Sunak admits to haemorrhaging voters to Reform

"Is there more you could have done to deal with the things people really feel that's making them turn to Reform?"
"No."
Rishi Sunak says there's nothing more he could have done to stop voters turning to Reform.
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[@harveybrown37]

Cutting Taxes says the ex Hedge Funder Sunak, who made millions helping to sink RBS, costing the Taxpayer and who resides over the highest taxes in 70 years on the average taxpayer.

[@deanstephenson9422]

It’s astounding when a party tries to shrug off their poor record and broken pledges and get upset when voters go to other parties. Talk about an entitlement to rule.

[@chrisd924]

Sunak focusing on tax cuts instead of attempting to deal with the Cost of Living Crisis and Improving our crumbling services was his biggest mistake since taking office. Then again why would he care as Sunaks wealth has increased by a million quid a month...during his time as PM.

[@SlowhandGreg]

We've had tax rises, as a pensioner getting rid of NI smacks of making up the shortfall by taxing pensioners and will be paid for by raising the pension age further

[@robcarrol]

​@@SlowhandGregone in 4 pensioners are millionaires, why shouldn't they pay their way?

[@tompearce3610]

​@@robcarrolagreed millionaires should pay their way but by focusing on them not taxing everyone a bit more instead

[@robcarrol]

@@tompearce3610 if you're also including pensioners who are miilionaires, then I wholeheartedly agree

[@glassmuxxic]

@@SlowhandGregAfter a decade and a half of your vote being bought through ringfencing, ‘special precepts’, triple locks and the swallowing of local government budgets - funded by gutting services for everyone else. Cry me a river.

[@anthonygrayson7753]

Vote tactically to get these clowns out on Thursday. I also hope Sunak personally looses his seat!

[@EdMcF1]

I hope he wins it so he gets to apply for the Stewardship of the Manor of Northstead or whatever and forces a by-election to remind the fools who put him in there what a bunch of fools they were again.

[@MrDeadhead1952]

I'm getting sick of Rishi lying about pension taxation. Anyone who receives an occupational or private pension is already paying tax on amounts over the personal allowance at the standard rate and after Rishi's quadruple lock, they still will be. All he has promised to do is to protect the state pension from taxation as a result of Hunt freezing personal allowance and the fact that the triple lock will increase the State pension above the personal allowance. It has nothing to do with anything Labour said it would do, the only basis for his attack is the assumption that Labour will do nothing to prevent that happening. Interestingly, Rishi is so panicked that he is making claims about Labour's policy on Ukraine when his own Foreign Secretary said Labour has the same position as the Tories. He really hasn't taken on that tax cuts are not what the majority is looking for, you would have thought that after 2 cuts to National Insurance which had absolutely no effect on the Party's popularity, he would have realised that. And he could not change course when it was clear it was not having the effect he thought it would like the Rwanda debacle which was never anything more than an attempt to look at least something was being done and his announcement of the scrapping of of the second stage of HS2 in the town that was going to be must impacted by its loss is political stup[idity rarely duplicated in modern times

[@illuminati1568]

Absolutely rattled! WE WANT REFORM!!!!

[@minkleymcmoo5248]

Why aren't tax cuts ever challenged. Especially when our public services in the toilet.

[@anthonygrayson7753]

We've been brainwashed over the last 30 years to believe tax increases are bad. They are only bad for rich people. A 100% increase on not a lot is, well, not a lot! The poor don't notice them, but they do notice improvements to public services!

[@robcarrol]

Little Rishi is like a broken record. Highest taxes since the 1940s and completely lost control of migration. Why are people still giving him airtime?

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

His querillous tone of voice in the interview says it all. He's losing, he knows it, but he doesn't like it.

[@robcarrol]

This bloke couldn't even beat Liz Truss

[@dennisheffy3220]

The robot appears to be malfunctioning. Vocal circuit is stuck in a repeating loop. The lying module needs to be removed.

[@dfor50]

Lol

[@tombowen6430]

Without the lying module he’d be silent.

