Conservatives to be ‘worldwide laughing stock’ if Rishi Sunak is replaced as leader

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“We would be not only a laughing stock in this country, but we'd be a laughing stock around the world.”
With the Conservatives expected to lose “half” of their seats in the May local elections, polling expert Lord Hayward says some in the party are already preparing calls for Rishi Sunak to go, but warns it would make them “a laughing stock”.
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@jasoncooper9391 5 ай бұрын

This country is a mess and the Tories are fully responsible

@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn 5 ай бұрын

And the people who voted them in.

@joginns778 5 ай бұрын

Don't just blame the people put the blame on those in parliament who had the secret vote to put that clown in power we didn't get the chance to vote who ever wins,@@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn

@RichardFraser-y9t 5 ай бұрын

@@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn I don't dislike those who believed the lies but I dislike those who do not reach out to mislead.

@eastwoodsadventures 5 ай бұрын

Not wholly responsible. It was Blairs government who opened the doors and cosied up to the Human rights band wagon. I agree they have done nothing to rectify the issues.

@jasoncooper9391 5 ай бұрын

@@RichardFraser-y9t I have no sympathy for idiots who voted Tories they must have known worzel Johnson was a Tom pepper he got sacked twice for lying

@andrewfanning3280 5 ай бұрын

This country needs the Tories out.

@jimthompson9370 5 ай бұрын

They’re not in!

@supernoodles91 5 ай бұрын

For a generation at least!!

@sam3317 5 ай бұрын

yeah but we don't need Labour in, that's the problem. The cupboard is bare of leadership.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

@@sam3317 Then people must use their vote, to try to get rid of all these useless politicians.... I think that all 650 of them should be voted out !

@Josh-bn4lb 5 ай бұрын

@@sam3317looking at candidates for the London mayoral election it’s the same, I want anyone except khan to win though he’s actually made my and my family’s life actively worse since being in charge

@jharwood9795 5 ай бұрын

They already are a laughing stock

@madmesmith5187 5 ай бұрын

I feel like i have been Mug'd

@rogergreen2695 5 ай бұрын

laughing stock is not the description of the current situation. There is nothing to laugh at- nothing.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

@@rogergreen2695 Yes, the quality of our ' politicians ' has been going downhill for the last 50 years... They are all NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE... !

@anitasandall 5 ай бұрын

🎉❤😂 EXACTLY what I said !!!!!!!

@RichardFraser-y9t 5 ай бұрын

The Tories are fighting for themselves, not the country.

@nopants3560 5 ай бұрын

It's always been selfishness with Torys , I'm alright jack etc. Me and my cronies are ALL that matters

@jamesprivet 5 ай бұрын

They and their acolytes and press follows always act in a way that puts PARTY before COUNTRY. That cannot be right. COUNTRY MUST BE BEFORE PARTY.

@rustynail1194 5 ай бұрын

As usual.

@JohnThomas-hv3nd 5 ай бұрын

All politions do that.. they are all greedy corrupt self serving pigs

@NZAnimeManga 5 ай бұрын

Zero seats. Zero seats. Zero seats.

@sayhellofolks 5 ай бұрын

I hope so, they are terrible.

@yousausage 5 ай бұрын

ZERO SEATS

@annepoitrineau5650 5 ай бұрын

Zero seats, rinse and repeat :)

@soulman1419 5 ай бұрын

Laughing stock with or without Sunak 🤬

@willtricks9432 5 ай бұрын

True

@TheSuperPsychoKiller 5 ай бұрын

They are a laughing stock now.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

@@TheSuperPsychoKiller It is just a shame that, whilst these useless politicians play, the normal people suffer !

@circularisnotthis 5 ай бұрын

The Tories are now hated. Their only option is to scapegoat now. They must scapegoat the poor, trans and immigrants.

@footnote19 5 ай бұрын

A bit like they’ve been doing for last 13 years

@xavierhucklenbruch1798 5 ай бұрын

at around 12.30 he states that the UK is in better place than Germany..... when was the last time he was there, I see staffed hospitals, high speed rail, industry, manufacturing, and on and on... the UK need to wake up from the dream world they live in ... the fact is that you are the same as Alabama in the USA !!!

@Joe-og6br 5 ай бұрын

The fact London is so rich covers up the fact the rest of the country is so poor.

@garymitchell5899 5 ай бұрын

German trains are notoriously unreliable

@jimthompson9370 5 ай бұрын

We’re a southern state in the US???

