Rishi Sunak announces general election will be on 4 July 2024

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has called a general election, focusing on the stability of the economy in his speech, while also attacking Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer.
In a statement outside Downing Street in the pouring rain, the prime minister said he had met with the King to request the dissolution of parliament.
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[@chriswilliams8121]

Cant wait to vote i am disabled but i will drag myself to the polling station to vote to get them gone disgusting nasty party

[@susansusan3248]

Wasn't thrilled with Tories scrapping annual Winter fuel discount for some, but doubt Labour will re-instate it.

[@jonathanfell688]

Go get 'em!!

[@wessexfox5197]

I must say that’s top notch trolling from whoever blared ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ in the background of his speech.

[@feiryfella]

Steve Bray!

[@jamiewild4757]

No multi-millionaire represents us.

[@exodus_from_babylon]

Add a few zeros mate

[@anonomous8719]

That’s kier starmer out then

[@susansusan3248]

​@@anonomous8719To be honest, think most politicians tend to be quite wealthy.Glad Sunak's called it,tho as tired of Opposition parties in PMQ's rather dominating those sessions with demands for it.

[@RPKGameVids]

Someone on that megaphone should be reading out many of the names (can't really be all because there has been OVER 100,000!) of the disabled, mentally ill, and sick people who have died because of the Tories and DWP. Sunak and anyone else complicit in this should be facing prison sentences.

[@djtaylorutube]

Independence Day from the Tories

[@jake751]

If starmer wins it'll be business as usual. No difference between them.

[@djtaylorutube]

@@jake751 If the next government is just 0.1% less corrupt than the current, most criminally corrupt, self serving government in a lifetime then that's an improvement.

[@djtaylorutube]

@CountofMonteBisto Stockholm Syndrome

[@feiryfella]

Back to Square One? Back to where we were in 2010? Don't threaten me with a good time!

[@adelaidelawn]

Things can only get wetter

[@timothyreilly9561]

Why on earth is he making a speech in the pissing rain in a fairground

[@joey1317]

Even Mother Nature hates him

[@Anton-ji4td]

I bet his father in law will be upset with him leaving the job. Richie helped him alot.

[@chrismcerlain1664]

Things can only get better blaring away in background. Prof Cox would be proud 👏👏👏😂👍

[@feiryfella]

He will!

[@gannon5409]

Get them all out of Office.

[@whattomdrank]

He keeps saying Labour is back to square one. Does he not realise how far behind square one the UK is as a direct consequence of his actions?

[@rob5944]

But what is Labour going to do, and how? I'm still waiting to hear. Convince me and I'll vote for them.

[@whattomdrank]

They can’t do anything until this lot get voted out. That’s the problem.

[@rob5944]

@@whattomdrank I want to hear what exactly they intend to do with the health service, law and order, illegal immigration etc and how they will achieve it. I suspect if it were easy the Tories would do it. Constantly repeating the same old trobes such as 'Liz Truss crashed the economy' won't get my vote I'm afraid.

[@bluturtles4205]

Thank god we can get rid of him

[@robertcracker7058]

It’s rigged he will prob still be prime minster anyways

[@jonathanjamescahill5393]

get a life

[@bluturtles4205]

Thanks I will :)

[@jasoncooper9391]

GET RID OF THESE TORIES

[@just-gaming213]

​​@@Fluid-Druid Labour haven't made a governmental political decision in FOURTEEN years. 😂

[@helenmcclay2622]

We need a fresh & new idea. Such a bore & same old 😂

[@jasoncooper9391]

@@Fluid-Druid Get Rid of these shysters

[@Silver-st2zq]

👍🎉

[@jake751]

Red and blue

[@stevegreen54]

He went indoors soaking wet and has started packing up Number 10.

[@bennywalsh2038]

Blah, Blah, Blah. Whatever! Go!

[@godehardbrysch7905]

Shakespeare's Hamlet: Words, words, words.

[@buffetslayer1533]

I wonder if that music, D:ream things can only get better, was purposely played. As it was used by Tony Blair in his election win.

[@nigelmarche]

And we all know how corrupt he was, should be locked up WAR CRIMINAL

[@feiryfella]

Steve Bray!

