“He’s just fired the starting gun“: Sunak’s pre-election pitch analysed | LBC

In a major pre-election speech, Rishi Sunak told voters today that 'the next few years will be some of the most dangerous our country has ever known.' James O'Brien and LBC's political editor are on hand to analyse what it all means.
"More will change in the next five years than the last 30," The Prime Minister said.
"I'm convinced that the next few years will be some of the most dangerous yet the most transformational that our country has ever known."
He warned "the dangers that threaten our country are real" and "they are increasing in number".
He said there is war in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
And he added that Russian leader Vladimir Putin's "recklessness has taken us closer to a dangerous nuclear escalation than at any point since the Cuban Missile Crisis".
The paradox of our age is that for all the profound dangers that we face, right now we also hold in our hands an opportunity for human progress that could surpass the industrial revolution in speed and breadth.
"Technologies like AI will do for the 21st century what the steam engine and electricity did for the 19th."
“Our country stands at a crossroads.
"Over the next few years from our democracy to our society to our economy to the hardest questions of war and peace, almost every aspect of our lives is going to change.
"And how we act in the face of those changes, not only to keep people safe and secure but to realise the opportunities too, will determine whether or not Britain will succeed in the years to come."
Ending his speech he said: “My pledge to you is that I will help you fulfil your ambitions. To create that dynamic innovative economy for a more financial and secure life for your family.
“You can trust me to keep you and your family secure from threats we face abroad. We can and we will create a secure future.”
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[@hohohohehehe6910]

Labour ignores the achievements of the last 14 years? What achievements?

[@7dtdfil730]

Wealth inequality has boomed...

[@gm9460]

Exactly . Has no one asked him what these are ?

[@jax6271]

They have rolled out fibre internet😂

[@julianshepherd2038]

Blue passport and crown on beer glasses.

[@pip1723]

We got brexit and took back control lol.

[@leekelly9639]

We don’t need Russian Gas, when we have Tory Gaslighting..

[@ReedoTV]

Anti-woke because they are asleep at the wheel

[@Frederique41]

😂

[@kendiamond8722]

Hear hear old fellow 😂

[@grahamdhv3812]

I burst out laughing when he said their achievements over the past 14 years!

[@brianharris7243]

The air turned blue around me!

[@raycummings1309]

We got loads of food banks.😢

[@jamessteel9016]

Just call the election now inaction man, such a coward.

[@user-zc4yd9ss7h]

The PM is so out of his depth it has become embarrassing.

[@zwartepoesje]

Be out of its depth in bird bath

[@MrTonyHeath]

All the last four have been

[@paranormalpendle5920]

Desperate by Sunak. Utterly desperate.

[@pete_lind]

Show clearly when Jeremy Corbyn is not even a Labor MP anymore ... and getting out of NATO , is it not the Tories that want to get out of everything EU, ECHR , UN , no co-op with EU army, that is all NATO countries in Europe .

[@parametr]

Tbh, I'm pretty sure he is just holding off until Indian elections end on June 1st. Get a horrible India deal, and call general elections in UK.

[@jsd8981]

Agreed absaloutly...

[@jsd8981]

​@@parametrI agree ...

[@duncancurtis5108]

Tory scare tactics.

[@mufccharliemufcglazersout]

Sunak talks absolutely 🐂💩

[@potnoogle5780]

Agree 💯

[@chatham43]

@muf And if he doesn't...he should..because he's a tory!

[@Millieannagal62]

I’m trying think of something f they achieved in 14 years there’s nothing so I dunno what’s he talking about

[@chatham43]

@Millie So which government in recent times achieved anything of substance?

[@Gary-le7dz]

Chatham 43 …..14 years ago the nhs had the highest approval rating ever 76% now at its lowest 26% ….. I can list loads of other things but no point with potless Tory s

[@leekelly9639]

I agree with Rishi on 1 thing , the British are a nation of optimists, and I’m optimistic that Rishi will lose the election..