@amantedellopera1681 5 ай бұрын

@@jimthompson9370ah hear your being very unfair on that southern us state

@lizdocherty3067 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately the only people living in a dream state in the UK are the wealthy, the rest of us live in a country with more food banks than McDonald's restaurants, numbers of homeless growing, NHS crumbling along with schools, criminals being released early as prisons are full and millions of children living in poverty that's the reality for many.

@thefunpolice 5 ай бұрын

Aussie here. The Tories became a laughing stock when Boris was replaced by someone with a shorter shelf life than a lettuce.

@PaulK-ve1pu 5 ай бұрын

Nah...we became a laughing stock when that clown Johnson was elected.

@RocketRenton 5 ай бұрын

The lettuce may return as Patel's Redbox handler, so it has been rumoured. She is secretly a Lib Dem who wanted to abolish the monarchy, video is on here, and then she meets the Dear Queen RIP to be sworn in as PM, what a joke.

@evie1915 5 ай бұрын

They were laughing stock before then, but funny.

@christianweller4288 5 ай бұрын

Be in no doubt…. it’s nervous laughter.

@SlowhandGreg 5 ай бұрын

The Conservatives are already the world laughing stock

@nigelanstice1647 5 ай бұрын

The tories have been a laughing stock for a long time, going back to the days of dodgy Dave Camoron.

@thegoat11111 5 ай бұрын

The trouble is that they are laughing all the way to the bank with our money!

@jimthompson9370 5 ай бұрын

@@thegoat11111absurd comment.

@ednorton47 5 ай бұрын

They have sabotaged their own party ever since they pulled the rug out from under Margaret Thatcher in 1990.

@gomperhooblet 5 ай бұрын

@@jimthompson9370Why?

@davidpearn2484 5 ай бұрын

When he rolled up his sleeves, and said call me Dave.

@andyash5675 5 ай бұрын

One should always do the right thing, even if one becomes a laughing stock. The actual problem is that the Conservative party takes its image more seriously than doing the right thing.

@alanwatterson2850 5 ай бұрын

First they would have to have a clue what the right thing is.

@daithomas9859 5 ай бұрын

Tories are a worldwide laughing stock anyway. 😂😂😂

@noelfleming3567 5 ай бұрын

👍👏👏

@Dragonsitter 5 ай бұрын

We are switched off because we have lost hope. Come back Labour

@Martynjs 5 ай бұрын

The Tories have been a laughing stock for the past 13/14 years.

@JT-si6bl 5 ай бұрын

Add some zeros to the end of your numbers. Seems like 1500 would be the year… the inception date.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

For many people, ALL the politicians, have been useless, for 50 years !

@julianshepherd2038 5 ай бұрын

Bojo the Clown, Truss the Bonkers and the New Mr Bean. They are laughing at us, not with us.

@noelfleming3567 5 ай бұрын

All d way to d bank😂😂😂

@StringaBell17 5 ай бұрын

No more videos defending Wragg? Shameless lot.

@thegoat11111 5 ай бұрын

The perverts are looking after each other.

@martinjameslewis5702 5 ай бұрын

Laughing stock anyway. Horrible government

@Rosbif06600 5 ай бұрын

There on for around 150 seats at the next election. Who the fk is voting for sewage in the water, a privatised NHS, £billions given to donors in dodgy contracts, £500 million for 200 seats to Rwanda etc...

@kevinjohnson3782 5 ай бұрын

You have to wonder. Lot of gullible people in this country.

@jimthompson9370 5 ай бұрын

@@kevinjohnson3782yep, they’re a disgrace. I’ve no doubt things will get worse when Labour are in power though.

@kevinjohnson3782 5 ай бұрын

@@jimthompson9370 not even possible, given the last 14 years.

@jimthompson9370 5 ай бұрын

@@kevinjohnson3782 Given the likes of Lammy, Dodds, Rayner and Butler… I’m not sure. But we’ll see.

@palantirseas2022 5 ай бұрын

@@jimthompson9370there is no evidence for that! The country was in a far better state the last time Labour were in power. That’s just counting 😂

@thegoat11111 5 ай бұрын

The electorate are getting more angry by the second, so call an election or face the consequences.

@colingillett6447 5 ай бұрын

They are a laughing stock so it would make no difference if they replace sunak they have nothing to lose

@danthsmith 5 ай бұрын

They're already a laughing stock in my house

@noelfleming3567 5 ай бұрын

Best show in town😂😂

@High_Lord_Of_Terra 5 ай бұрын

Get em out.

@patrickquinlan3056 5 ай бұрын

The Tories already inspire peels of insane laughter.

