Keir Starmer teases Rishi Sunak for losing to Liz Truss and costing 1000 Tories their jobs

“Last year he lost a Tory beauty contest to the member for South West Norfolk, who then lost to a lettuce. Last week when he finally came into contact with voters, he lost everywhere.”
Keir Starmer attacks Rishi Sunak’s election record at PMQs.
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[@jenniferLewis-wo8vg]

So even after 13 years the Tories are still blaming people….shameful

[@nate9198]

It's really embarrassing. Like some little boys in the playground.

[@jamessearson]

@@nate9198Well said vote Labour 😂

[@johnbabu3640]

As an American watching the British parliamentary Q&A is a delight.

[@JupiterThunder]

Surely could can see that PMQs is just an utter waste of time. Nothing more than theatre for the political class, whilst Britain circles the plug-hole, waiting to go down the drain.

[@davidhall7744]

Sunak still speaks like its his first go at the University debating society 😂

[@Boghopper9999]

And Sunak still speaks like a CBeebies presenter

[@666ingz]

Like Will on Inbetweeners

[@newfineart]

He looks so awkward when he speaks.

[@muhammedibrahimsarfraz8770]

Wow, the whites are still angry at Sunak I see 😂😂😂

[@Kry-le3dq]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@superhumantrueman]

lol that was brutal.

[@sisulart]

It’s pretty simple, if Sunak really thinks everything is great and Labour will be so bad then he should call an election, what he’s worried about? lol

[@sayithowitis1]

The lol bit is turn out in some areas being 20%

[@Stand663]

All governments in democracies , except in exceptional national circumstances, change after two terms anyway. Boris was supposed to complete Brexit, but he let the country down.

[@Captain_Aardvark]

Everything IS great for Sunak and the super-rich he represents

[@thesocialmediascientistmbe]

Or simply ask the average person on the street?

[@sayithowitis1]

@@thesocialmediascientistmbe or a poll

[@muirislandjim453]

Sunak has literally nothing to say except for ideology. It's true Labour left the country in loads of debt. That was 13 years ago & that debt has more than doubled under the Tories! They've been twice as bad with spending than labour ever was except under the Tories public services have been destroyed not invested in. I'm really not sure why Sunak bangs on about labour other than all he has, an ideology war, there's still plenty who will blindly follow the Tories no matter how unrecognisable they have become. The worst Government in living memory. A PM who nobody voted for and who nobody wants. It's over for Sunak, he is void of any conviction, completely out of touch and he's not just broken the economy, he's cost the Tories over 1,000 seats and they didn't even want him.

[@kasegiyabu5030]

Labour left also a massive current account deficit; something like £143billion. This hole in the budget needed plugging annually with debt, which is why, following 2010, the government had to borrow so much. Labour would have been in the same position, if they'd won. However lousy the Tories have been, the majority of the mountain of public debt is not down to them.

[@Paul-eb4jp]

@@kasegiyabu5030 So the tories inherited a debt of £800bn and it reached over £2trn before the pandemic, how is the majority of debt not down to them? On top of this the Truss/Kwarteng fiasco added billions more and brexit has reduced our GDP by 4%, the tories have been absolutely disastrous for the economy.

[@andrewwalsh2755]

I think you'll find Blair was a Zionist (he just didn't make Starmers faux pas of telling people he wasn't a Zionist to fraudulently get elected party leader) ... His govt was Zionist Labour... It "borrowed to invest“ and didn't pay off the debt, like all before... Gordon Brown also encouraged banks to" take risks“, which they did... then there was the 2008 banking crisis... Gordon sold off gold reserves (who needs it, when you can print money?)... and both Tony and Gordon supported the gambling industry and cheap imported labour... both leading to today's problems of addiction and housing crisis... If only we could recreate those days under a Starmer Zionist Labour govt eh?... 😱😱😱...

[@grahamcampbell8297]

@@kasegiyabu5030 you may want to educate yourself. Look at public borrowing since 1945 to 2023. You will see public debt has risen far more under Tory governments than Labour governments. It’s expensive to finance unfunded tax cuts, and fund the hole in the public finances caused uncollected taxes due to the gutting of the Inland Revenue by the Tories.

