Andrew Neil Calls Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer 'Third-Rate' Politicians

[@Pinkus53]

Andrew is absolutely right in referring to our present crop of politicians as second rate. The quality of MPs is far inferior to what many of us remember when the standard of debate was infinitely better than we hear today.

[@PhillipRobinson-g6q]

Third rate is quite a compliment for those two nonentities!

[@benedictcowell6547]

And what rate does that make you? Tenth rate? One of those sublime unconscious Humour by a supporter. I should have thought You never know with Nige How True. Brexit Reformists You never know with Nige Not even Nige knows .

[@albanvic]

THIRD rate I must re-calibrate. It's double figures for me. They are not on this planet.

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

The whole political class is 3rd grade and in the hands of foreign interests, in my opinion. When rishi and starmer are the answers you know we're asking the wrong questions.

[@BillDavies-ej6ye]

And so is Andrew Neil. Murdoch's man.

[@markpalmer8083]

Correct. Reform 2024 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@johnmulligan912]

@@markpalmer8083Mark please vote reform 😂

[@mikethebloodthirsty]

When Jeremy Hunts wife basically writes propaganda for the Chinese government abroad, then that's all you need to know.

[@mikethebloodthirsty]

​@@markpalmer8083Reform?, A bunch of rich right wing businessmen?... They are the answer?.😅

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

The fault for all this should be laid at Blair's feet. He dragged British politics in to the gutter with Campbell and Mandy. They've destroyed the country.

[@prashantduggal8235]

So it has nothing to do with the lies, fraudulence, economic mismanagement, disastrous public sector management, Brexit and embarrassing Foreign Policy of the Tory Government in the last 14 years?

[@Catsbooksandmozart]

17 years since Blair left office - what did Brown, Cameron, May, BJ, Truss or Sunak do to improve things?

[@andrewhotston983]

​@@CatsbooksandmozartAlso true.

[@RobertThomson-y4m]

@@Catsbooksandmozart the changes Blair made were impossible to address and he knew it.

[@Catsbooksandmozart]

​@@RobertThomson-y4m well if you honestly believe that nothing can be done since Blair - you may as well just not bother voting

[@jackspring7709]

3rd rate? He's way too generous to them.

[@rwo5402]

I wonder what Andrew Neil rates himself...

[@johnmorris2414]

From the man who fronted GB News!

[@jackspring7709]

@@johnmorris2414 True.

[@stitcheruk1150]

Ed Ball is still a PRATT! Who often didn’t know what he was talking about

[@andrewgamble5332]

Third rate is flattery.They are outrageous chancers.

Pencil necked career politician in Sunaks case and whimsical bullshitter in Starmers case.

[@mikelheron20]

All 650 or the handful you've heard of?

[@singlendhot8628]

He's absolutely right - we have lost out on class!

[@ManForToday]

Sad that Tony Blurt can't walk down the street for a coffee. Well, 1 million dead in the Middle East since the illegal invasion is a bit sadder, tbh.

[@adam7802]

Not to forget everything that has come since as a consequence of that.

[@boulevard14]

Yeah blame the Pentagon and US foreign intelligence for that, they lied to the west. Any leader in Tony's place would've followed their advice.

[@blazzz13]

@@adam7802 I mean Blair is hardly responsible for Libya and the causing a stable country to become a hive for immigration to Europe is he? You can thank call me Dave for that.

[@Lagerfanny-g7e]

@@adam7802Yes, the unstabling of the Middle East.

[@krob2327]

Diane is well known in westminster as having alcohol issues. Like ken clarke. How odd nobody in the bubble lets this be known

[@stitcheruk1150]

Blair was very successful in changing the face of the country, much to its detriment - just to ensure a generation of new labour voters.

[@MusicWorld-ix9yg]

And unfortunately the Conservative Party which are meant to be in direct opposition to Left wing ideology have continued this policy by allowing millions of immigrants into the country who will then have children to become UK citizens and will then most likely vote Labour.

[@chrismanners9091]

@@MusicWorld-ix9ygUkrainians and Hong Kongers, famously left wing!