@swally291 5 ай бұрын

We are the laughing stock now, doesn't matter if they sack "Johnny Short Trousers".

@robbuxton8438 5 ай бұрын

What is it with Times Radio. Different people saying the same thing every day while wringing their hands.

@jhonson7079 5 ай бұрын

Ricky needs more time to sell a country off run down the National Health Service and bring in cheap labour from India he has a plan

@176MarkW 5 ай бұрын

Bit of a stretch to think Sunak and his Tories aren't already a worldwide laughing stock!

@peterwilliams3920 5 ай бұрын

The 0:59 UK became a laughing stock the moment it voted for Brexit. As sensible people predicted it's only got worse since.

@gunnargundersen3787 5 ай бұрын

When your government is outsourced to a foreign technocratic power it infantilizes your political class. We are seeing the results of 40 years of not being independent.

@oliver556 5 ай бұрын

Newsflash: they already are

@nicks4934 5 ай бұрын

The uk is a laughing stock

@annepoitrineau5650 5 ай бұрын

Not the UK, its government. Most people are able to tell one from the other, especially in the EU. A lot of Eu citizens have at some point lived and worked in the UK. They have friends, and they feel sorry for the people of the UK.

@user-ek9bv6zd6q 5 ай бұрын

What you mean will be a laughing stock ... we already are. Real Democracy has gone and we all know it. 😠 i have no idea what country i live in anymore its changed soooo much. 😢

@adampowell5376 5 ай бұрын

If the Tories lose half of the seats they are defending on 2nd, May I think that would be a good result for them. If extrapolate that to the general election (I accept that is not very accurate) that would give them 180 seats. I suspect their result in the general election will be worse than that.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

Hopefully.... MUCH worse than that !

@adampowell5376 5 ай бұрын

@@richardruff8712 Even with one MP I think that the Tories would be very dangerous.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

@@adampowell5376 Ha ha ha.. Yes.... Let us hope that the voters will do something really special, whenever the GE comes along... The way that things seem to be going, it may be very exciting to watch the results coming in, on Election night... hopefully !

@AndyRossism 5 ай бұрын

We already are a laughing stock!

@edc8388 5 ай бұрын

"Conservative Polling Expert" - so thats the bias sorted out then !!

@markd1516 5 ай бұрын

Be fair, the hosts did occasionally stop nodding and raise their eyebrows as the Conservative was speaking. Hard-hitting stuff.

@BenRobinson1974 5 ай бұрын

Are you really under the impression the Conservative party is not already a laughing stock???

@willtricks9432 5 ай бұрын

I think every Conservative MP should be given a seat, In a small cell with a strong door and bars on a tiny window.

@korolev-musictodriveby6583 5 ай бұрын

Simple , sensible solution . 👏👏

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

Not just the Tories....... ALL 650 of them !

@willtricks9432 5 ай бұрын

@@richardruff8712 If you do that then you should do the same with every retired MP and MP who is in the Lords.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

@@willtricks9432 Ha ha ha.... Yes, couldn't agree more... Of course, as an alternative... We could send them all to Rwanda.... After all, our Government has decided that Rwanda is, indeed, a SAFE country....

@andrewalexander2699 5 ай бұрын

Are they a serious polictical party or a football team fighting relagation into oblivion, what the country needs for is less important than their survival

@paulsaunders6536 5 ай бұрын

Worldwide laughing stock? 😂 That horse bolted out of the stable in 2016…the world has been laughing ever since.

@noelfleming3567 5 ай бұрын

And it's getting better 😂😂

@maneshipocrates2264 5 ай бұрын

You mean if Sunak is re-elected as PM? Reform is a one trick pony: Brexit/immigration.

@chriszzw30 5 ай бұрын

Reform isn't even in the conversation is it really...

@davidjupp961 5 ай бұрын

Does this old bloke think that they're not an international laughing stock already 😂

@OnlineEnglish-wl5rp 5 ай бұрын

Has a political party ever bern given such a massive mandate for change and totally blown it?

@3ddieLowFilth5layer 5 ай бұрын

What a ridiculous headline - so if they don’t replace Sunak everyone will think they are an honest and competent party? 😂 They are ALREADY a worldwide laughingstock

@mji29 5 ай бұрын

The biggest factor in putting people off politics in my view is the transparent cynicism of the entire political class from Momentum through to Reform with the apex being the Johnston Government, the majority of the UK media being complicit.

@kevinjohnson3782 5 ай бұрын

They already are. Started with Bunter!