[@Dragonsitter]

LIES LIES LIES LIES LIES🤡🤡🤡

[@nickdoughty518]

Cutting taxes? But people overwhelmingly want improved services, not reduced taxes. We have a £2.7 Trillion debt, a £100 Billion budget deficit and crumbing public services. How can taxes be cut in these circumstances?

[@douglasfrench4357]

Sunak’s sounding increasingly desperate

[@johnallen7807]

5 Conservative manifestos promising to cut immigration, not a single one delivered and last year this man issued 1.4 million visas (to mainly unskilled or students). Does he seriously expect anyone to believe him this time?

[@VaucluseVanguard]

The ability of a government to do pretty much what it wants makes no difference if it has a majority of 80 (as the Tories had in 2019) and 250 as some polls suggest Labour will get in a couple of days. However, destroying the current Tory party will allow for a new - non corrupt - party of the conservative right to emerge. In the end that would be good for the people of the UK.

[@jamesanthony9316]

It's desperate stuff and I'd argue dangerous to make these statements. This Labour aren't some extreme revolutionary party with plans to upend the country. Trying to drum up fear about "unchecked" majority is outrageous. Since there is functionally no difference to their recent 80 seat majority it needs to be called out explicitly. Playing to voter ignorance is a poor poor look and just shows contempt for the electorate.

[@rmnair90]

His eyes show he knows he has lost.

[@halmycroft194]

Sunak giving 'petulant child being told no' energy here.

[@bombheadgames9565]

The UK debt to income ratio is the highest in Europe because of our countrywide inefficiency, this is down to a decade scrimping on education, cutting back green energy and failure to maintain health and infrastructure.. The UK is broken and it all happened on the Tories watch.

[@davidhayes4814]

We will what Labour can do to mend some, if any of it ……

[@danielwebb8402]

It's lower than France and italys. So not even highest in European g7

[@John-c1n9t]

Green energy pull the other one!

[@bombheadgames9565]

@@John-c1n9t every barrel of oil adds to our nations production costs and service costs. Of course sunak has a 1.5 bill deal with BP so he's raking it in while we suffer.

[@boota1979]

@@danielwebb8402 The UK's debt to GDP is around the same as France, but lower than Italy.

[@dfor50]

No mention of ECHR.

[@SilverHalsen]

Jesus wept. Does he do anything other than lie?

[@tombowen6430]

No

[@fabienmerteuil6226]

It’s not a “deterrent” if it doesn’t work😂😂

[@pcmonkfish8349]

Weak Wishi Washi, desperation in his eyes. Tetchy little man. Hope he loses his seat. If it wasn’t the election campaign and a guaranteed loss resultant he would have been deposed by the numerous competitors in the wings after he bunked off D-Day.

[@peterjanovcik9973]

Is there a problem with my connection or is this fella repeating himself?

[@kathyklaxon5321]

They might as well record a minute of his spiel and play it on a loop ad finitum. No one would notice the difference.

[@fj103]

A classic case of A Glitch in the Matrix

[@robcarrol]

​@@fj103Glitchy Sunak

[@NeonVisual]

@@robcarrol Glitchy Rishi

[@robcarrol]

@@NeonVisual he'll be getting a reboot on Friday

[@justinmiller1118]

Resign Rishi

[@illuminati1568]

Absolutely rattled! WE WANT REFORM!!!!

[@vivwindsor4055]

If Sunak had waited until the Autumn to call the election, Farage would have been on the other side of the Atlantic helping out Trump while we were having an election here. then Reform support would not be half what it is now. Also you notice how Sunak is scared to death to attack Reform, despite being given a few opportunities to do so by the interviewer, another reason why they are losing votes to Reform.

[@joea4234]

Sunak is becoming increasingly desperate….

[@christastic100]

What these disconnected businesses men don’t realise is that the public see public services falling apart along with the road network and unbelievable high taxes on people who can’t afford new EV cars

[@rufus1346]

That's what happens when you spend over a decade trying to appease the far right in your own party. The Tories eating themselves.