[@regmunday8354]

July 4, Independence Day from Tory Tyranny.🎉

[@SimonBell78]

Rushi doesn't even know what an umbrella is.

[@danks1974]

Out Out Out 😂😂

[@jkriegel8]

Question is not if they lose but if it is a wipeout.

[@KevinMole-cj3kl]

A wipeout I think mate

[@georgeschannel6168]

How silly, that they did not record this statement somewhere in a nice room indoors where it wouldn’t have been disturbed by this silly music in the background. Like this the message just doesn’t get through. Or they could have closed down the entire main road outside hermetically so no one could have done there to the gates to create this Woodstock mayhem.

[@OhNoYouDidnt]

Thank God, get them out!

[@drasticplasticaustin]

I look where current British Politics has taken us and have to ask Myself is this toilet humour?

[@Rembie]

Sunaks election speech It’s like watching Yes minister Words Words words Blah blah blah Unbelievable

[@alypat3443]

Has this guy ever done a supermarket shop? The prices are eye-watering! And he is saying inflation has gone down Mmmmmm😂

[@Joe-zh1wl]

Prices don't go down when inflation goes down, they just go up slower when inflation is lower.

[@TorstigHjalmr]

food is much cheaper here in UK compared to france + germany.

[@vivian5361]

Nectarines at Aldi yesterday £2.80 😭😭😭. Last year about £1.80.

[@lebronjohnson6735]

@@TorstigHjalmr haha , no.

[@DJOfRadioValinor]

Lol the Labour Blair theme tune drowing him out

[@erichewes3288]

pretty legendery getting the labour election music on for most of the speech.

[@jake751]

No thanks

[@alanmp160]

Layder leader hahah

[@rob5944]

Interfering with free speech should be stopped.

[@prendersmack1643]

I think a more appropriate song would be 'Why Does It Always Rain On Me?' by the pop group Travis.

[@Silver-st2zq]

Oh yes roll on July 4th i would even crawl to the polling station if needs be to help vote them out of power 🎉

[@nigelmarche]

Only to vote for another bunch of corrupt lias

[@kennyscott1114]

What a load of absolute tosh

[@user-vl3kb3xf4y]

JULY THE 4TH INDEPENDENCE DAY FROM THE TORYS.

[@CARLIN4737]

Judgement Day?

[@jeryndavelauan2453]

I would be 19 on the 4th of July 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲

[@Heather-zk5eu]

There isn’t one thing they haven’t totally ruined - everything is worse! They should be in jail.

[@a.d.clarke4990]

"Things can only get better" blaring out in the background. Accident? 🤔🤣

[@an2thetonio191]

He is such a joke

[@jkriegel8]

Good ridden to the nasty and unfit Tories.

[@Scitch-et4vk]

😂 welcome looney labour

[@davidGPS95]

​@@Scitch-et4vk Sir Starmer the Nasal Knight is not right in the head , he is dangerous

[@northbytrain]

15:10 is the start of the speech

[@Micko842]

And 2:10 is where the music begins LOL

[@peterbonser]

😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆

[@farmerfreakeasy9577]

He actually thinks he's British ! And says Britain's the best place in the world to grow a business ? Even though nobody has the money to spend on your company products. Anyone got a financial graph for working class people over the last 14 years ?

[@essealants3730]

Rather fitting a political drip calling an election whilst getting pissed on, poetry in motion

[@Raven-4889]

the most british comment on here :D

[@feiryfella]

Things can only get wetter!

[@colinu9209]

They were challenging times because the authorities chose to make them challenging and for no other reason . If they had done what was needed for the nation and not what was good for big business then it would have been far better and the country would not be in such a mess .

[@thisisdoktor154]

First time I’ll be voting, I actually cannot wait

[@samz5432]

Horrible party and horrible PM

[@CARLIN4737]

2,15 loving that, Turn it up. Someone was on point their.....Things can only get better. 4th July folks.

[@regmunday8354]

Wet day for a damp squib of a PM.

[@kernowradio]

Great Sound Track 🙂👍

[@Anton-ji4td]

Things, can only get wetter!