[@robertdarby6553]

I am beginning to think that Sunak is as big a liar as Johnson.

[@MegaKapo12]

Its like he shrinks a millimetre every time he lies.

[@RobertJones-ku4fg]

beginning? 😂

[@mp71001]

@@MegaKapo12 A shrinking pinocchio

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

​@@MegaKapo12If that's true, he'll be smaller than a borrower by the time we get to the election.

[@breamoreboy]

I consider the entire 'government' to be a pack of liars, and I was raised Tory.

[@captainfrandad1138]

This speech seems to be his most delusional so far. Nothing he said makes any sense or bears any resemblance to reality.

[@chatham43]

@captain And if it did we would totally ignore it..because he's a tory!

[@jackpritchard9202]

I'd sooner vote for a lawyer than a liar

[@chatham43]

@jack And the difference is?

[@ehnowthen]

Keir is a lawyer too if that's who you're referring to

[@allonwne]

@@chatham43 0

[@stickytapenrust6869]

@@ehnowthenWell Sunak is an investment wa - sorry - banker so he’s not a lawyer…

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

Sunak is no politician.

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

No he is, he's just one who blatantly does what he's told, the others just do better at concealing that fact.

[@nigelsynnott7344]

@@The_Phoenix_Saga Tinfoil hats at the ready!!

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

@@nigelsynnott7344 Heard the same thing during lock down... I'm still laughing best having laughed last

[@user-sd3ik9rt6d]

@@nigelsynnott7344 I think he has his tin foil hat on far to tight.

[@nigelsynnott7344]

@@The_Phoenix_Saga Go on then, let's hear your conspiracy theory about someone telling Sunak what to do. Ready with your tinfoil hat firmly in place?

[@Jourifouler]

"when labour ignores the achievements of the last 14 years." mate there are none 💀

[@nipstyler]

The achievements he's referring to are the rampant funnelling of our wages into his mates off shore accounts which thanks to Brexit are still out of reach of the HMRC.

[@MrsGardiner]

They are so easy to miss. What achievements in the last 14 years? Is he talking about the size of his buddies wallets again?

[@DW-indeed]

"it wasn't me! I've done a *great* job!" Out you go Rish.

[@kanedNunable]

forgetting he was chancellor for 2 years too. he is an utter failure at everything bar making his family better off

[@emmafrench7219]

@DW-Indeed And don't let the cat flap hit you on the way out.✌

[@crncrn6370]

One of the worst speeches ive ever heard

[@lw1zfog]

you don’t sound anywhere near scared enough citizen ! 😂

[@weswheel4834]

We don't need to reduce the last 14 years to only 49 days to make it look bad. Most of the other days weren't great either, Rishi.

[@ThomasKing19933]

Sunak has no connection to the people whatsoever. Embarrassing.

[@patwaine8946]

And neither has starmer.

[@weswheel4834]

@@patwaine8946 That's a pretty poor response. Unlike Sunak, Starmer wasn't rich growing up. Didn't pay to go to school. Did well for himself, and now sounds a bit posh. But don't try and fool us into thinking that they're both the same, or have had similar life experiences.

[@hohohohehehe6910]

Try listening to starmer, then engage your brain. Thanks to him your energy bills are cheaper.

[@ozzie2612]

@@patwaine8946

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

@@weswheel4834 And I take it you know everything there is about Starmer or that he knows anything about you personally. 😏 The blind leading the blind.

[@shaneedwards596]

"doom and gloom", "gaslighting" wasn't Sunak talking about himself and the Tories?

[@SuperBratters]

" Putin loves the Labour Party". This from the Party and Person literally financed by Putin.

[@user-im8us6sg5d]

Putin loved Brexit and would love us to leave the ECHR.

[@keithparker1346]

No they are not. I don't like the Tories but you need to prove your claim they are financed by Putin

[@HuplesCat]

The Tories gave an actual Russian a Lordship 😂

[@paulc1553]

Tories are toast.

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

Until establishment wants them in again.

