Tories furious as Rishi Sunak calls surprise election

Kate McCann reports live from Downing Street.
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[@user-wf3fh1jm5l]

Tories furious? Not half as much as the majority of ordinary hardworking British citizens!

[@kityhawk2000]

I don't think ordinary citizens are furious about him calling an election. It's about the only good thing he's done

[@Rapidoldfart]

Labour - Tories - Labour - Tories - Labour - Tories - Labour PLEASE britain jump off the seesaw of the two toxic party system. Have some COURAGE and tell both these parties that have no idea how to lead this country in the 21st century and let us down so often where to go. If not for you for our childrens future

[@colinfryett8174]

My life is fine, and my wife's we both work lol

[@drhibas]

@@colinfryett8174 lucky you, with some empathy you might notice everyone in your country who are not

[@user-wf3fh1jm5l]

@@colinfryett8174 But I said "hardworking" 🙄

[@muirislandjim453]

The worst Government in living memory

[@SlowhandGreg]

Statistically you are not wrong the 1st Parliament on record where people are poorer at the end of a 5 year term

[@willtricks9432]

Many have died because the Tories have been the government since 2010. So beyond the living memory of some.

[@lesleywild8706]

No the last Labour government was worse - the Tories can't take all the credit for the problems this country is facing.

[@johncurtis3910]

Well, since #Liar's.....

[@karmaascendant3936]

⁠@@lesleywild8706objectively false. Love them or hate them Blair and Brown left the people in a better state than they picked them up on average. These Tories have done the opposite.

[@Garcea_linking]

Sunak's had a tough time???? What about all the pain and hardship he and the rest of the tories have caused to millions over the last 14 years? I'll be watching tories crying in the sports halls at 3.00am on the morning after :).

[@josephberrie9550]

same hardship blair and brown put us through after 14 years of labour

[@istvanglock7445]

Oh, and what pain and hardship would that be? I don't think you have any idea what pain and hardship actually mean.

[@user-lk8bz7hg2b]

Hardly!. You must have been in a coma or living in a parallel universe ​@@josephberrie9550

[@Geffo555]

@@josephberrie9550 We had a better standard of living when Labour were last in power. A functioning NHS. And our rivers were not full of Tory policies.

[@briancandyhurren7121]

The bloke is worth 529 million. Tough? I think not

[@carlharding5311]

He sounded like he was making a resignation speech because he was.

[@kityhawk2000]

😂

[@brianlopez8855]

He will be off to California even before the election.

[@sarangistudent8614]

His bacon sandwich moment?

[@brianlopez8855]

He'll fly off to a new life in California leaving on 5 July 2024.

[@ronmatthews1738]

The timing does prompt the notion that Mr Sunak opted for an election rather than face a leadership challenge. Our gain will California's loss.

[@absorbtheride]

44 days and this nightmare government is all over. Finally 🎉

[@geraldineanneboyd9165]

The next one , headed by Starmer, is about to begin,

[@John-ik1os]

@@geraldineanneboyd9165 A Labour government won’t be a headache it will bring on a Migraine though

[@user-eq7ub3do4v]

44 days wasnt that as long as Truss lasted hmmm conicidence

[@alana8863]

@@geraldineanneboyd9165 Yes, who wants to see their doctor same or next day? Who wants a country with a decent defence budget? Who wants an operation before they die? Who wants clean water? That's what you did have - or have you forgotten?

[@alana8863]

@@John-ik1os Even edited this doesn't make sense. Tory voter, by any chance?

[@ryanthenormal]

"We thought we had more time." How many more decades do they need, exactly?

[@sreethoz]

Yeah bring back Tony Blair so we can invade countries with a 45 min sham.

[@rogerwilco2]

They had 15 years.

[@johncronje1555]

😂

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

They needed time to make people’s lives worse.

[@xyzzdoe3674]

Maybe they had a few more crony contracts to fit it.

[@thehealinggame]

Why no umbrella for Sunak ? If they can't organise a press conference why should they run our country ?

[@Dutch3DMaster]

@ghi95 It was literally raining on him. But I take it it's to look tough and not caring about the circumstances or something...

[@paulbird3235]

Didn't Michelle Mone have any spare PPE she could have loaned him?, Poor soul.

[@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar]

​@@paulbird3235🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@paulbird3235]

@@Dutch3DMaster A washout, just like his government!.

[@craig1538]

A Tory wet? (People who remember the eighties will get that).