[@MusicWorld-ix9yg]

@@chrismanners9091 Maybe not them but Muslims and Blacks are left wing and the population of Muslims is rapidly increasing so as there population grows that will increase there voting power and benefit the Labour Party.

[@michaeloshea7360]

well said that man...

[@Nnomadd]

it is indeed true and not just for the UK that our current political leadership is 3rd rate.

[@ffrederickskitty214]

Couldn’t agree more. Unprincipled career politicians

[@andrewjones-productions]

Oh they have principles. It is just that those principles are focused on themselves and not the country or people.

[@jacobbnjmn]

This country has an opportunity for a political hard reset! A vote for Labour or Conservatives would be a thoughtless vote.

[@robtheplod]

'third rate' ? he's being very generous.... the level of politicians is abysmal. People deserve so much more, but to get it, they will have to vote for it...... voting red or blue is saying 'the last 40 years have been great, lets keep doing it!'

[@BarryPaston]

Todays polititions are not capable of doing the job they are paid to do 😂

[@DOCTORDROTT]

"Humane to put Dianne Abbott down" , quote of the day and mad me laugh out loud

[@berylgrinham7011]

why have the softly softly approach to ABBOTT she definitely don,t care what she says to other people,She should have been got rid of yrs if not a side kick of CORBYNSKI

[@uttaradit2]

blare cant walk down the high street but he can still breathe...

[@garymccormick7551]

The fact Blair can't show his face on the highstreet warms the cockles of my heart

[@PassiveAgressive319]

Why would he? He’s not running for office

[@boulevard14]

Must live a sad life, Gary. Imagine blaming Blair himself, and not the "intelligence" that advised him.

[@chrisdickens4268]

​@@boulevard14by intelligence do you mean his own brain, George Bush or his Messiah complex? Because the actual intelligence has already been shown to be different to what the public was shown.

[@gerardmackay8909]

@@chrisdickens4268 knew how to run a country though, didn’t need dodgy intelligence to do that

[@boulevard14]

@@chrisdickens4268 The UK foreign intelligence, who usually advises the Prime Ministers on such issues. But they themselves were informed by US intelligence. It was the Pentagon that lied to the west about weapons of mass destruction. Basically Blair was misled the US. The reality is, any politician in Blair's place would've have followed the same intelligence.

[@stevenhowe6677]

Britain needs ................... REFORM

[@AhmedMohamed-tn5yg]

More like morphine than reform I presume

[@rwo5402]

...yes but not from Reform

[@garywilson6047]

The walking car crash that is Dianne Abbott.

[@1957bumpy]

The human calculator lol

[@jean-lucpicard5510]

How much has she stolen from the tax payer from unfit PPE equipment, and Covid fraud? answers on a postcard?

[@samuelcraig]

He’s not wrong. They’re both the same

[@user-eb3si]

Reform 👍

Used to like Andrew Neils late night chat thing with Portillo.

[@UKProud]

VOTE REFORM

[@joeyclarkejoey6212]

Nigel Farage for PM !!

[@kevinwillis6707]

Oh my aching sides..😅

[@georgethepatriot2785]

wow great news Farage to stand ,,With Reform there is Hope with the rest ? Hopeless. Whose side are they on ? Brits we can do this

[@kurman4749]

Farage will lose in Clacton as he has done when running in his six previous attempts to become an MP.

[@willrichards3389]

Brits? Isn't that an Americanism

[@peteraston4753]

UK mp,s have been 3rd rate or lower for 50 years

[@goharikjones7387]

Reform will get my vote .

[@N13TheGeneral]

lol

[@millwallholdings]

@@N13TheGeneral Labour Starmer and Raynor etc LOL LOL

[@Sharpcarbon6]

Reform & Nigel👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@Cherrytune386]

Never, Farage is a flip FLOP conman.