[@kasegiyabu5030]

@@grahamcampbell8297 While you can look at current accounts through the same period. Maybe educate yourself.

[@lostyears5256]

They laugh while the poor constituents suffer at their hands.

[@georgemullens]

Good to see Starmer getting in the flow of teasing him continuously. He needs to continue like this.

[@SarahRickard]

Sunak hates being ridiculed 👍

[@ishamael0]

​@aaron ishak err starmer went after Putin on behalf of litvenko widow

[@lw1zfog]

good to see the proles preoccupied with the puppet show whilst their society is purposefully deconstructed

[@JC-oy9ou]

Starmer's is dead right on honestly

[@TruthShallSetYouFree2023]

@@lw1zfog👌 exactly.

[@tt-ew7rx]

Losing to Truss was indeed an incredible blemish on any career, given how her tenure panned out and how she has become since.

[@hectichazerdus]

they are all mates. Its smoke and mirrors. the illusion of choice in an increasing police state

[@timhanser1943]

100%

[@Justthetruth23]

The conservative candidate didn’t want him to come in power that’s why he lost, everything he said and predicted came true and uk parliament were forced to have him in power because he’s was right all along

[@danthemankhan]

He wasn't "conservative enough" for them. They came to accept that maybe he was the right amount of conservative, and Truss was too much so.

[@gmanlee575]

Hes a reject of a reject pretty embarrassing i must say

[@rrickarr]

Rishi sounds like a mediocre high school debater.

[@joshuachapman247]

That was actually fun to watch, very snappy.

[@garthvader8868]

Man British politics is like reality TV. Greetings from Texas!

[@brianc9036]

Word! Fellow Texan

[@nicolaisacc2014]

Roll on the next election I will be glad to see the back of the parasitic torry party

[@imSatnav]

Hold on. One second Sunak claims that Labour have no policies and then claims that they have broken all their promises. 🤦

[@chetukumar1943]

Promise and policies are differnt if polices fails than you broke the promises.

[@imSatnav]

@@chetukumar1943 if you really think Labour don't have any policies then you either aren't paying attention or you playing the 'none so blind as those that don't want to see' card.

[@firstpestcontrol276]

All theatre and no substance. Our system is broken, we need to replace first past the post with PR.

[@Boghopper9999]

Make Votes Matter (my favourite PR campaign)

[@darthwiizius]

At least with a PR compromise government what we end up with will always represent the will of the majority. We can't keep on with minority governments, yes I know Labour, the Libs, Greens all cross over in terms of policy so a Labour government "sort of" represents the progressive majority but with the progressive vote divided up it gives an advantage to the Tories and there are no level of mental gymnastics that can present that as anything other than minority rule. PR now!! End all forms of minority rule and balance power to directly represent the views of all people.

[@autonomous-hm5yf]

Listen to these children. Do you believe they care about us.

[@jonknestrick5219]

As an American I love this! God, like a comedy roast!

[@edwardlewsey3954]

best pmq's in ages, some actual points made, blows landed. fiesty.

[@theChaosKe]

I have to say watching this from germany, its hard to tell wether i am watching politicians or comedians. Everyone seems to be having a blast thouh.

[@sayithowitis1]

Your right pantomime and people vote for this combined shower .

[@gerrypippin2263]

It’s actually worse than Eastenders. But these actors run what’s left of our dear country

[@joeboy9781]

typical of english black humor

[@thesocialmediascientistmbe]

It is time the unelected PM disappeared.

[@darthwiizius]

I just wish that for once in his life Rishie would stand up before he speaks.

[@l33jcm]

Anyone that still continues to vote Tory at this stage in our Country's decline, really needs to seek professional help on their suicidal tendencies.