[@rogerwilco2]

The Tories cannot complain. They had 15 years.

[@lvsarmy2012]

14 thank god it wasn’t 15!

[@TomTomicMic]

Somehow Labours 5 years will seem rather longer!?!

[@sarahbarrett1247]

@@TomTomicMicwill it though? I’m not sure how. Austerity for us, socialism for the rich has failed. We’re paying the taxes and they’re lining their pockets.

[@theman2017inc]

14 years long enough Small mercies, it not as long as the last overlong overstayed Tory Administration (1979-1997)

[@sharonharris9782]

​@@TomTomicMicand yet conservative governments usually fail.

[@bc5295]

As usual the question The Times asks is not "what are the implications for the country" but "what are the implications for the Conservative Party". Shameful.

[@georgesdelatour]

Times Radio are pretty overtly campaigning for a Labour victory at this point. It's one reason they're silent about Labour's "New Britain Constitution" plans.

[@ColinBarrett001]

The hopefully catastrophic implications for the Tory party mean very positive implications for the country

[@istvanglock7445]

That would be because the implications for the country won't be known until after the election.

[@RobBCactive]

What do you expect from a Murdoch rag that boosts 🤡 Bojo 🤡 the Foreign Sec. who went from a NATO meeting in the Novichok crisis to see his KGB linked mates, owners of property in occupied Crimea, then appears pictured guttered in St. Francis of Assisi airport. Years later having become PM he cannot deny not giving the Russians secrets. All recorded in select committee at the time of his fall and one more of the things right wing client media fails to report adequately.

[@RobBCactive]

@@istvanglock7445 aww, come on, the Times have been stirring up different leaders, getting their picks in who prove to be mendacious incompetents for years now.

[@SuzanneJones-qy3zh]

Good bye Tories goodbye I certainly won't cry

[@JimTimber]

..even the sky is crying for you.. tears of joy !!

[@fredbartlett7322]

About time, the whole corrupt bunch need to go!

[@Truerahma]

So embarrassing for Rishi. 🎉 Good riddance ☔☔

[@kityhawk2000]

Given how incompetent they are it was very fitting

[@kityhawk2000]

Given how incompetent they are it was very fitting

[@colinfryett8174]

Remember when Liebour councils allowed grooming gangs to r ape or kids but that's what leftie like.

[@user-es2fg6hl3z]

He is useless. All of tories useless and shameless bunch of hypocritical and foolish excuses for human beings! They targeted the poor

[@craig1538]

Given how incompetent they are it was very fitting

[@clj.4874]

​​no umbrella totally soaked and music blasting out things can only get better. Chance for the public to get rid of this circus once and for all

[@zeb1801]

Sunak's had a tough time???? What about all the pain and hardship he and the rest of the tories have caused to millions over the last 14 years? I'll be watching tories crying in the sports halls at 3.00am on the morning after :)

[@youcantalwaysgetwhatyouwan8419]

Yeah I’m not going to shed a tear for poor pathetic Rishi, who has more money than the king. Solidarity with the folks who have suffered for years, there’s light at the end of the tunnel.

[@joelcutting3954]

Absolutely not to mention hollowing out our defence capabilities and committing sepuku on our global influence

[@miras2222]

wealth of Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty rose by £122 million last year from £529 to £651 millon Tough time, really.

[@kityhawk2000]

My heart bleeds for the poor little billionaire and the golden parachute he'll inevitably recieve.

[@istvanglock7445]

It appears you have two different accounts. You've said exactly the same thing under another name in this comments section.

[@hypsyzygy506]

'Eat Out to Help Out' did not protect the British people.

[@Music_Light_Show]

Shhh don't mention that lol

[@gareth2736]

It also always sounded like an innuendo

[@futonclutch5040]

That was just an unmitigated disaster.

[@RoggoesontheTube]

Vote OUT to help out

[@geofflittler2035]

That was not the correct slogan. The correct slogan was actually 'Eat out to help the virus'

[@user-jc4lb5mm7x]

Has Sunak already booked his first class airfare to Los Angeles?

[@lizdocherty3067]

YES😅

[@rubenpapa100]

@@lizdocherty3067 I bet he can't wait... poor love

[@user-eq7ub3do4v]

no send him to rwanda its "safe" lol

[@gillb9222]

I guess his visa came through

[@ciarand2823]

No, he'll be on a private jet

[@laurenceteague4099]

Even the Tories themselves know they can't win and don't deserve to.

