‘I’m genuinely BAFFLED’ - Andrew Neil on Sunak’s summer election gamble | SpectatorTV

The Spectator's Cindy Yu speaks to Andrew Neil about the upcoming summer election. Will the gamble pay off?
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[@SpectatorTV]

Why did Rishi Sunak call a July election rather than wait until November?

[@catpaintypo8869]

India trade deal fell through, Rwanda plan isn’t going to work, Tory party likely to implode by November..

[@Raj-sp3ts]

Its obviously isn't it? He wants to get over to California before he is issued with an arrest warrant by the ICC.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

Is it because Mrs Sunak wants them to move to India before the winter?

[@kygo]

He's just showing how little he cares about the country. If he actually cared, he would use all the time he had to actually try improve the country and fix it whilst he still can, even if it was just to give his party a better chance in the elections, but he clearly doesn't care about his party or the country, and would rather just quit now and go live in the US and spend his millions, as that's all he cares about, himself. A growing trend we have in the UK now.

[@dwood37]

Because, we all know he’s already packed his bags for Santa Monica, California. He’ll arrive there in time to register his children in school before it starts in the fall. And, it should be no surprise that he chose July 4-America’s Independence Day-knowing full well he’s going to lose. He’s giving the UK the finger as he goes out.

[@funnythat9956]

maybe there was a credible attempt to remove Sunak and he made that leadership challenge impossible

[@Chipchap-xu6pk]

Now that's probably close to the truth. He probably threatened this to quell a revolt but had his bluff called. Except it wasn't a bluff.

[@matthowardtv]

There’s no credible candidate that’s come forward, so how is the attempt credible?

[@mrsmojo6920]

Yes, the thought crossed my mind, either that or he has had enough

[@DS9TREK]

​@@matthowardtvthere doesn't need to be a credible candidate for the threat to be carried out.

[@matthowardtv]

@@DS9TREK I’m sure there does, it’s a party, after all, and a party needs candidacy

[@Godonstilts]

As a public sector worker, I can tell you from my bank statements that my wages have barely frikkin moved in 14 years.

[@PaulRandle-sc8qk]

So, you've noticed that the value of your work is not what it used to be, but you're too stupid / lazy to do anything about it?

[@deanunio]

They have, in real terms they’ve gone backward…

[@geraldbutler5484]

California dreaming on such a rainy day!

[@jsd8981]

LoL...

[@anonnemo2504]

Nice one! Re the video, though the remark was directed at Sunak the Usurper's sodden speech, Mr. Neil's "brewery" reference could be applied to everything the Tories have done since 2016.

[@paulgibbon5991]

I was thinking of the song "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" by Travis. 🙂

[@shelleyscloud3651]

Does anyone believe Rishi gives a flying flamingo about the UK?

[@skinwalker_]

He doesn’t even give a flying flamingo about the Tory party and his MPs 😅

[@vehement-critic_q8957]

Well he's a Hindu who adheres to caste system so constitution & democracy aren't in his dictionary

[@alexanderromanov737]

Sunak should have changed the locks when he moved in to No.10. Johnson's still got a key, that was him, the lying fatso, pissing down from the bedroom window, on little Prime Miniscule Shortpants, what a bunch of prats we got. Eh?

[@matthowardtv]

He’s lived here long enough, he’s worked here enough, he’s also prospered here, what’s there to suggest he wouldn’t?

[@RaikenXion]

He never did, he's done his "Job" what was ordered to him from Bilderberg.

[@Brookspirit]

He's probably already lined up an obscenely well payed job somewhere else.

[@pablorossini3840]

Sunak is his wifes puppet.She will now put him back in the kitchen

[@cypresse1620]

Yes… probably by Clegg 🥹🥹

[@HelmutSchmacker.]

He’ll be picking up his bonus checks first for services rendered, disguised as earnings on the speakers circuit.

[@gibbo822]

He's got his PM wage for life

[@nigelmarche]

Probably working for Pfizer or moderna

[@MrGavinBoyd]

Worst government of my lifetime.

[@steadfastandyx4947]

And over the last fourteen years.

[@ibana8449]

@@steadfastandyx4947 I am 58, and I have lived with a Thatcher Gov (terrible), A Blair Gov (lots of promise, and still nothing), A Brown Gov (sold the gold), And then the Tories who have spent their entire term shredding the public sector into to small unfunded affairs. The only things that increase in the country apart from taxes, are illegal immigrants and potholes. The change that is required is way beyond the current rabble of two party politics. Vote Tory, Vote Labour, get the same old crap, their only differences are the colour of their ties.