[@stekeeley1936]

This isn't about the assets stripped,the austerity & giving countless government contracts to his father in law... It's about THE FUTURE

[@maxhobby1701]

YOU CALLED THE ELECTION RICHI !!! YOU HANDED LABOUR A WIN

[@dianecameron137]

now we have Keir saying he wont work after 6 on a Friday because his wife is Jewish he is not Jewish and he should be working for the people of this country he is well paid for it he should not be calling the shots on when he will not work many have to do several jobs to keep their roof over their head and he says I wont work after 6 unless its needed he does not have to find child care if he wants the PM job then he will work when the people ask him to not the other way round

[@robertmason6366]

Wow shabbat goy in number 10.((brilliant))

[@sasserine]

Johnson spent 9 months of every year on holiday, and Raab was sunbathing while the Afghan evacuation was failing. I think you need to think again who you accuse of having a poor work ethic.

[@niitsukid]

The roads and pavements are pristine in japan - and the average income tax is 5 percent

[@John-c1n9t]

No mass cultural replacement over the last 60 years!

[@andrewcoulson2375]

​@@John-c1n9thas nothing to do with the state of the roads 🙄

[@PeterJohnsonWales]

Appalling, but unsurprising, lack of fact checking of the stream of blatant lies issuing from Sunak.

[@MrQualitystreet]

Labour wanting to tax peoples pension work all your life and still give it to the government . The elderly stuggle as it is this is BS

[@angelaknight7184]

There’s already tax on pensions Gee

[@illuminati1568]

VOTE REFORM!!!!! FARAGE WILL GIVE YOU A TENNER FOR A PINT

[@John-c1n9t]

Suddenly the word illegal appears! Invaders.

[@pauldavis5518]

He stopped the flights to Rwanda total liar Vote Reform!

[@logothaironsides2942]

IF I 'WERE' rishi not 'WAS'. What public school did you attend? Heh Heh. This chap is certain reform will be the opposition if they are not infact the government itself. Telling us all that the horrible status we have endured for 14 years will still be there is labour get elected is not a convincing arguement for not voting reform. I am voting reform and so is everyone I know. Vote REFORM and get the idiots out while you still can.

[@YUDNSAY]

Normally, my stance is 'if you don't vote, you can't have an opinion", now I believe that most of my life I have been lied to by every single politician, that no matter whose side of the LabTor hegemony lockstep you fell on, the lies continued, the sinister lies of covid completely confirmed that, change is all I can look for now, and for that I will look outside the hegemony, Reform may lie, and be useless but even that is a change from the hegemony of LabTor.

[@John-c1n9t]

Good comment!

[@boota1979]

@YUDNSAY So basically no difference!

[@YUDNSAY]

@@boota1979 It would be nice to believe otherwise....

[@EdMcF1]

When Reform come in with two taxis worth of MPs on Friday morning, and the Conservatives have c. 180, this will all seem what it was, the feverish hallucinations of Election Fever.

[@JohnWilson-sd6dj]

what a load of bull squirt. this man has no honour

[@JamesBaker-q8l]

Like a robot ! Vote Reform !!!

[@ottz2506]

It’ll be either: Labour wins, and then Conservatives just barely come second by the skin of their head and Reform absolutely dominating the other parties and coming third. Or Labour wins. Reform is second largest and conservatives fall way behind in third.

[@kingmilanovic6733]

I have never in my life given the tax I pay a second thought......the greedy always want more...

[@nineteen-sixty-nine9373]

Cut taxes for you own business's Sunak.The UK is a joke!

[@MantisEnergy]

He began answers with "Look" right until the very end.

[@davidv.8655]

A halt on immigration is essential not a reduction a halt . We have 1/2 a million people leave every year lets replace them with the workers we NEED. Doctors, surgeons dentists and nurses first. Vote Reform we desperately need it!!

[@sueo7834]

NIGEL FARAGE FOR PM 😃😃 VOTE REFORM!! 😃😃🥰🥰💃💃

[@angelaknight7184]

Like what you have done sunak,nothing

[@richardbartle1578]

disgraceful

[@colineastwood7005]

Sunak is no prime minister to me!