[@arghjayem]

Not really they’re just moving into Labour or are already in Labour!

[@MurphyOCP-001]

@@arghjayem Wrong

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

​@@arghjayemSo you suggest Labour reject all these people and continue their 14 year losing streak?

[@viperzvapourz4738]

Toasties?

[@Britain4775]

Proudest achievement of the Sunak: 1. Absolute poverty: UK sees biggest rise for 30 years. The figure jumped to 12 million in 2022-2023, a rise of 600,000. 2. Britain’s record legal migration numbers. 3. We look at current government unfunded state pension and public pension liabilities and call it a ponzi scheme as it is unfunded and like to fall apart or more likely the amount promised may not be delivered. The UK government currently has almost £5 trillion worth of pension liabilities which it will have to pay in the future (£1.2 trillion for public service pensions and £3.84 trillion in respect of the state pension). Most of these are unfunded, meaning that they are largely paid out of annual tax revenues and the bill for them is being passed on to future generations because today’s government is not putting money aside to cover them.

[@Jim90117]

The future generations wont pay it, we're in a birthrate implosion due to absolutely no policy to help people become new parents. At our current rate there wont be enough young people to pay the pensions in 2 or 3 decades. The problem is much much worse than you think.

[@alanbarker2279]

Don't forget that our 4 and 5 year olds are now the shortest in Europe. You will be hard pressed to convince me that this was not a deliberate move by the evil puppet!!!

[@MrCallumDennis]

@@Jim90117 imagine if there was a large amount of people willing to work and pay taxes right now to bolster the workforce at very low cost to healthcare and education...

[@DJWESG1]

​@Dragonaut111 doesn't matter, they've got robots now.

[@MegaKapo12]

​@@MrCallumDennisyou don't want them they will come her to take everyones jobs and benefits.

[@w-james9277]

It's like hiring a builder to repair your house and he not only knocks it down, he says what a great job he's done.

[@w-james9277]

One party leader is a former hedge fund manager, the other is a former human rights lawyer. I wonder which one has the peoples best interests at heart?

[@patwaine8946]

Starmer has nobodys interest in mind he just wants power.

[@nipstyler]

​@@patwaine8946We didn't get any of that, can you finish chewing your crayons and have another go when your mouth is empty?...

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

The only thing the British public needs to worrying ourselves about is the prospect of another 5 yeats of the Tories, we can all do our bit to save the country from that potential catastrophe.

[@Millieannagal62]

I think we all all need to do are bit buy extra posting to friends reminding if there failures and hope people don’t think oh okay are give him another chance cuz there mess up cuz wen I do care and care about your selfs that’s what happens but people have to know there no going back 1 or 2 years down the line it’s 5 years can u imagine the damage they could do! I don’t wanna think about it. He says labour won’t commit to defense well i wanna know why he won’t answer where the money is coming from! That’s because it’s the old aged pension people worked hard for and paid into there see it if they lucky and don’t die before 75 through having to work to 75

[@sanchezz4387]

Oh and when labour was in power defence spending was at 2.75% GDP who reduced it twice again?

[@hohohohehehe6910]

The Tories tore down all the army camps in 2014. Including Bordon, my home.

[@SlowhandGreg]

Cameron and Osborne I believe and if you look at Sunak's spending proposals for defence there a complete work of fiction

[@Alex-cw3rz]

Exactly and the tories are saying it would take two parliaments to get to the level labour's spending was after a global recession

[@shaun906]

@@SlowhandGreg i agree, they aren't even bothering to fulfil their 2019 manifesto promises, they went out the window years ago.

[@johnrussell3961]

The Tories love peace dividend’s. Any chance at declaring peace and out comes the chopper to defence spending.

[@GoingMenthol]

"The room was packed with aids" is probably the best description I've heard about the Conservatives so far

[@stuartcuthbertson3295]

He talks about Labour GASLIGHTING................its his party that has been doing that for decades.