[@LeoSavantt]

@@ibana8449 Got to say only Blair out of any of them was the aggressor in two (decades long) wars, leaving a million or two dead and Britain even more hated than normal. The promises Blair gave weren't war crimes. Sunak isn't any good, but he ,isn't bad (morally) unlike Blair. Sunak's mark will be nothing, Blair's mark, death, war crimes and destruction will be felt for generations to come.

[@Chris-gs8kc]

Well, if the polls are correct, you're about to have a Labour government that will be even worse. Hard to believe I know.

[@pizzamad3334]

They've all been bad since the 90's

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

It only took them 14 years but finally the Tories have done something in the country's best interests.

[@rgsnr8702]

wow ,labour is in our best interest ,deluded if you think that

[@SMGAPR8]

And labour have done what since Iraq?

[@quique2886]

@@rgsnr8702 What have the Tories done since 2016?

[@quique2886]

@@SMGAPR8Nothing since 2010! . And if you think about it during the time the Brits were fighting in Iraq only 179 soldiers died! In like 7 or 8 years, 179 soldiers died! That’s like 22 soldiers a year in a war! I bet you more in UK died due to motor vehicle accidents in a year that all the soldiers that died in Iraq and that were injured during the entire time the UK was in Iraq!

[@justinehayward2553]

@@rgsnr8702 a case of that finger on the trigger there.

[@22448824]

Sunak just wants to get out without just quitting. Off to America for him.

[@TimComley]

Know him do you?

[@urbanimage]

@@TimComley Do you?

[@osric190]

Can't blame him. Look at the shambles the rest of his colleagues are. Christ. California or this mess? Know what I'd choose.

[@matthowardtv]

I don’t think so, but it’s a tough polling period

[@mael2839]

@@osric190 California is a cesspit of crime.

[@kevint1719]

When people vote on the economy, they aren't voting on data, they're voting on their own wages and cost of living. Politicians would do well to remember that.

[@matthowardtv]

Also newspapers, who have a duty to print all the relevant data prior to an election, surely?

[@simonkramer9463]

@@matthowardtvyeah cause we all still buy and read newspapers 🤨

[@matthowardtv]

@@simonkramer9463 Many do, many use websites, some don’t - what’s your point?

[@lestrem11]

Correct, at last, an adult in the room.

[@lestrem11]

@@simonkramer9463 Are you ill?

[@user-vb3gc5se9k]

His handlers have dropped him!

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Not so much drop him - but told him to call this election, basically to get Starmer in and further their agenda.

[@Helvetica247]

Who are your handlers who tell you what’s what ?

[@rwo5402]

... in the rain....

[@nottmfunguy]

They were the ones who told him to stand in the rain, he complied without question.

[@ashleystyles6888]

Satanic Humiliation ritual

[@weedheals4202]

I think when Sunaks own cabinet started coming out against his student visa plans he thought f@Ck it I want out. I’m too rich to take this shit from these ungrateful plebeians.

[@Greenpoloboy3]

He knows he is finished. He is doing this before he gets pushed out by his own party.

[@SpectatorTV]

What is your prediction for July 4th? How many seats will the Conservatives lose and to which party?

[@RichardEnglander]

​@@SpectatorTVI'm sad. I wanted Thursday 5th November. It would be more appropriate.

[@WeRemainFaceless]

@@SpectatorTV I'm predicting the Tories take 77 seats. Labour 334. Independent and LibDems take the rest. Reform get 0. Expect many of the well known Tory MP's to lose their seats.

[@steadfastandyx4947]

I cannot believe what I'm seeing and hearing. Mr Sunak wants out. Towel is thrown in.

[@Lynn.hot.legs.peters]

He needs a towel lol

[@heijd]

Truly baffling, considering he really needed that towel

[@terencefield3204]

Who would not!??? The country is a nightmare.

[@GuestInMyOwnCountry]

His globalist masters have found a labour stooge. They want to fill the country with Africans before a "populist " party wins

[@yetidodger6650]

@@terencefield3204 because of the tories.

[@patriciac8488]

Sunak can't even figure an umbrella out. Worst Party ever.

[@Sameoldfitup]

The Tories have destroyed England's cultural identity

[@weedheals4202]

How so? Just by proxy of having someone who isn’t of the traditional cultural identity?

