ishi rishi is angry that he's been found out 😂

[@einseitig3391]

This reflects a dark part of the British economy, namely the part played by gambling in the so-called leisure industry. With all of us carrying mobile phones with applets for all manner of useful things, gambling is now considered part of the fabric of British society. The lottery and a myriad of gambling companies vie to squeeze, what amounts to a heavy rate of tax, mostly from people who can ill afford it. Denise Coates earns a £250k+ salary plus a £250k+ bonus on the back of people gambling. She has earned billions from what many would consider a vice. It is therefore ironic that the government of the day that presides over this for the sake of taxation, who know its impact on the poorest in society, should ultimately be struck down by its own members trying to make a few ‘easy’ quids.

[@joeledsam3978]

Yes, it is akin to insider trading. Trading rules apply to all employees, not just the senior execs. 'Trading windows', e.g. in the run up to an earnings call, apply whether an employee as knowledge of the earnings or not. It is the same principle here.

[@exgren]

He's already gone.. this just happens to be ANOTHER nail in the coffin... Even the corrupt politicians that placed the bets know what is coming and this is just another chance to get some money before they are all unemployed

[@kevinciccone445]

I would not agree with the later comment that the UK has avoided the lurch to the right, possibly thanks to brexit. Quite the opposite, the UK already had their lurch to the right exactly around the time of the brexit referendum and has moved ever further right since then. If anything, the rest of Europe is simply playing catch-up. The move now back toward the centre in the UK is a good lesson for those in Europe that only failure waits in the direction they are heading. Let's hope they also realise that quickly and revert back to the centre ground before it is too late.

[@sean.butterworth]

This makes partygate look like a Sunday morning at church. I think it IS naive to believe it’s not akin to insider trading

[@davidwright8432]

i'm not convinced this has any political traction. The element of surprise at corruption is simply absent.

[@MarkInOxford]

It’s not a disaster for them already??

[@davidbyster9249]

Evidently, he knew about this, two weeks ago, and didnt do anything about it. What a truly pathetic leader, he is.

[@syewilliams2372]

The real problem is us poor people, why can’t we just be happy with the scraps they leave? We are very ungrateful really- all they do for us

[@LazerDon271]

£100 bet? lmao.

[@NeilHardy-i4l]

Can’t lead to disaster as they are already in the middle of one. Whatever is beyond disaster is now where Sunak and the Party of sleaze are at.

[@terry9819]

Breaking News: Conservative MP manages to tie shoe laces. Unfortunately we have learned that they were from different shoes. The Conservative party has released a statement that they will conduct an investigation into how this happened.

[@christopherspavins9250]

The depravity of the Tories is breathtaking. Britain is more than broken. They think they are still at Eton.

[@linking-it]

Conservative party in has been disarray for years.

[@Sam-jd3sz]

Tories need to pay for their sin. ?

[@Boghopper9999]

You misspelled 'countless sins'

[@malcolmfraser7939]

The NS is falling into the Partygate trap of spending time discussing gambling is a bit like discussing the watchman's indiscretions at the factory gate while the CEO is tackling an unwanted takeover bid by a socialist millionaire . It is first year economics../ journalism.... Just saying.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Never mind the betting scandal, the whole Tory Party is already as sunk as the Titanic.🤔

[@alanfrost4661]

Still got sleasy ways to make money !

[@PtolemyJones]

I find it odd the way these news shows use the term Conservative Party to mean the Tories, when Reform is very clearly conservative as well, perhaps even more so.

[@Lynnefromlyn]

Reform is not conservative. They are totally Fascist.

[@lamontrouse8780]

I've never seen a campaign filled with so much self-sabotage. The Tories will be lucky to come away with 125 seats. I, personally, think they'll end up around 100 to 110. But even that could be wrong.

[@AdrianNicholls]

There are no big beasts. Engorged slugs maybe.

[@adrianaspalinky1986]

Oh. Where's Anoosh?

[@albertbrammer9263]

Sunak, who bet on cricket probably found a way to gamble on the election date himself 😂😂😂

[@GeoffV-k1h]

Tim Montgomerie, head of Conservative Home, reckons there are other inside CCHQ.

[@clundgeweep]

Zero seats

[@Big-Campbell]

Protection officer arrested already, probably didn’t go to a private school. I think we can assume that the privileged few won’t be arrested. One law for us another for them. Lets see.

[@MisterSplendy]

"Will lead???" The pathetic excuse for a human is already a disaster.

[@ErikaBhowmick]

My Good Evrething Is Sooo Toxic

[@tobefree3718]

This is such a weird conversation. What are these guys talking about. They would have had a meeting the day before, to plan the announcement. Of course they had direct knowledge of the impending announcement. And of course sunak did not participate in the placing of bets. Those caught just walked down to the local bookmakers after the meeting, or did it online. Thinking they would get away with it, that no one would notice. It's not so complicated to understand how this would have happened.

[@K_j_M]

It's already a disaster

[@Jimjamesjimmy6138]

SHOES.

[@steveclarke8169]

Can't wait to see Jonathan Pie's thoughts on this.

[@kevinthebespectacledpilgrim]

Follow the money. You can bet (no pun intended) that a lot of friends and family members of the Sunak inner circle of advisers, political colleagues, staffers etc. who knew in advance the election announcement, placed bets on the election date. A bit of investigation needed of the spike in bets placed a few days before the announcement should be most enlightening. Tories just can’t turn down a grift.

[@ashroskell]

The stock market Tory insiders literally bet against the pound, giving the government a vested interest in Brexit breaking the pound, which they did, but that only hurt millions of Britons at a crucial time in public affairs, so the press, including you, had very little to say about that. Now, we catch a handful of insiders with their hands in one of the smaller tills and you all go wild? If only the press had a sense of proportion and bothered to report on real issues.

[@Eyy7072]

Need to watch House of Cards again

[@michaelkavanagh5947]

Gambiling ring hahahaha. Tories: ZERO. Lol. Labour: ALL.

[@carolinejohnson22]

So all the people who vote for labour to win, will VOTE LABOUR 😮

[@bearwoody]

The Conservative Party: Forgotten, but not gone (yet)

[@ashleywilson8306]

I wonder what Rachel’s ideal Sunday is like

[@anthonybrown4874]

Symptomstic of the Tories making off their knowledge and positions they appear to have no moral compass or ethics .

[@mcbunson]

Question: are the inflation figures as good as the hradline rates. What does the detail show when you drill down into the inflation numbers

[@jeffthechristian3010]

Did Rishi leave D-Day early? You bet!