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

As if there were a difference between the two... 🙄

[@ozzie2612]

@@The_Phoenix_Saga there is

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

@@ozzie2612 Then you really have no idea how the game is played. Think of each party as a different coloured cup and the establishment is the tap from which each cup is filled. Does that water taste any different because of the colour of the cup? No, it doesn't. Establishment pushes for whatever party they want in and the politicians simply make a career in bickering to give the impression there's actually a difference. But because most people don't pay attention, it works and keeps them in line.

[@ozzie2612]

@@The_Phoenix_Saga well , it's always better under LABOUR so we might as well have them in , no point having 14 right wing wasted years and then vote further right and expect better

[@michaelfoy]

​@@ozzie2612Certainly ALLWAYS better when you Work in the NHS! Let Alone the REST of it......

[@sanchezz4387]

He's right about one thing. This country will be changed beyond recognition in 5 years time. Every time labour is in power the country flourishes

[@PBas-qq4uh]

What, when ? They left office and left us with loads of debt, and open borders, tories labor , they're all the in the same pit of sewage

[@mup_pet]

Yeah, the Tories actually need Labour as a sort of caretaker. Labour builds things up, so the Tories can swoop in and sell it all off and smash it up. Nice little scam we've got going on in this country. If Labour don't introduce PR at least in their 2nd term, then I'm turning my back on this shell game forever.

[@PBas-qq4uh]

@@mup_pet I think reform will be my last chance, if that doesn't work then I will move abroad, this is not getting any better, half of my family have moved to Thailand and Australia, I'm saddened to say it feels like there is going to be some kind of societal collapse

[@zog97xy]

@@PBas-qq4uh Reform have no chance so get your bags packed.

[@PBas-qq4uh]

@@zog97xy See what happens it's become very interesting over the last 2 weeks

[@zoeloutay4734]

Sunak is beyond out of touch! Utter nutcase of a politician!

[@user-gt9ig6vk1b]

Sunak claims to be "The future", so why did he constantly mention Jeremy Corbin? Jeremy Corbin is no longer the leader of the Labour Party. He might just as well be talking about Kier Hardie.

[@julianshepherd2038]

Hardie would be expelled too

[@stevec6427]

He's no longer even a member of the Labour party since Starmer kicked him out. Liz Truss is far worse and is still an MP in the tory party

[@LowPlainsDrifter60]

Sunak keeps bringing Corbyn up because he believes Labour are in power.

[@HuplesCat]

Wait until he finds out about Michael Foot 😂

[@bobd9640]

‘The achievements of the last 14 years’. World leading gaslighting.

[@palmeraj70]

A nation of optimists?! Maybe that could've been said 14 years ago, but I'd bet anything pessimists far outweigh optimists right now, when it comes to govt competence. Call an election now, and put your beliefs where your mouth is Sunak!

[@weswheel4834]

It does beg the question of how if we're a "nation of optimists" we ended up with the Tory front benches that we've had for the last 14 years. (Yeah okay, thinking that we could make Brexit work was probably quite optimistic, but other than that...)

[@Natta44]

I turned into a pessimist of this country the second we the brexit referendum declared we were leaving. I hoped for it bit it would all be a farce and it would get overturned, but no 8 years later and the country is destroyed. That will be the Tories (Cameron, Theresa, Boris) legacy, in decades to come they'll be hated on the same level as Thatcher at least by the north.

[@mrd64]

The burglar trying to sell us a burglar alarm.

[@alidawson6118]

So eventually the pushed the Jeremy Corbyn emergency button 🙄

[@neilburton6121]

Blooming cheek corbin didnt get anywhere near power,now his friend truss did and withing a month almost bankrupted the country,but we won't mention that..oh no.

[@MrsGardiner]

Does he not know Corbyn has never been PM? So nothing bad ever happened on JC's watch? Or does he think, we must have had Corbyn as pm and this was why everything got so bad in the last 14 years?

[@andybimson-sp2fx]

“He wanted to put Corbyn in charge!” From the man whose party put Liz Truss in charge!

[@JoButterwick]

... and Boris Johnson!