@marcusdosh408 5 ай бұрын

Wouldn't say laughing stock more HATED WORLWIDE

@annepoitrineau5650 5 ай бұрын

Please, make sure you differentiate between the people and the government. Current government: laughing stock and probably despised. People: the EU at any rate are definitely feeling very sorry for the people.

@jimmeltonbradley1497 5 ай бұрын

The Reform Party: All show, no go. Alternatively; All mouth and no trousers.

@beachcomber1able 5 ай бұрын

All stetson and no cattle. 😂

@ganrimmonim 5 ай бұрын

Interesting point about ReformUK. However, this chap seems to be trying to get his excuses in ahead of time for how badly the Tories are going to do.

@noelfleming3567 5 ай бұрын

He knows it

@LoneSheWolf09 5 ай бұрын

We already ARE a laughing stock what you on about?!?💁🏾‍♀️🙄🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

@ianwoodall4523 5 ай бұрын

Oh and that bit about Labour matrix being.poor is just Tory rot

@patticriss2238 5 ай бұрын

Welcome to what America has been going thru. You get rid of the yahoos but they keep Coming back. They exhaust me. Listening from Oklahoma

@katywalker8322 5 ай бұрын

Result of effective 2 party political systems pushing adversarial politics

@sisulart 5 ай бұрын

They’re already a worldwide laughing stick, not many of us find it funny though.

@shobhapaul9009 5 ай бұрын

Due to Brexit and all the recent numpty prime ministers we've had, I think we already are a worldwide laughing stock 😬

@rickatatastan2695 5 ай бұрын

We can have a better world if we abandon Rand, Hayek, Freedman and Thatcher.

@maria8809ttt 5 ай бұрын

❤

@Dilbert-o5k 5 ай бұрын

And starbot

@philippajoy4300 5 ай бұрын

No, my information is that Labours polling nationally beats the Tories on every component below the headline figure, and that was not something Blair couls boast of. Maybe the raw figures are lower than Blair, but that is only relevant to 1997 not 2024. Stop trying to fuddle with statistics, or you'll be accused of being a tory shill.

@testingtimes7924 5 ай бұрын

As a working class person , it just feels that I am paying more and more every year, yet recieving less and less. Until any party can explain to me why that has happened and how they are going to reverse it I am not going to vote for them. I do not expect an answer, from any of them, any time soon. They seem to be far too busy enrichening themselves.

@jamesjukebox2386 5 ай бұрын

THEY ALREADY ARE A LAUGHING STOCK AROUND THE WORLD!

@digitalmarketingclub9292 5 ай бұрын

Sorry but they are a laughing stock already. One word say it’s all.

@OneEyedWheeler 5 ай бұрын

They’re already a global laughing stock; where have you been?

@urbanspaceman1 5 ай бұрын

They're already a worldwide laughing stock.

@Withnail1969 5 ай бұрын

I doubt most people abroad even know what the parties are in the UK.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

Most people in UK have no idea what is the difference between the parties ?

@Withnail1969 5 ай бұрын

@@richardruff8712 Politics really is boring because they're all in the same gang.

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

@@Withnail1969 Yes, true... So, whenever the GE comes along, we ALL have the opportunity to make it exciting, for the first time in decades, by using our vote, to get rid of all these failure MP's... Just blindly voting for either Tory or Labour candidates will simply mean another 5 years of this chaos and madness... It is WE the people, who must act now....

@robertgavin980 5 ай бұрын

To quote Frankie Boyle " truss could have been the first prime minister to die because she forgot to breath " 😂

@supernoodles91 5 ай бұрын

Boris Johnson didn't have a vision.....what a ridiculous thing to say!!

@noelfleming3567 5 ай бұрын

D only vision Johnson had was his bank balance 😢😢

@crowdpleaser10 5 ай бұрын

..., and a national laughingstock if he stays, what a conundrum eh!!!🤣

@jamesprivet 5 ай бұрын

Why are you talking or caring about if the Tories are or will be a "laughing stock"? The important and only issue is the "laughing stock" that the UK economy and society has ALREADY BECOME? No? The COUNTRY is more important than any discussion of "PARTY". COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY, not like what you have here.

@midlandgeordie 5 ай бұрын

Tories are history,people are sick of their incompetence and corruption. Thank goodness!!

@alanwatterson2850 5 ай бұрын

The name's Sunk. Tories are already a laughing stock.