[@mickyg6981]

He's not wrong on 3rd raters, wrong on Blairs sadness, better than jail

[@TheDandonian]

It's just more Tory spin. Every Conservative on TV for the last 2 years has said "Starmer is no Tony Blair" and they've followed that up with "Labour are going to win but not because of Labour". It's repeated 1,000 times per week on TV. They are hoping Labour voters will become over confident/apathetic and stay home thinking the job is done.

[@drscopeify]

Why? Saddam had used chemical weapons against its own people killing 3,000 to 5,000 people with Chemical weapons during Halabja massacre. So why would Tony Blair have to go to Jail for doing the right thing?

[@PassiveAgressive319]

Sunak is the nerdy math teacher at school who is asked to fill in as Deputy Head due to staff sickness and just fails miserably at the job in hand.

[@peterridd3999]

And Starmer is a chameleon

[@Mike-br8zt]

Ouch!

[@daisychain9713]

Yet he's a multi millionaire and actually a winner here regardless of if he wins the election...he can just walk into the sunset and laugh at what the rest of us have to endure for the next 5 yrs

[@rodgerhargoon3402]

Lord sunik is as shabby as lord Robert Clive of india😂😂😂😂..

[@nathanjones9127]

Maths?! Nah, Business Studies head of department

[@jameskirrane6370]

Julie Echingham - very good. She was appalling.

[@stevenhowe6677]

VOTE REFORM UK

[@elainewojnicki9610]

No chance!

[@kylenwilliams7867]

With Dianne Abbot its a case of incompetence slip ups and making weird statements, her behaviour is very arrogant

[@mikeowen1192]

Come on nigel show them how it's done , we need reform to get our country back,

[@rodgerhargoon3402]

Am really scared of lord nigel........hes going to start colonizing again.......😂😂

[@sysasst670]

Go Nigel Go. Reform is the only vote for true change!

[@gerardmackay8909]

@supersaintchristophe337 absolute gift to Labour

[@simonsmith4015]

True please go Nigel like you promised you would when Brexit failed and he's on tape saying it has.

[@Hn-gz5iw]

@supersaintchristophe337 Starmer represents a party that got us into Iraq and made our inner cities islamic hot spots

[@reefermark5298]

blair should be in prison not thinking he can walk down the street

[@rachelbarlow9382]

Why? Be specific!

[@arthur9924]

@@rachelbarlow9382 Iraq.

[@garyb455]

Farage is one of Europe's most influential Politicians over the last 25 years he will take millions of Labour and Conservative votes

[@gerardmackay8909]

Poltician? He was never there he’s the biggest charlatan/grifter to ever sully our public discourse but you can depend on the fact that the Labour voters who are fooled by him are in seats where it won’t matter, the Tories on the other hand are in seats where it will.

[@simonsmith4015]

Can you do anything other than cut n paste the same comment on dozens of threads?

[@angelagraham9378]

He won’t cos only people in the constituency can vote for him, and I doubt Reform will either

[@kevinwillis6707]

​@@simonsmith4015he will have to log off when his carer calls..

[@missmerrily4830]

Love Andrew Neil. He's so good at the nitty gritty and very balanced and well measured. Which of course is why the BBC made sure they shut him down!

[@BarryPaston]

3rd rate surely not that high 😂😂😂😂😂

[@waynej4962]

End career politicians. Abbott did what in all that time?

[@spartacusforlife1508]

He's right. Sunak and Starmer are at best, middle management.

[@DavidRobinson-rj2sp]

Didn't Andrew Neil profess that we the unvaccinated should be 'exterminated'!

[@AA-yc8yr]

Shame you haven't been.

[@chrismanners9091]

I'm guessing no.

[@elainewojnicki9610]

@@AA-yc8yr ?

[@michaeloshea7360]

indeed ...we were a danger to society

[@johnrawlins6147]

Never vote Conservative or Labour ever again

[@garywilson6047]

God help us when Labour get in, and god help us if they don’t.