[@isabellesmith5253]

If he says the word plan once more...i ll throw my phone out of the window....

[@Sekekama445]

😂😂😂 best comment so far 👌

[@user-im8us6sg5d]

But it's one of his 'Prioriteeze.'😂

[@lesleyannjones3697]

My word if Focus. Ministers can give an interview without saying it in every other sentence.

[@MrsGardiner]

Not work chucking your phone out of the window, you'll need your phone. But the country will not need Sunak or his like again. Ever!

[@ukzandd]

Project fear rebooted

[@MrsGardiner]

Sarcasm alert. Why on earth would he reboot project fear? Has project Rwanda and project 'hate the already disadvantaged' not worked like a charm?

[@weswheel4834]

Tories providing economic security :D (To use a phrase that Peter likes, "Imagine his shock when he finds out that he and his party have been running the country for the last 14 years.")

[@Dynasty1818]

Can't wait to come back in a year watching you whine about how things are worse under Labour

[@grahamdhv3812]

The Tories have wrecked everything, and no-one can do any worse than them. Criminals, the lot of them.

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@Dynasty1818 Back in 2013 Osborne was told that Austerity was killing the economy 11 years on the Sunak / Hunt plan is tax cuts + 14% reduction on spending aka Austerity on steroids If you look at GDP per Capita we've been in recession for 2 years

[@ozzie2612]

@@Dynasty1818 they wont be

[@weswheel4834]

@@grahamdhv3812 Liz Truss helpfully showed how it was possible to do worse than they had been doing. Even so, Dynasty's post didn't seem worth responding to :)

[@splintercast8092]

'The achievements of the last 14 years' - which come to a grand total of precisely zero.

[@user-im8us6sg5d]

To be fair ,he did learn how to use a petrol pump and credit card properly.😊

[@chatham43]

@splinter Less than zero...to quote Elvis Costello...we need a change...but what have we got?

[@sevecc939]

Not only was he lying about thing like poverty, he fails to see that the biggest thing we have to fear is him and his party carrying on. If he wants to keep the country safe, call an election and give us a government that actually wants to work for its people and not line its own pockets instead.

[@criticalthinkingcap4196]

Why does sunak sound like hes reading his kids a bed time story

[@kanedNunable]

less BS in a fairy tale than what he says

[@l3eatalphal3eatalpha]

Except there is no happily ever after.

[@edwright4892]

and our Minister for Defence is Grant Shapps so, yeah that says all you need to know about this load of unchallenged b***sh*t! 😅

[@hephaestion12]

Hmm lets think about the last 14 years.... What has got better over that time? I could do without another 14 years of things getting worse

[@arghjayem]

Things have gotten better for Sunak, Rees-Mogg and the like. If you’re a multimillionaire in the U.K., things have gotten a lot better for you over the past 14 years! 😂

[@chatham43]

@heph Inflation high..interest rates high..and they're still blaming it on the billions spent on Lockdown...unbelievable.!

[@annecrawford1381]

The PM talks about gas lighting by KS and Labour, and it's laughable, as he doesn't see his own behaviour , the Tories have been gas lighting the UK for the past 14 years.

[@MrsGardiner]

This is often the case. Imagine what they talk about among themselves. Because you can spot this very frequently with Tories. What they say among themselves, does leak out in the actual words they then use against others. Like May saying in parliament that 'some people say the Tory party is the nasty party', her intention being to make people believe they are actually nice and cuddly instead. This was just before she launched into the nasty hostile environment actions, that caused so many innocent Windrush people and others enormous grief. I often take their actual words and mentally turn their language against them. This shows the direction of travel very clearly, a direction of travel that Tories often want to disguise. It is not that they don't see their own behaviour so much, but instead their everyday linguistics comes out. Take their words and give them your own meaning!

[@bishwatntl]

Sunak has a very poor track record of anything.

[@salmonesque]

"The achievements of the last fourteen years" ????????? Name one.

[@chatham43]

@salmon The billions spent on Lockdown?