[@Anton-ji4td]

He had a short 'rain' as pm.

[@MrManny075]

Anyone who doesn't know who's talking will think this guy was so generous to give people his own money as he's not using the we word he's using the I.

[@MikeD-y2r]

It could have got a lot worse if he had waited to long.

[@christinelegallais6031]

I hear labour are worse to come

[@christinelegallais6031]

Surely no one’s gonna vote labour as I hear there not good

[@iansgalaxy]

The people of this country need 5 years of labour to focus minds on demanding real change, the electorate is so bitter because of the tories incompetence that many will vote for something with the potential to be much much worse….its a shame its come to this.

[@jefferson2310]

​@@christinelegallais6031you hear too much rubbish.

[@Gamer_Sebby]

What a wet wipe, literally.

[@RamsayShearer]

Rishi Sunak is our UK Prime minister of the UK and that it was Raining when he was speaking about net 0 and Politics and it would be the very first time that it has rained when a UK Prime minister talking to the people who tried to get very important information about the General election in the UK and all we got was Rishi Sunak talking outside number 10 downing Street whilst being soking wet By the Rain and when Rishi Sunak came out of number 10 downing Street the Rain starts 10 minutes after he is half way through his important information Talk about the General election and I hope Rishi Sunak wins the UK election this month but if sir Keir Starma or if it is still Rishi Sunak wins the UK election he will make the UK better than it is now as soon as possible and I like Rishi Sunak and Sir Keir Starma but who ever it is they will sort out the Cost of Living Crisis that started way back in 2020 during the COVID 19 Pandemic and all of the COVID 19 Lockdowns which was very hard to handle it and then 2 years later we sadly Lost the Queen Elizabeth the ll, and once Sir keir Stama becomes the UK Prime Minister we will be fine.

[@kevinjackson6387]

Tory’s finished yes ,but let not get carried away labour ain’t going to do much better,a lot of Tory voters won’t vote for labour they just won’t vote

[@nigelmarche]

The labour party are only another tory party don't be fooled by any

[@maneshipocrates2264]

At last. He is counting on Plebs to hang on to power.

[@CARLIN4737]

That word shows your colours flower.

[@blaxtru]

A metaphorical and literal damp squib.

[@James-yl3kk]

Things can only get better ...

[@gannon5409]

Deluded Utterly

[@MGAMAX]

The optics ( and acoustics) of this are ridiculous....Why the hell would they not put up a rain screen to stop him from looking like he is drowning at least?

[@zombiehaiku7527]

What's keeping him?

[@exodus_from_babylon]

This country is so rich the prime minister can't afford an umbrella

[@femiogunsola5436]

Hope Canada announces an election soon, too. We need it badly

[@juliebrouwer92]

Badly needed

[@amps830]

Keir Starmer just wants power - says the multi millionaire who’s getting his kicks playing at politics. Delusional much.😂

[@hazelhatswell4268]

Right down to his last gasp he lies …. just GO and let more competent politicians drag the U.K. back to a country worth living in.

[@muhammaduddin9268]

Vote Labour Party or Liberal Democrat’s or Rejoin the EU Party.

[@barbarajones9385]

He was dissolving away in that rain. Any longer and he would have disappeared into a mist.

[@samtaylor6003]

The people of this country have 'Stockholm syndrome 'Tories will definitely get in again (Im not a Tory by the way).

[@michaelsmith4663]

About f**king time!

[@rorysmith2415]

I will vote for the centre left. I support the working class, the poor, equality, human rights, freedom, peace, and democracy.

[@davidGPS95]

All Starmer can say is 'Chaos , Chaos, Chaos . What a boring little man

[@johnhudson9167]

Well done Steve Bray

[@juliebrouwer92]

Labour and Tories out of politics

[@aryandixit229]

If Tories lose, Labour will come. Just saying.