@kkhan1823 5 ай бұрын

Do you all think that the politicians care, no because they are shameless. 😊😊😊

@johncollins3391 5 ай бұрын

They already are we dont need the world to tell us

@lester9448 5 ай бұрын

They need to get rid of Biggles 😂

@RF_Burns 5 ай бұрын

This country is a mess and the Tories are fully responsible .....along with: Members of the public who don't want to work but expect free housing and cash, Members of the public who don't want to fight but are happy for others to fight to the death to keep them safe, Members of the public who aren't content with the body God gave them, but expect others to pay for their "transformation" Members of the public who think their "feelings" are more important than your freedom of speech and right to express your opinion, however flawed it may or may not be.

@saminatharbasti7051 5 ай бұрын

Please don’t vote for Sunak, Hunt or Cleverly. They are not fit to be as a member of parliament.

@econundrum1977 5 ай бұрын

The Conservatives are already a laughing stock. The sooner the horror clown show is kicked from office by us the electorate the better.

@foxmaeshelyg 5 ай бұрын

Reform are not a politiical party. Why is your guest claiming they are?

@pulchralutetia 5 ай бұрын

I'm moving to Ireland this year. Thank God.

@Dilbert-o5k 5 ай бұрын

Get there quickly before all the housing has been taken.

@ftsetradersteve2742 5 ай бұрын

No, no, no....Sunak and Hunt are unelectable....Get rid of them both ASAP....

@PatYoung-at-heart 5 ай бұрын

How can you have the millions to compete with the main parties supported by millionaires.

@elogasparian2618 5 ай бұрын

It’s a great work l only can thank you❤

@MZig-rw7su 5 ай бұрын

No Immunity for Liar politicians. Prison!

@FrazerSmithsChannel 5 ай бұрын

Ukraine is not 'lived through'. It is very much ongoing and if the right-wing of the US are anything to go by, a major ongoing concern.

@philipriley2253 5 ай бұрын

We are a laughing stock now, we have our SECOND UNMANDATED PM and the third of this term. The first kicked out for lieing (Partygate etc), the second who crashed the economy including hard working people's pensions & now a man who can't use a credit card or asks a homeless guy if he's in business. He has selective amnesia over things like covid, while signing off contracts for mates, Donor's & family. As for the local elections, last time they "predicted" they would lose around 800 seats, thinking they'd lose around 500/600 so could claim a victory, yet lost over 1,000. Let's hope they lose more than predicted again....

@Mariazellerbahn 5 ай бұрын

Six years ago, Labour were finished. What short memories you all have. Give it another 6 years you'll be voting Tories in again.

@annepoitrineau5650 5 ай бұрын

UK in a better place than Germany???????????????? Has he travelled there recently??????

@davidwright7193 5 ай бұрын

As for verification. I was at a count once where polling district A and polling district B shared a polling station. It took 5 recounts before it was accepted that one more person from district A had put their ballot in box B than vice a versa. With multiple elections on different ballot papers the first thing you need to do is check that all the papers are in the right box before you start the verification process. Verification won’t do that as someone who puts a paper in the wrong box has probably made the opposite mistake with the second box. Verification only tallies the total number of papers in the box with the number of papers issued so verification won’t catch me putting my mayoral ballot in the council box and my council ballot in the mayoral box. This is why the papers will be of different colours it is then easy to spot the wrong papers as you don’t have to look at them. As a party agent verification generally gives you the result as a 2% random sample of the votes (the top vote on a bundle of 50) is often good enough to predict the result. In a local ward it’s +/- 10%, in a constituency it is more like +/- 3%.

@michaelbrian219 5 ай бұрын

Fools to left of me, jokers to right of me, the way of British politics.

@radiofreecanada 5 ай бұрын

"Arising from Brexit..." 🧐

@adamsimmons631 5 ай бұрын

Why a laughing stock if Rishi was replaced? They are a laughing stock now

@VictorSamMikey 5 ай бұрын

That's the very reason he remains as PM.

@nickpage7333 5 ай бұрын

Conservative polling ‘expert’? Meaning he’s biased towards the Tories? Meaning he’s not liberal with his data? And half will be a ‘conservative’ estimate.

@annepoitrineau5650 5 ай бұрын

Sorry, what makes anybody think the tories are not already a laughing stock. I live across three countries (UK, Switzerland, France). They feel very sorry for the Brits in general, and comment that the UK's obsession with Brexit rests on the fact it is not working, while the EU has moved on. But they really feel sorry for the PEOPLE of the UK, and bets are open regarding when Scotland, NIreland will leave the Union, and by how much Plaid Cymry will increase in Wales...and what about Cornwall?

@richardruff8712 5 ай бұрын

Don't mention the Isle of Wight and the Isle of Man.....