[@salmonesque]

@@chatham43 Oh yea, the billions given to cronies for PPE that didn't work? Apologies, forgot about that. What about the trillions added to the national debt? Where TF did that go? Are you honestly trying to defend the tories Chatham43?

[@jim-es8qk]

no one is listening.

[@HuplesCat]

People have listened and that’s his problem. He has zero credibility

[@flickthenick]

Still think riski looks like Roland Rat, maybe he is?

[@kanedNunable]

roland wasnt such a massive cvnt tho.

[@jonathanlangley1196]

Sunak really cannot deliver a speech can he? Absolutely no trace of feeling or emotion at all.

[@chrish961]

I feel more at danger with this clown in number 10...he is the issue not starmer

[@scottcook2643]

Next time they have access, can a journalist ask him what achievements we've had over the last 14 years? Not a rhetorical question, either - I (and I'm sure most of the country) are genuinely curious what he thinks these are?

[@1_5RCBiker]

Just call the F'n General Election now Rishi and let the poulation decide.

[@alanwatterson2850]

The last 14 years were glorious?

[@uniquerebeljaney3639]

For the Tories and their mates.

[@chatham43]

@alan But at least the billions spent on Lockdown was a success...but why high interest rates and high inflation?

[@fricozoid1]

@@chatham43since we know Brexit has cost twice the GDP to the economy as entirely locking down the country on two separate occasions, I’d say it was Brexit.

[@dimitrius-r5sgamingchannel388]

​@@chatham43You are joking, right?

[@MrLaking123]

he might have fired the starting gun but he will trip over and fall into a deep pit of despair

[@gavla3550]

This proves Sunak is AI! He was glitching out like the Matrix. 😂

[@incongruous-drandyyates]

This government has put me, my family, my friends, and the whole of Britain in danger, I did not vote for this.

[@eight_track]

Sounds like he was scheduled to announce a election date, decided otherwise but kept the appointment to scaremonger about electing Labour

[@mikesinclair4886]

Sunaks insistence that only he can save the country is straight out of Trumps playbook

[@christineshepherd367]

He's running scared

[@ukporkpie7829]

He did well to deliver that speech, considering his pants were completely on fire!

[@andrewhoult4630]

What a fool

[@GarethMachin-rb2sg]

An expensive private education wasted on little rich Rishi sooner this patriot goes to California. Should have stayed as hedge fund manager.

[@chatham43]

@Gareth Unlike Gareth..he has achieved nothing!😊😊

[@bipolarminddroppings]

If Nuclear war is coming, and things are going to "change more in the next 5 years than in tha last 30" then we certainly don't want Rishi in charge, let alone any other of this lot of Tories...

[@johnrussell3961]

Trident is meant to be a deterrent. It sounds more and more like a revenge weapon.

[@pixel.pusher]

What a clown

[@jeffsimon9594]

Ah that's a bit harsh on James

[@ericvandenbergh8434]

Apparently he has a clear plan and bold plan which has alluded him for the past 14 yrs under his stewardship and all of a sudden he has seen the light 😂

[@pemberton6974]

No one believes in prime miniature Fishy Sunak.

[@slightlyconfused876]

If there is one man I don't want taking the decisions in a dangerous World it is Sunak.

[@keech100]

"nation of optimists" Where does Rishi Live?

[@franciscollingwood7372]

Sunak offering more bridges for sale? Must be Monday.🙄

[@user-im8us6sg5d]

Guess they'll be the ones HS2 won't be using.😂

[@ericaceous1652]

Sunak's Plan: Electric Boogaloo

[@nicks4934]

Labour spent more on defence. Lies from sunak as usual

[@edwardwestmoreland-caunter6128]

Love how Sunak asks who we would rather be in charge, when literally every poll says "Starmer"

[@Applied_Theory]

Snake promising 'bad days ahead'.

[@josefschiltz2192]

I have no polite words as to what he can do.

[@Jericho642]

Imagine trying to convince the public that their own human rights are a risk to national security.