[@TorstigHjalmr]

They're are as bad as each other, actually I'd say Labour are just more of an unknown (although they certainly lie more than the Conservatives)

[@DianeCooperTW]

Should've postponed until next year

[@MackemdownsouthF.T.M]

Independence day... he talks about the past...its the future im concerned about. P.s i enjoy smoking

[@Jimbo878]

The 4th of July, it's all slogans with this lot 😐

[@hawkwarrior5066]

About bloody time

[@Acconda]

Goodbye, Sunak. It's time for an underdog, someone who truly understands the everyday struggles of working-class citizens. We need a leader with firsthand experience of the cost of living challenges, the state of our roads, and the difficulties in accessing NHS services for both physical and mental health issues. As a 42-year-old man, I'm personally struggling with my mental health. Various factors have contributed to this, including physical issues that the NHS can't or won't address, and potential ADHD symptoms for which I have to wait half a year to get any assistance. I'm genuinely at a breaking point, and the impact of the world on my mental state is indescribable. I can't wrap my head around the multitude of taxes we face in this country. Maybe it's my ADHD, but it baffles me how a man-made construct like money-now just numbers on a screen-can cause so much misery. It's not a rare mineral or metal; it's a human invention. If the world wanted, we could adopt a new system where healthcare systems have all the resources they need to help those in need. Instead, world leaders seem to accept that suffering is okay. It's a crazy old world. We need to start from scratch and get the country and the world back in order, working in unity to eliminate greed and selfishness. If they can't help us, the least they can do is adopt a system where those who no longer wish to stay can leave the world with dignity. However, world leaders are too selfish to even grant us that option, not even for the terminally ill. I fear that if we continue on this current trajectory, we'll end up like China, especially with the control that upcoming AI will have over us and the jobs it will replace.

[@JasonV74]

Rishi Sunak has more chance of being the next Chelsea manger than his does winning the general election

[@Edmant]

Background protesters should've been silenced before this speech, or it should've been made on TV.

[@jamesvdv0]

Rishi's rambling speech is drowned out by some antisocial idiot. This says it all for 14 years of Tory failure. The incoming Labour administration will be no better, or worse. I'm not going to be held responsible for this. I'm voting for Reform UK.

[@godehardbrysch7905]

Why vote Reform as the UK is the best country in the world according to the PM. Labour is the only party he has mentioned.

[@neilstanniland1011]

Any advice from Diaper Don...........sunak..... on vote counting, insurrectiom?

[@Hal-Gas]

Unelected Prime Minister.. Fishy!!! BTW give the money back!!!! Corrupted giving his wife multi-million pounds contracts!!

[@OnDeenObito]

The ICC decision coming days before this should not be ignored. Both Sunak and Starmer were put on notice for complicity in Israels Genocide on Gaza.

[@JesusIsLord105]

Your precious tunnel dwellers have been turned into Hummus 😂

[@UltimateMadWorld]

When someone leaves the floodgates fully open under the cover of the Zimbabwean polo tour then we can only expect things can only get better from this point forward. Sunak may need a towel for completely different reasons entirely and it ain't to dry himself off that's for sure!

[@BIBIWCICC]

No to Conservatives and No to Labourknesit!

[@KevinMole-cj3kl]

Were they about to oust him probably.....

[@statsattack]

Things can only get better. Brilliant!

[@jonathanfell688]

At last! Get the Tories gone! Vote. Vote. Vote. We can make them history.

[@youknow6470]

Please Sunak Bruddha more Indian Uber drivers and doctors please No. or sir?

[@timothyreilly9561]

Beth and Kay Nah...

[@siadali7673]

Powerful speech

[@FRM101]

The audio intrusions at #10 are a feature, not a bug, but they've gone from quirky to embarrassing. For god sake, your empire ruled one quarter of the earth. At the very least your PM should be able to make announcements without input from Huey Lewis and the News.

[@martyndavid2094]

34 seconds ago I wonder why now ? Surely the late autumn would have been better as interest rates are on the decline and energy prices are falling What news may be coming on labour? Something is afoot

[@djwoodgate]

On the steps of Drowning Street.

[@mrp8811]

glad she said "im so drenched and not wet"

[@timothyreilly9561]

Sophie looks fabulous!

[@CARLIN4737]

Brilliant.

[@MrFlamingo2002]

YES! Get these criminals out of our politics! Tories out🤞🎉