[@archiesmum8601]

As for anyone considering voting Labour especially under the leadership of "laughing boy" Starmmer should be "disappeared" just like those who disagree with all the other Communist parties in the world... I'm sure Putin will be very interested in how well comrade Starmmer performs

[@andrewwalsh2755]

... and anyone who believes a word that Kier Starmer says (after his broken leadership pledges, saying he wasn't a Zionist, supported Corbyn etc) must either be a Zionist... or one of the bewildered, who would vote for an evil donkey (wearing a sash saying; I'm an evil donkey, I will bite you!) , if it wore a red rosette... Certainly, a person with True Labour values would not vote for the (now) Zionist Labour Party, led by Starmer, a proven dishonest liar, with creeping fascist tendencies... Vote Green Party! 🇬🇧... not Fascists... yet...

[@williamwilson8582]

@aaron ishak It will take generations to to put right the damage done to the fabric of society and public services .Also years to restore some sort of reputation around the world whoever wins the next election . Our only real hope would be PR but it's not going to happen .

[@markjackson9827]

@@aaronishak3049 Blairs mess compared to this tory mess is insignificant , at least you could feed you family and heat your home

[@pipoo1]

​@@aaronishak3049what mess did Labour actually make? Borrowing? In May 2010 after the financial crisis debt to GDP was 74% at £850 billion. It's now over 100% of GDP and has almost trebled well past the £2 trillion mark. Blair ran a balanced budget during his first term, the only other PM to do that in the last 50 years was Mrs Thatcher, and he did it with a post war low tax rate, and pre financial crisis our debt to GDP was below 40% of GDP, lower than Germany, France and the US. So tell me again, what mess did Labour actually make?

[@bangbangcan2]

8:03 - Finally, a PM unafraid of tackling the chost of Carl care, got my vote! Also, I'm an NHS worker who's been left out of the lump sum he's purporting to have promised. The government has abused a loophole to achieve this. There are tens of thousands of NHS workers in the same situation. Rishi is not working to boost pay. It's more lies I'm afraid.

[@mauriceking3055]

When will that man the PM actually answer a question ❓❓❓

[@granddadmark7639]

Parliament isn't working for the 99% 😢

[@paulollerhead]

Rishi’s busy cutting the chosts of cild care… …flustered much Rishi?

[@mohammedkhan5344]

Can't even say it properly, how can he be busy doing it?

[@peterfox2538]

Sunak was a teenager I fine that hard to belive born a calculator more like it,now how much can I make.

[@johnscullion7685]

Sunak never says anything constructive at p q he only slags the labour party every time a p q he has no idea no clue and no answer to the mess this country's in and it was all the making off his party and the dreaded b word yes brexit to im now concerned , if when the election comes round , wi there e any money in our coffers for new government. To work with thats my worry ,😮😮😮😮😮😮

[@pioneerman9568]

I have to agree, as a non brit. It does seem like hes throwing back the insults like an offended schoolgirl. Wth, you're answering to the people even though the question came from a party member.

[@Boghopper9999]

PMQ stopped being about actually answering questions a long time ago; really is time for the rules to be updated and to force corrections in known 'misleading of parliament ' (i.e. lies) too. Sunaks comment on Council tax being a good example; Tory council tax only cheaper for Band D (i.e. well to do peoples houses; funny that!)

[@darthwiizius]

@@Boghopper9999 Funnily enough since the Tories lost control of my council last year my council tax on my modest 3 bed semi went down by £250 and this year that has been extended to £440 on this year's bill. 2 years of Lab-Lib coalition has already put £690 back into my household finances in just the one tax that isn't controlled by Westminster, funny that eh?

[@silvydammar7411]

Instead of the British uniting against Russia, they are fighting among themselves.

[@tonyburthom3516]

Get this lot out.

[@berbersissi]

I love these debates. Very funny sometimes. As a French national, this is a delight to listen to these debates.

[@Jameslawz]

It must be a joy to watch this with the lights off and your city on fire, free light source I suppose.

[@berbersissi]

@@Jameslawz My initial comment was not to criticise the British parliament but to emphasise how good it is sometimes to listen to these debates - very interesting and funny sometimes. As for your comment on what is going on in France this has no connection with I wrote about the Parliament. Yes, it is dreadful and I am not happy about the situation over there but these riots could also have happened in the UK and they actually did happen in 2011 as thousands of people rioted in London and across England which saw looting and arson, as well as mass deployment of police and the deaths of five people. France might have some issues with its police but i believe this is the same thing in the UK. These riots will pass like they did in England a few years ago.