[@stw7506]

Spot on about todays politicians being third rate which is why it is so difficult to choose

[@peterweston1356]

I find most of these political chats overwhelmingly argumentative, egotist and repetitive. This chat was very engaging, not without ego but well managed and curiously reassuring that the main stream media can offer a thoughtful and contentious piece, while making it accessible to everyone. Thanks

[@noellelenihan4124]

Reform Uk 🇬🇧 Nigel 🙌!!!!!!!

[@Celticsamuraiblue]

This ‘gammon’ Andrew Neil shouldn’t be anywhere near a tv screen.

[@patrickcollins9817]

3rd rate would be a complement!

[@Griffo5446]

He's quite correct. A pair of no hopers. Rishi and starmer. 2nd rate

[@edbuller4435]

third rate broadcaster speaks !

[@uttaradit2]

and he fits right in

[@Deearepee1963]

Third rate? You're being generous.

[@keithwilkins1437]

They both have as much charisma as a pomegranate . (Apologising after does not make it "all right "" )

[@brummie.bill-379.]

I guess Andrew Neil being a third rate person, he should know these things.

[@kurman4749]

Absolutely correct!

[@challenger5014]

Totally agree, he's a third rate back stabber so should know exactly what a third rate politician looks like 😂

[@SimonSmith-yd6tt]

he made 1 smart choice when he walked away from GBNewts and said it was like Fox News

[@cherylno583]

centrist dads when their preferred interviewer goes against their favourite politicians

[@JamesBarber-p7b]

Both should be taken off until after the election reporters journalists and TV presenter should be unbiased, i expect Ed is hoping to get a call from Keir on 5th of July

[@robertbolder5319]

He is right about todays politicians, none of them have the gravitas of previous generations of politicians.

[@collieman]

Very common tactic when conservatives are losing is to pull the "both sides bad" card. Voter apathy benefits the Tories grreatly.

[@vectispete9415]

Absolutely people who say "they are as bad as each other" are tory voters

[@chindit6784]

Definitely agree they are tory or reform but with how bad kier has been recently it's hard to have much enthusiasm. Great British energy is a con and the rest of his policies are no different from the tories other than maybe nationalising rail. Let's see how he does. The purges, two face lying and being owned by foreign lobbies really undermine my optimism for him

[@Noel-ji8nm]

​@@vectispete9415They are as bad as each other. Tory Neil said their's not a cigarette paper between them.

[@vectispete9415]

@@Noel-ji8nm Possibly but hopefully the Labour party will be at least competent and not as clearly corrupt.

[@Noel-ji8nm]

@@vectispete9415 The bar is low.

[@flashback1123]

VOTE REFORM 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 NIGEL FARAGE is a skilled political player 👍👍👍 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@S-I-T]

No thanks.

[@elainewojnicki9610]

@@S-I-T Me neither.

[@RonaldCardy]

Andrew Neil said the most important thing that happened to Tony Blair was he can’t walk down the street exactly the same as BORRIS JOHNSTON Should be ASHAMED to be seen in public STREAT JUSTICE KARMA PEOPLES JUSTICE 🇬🇧😇

[@DS9TREK]

Boris Johnson

[@denzel270]

Diane Abbot said 'Chairman Mao did more good than harm'. She should never be forgiven for that. That is not 'loopy'. That is disgusting.

[@PC1974]

And that's being kind.....

[@basher5013]

Neil knows third rate well

[@alangreen737]

Bring him back BBC, brilliant interviewer, none better.

[@federicafurlotti]

The greatest he should have his tv show again

[@soulcrewblue8629]

Not bad considering there is no such thing as a first rate politician.

[@randallowen9350]

Something needs to be done about the plethora of third rate journalists like Neil. Camilla Tominay is streets ahead of this bloke.

[@kerrynewnham8946]

I’d like to see Andrew Neil accepting his employers suggest he move on in a gentle and compassionate way

[@testingtimes7924]

I agreed with everything Andrew Neil said until he absolved Blair up to Iraq. The rot in the U.K. started under Blair and it has gotten a whole lot worse ever since. Not for Blair or Andrew Neil, obviously, but certainly, for the vast majority.