[@speculawyer]

Sunak finds racists going for the old school racist party? Shocking! Leopards Ate My Face moment.

[@angelaknight7184]

In other words nothing

[@africanfufu]

2 more days Sunak😂😂😂. I can’t wait to be watching from the US🇺🇸. Biden is making us scared over here and I hope the Labour party in the UK makes democrats in the US🇺🇸 happy 😆

[@jyothilakshmy1664]

Publis to helpfully decide payment returns chances too RE-THINK to help us too best of luck.

[@peterjanovcik9973]

Is Rishi down for everyone or just me?

[@robcarrol]

Needs a reboot out of office

[@MalcolmCashmore]

Malfunction........robot closing down!

[@dubsydubs5234]

Vote on their record, you didn't do any of what you said and now we're supposed to ignore your record and believe the promises of what he's going to do, you put off Ruanda until you get elected, if you had done it it might be believable.

[@garyclarke1086]

Just how democratic is it to have unelected pm after unelected pm. If there's a vote of confidence for leadership then there should be an election for a new government. Vote reform ✌️

[@hiboo6012]

i am voting reform

[@NigelThompson-hb5jg]

I'm sorry Mr Sunak, but you come over like an enthusiastic charity blogger.

[@blaircorral8158]

Tory’s have changed their name to Reform 🎉

[@killerriver]

Till the only poll that matters. You've lost too much trust see you on the 5th

[@davidhayes4814]

Rhetoric aside …..Not sure that any party can solve the mess that we are in. Politics is largely irrelevant.

[@saratreadwell5711]

U. Don’t stop lying 😡

[@davidfield4937]

VOTE FOR REFORM UK

[@RRR4847-o9g]

Rishi deserves the chance to serve a full term. He hasn't got everything right, nobody could given the grave issues as a result of Covid, but give him five years and this country will be booming again. If he gets it wrong, then you can vote reform. But not now, not this week, don't hand Labour a supermajority as it will let them do whatever they want.

[@boota1979]

Dear oh dear...

[@heybye77]

Broken record

[@anthonymichaelwilson8401]

Sunak is Bidens puppet lol 😂

[@mrechelon7051]

...when he wins the election....😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😢

[@digitald5]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@dump557]

Hey Rat fans I'm a rat and a snake as well. Risssssshi Rat

[@darrellrobson2484]

VOTE REFORM. vote reform. VOTE REFORM

[@SlowhandGreg]

There just extreme Tories, haven't you had enough of out of touch elites?

[@darrellrobson2484]

@@SlowhandGreg Read reforms contract with the people, reform would have nothing to do with the likes of the WEF, WHO and UN

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@darrellrobson2484 they're just as much Tufton Street puppets as the Tories, there champions are the same pro corporate pro billionaire economic policies Right wing economics broke this country a more extreme version will sink it completely

[@boota1979]

@@darrellrobson2484 Really....

[@mjk8710]

OH DEAR! Rishi in despair 😂 VOTE REFORM UK 🇬🇧 PEOPLE FOR REAL CHANGE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🇬🇧🫵🏻

[@SlowhandGreg]

Right wing economics on steroids you have to be joking?

[@mjk8710]

@@SlowhandGreg stand by sir the sh4t will hit the fan July 4th

[@SlowhandGreg]

@@mjk8710 Your advocating a vote for a party who are proposing to give the biggest tax break in history to the wealthy? quote Reform's plan to raise the higher rate threshold from £50,271 to £70,000 would amount to a tax cut worth almost £6,000 for the top 10% of earners, vastly overshadowing the benefit to the lowest earners.

[@mjk8710]

@@SlowhandGreg hey Greg we all know efforts to make change come with consequences so they give with one and take from the other hand it’s how democracy works but on the for change there’s only one party VOTE REFORM UK 🇬🇧💯🫵🏻 we cant trust Labour because they haven’t done anything except annoy the conservatives for last 14 yrs the conservatives are a spent force in 14 years they have achieved nothing except higher taxes and made the poorest less fortunate imo