[@patrickfoster3229]

Sunak gets worse by the week

[@jmcm8546]

Starmer tells them rightfully the tory scuumbags have broken the economy, but sadly, he does it with a smile on his face

[@janetmalcolm6191]

@jmcm8546...so he should ....Tories have been smug about their politics for so long. The fiscally prudent party that have now broken the Bank! Will Labour in 13 years be bringing up this?...as Tories do now with Labour...from 13 years ago? The world has moved on and changed since then. There was a world crash when Labour left. That "no money left" was a joke for the incoming party. Fortunately the world was in working order at that time .....now who can solve the mess left I cannot fathom! Nothing is working properly....and more worryingly they have no clue what to do next.

[@spottyty]

The British Parliament is like a daycare to be honest LOL

[@stevewardle8680]

Strange I USED to live in an area with tory councillors and I was told by my tory MP that council tax was nothing to do with the tory party

[@wissymal5567]

No way tory will win it again

[@timothynorris4288]

Don't bet on it , the majority of the electorate are thick and will believe anything the Tory press prints !

[@janetmalcolm6191]

If the public see sense hopefully.

[@AA-uf3bl]

*It's sad that the country is counting on these clowns from both parties.*

[@mhtxi9486]

Sunak is really so DODGING by blaming others for his final say as PM

[@omarahmad7890]

Flakey 😂 are you in junior School. Sunek could not cut cake.

[@PrinceArran]

It is the most hilarious sitcom, an enchanting play-twist, and an entertaining British opera of all times. It just keeps getting better!

[@stuartlawson7977]

This Priminister is a danger to this Country.

[@deepakjargari]

Lol.....😂😂😂😂.. why soo scared??

[@ashishthakur9695]

IS THIS A PARLIAMENT OR CIRCUS PARTY. No seriousness on public issues

[@user-xu2yj8vo4g]

U k parliament is just like a fish market in some third world country bargain buy and eat fish for the day

[@peterjones3787]

Just imagine the tory toff,standing there telling us they are getting on with cutting our energy bils,when they have gone through the roof,and people have never been as desperate not even under thatcher.

[@JonSmith-zl5wc]

British 🇬🇧 policies is so funny that you have to watch from the USA 🇺🇸

[@corruption243_23]

Tell me who is better? Both tory and labour are funny. Don't trust anybody

[@user-xu2yj8vo4g]

These brown skins will destroy and bring poverty hunger and starvation and increase street population in u k similar to India

[@Dogboy73]

Crapi Sunak

[@yomariodk]

Sunaks arguments and come backs are so childish 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@Pennywise.18]

We r not here for comebacks 🤦

[@yomariodk]

@@Pennywise.18 'we'? I was talking about Rishi Sunak. Are u and him a couple or something?

[@RazorMouth]

Nothing happens in that place, all bluster. 😂

[@Theactivepsychos]

“The only black hole here mr speaker is the A hole sat opposite”. Damn. Burner.

[@bobbailey7024]

Too many U turns Rishi, and failing to abolish EU laws is the final nail in the Tory's coffin. You are finished.

[@donhodgson4084]

Waste of time that Sunak and his cronies...sooner gone the better.

[@diabediabira9699]

Sunak speaks like a teenager.

[@vinodbajaj3708]

Send Sunak to where he came from to bear the blunt of colonialism!

[@dmtrjp]

Now I understand why the strange things happens in India's parliament.

[@rich00cap]

No Opposition can damage an economy, the clue is in the name.

[@JL91.]

Rishi cannot answer a question… literally never stands up and answers a question. We need this super rich fraud out ASAP

[@benbritton1984]

Finishing 3rd in the two horse race. Hilarious. 😂

[@CJ70-]

This guy is so genuine 😢

[@annmarieveronicajames2536]

Well done!...🙏

[@georgeiii2998]

8:03 - Hm, yes. The "chost of kildcare".

[@alexfletcher5192]

It is desperate that a real-time mid-brow intellect like Starmer can casually own the Tory leader. This, once upon a time, was the responsibility of a major Labour thinker like Harold Wilson; denigrated today, but a power no force in parliament in the last 15 years could have dealt with. We are an embarrassment to ourselves and to the world.