[@Sameoldfitup]

@@weedheals4202 what?

[@Sameoldfitup]

@@vch1935 Thatcher love

[@matthowardtv]

No way, not at all - is this a call for an “identity” card?

[@RaikenXion]

Both Labour & Tories have over these past Decades. Everyone seems to forget what Blair did and him with the fake eye, sold all the country's gold.

[@Nobody-to5fu]

The state of politics in this country is rank rotten.

[@duckndive.]

TORIES will now pay for their disregard for the will of the people, over the last 5 years especially. MAY, JOHNSON, SUNAK. This is on you.

[@terencefield3204]

Idiotic parochial spleen

[@vanessac1721]

And we will all pay having a Labour government. Everyone loses, yay.

[@yetidodger6650]

@@vanessac1721 as opposed to only the rich winning under this mob?

[@CryWillus]

@@vanessac1721 Comments like yours confuse me. I'm 43 and the only times in my life that the UK seemed to have any hope or optimism, seemed to be governed for the many rather than the few and seemed to improve, was under Labour.

[@TheOwlsarewatching606]

bollocks

[@liberalmatt]

They didn't even have the foresight to check the weather or hold it indoors away from external interruptions. THAT is just how presumptuous and incompetent they are.

[@Chris-gs8kc]

He has probably got a job offer in the USA.

[@andyetheridge]

Quitting before the summer onslaught of dinghies arriving!

[@terrytunney4089]

Or Astra Zeneka might employ him

[@forevertoons9022]

We already too many illegals entering the US. If and when President Trump is back in the White House, he'll be sending them back. I'd guess little Sunak will be one of them, saying 'bye-bye' for his return trip.

[@lestrem11]

He is one of the few people in the UK who doesn’t need a job, child.

[@PamelaGreen354]

Stay at Gaum ?

[@thomas79marshall]

"I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories" - Morrissey.

[@mr.mayhem7402]

It's taken this long for the rest of England to finally catch up with Mozzer.

[@dogkicker100]

worst gov in all my 65 yrs born here

[@Brookspirit]

You have forgotten Blair?

[@dogkicker100]

@@Brookspirit cant be worse than torys ffs

[@johnmartin7158]

Worst of the worst. Blair was 11 times better than this mob.

[@mikelheron20]

@@Brookspirit Tony Blair was the finest PM of my lifetime. I was born in 1951. I just wish he was Prime Minister again. There hasn't been a decent/competent Prime Minister since. Blair wasn't only a politician he was also a statesman.

[@AchtungEnglander]

What's to lose? What a dumb question. The guy is a millionaire, married to an heiress of a billionaire. There is your answer. He has lost nothing.

[@brianlopez8855]

He will be off to California by July.

[@Azureecosse]

For wealthy people there is never enough money, Rishi is also a Hindu their Caste system is very unlike the western approach to wealth and divinity it is of utmost importance that Hindus attain material wealth as part of attempting to achieve moksha, This is the ultimate goal of an individual who practices Hinduism. What you regard as wealth is not what Rishi or his family regard as extreme wealth. I worked in wealth management for over thirty years you will rarely find a poor Hindu in the west.

[@geraldbutler5484]

This old Tory Neil scratching around at the bottom of his cage for crumbs of hope for the Nasty Party.

[@TheOwlsarewatching606]

if you don't lie around on benefits, you too can become successful

[@dipeshvaria2372]

Are you anti-capitalist??

[@Deano-vl4bv]

Things can only get wetter... can only get wetter

[@paulgibbon5991]

Brilliant!

[@wendycurrie9629]

Amazing how music was blasting out while the prime minister was speaking. It just made me feel this country is lost. Mass immigration, Brits living in poverty, a political class that does not represent the British people. So sad that my country is broken.

[@hg82met]

He's given us one last glimpse of his political instincts - making a general election announcement whilst getting drenched. Let's hope his little suit didn't shrink when it got soaked, otherwise they'd have to cut him out of it.

[@BenLondonN6]

I'm genuinely surprised that Andrew Neil, whom I respect very much, seems to have missed the point. Sunak has called the election early, because Reform are still in a muddle and won't have time to prepare. By calling the election early, Sunak is saving some of the Conservative vote that he would otherwise be losing to Respect between now and November.

[@sisiphas]

Possibly

[@lynxo5695]

Reform*

[@sararichardson737]

Now that’s the most coherent speculation I’ve heard so far. I bet you’re right.