[@stevenhowe6677]

REFORM 2024

[@kalim3238]

Andrew neil. A true hero of the ppl. 👌👏👏 sir a pleasure to see you always. N ur right 3rd rate if only corbin or gallaway was to rule

[@DavidM-gx8fs]

Vote Reform

[@nathanjones9127]

Her constituents want her, she's more popular in her constituency than Starmer is in his.

[@Borgie31]

Dianne Abbott isn't the sharpest tool in the tool box. No wonder why Labour have dropped her like a stone.

[@christurrell9578]

Andrew is spot on, the selection we have to choose from now is a joke

[@pugking4518]

I do find it funny that if you could be the next PM you need to be interviewed by Andrew Neil the days of the MSM dictating who will be the PM are long gone

[@DS9TREK]

You don't think politicians should be interviewed on TV during an election?

[@pugking4518]

@@DS9TREK That is not what I was getting at my point is that the MSM are so arrogant that they think that to be the next PM you need to be interviewed by them it's the arrogance I can't stand

[@susannamarker2582]

Remember when Susanna Reid bullied Boris because of that non-story Partygate ? She was told by her editors to do that.

[@ollysanders2746]

VOTE REFORM !

[@johnbell1859]

Abbott, is nuts simple as. 🇬🇧

[@jrphartley]

This chat is so cosy it makes me fit to puke.

[@richjay4729]

Those spectacles ohh dear

[@susannamarker2582]

I will never forgive Blair for taking all hereditary peerage out of the House of Lords. Blair was a Trotskyist at University. His american Supreme Court should be abolished, plus all those single-issue committees which sit above Parliament, like the OBR, Climate Commission, the National Crime Agency. These squeeze the value of our votes in Parliament.

[@arthur9924]

Agreed the Diane has been treated awfully. I'm not politically aligned with her at all, but she is an important figure in British politics and deserves respect. I greatly miss the old This Week programme with her, Neil and Portillo.

[@peterdockerty8077]

Would love to have heard Andrews views on what would have happened to Blair if John Smith had not tragically died

[@MusicWorld-ix9yg]

Yeah maybe it would have been different but he did die from a surprise Heart attack. That is assuming that it is the politicians who implement the policies and not secret groups as stated in “The Plot: The Political Assassination of Boris Johnson” by Nadine Dorris.

[@christophernunn943]

John Smith undoubtedly the best PM that never was god bless him

[@kevinberry4949]

He is still the best political interviewer around

[@colinford7033]

Who told her that THE GLASSES looked good😵😵‍💫🥸

[@khairulnaeim756]

Time gone by just...that,

[@rolandrothwell4840]

The leaders debate was a washout! I learned nothing about their policies or world view

[@kurman4749]

Neil is correct about politicians today. Neil, too, is a substandard broadcaster and could never be considered anywhere near the best.

[@markpalmer8083]

So at this debate, we're being presented, by the corporate media, Sunak vs Starmer, as if there's no other choice. Reform 2024 🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@jonbeavis8963]

Says the man who ran away crying from GB news

[@kurman4749]

Neil is useless as a broadcaster. No one takes much notice of what he says.

[@chrisgraham6148]

Still waiting for Neil to discuss the excess death rates following lockdowns

[@Jourifouler]

Ah yes Andrew Neil, who is not known for his honesty, integrity and non bias

[@Philljag]

Isn’t he the Wally who dances at the end of his programme 😂😂

[@myfyrmadocjones]

Third rate? They can only aspire to be rated that highly. 🤣

[@eggshen6470]

Blair can’t walk down the high street because he is directly responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. And Andrew Neil says that is ‘sad’. Shame on him

[@worship568]

Andrew Neil is Murdoch's man, and so the fact that he has shown up on this show is no accident. Don't let the title fool you. Murdoch is backing Starmer

[@Connorpunk2024]

The thing is this election is not about two leaders. It’s about labour vs Tory and labour will win. 2019 it was about getting Brexit done and 2017 it was corbyn vs may

[@BrianRhind-d2c]

he is spot on

[@alantrowbridge4931]

Well said Andrew