The UK will hold its first election in almost 5 years: AP Explains

The UK will hold its first national election in almost five years on Thursday, with opinion polls suggesting that Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party will be punished for failing to deliver on promises made during 14 years in power. The centre-right Conservatives took power during the depths of the global financial crisis and have won three more elections since then. But those years have been marked by a sluggish economy, declining public services and a series of scandals, making the Tories, as they are commonly known, easy targets for critics on the left and right. The Labour Party, which leans to the left and is lead by Sir Keir Starmer, is far ahead in most opinion polls after focusing its campaign on a single word: Change. Read more here: apne.ws/uDdtlNj
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[@terrancekayton007]

Wishing everyone the very best.

[@glennknauer2696]

You/we are enslaved

[@justiceandhealing4all]

Yuck. What a nation.

[@nigelbenn4642]

Try living here! It's a nightmare, it would be funny to watch if I didn't actually live here and this wasn't my actual life.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

@@nigelbenn4642 From the outside looking in... We tried to warn you but I think you only have yourself to blame now.

[@SonoftheFortunate]

@@nigelbenn4642 You should leave Europe

[@nigelbenn4642]

@@Thor.Jorgensen Not my fault, I voted to remain, I voted Green and Labour. I have NOTHING to do with this mess thank you very much.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

​@@nigelbenn4642 What did you do to convince your fellow voters? Doing nothing is also an action. - If time is money, doing nothing is an expensive choice.

[@user-yq3kb4rt3l]

😂🤣😅😆😁😄 lONDON eAST End feeling the pain.

[@daheikkinen]

End socialism forever.

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

The UK has been a conservative government for the past 14 years. And the only Socialist party in the UK has just a single seat out of 650 in the House of Commons. I frankly don't see why you are complaining.