[@michellec1866]

I’m surprised he thinks Biden’s record record is good 😢😂😂

[@kristoffscuba5466]

They couldn’t arrest the guy playing music as they announced today they have no empty cells in which to put any more prisoners.

[@matthowardtv]

He needed to be removed, but wanted his place in history

[@RH1812]

Plus, not illegal.

[@DS9TREK]

​@@RH1812Yes it is. There are limits on noise levels

[@chriswhitmore3835]

@@matthowardtv Sunak or the bloke with the speakers?

[@adamboh393]

There are a number of laws which could be used to arrest the guy. Prosecution probably would be impossible but the main thing would be to arrest and stop the music.

[@jillybe1873]

He has to go to California before September, since his girls are enrolled there in school.

[@DJRockford83]

Looks like you've nailed it. 👍🏻

[@riiitch]

Any articles you can link to about this?

[@ksc743]

@@riiitch the comment is absolute hogwash which is why you won't receive a response.

[@RaikenXion]

The fact it's raining on Sunak while he's making his speech shows how much of a wet wick of a PM he truly is. Politics in this Country is all just one big swiz. It's no different than *Wrestling*, they go into their "Arena" and play out their improvised, make believe "Rivalry" for millions to watch at home; jeering at and mocking eachother. Then when its all over and the Cameras are switched off they all go to the Bar in the building and all have a drink with eachother. Each "rival side" is really just all Working for the SAME BOSS, and they all pick up a nice big pay packet at the end of it.

[@PeteLoughlin]

"Labour hasn't got a plan" says the man without an umbrella

[@margaretchapman8499]

They have and the public will obey because the WEF say so

[@MaggieNevin-tv3ib]

Nigel Farage has said that the reason for an early election is that no planes will be leaving for Rwanda. Also the legal migration figures are due to be published and they aren't good.

[@matthowardtv]

They seem ok - www.gov.uk/government/news/migration-numbers-fall-further-as-measures-have-major-impact

[@DJRockford83]

3.4 million came in last year

[@henghistbluetooth7882]

@@DJRockford83No they didn’t.

[@K_j_M]

​@@DJRockford83not on small boats. And this is why the argument is silly. A tiny amount come on boats, the rest are brought in right under your nose yet yiure conditioned to hate those who are mostly fleeing terrible places

[@steviealessi]

The 'real' British people need to take their nation back before it is too late,

[@02tom46]

Zero seats.

[@JupiterThunder]

Look out, he's got a plan.

[@GG-ml3vr]

@@JupiterThunder A strong economic plan thats working🤣

[@hosephanerothe1440]

Strong and Stable

[@TimComley]

Grow up

[@TimComley]

@@GG-ml3vrkids with emojis laughing at own jokes 🤫

[@douglaswhitrick9743]

A cosy two party pendulum, conveniently protected by their gleeful creation called “First past the post” When an outgoing party is unpopular; the incoming hardly needs to listen to the wish of the electorate host!

[@Mrc172]

We have preferential voting in Australia. Of late, more independents have been getting elected federally. A good thing considering there isn't much difference between the two major parties nowdays.Both have their rich masters calling the shots.

[@mrsmojo6920]

@@Mrc172 yep, would like to be able to vote for people and their policies, not parties. How do you hold them to account over there? Problem is, they make promoses and don’t keep them.

[@robe1811]

Yep. You know you’re ****ed when the big donors are known to have been courting the leader of the opposition. The two party system is just two different recipes for a **** sandwich

[@RubbishGimpy]

Hence the re-election of the London Mayor.

[@timelwell7002]

Spot on. We are in desperate need of Electoral Reform - with FPTP replaced by PR in tandem with STV. Sadly, Starmer isn't going to implement electoral reform any more than Blair did, despite Blair making that a Manifesto commitment prior to the 1997 General Election. The moment Blair got his huge majority in '97 he dropped electoral reform like a hot potato. In fairness to Starmer, he's said that for him electoral reform is NOT a priority. *I bet it isn't.* Starmer knows that he'll get a huge majority on July 4th under FPTP, and he sure as h*ll isn't going to do anything which he would regard as risky. And as we know, Keir Starmer is VERY risk averse...

[@OliverJWeber]

Andrew brings forward some strong arguments for a later date. So this really makes me wonder what Sunak knows that he felt he had to make this decision. Can’t be good.