[@ralphlinville6646]

I e never seen Britain so weak and so defeated; economically and morally.

[@gargar1490]

Sounds Liz Truss.

[@007JHS]

"Who has the clear plan," says Sunak. Well Starmer has been pretty unequivocal about his aims... Sunak only ever mentions 'the plan,' but not what it is, bot even one elelment. Polls show that Labour has a far greater degree of trust in national defence than the Tories.

[@stevesretroloft]

General Election: 4th July - 1st Thursday of the 2nd half of the year. Heard it from a reliable source in the pub!

[@sevecc939]

UK independence day.

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

Unless you drink in the publicly subsidised bar in Westminster I'd take that with a pinch of salt.

[@richardjakobek7477]

Never listen to the sauce in the pub. 😁

[@chatham43]

@steve...it's down the pub...you need to brush up on your working class coloqualisms if you want to be convincing here!

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

@@sevecc939 Have we gained independence from the US yet or are we still the 51st state.

[@marcustrent3433]

Richy.what a bell end.

[@ronstriebig2749]

Did he say the Martians are coming

[@beenherebrforemurry6365]

Not my pm . We didn't vote for him .

[@PaulJones-br6uv]

To be fair you have never voted for a Prime Minister. You vote for your local MP, and only your local MP. The PM is selected by the King based upon who has the support of the majority of MPs. There is never a direct democratic link between the voters and the PM.

[@rchas1023]

Mortgages you will be still paying off when you are a pensioner.

[@johnrussell3961]

Mortgages you hand on to your children.

[@rchas1023]

@@johnrussell3961 And then ... inheritance tax!

[@johnsartmaterialguidestuto7757]

REALISTICALLY who would you rather have in charge of a war Sunak or Starmer, Sunak cannot even keep his own party happy and not squabbling or deserting so Sunak in charge of a war would be devastating on so many levels!

[@LiquidMarvel]

What achievements of the last 14 years? Everything the Tories touched, they have broken

[@jazmo6662]

Labour spent more on Defence than Conservatives ever have.

[@saqibmunir7609]

didn't anyone tell him the military hack happened on his watch and over the last 15 years of a tory party xD

[@7pinky791]

We still don't know what Rishi stands for. His government has brought us closer to WW3 under his watch.

[@lesley-annemclelland857]

"Half Mast" couldnae secure a wet paper bag far less secure "the nation's future."

[@PaulTalksGamesMags]

What have these liars done well to help the country in 14 years?!

[@dameonwalker8994]

Rishi is so full of s**t. His constant hypocritical gaslighting is as insulting as it is exhausting.

[@Roberta-gl2by]

So, when he says "...the most dangerous our country has ever known..." is he talking about India, or the US?

[@TheBigMidweek1889]

Did Sunak say he's got bald ideas?

[@oneiyyar]

Yes rishi, we’re going to overcome our issues by voting you lot as far away from power as possible when you finally grow a pair and call the election

[@brianharris7243]

The Corbyn card pulled out of his backside

[@Jonnyonthespot123]

Which is a daft move because everyone else can pull out the Truss/Johnson/May/Cameron cards. And they were even worse!

[@lesleyannjones3697]

Why was Sunak allowed to give what was essentially a Party Political Speech on behalf of the Tories from a podium bearing the Official United Kingdom Government Crest. This must be against some of the rules of fair play. Is it that Sunak, like Boris Johnson doesn't think the rules apply to him? Questions need to be asked.

[@billywiz1307]

Christ, this is desperate. How low can this guy get?

[@johndoherty479]

It's a wonder Private Fraser, wasn't standing next to him shouting, DOOMED, DOOMED, WE'RE ALL DOOMED !!!!!

[@johncooke8173]

I’m in, I’m an optimist. Just give me the chance to be optimistic and boot you out Sunak

[@shadypenguinuk9747]

Saying Labour are doomsayers while pretty much saying nuclear war is foreseeable. The man is confused bless him