[@hogyndrwg6253]

Fair play, that little episode of Punch and Judy was all really quite entertaining but perhaps, in our current straightened circumstances, something of an inappropriate indulgence.

[@666ingz]

F*ck me, Rishi is like Will out of the Inbetweeners. Just far far less likeable...

[@Esta-Beed]

Sunak 🤡

[@thingamejignobodyknows4346]

Fighting for the political career because of the NHS

[@waltervetri2476]

Whatever happens in UK is of no concern to me.However the nature of the debate ,though quite vociferous ,is quite dignified .I respect UK for that .In our Parliament it's like a war .Vetri South Africa 🙏🇿🇦🙏

[@davidsamuel7407]

Whenever am sad, I watch South African parliament 😂

[@waltervetri2476]

@@davidsamuel7407 I ought to have put it that way,too .Hilarious .

[@davidnichol6282]

The big difference between local elections and general elections mature observers have seen this repeated on many occasions.

[@super_happy_alien509]

dispand and defund the torys. this party must end. as a warning to other party not to act like them.

[@martincheeseman5809]

Come on kier we all with you!

[@brianwilkinson6891]

This is such a waste of time, surely the speaker should force an answer or shut them both up. This childish name calling, lying and avoidance is just puerile

[@thinkingbig2280]

Sunak is an unelected squatter in Number 10 an arrangement that is coming to an end and the sooner the better for the UK.

[@nurulaizatzainudin8893]

I realised it is more about trading personal insults that really providing constructive views on helping the economy

[@panashejmombeshora4021]

Watching and impropmtu speach on a parliament is just 👌. What's even better is seeing them balance humour with a factual argument

[@Kry-le3dq]

Sunak says HE'S halving energy bills. - Ugh ? Using OUR MONEY FFS

[@d1c3b3nt2]

honestly this is quality entertainment

[@williamgoldsmith3796]

These are the people who are interfering in the affairs of the island of Ireland thereby denying the majority on the island, 88% their rights to Irish unification, listening to these English politicians reminds me of the Muppet show.

[@mhtxi9486]

Ohhhh 😅😂😂 that hurts

[@nurdinali1632]

British parliament is just a comedy show

[@satishkanda]

Hot air chamber,politicians scoring points at each other.then they all rush to canteen for hor hot meal paid by taxpayers 😅😅😅😂😂

[@shawndavis2611]

The Tories are British people most of real and normal British people don't want to be anything like god bless the archbishop

[@HXT_916]

I will never vote Tory after the last 13 years.

[@amalaa9752]

Cooker valves songs couldn't stop

[@peterwimsey5904]

sticking to their pre-written scripts doesn't make for an effective dialogue

[@Kwelinzito]

This parliament is a circus.

[@user-xu2yj8vo4g]

This parliament is a toilet with people from all over the world who are confused while real cowards English people are hiding behind toilets afraid to stand up for their rights

[@danshaw3239]

tories

[@martincheeseman5809]

Come on let’s get these Tory government OUT

[@ivororchard5287]

What a farcical comedy show 😂😂😂

[@olijordan1224]

PMQs is better than 8mile

[@shakeelshifullahshakeel490]

Good Humore. 🙂 Emtertaining 😅

[@bigpants6121]

More misleading claims?!

[@mhtxi9486]

But starmer is not the PM so who cares if he do this and that.

[@anuragnagpal]

2:23 😂😂

[@amalaa9752]

Whistle Blowers songs couldn't stop

[@ajibbenamira3511]

Of course no body like sunak and Seulla. Think 🤔 andia. Bay bay

[@anandaitsece]

GOD BLESS UK

[@brianc9036]

I wish we had this back and forth in the US. But not limited to the leaders of the parties.

[@diabediabira9699]

Delivery for the british people. He always say this but when will we get it?

[@joannelewis3390]

Get them out

[@Tez5560]

Sunak never answers questions.

[@SilentEire]

British politics is brilliant in the worst possible way 😂

[@margaretmullen2446]

Rishi stop the lies