[@michaelpoplett2745]

I agree with Peter Hitchens, and I'm pleased that Mr Sunak has brought forward the GE to July: Only the total destruction of this Tojan horse of a 'Conservative' party can bring about the formation of a true Conservtive party, and we need both, a strong left and right parry, and right now we have neither. As I wrote to Nusrat Ghani several years ago, the 'conservatives' will be decimated at the next GE.

[@milibaeindustries]

Ever the contrarian, Peter Hitchens is now arguing to vote "against Starmer" (meaning for the Tories) as Labour are the greater evil in his eyes.

[@stevev238]

Sunak is echoing McClaren's "Wally with the brolly" moment- only without the brolly.

[@markstrevett1284]

Doesn't make any sense. But this government hasn't made much sense since 2019.

[@johnburrows3385]

The Tories haven't made sense since 1979 and the wicked Margaret Thatcher who deindustrialised the country and sold off all our national infrastructure.

[@tt-ew7rx]

Vote for us because we have a plan, said the PM whose people failed to plan him an umbrella, and leaked the plan of the day so that he can be pranked by loud music.

[@nicktrier3640]

Most PMs facing certain defeat cling on as long as possible to the salary and the trappings of power, but Mr Sunak is independently very wealthy and his lifestyle will greatly improve after he loses and resigns the leadership so it is not surprising he just wants it over

[@lukebignell7846]

Can his taylor make him a suit that fits and doesn’t make him look like a boy who works in the Soho back room bars?

[@skinwalker_]

Maybe Sunak grew a conscience and decided he couldn’t put the UK through another six months of the Tories. Nah, Californias calling and things are only getting worse.

[@user-vb3gc5se9k]

Andrew Neil’s not going hungry!

[@dragonfly6908]

Maybe one day he will eat himself.

[@artrandy]

This early election date is because of Reform UK, not Labour. The Tories know they will lose to Labour, but how much is really down to how well Reform bite into the Tory vote, and the consensus is that Reform need another 6 months to organise........

[@macoooos9204]

Nope, Rishi has done it before Boris came back and took power. The Tories want to lose right to the end.

[@artrandy]

@@macoooos9204 And I suppose you think that Boris was flying in on Concorde, he doesn't even have a seat buddy. He is without any centre of power right now, didn't you know that? Furthermore, there's no guarantee that Boris could get elected on a Reform UK ticket either, Reform is a new party, they can make the Tories lose seats to others, but cannot guarantee to win seats for themselves. Hopefully that will change. If Tory back benchers had any kind of backbone, they would have rebelled against Sunak after the dismal local elections, but have not. Now is too late, even Sunak knows that. Think before you criticise others, you come over as a lightweight.............

[@JckSwan]

The Tories were not serious about tackling migration, legal or illegal, at all. Why not?

[@brianferguson7840]

Because it's not a problem. Britain needs much higher immigration, everyone except the racist bigots knows and understands that.

[@Brookspirit]

Name a serious politician in the UK? One or two maybe, the rest are a bunch of embarrassing clueless halfwits.

[@pizzamad3334]

Cheap labour, suppressing our wages. Pushing house prices up with mass migration. They stand to win on both fronts, sell their houses high and get out of this now hell hole of a country. Non of the main parties are the answer.

[@M3mphix]

Because they've literally been the ones in sole control of it for the past FOURTEEN FUNUNKING YEARS.

[@markaustin5884]

The Kalergi planning in full swing

[@lesliekime7567]

The wef does not like the idea of removing legal or illegal immigrants is my guess.

[@brianferguson7840]

If it was RAINING SOUP Sunak would go out with a "Fork" 🍴

[@alexanderromanov737]

Sunak should have changed the locks when he moved in to No.10. Johnson's still got a key, that was him, the lying fatso, pissing down from the bedroom window, on little Prime Miniscule Shortpants, what a bunch of prats we got. Eh?

[@EamonCoyle]

I think there are multiple layers of logic in a summer election and I have commented over recent months that I expected it across various KZbin channels. Firstly, there is nowhere else for him to go and the summer is the season of political vacuums with Parliament not sitting. Second to that, July is a time when the good weather generally sends working class people away on holiday and brings older people out of the house both of which are of benefit to the Tories. Third and possibly most important to Rishi, having the election in July means he can be stood down as leader and able to enrol his kids into school in the US for September.

[@SimonWallwork]

Sunak also knows these things- but he's gone for July. QED Sunak knows some things that Mr.Neil does not.

[@batmandestroys1978]

He has been sacked, because of the Local Election massacre! So they just want a new leader to take them forward, because they know they have lost big time!

[@margaretchapman8499]

He has gone for July so his holidays are not spoiled.

[@wellum1959]

Sunak has given up, he doesn't care. Alot of the public feel the same, so a low turnout is probable.

[@urbanimage]

Quite amusing to see Andrew Neil still trying to talk up the Conservatives as, hopefully, they stumble towards political oblivion.

[@crouisk]

school term for the kids in the USA sets timing

[@philippemariani9035]

What an image under the rain … take an umbrella what a shambles …

[@K_j_M]

It's symbolic that he got pissed on while making this announcement. A perfect metaphor for what will happen in July

[@philipcrossley1279]

"...genuinely baffled...." Really? Everyone else has been genuinely baffled by everything the Conservatives have done or attempted to do since at least 2015. This is no different, except it's probably the last "genuinely baffling" thing they will do for a while.

[@PostingCringeOnMain]

"real wages are rising faster than prices" ... ok, hands up if your wages have risen... anyone? Anyone at all? No? Didn't think so.

[@Cherrytune386]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tories are finished. A wet squib lettuce of a party 😆

[@truckerfromreno]

When he says 'Our country,' I think 'Whose country?'

[@rickjensen2717]

Threatened with a covert leadership bid so forced into it; off to his Californian home afterward anyway.

[@philiphughes4117]

21st Century, and our PM doesn't have an umbrella. WTF.

[@The_Truth_Army]

He wants sympathy.

[@RH1812]

He didn’t notice as he’s already wet

[@philiphughes4117]

@@RH1812 Very good. The sunami of wet jokes over the coming days and weeks are going to be epic!!! And the imposter will deserve every one.

[@stefanmaslaczyk1259]

Steve McClaren was ridiculed for using an umbrella so maybe Rishi decided it’s better to get wet.

[@DS9TREK]

​@@stefanmaslaczyk1259the president of the US uses brollies.

[@Westlake72]

The Spectator providing the highest standard of impartiality we have come to expect from them as this fearless young journalist holds Andrew Neil to account without fear or favour... 10:42

[@philipbrackpool-bk1bm]

Would you vote for someone who doesn’t know how an umbrella works.

[@ScurvyRascal]

Something is about to hit the fan and they're getting out of the way so they can blame someone else (Labour) in 4/5 years time. Mark my words!

[@thedirediyer5245]

Rishi Sunak actually doing ˋ whatever it takes ´ ……..to leave politics

[@peterdockerty8077]

Mr Neil employed a guy called James Forsyth who left the Speccy to be Sunaks advisor. Well that worked out well. You all deserve each other a W1 bubble who got rid of Boris and then Truss and gave us the unelected Sunak. How are you all feeling now? Pleased with yourselves?

[@AdamJones381]

Where do you think Tories would be in the polls if Boris was the leader?

[@peterdockerty8077]

@@AdamJones381 I’m no fan of Boris but the tories were 5 points behind Labour when the ousted him a week later they were 20 points down and for the last 2 years have been 20+ points down. Just saying

[@DS9TREK]

​@@AdamJones381I reckon they'd be slightly ahead of Labour. Boris would've pulled us slightly further back from the EU, cut taxes more and talked a better game

[@markriding1267]

Running before the war crimes trial hits him hard 🤣🤣🤣

[@SlowhandGreg]

He had no mandate to roll back net zero, abandon HS2/3, roll back levelling up, abandon Social Care

[@philiphughes4117]

Forgotten your meds ?

[@DJRockford83]

He had no mandate, quite the opposite, for mass migration. He's presided over a controlled demolition of Britain. Labour will love it because there's nothing left to oppose communism and the Tories love it because they can extract wealth at record levels

[@philiphughes4117]

@@DJRockford83 So true, sadly.

[@mrsmojo6920]

@@DJRockford83 to be fair, Rishi has only been in charge 19 months. Can’t blame everything on him. Labour kick started mass migration, successive Tory govts have refused to tackle it. Boris Johnson was the one who had a golden opportunity. But I checked the requirements for migrants and literally this whole idea of minimum income levels was an outright lie and not the whole truth. The true bar was set incredibly low.

[@paulgibbon5991]

@@DJRockford83 Define your understanding of "communism" for us.

[@RussMcP]

Wish they’d dissolved parliament back in 2010 and spared us all 14 years of austerity and war and erosion of civil liberties.

[@DS9TREK]

They DID dissolve Parliament in 2010. The Tories and LibDems then formed a government afterwards.

[@raymondharris6035]

Austerity? That is simply not true, they've actually doubled the country's debt, how can that be austerity?

[@lindabennett6597]

​@@raymondharris6035 there was no austerity for the rich but there has been true austerity for the rest of us, just open your eyes and take a look at our town centres. Which begs the question " where has all this borrowing gone, and it evidently wasn't well spent"

[@riiitch]

@@lindabennett6597bingo

[@RussMcP]

@@DS9TREK yeah, my point is they should have dissolved that parliament before it had a chance to do any damage

[@harveybrown37]

Was Sunak handed the whisky and pistol?!

[@bobbailey7024]

What a drip. I've always said he's a wet wipe.

[@nickgood8166]

Death of a nation. From the fire into the inferno....Sad!

[@advocate1563]

He' wants to spend the summer in california. Simples.

[@mariakelly90210]

California is closed for the summer.

[@nolslifegren]

Goodbye Tory A team hello Tory B team

[@jonathanwarne3480]

More like goodbye Labour C team, hello Labour B team

[@Spyhook]

I really don't understand why Sunak called 4th July (Odd day) Apparently Labour is on 43% and Tories on 22% Which gives him no time to change that state of play. IF he held on until Autumn, maybe something would come along. The Biggest dent in Starmer Armour is his stance on Israel but Sunak can't use that as he is just the same. It does seem as if he has been told to hand over the reigns

[@jsd8981]

Yep I think he has been advised to sling his hook / bugger off / get lost / go play somewhere else...

[@iananthonyjames]

reins

[@Spyhook]

​@@iananthonyjames He handed over the reins of his reign in the rain.

[@jimbo-yv5jh]

Bye, Bye to all fake Tories.

[@susannamarker2582]

Starmer is a communist. At the end of the 80s, Kier joined the Haldane Society of lawyers, when everyone knew it was a cover for the communist party. Blair was a Trotskyist at University.

[@Paul-eb4jp]

Fake?

[@dallysinghson5569]

He's as Tory as they come, how's he fake, not white enough?

[@roguefox5171]

@@Paul-eb4jp lib-dems in disguise

[@JamieZero7]

@@Paul-eb4jp They are fake Tories since they are leftest. We essentially have gotten a Blair government. And labour will win by default which will destroy the UK. Since labour want to turn the UK into a republic. But Keir Stammer isn't bright enough to understand he is copying French policy.

[@lad1981uk]

After all those £millions spent on that plush press conference room at Downing Street, he chooses to stand in heavy rain next to a protest playing Labour's theme tune. 🤭

[@jaydenlee2774]

The only thing I thank Sunak for is, that he made it super faster than I thought that getting rid of this unfit for purpose PM is immanent now yayyyyyyyyy

[@VaucluseVanguard]

Andrew saved the only bit of potentially good news right to his last sentence. How big will be the SNP meltdown in Scotland.

[@fleetingmoments6762]

Is it not super obvious his hand was forced behind the scenes???

[@user-gp3kp7zc6f]

All those reporters getting paid to stand outside number 10 to hear a statement that could easily be done via social media, that's like twenty nurses cleaning up one patient and all the pompous drama queen usage of the lectern, it's all embarrassingly ridiculous, the public really need to withdraw their energy.

[@Differentbias]

Sunak knows small boats' arrival will be huge in August-September. It's safe to call an election before the situation goes out of control.

[@gavrob1802]

I think he might be getting ahead in the acceleration of boat crossings in the summer months.

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

I am now utterly convinced that the PM is ia labour fifth columnist.

[@johnscott-kw3bf]

Not impossible.

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

And what does your psychiatrist have to say about that.

[@RH1812]

😂

[@allymcmoist1484]

Both WEF puppets.

[@MARTINA-gc3tq]

@@user-ol6rd7pl5t I haven’t seen her yet. Mind you I did ask your mother and she didn’t express an opinion either way but she did mention what a tool her son was……or that’s what I think she said…..her mouth was full at the time….and the room was pretty noisy as I wasn’t the only bloke there.

[@adiadi5832]

Maybe Rishi know something we don't....how about to cease power to labour before economic storm ?Let the Labour face it rather than getting annihilated in November

[@markmanc-zw3td]

That suit is gonna shrink like hell.

[@anglosaxonbreed]

I to am baffled why to call election now he is delusional.

[@vibhac5403]

I think he looks fed up.

[@lisadefries6718]

Because he was about to be drummed out by his own party

[@iljaliasenko143]

He wants to blame the rate cut consequences on someone else. It will be either a make or break decision, so I guess both of the parties will be able to blame the decision on each other or take credit for it if it turns out good. It would be funny though if LibDems will win the election. Then all planning between the ruling parties will go down the drain

[@mrsmojo6920]

Suspect he has had enough. I suppose there is just a chance they have decided to hold it whilst labour’s position on terrorists and cosying up to appease a certain section of society, is clear to the public. But really think he has had enough. We will see. Cannot stand Labour though.

[@RubbishGimpy]

It genius. He knows the Tories are fuqqed and have nothing more to offer.

[@alplop]

Rishi wants to go on holiday.

[@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne]

Rwanda?

[@andrewmcgonagle6290]

@@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne I haven't got a pilots licence, but i'll give it a go if it helps Prime Miniature Rishi to get to paradise.

[@michaelhannah5376]

I think Sunak was on the verge of being tapped on the shoulder by the grey men. So he cut and run before he was given the revolver and glass of whisky.

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

I'm really looking forward to celebrating my first ever independence day on the 4th of July, a Tory-free Britain.

[@user-xk4ff2kn3h]

Be careful what you wish for same policies different ties

[@user-ol6rd7pl5t]

@@user-xk4ff2kn3h There's only one party capable of doing a worse job than the Tories & that's Reform UK.

[@simonkramer9463]

Commence five years of “the mess we inherited” in retort to every challenging question. Also tax…lots of tax. Hurray for my small business 😒

[@jsd8981]

14 years of a mess...

[@simonkramer9463]

@@jsd8981 well get used to it.

[@stevev238]

People won't feel living standards rise while they see their towns and cities empty with most shops boarded up looking like ghost towns.

[@jem2264]

It's amusing to speculate on what the King said to Sunak on being requested permission to dissolve parliament, thinking of the time when the microphone picked up his remark to Liz Truss of, "Dear oh dear!"

[@vicjones3992]

Hare-brained from Sunak......

[@salmonesque]

Par for the course.

[@ianbarnes8593]

My god, how true about the music playing outside the gates. What on earth is going on in this damn country nowadays? Where are the police ffs. That spectacle today was a disgrace and makes this country a laughing stock. I’m angry as hell.

[@jsd8981]

Sunak and the Cons / Tory party havebeen making this country a laughing stock for many a year, so nothing new there !!!...

[@BillyBob-dz9rg]

Would never of guessed.

[@stephenhill545]

He wasn't breaking any laws.

[@DollyPocket]

The reason he is going for 4th July is because he knows there are no Rwanda flights this side of November. He does not want to wait to November and suffer months of criticism for that.

[@margaretchapman8499]

Never happen nd if it did only 300 would go and e hve to take wht thy re turning out so it’s a con from start to finish

[@dangumbo4835]

Just shows, I doesn't matter how much wealth you've created off the back of workers, you'll never have power over the weather or trolls.

[@margaretchapman8499]

Really

[@gnoelalexmay]

Does anybody else get the feeling that the "emergency election" is more accurately the "next step in a series of planned emergencies"..?

[@Mickyway]

He said: Immigration is finally coming down He talks about it like the weather. It is (supposedly) coming down from the outrageous levels that they increased it to, more than tripling net migration to 750k largely from Africa and South Asia. It's statements like that, treating the public like idiots is why people will not vote for them.

[@VelGer-hq7ms]

Didn't Zippy realize that one doesn't step into a shower whilst still wearing one's clothes? He's probably unaware of such practices. I guess he'll get the hang of things after a few weeks!

[@howmanybeansmakefive]

Rishi knows the Universities/Councils/Prisons/Water Companies are about to go under, and would rather those (and scandal payouts) happen while he's out office, and can retreat to California in time for a holiday and the new school year. Also what's more British than the people playing a song beside the prime minister? Appealing to euro/US presidential haughtiness and police suppression doesn't seem very patriotic to me.

[@andrewwrench1959]

Thames Water won't survive to the Autumn. Hastings didn't have water over the /may bank holiday. Just today police chiefs are advising police not to arrest criminals because prisons are full to bursting. Andrew Neil has let partisanship blind himself to the utter disasters ongoing and things getting clearly worse day by day.

[@AtticusBleep]

How about British good manners? Being a good sport? Respect for monumental events? It was pathetic to allow that music.