[@deannilvalli6579]

I enjoyed how he acted as if he has been in office for 5 years. It has been less than 2 years since he was installed by a handful of people in his own party (rather than the general population). I predict the Conservatives will lose by the largest margin on record, of any party, at least in the last 3 centuries. If the party ceases to exist thereafter, it would certainly be a long-awaited and well-deserved coda after the Tories presided over 14 of the worst years in modern British history. PS: I am not a member of any British party. I am a neutral observer.

[@TanyaJackson-no2rs]

Nah. They will make a comeback. Labour will ruin the country and back round we go.

[@acelilumelody4445]

I dont think they will. It needs people to actually get out an vote. And a larger amount of right wing conservatives vote than left. Not to mention if 35% vote tory and the other 65% split between the other parties it will be another 5 years of tories.

[@voice.of.reason]

It hasn't been that bad, apart from what they did to us from 2020 -2023, but Labour would have locked us all up for longer and harder

[@1984Scholsey]

Hear hear !

[@matttaylor678]

​@voice.of.reason there's been 14v years of austerity, NHS has gone from the best it ever was in 2010 to worst in 2024, real wages are lower now than in 1990, inflation, interest rates higher than at any time since the last time they were in power, they've transferred £800 billion from poor to rich in the past 4 years, run down the armed forces to the point where the Americans now say the UK is no longer a tier 1 ally and they have guaranteed that the UKs GDP will be 5% lower annually compounded through the insanity of the Brexit referendum. Apart from that everything has been great apart from the abomination of Rwanda, the Windrush scandal, the abuse of power and attempted destruction of the constitution. Oh and the rivers of raw sewage, Northern Ireland, destruction of London as a financial centre, admission of neo-fascists into the cabinet ....

[@ISuperTed]

Oh dear, when it rains it really does pour 😂

[@kalebdaark100]

I don't know, it feels like a sunny day to me

[@terryloftus3207]

A WALLY without a BROLLY.Very fitting

[@pemberton6974]

Prime miniature Fishy Sunak is like an antelope in a crocodiles only golf club.

[@TheGreat_Kramer1]

As an American, I am just thankful for the extra fireworks to watch on July 4th.

[@TheMillieBurton]

Plus an extra citizen for your 1%

[@glassmuxxic]

Zero seats.

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Tories for Prison.

[@evolassunglasses4673]

Zero votes! We must build something new on the Right long term.

[@TanyaJackson-no2rs]

No. We can't allow Labour to rule over us to that extent. We need a right wing party to challenge them.

[@tomfinney3416]

@@TanyaJackson-no2rs the right wing with their rampant xenophobia have dis united the united kingdom , they are not worth a vote , they only wreck the british isles ,

[@ColinBarrett001]

@@TanyaJackson-no2rs Agreed, there should be an opposition to hold labour to account, but unfortunately the Right is now increasingly being exposed as the demagogues, fraudsters and snake oil populists they invariably are.

[@thedirediyer5245]

Things Can Only Get……Wetter

[@oneoflokis]

😂

[@markd1516]

At last, evidence of trickle-down.

[@user-yb6eo1xp2f]

Fool in the rain

[@geofo60]

Whining in the rain.

[@lizdocherty3067]

Definitely not dancing in the rain😅😅😅

[@hypsyzygy506]

The fool on the hill

[@user-yb6eo1xp2f]

@@hypsyzygy506 that too my friend! Zep & Beatles

[@troubledjoe6201]

And in 44 days - Nowhere Man

[@woodencreatures]

He's done it now so that he'll never have to see his Rwanda plan fail

[@TanyaJackson-no2rs]

So we just allow our country to continue to get invaded by new arrivals?

[@istvanglock7445]

It won't fail. Starmer will simply cancel it.

[@voice.of.reason]

The 4th of July, the same day as the first flight to Rwanda is supposed to take off!

[@Geffo555]

@@TanyaJackson-no2rs How would the Rwanda plan fix anything? We've all seen the details by now. And the results are self-evident.

[@CARLIN4737]

Shocking i thought it was absolutely brilliant. Nailed the Tories to the floor without a paddle.

[@ColinBarrett001]

I love a mixed metaphor. 'Nailed to the floor without a paddle'. Great!.... But in fairness, a bird in the hand is worth a kettle of fish. 😅

[@lindacurrie8817]

​​@@ColinBarrett001Ha ha fair enjoyed your comment. Definitely a Laurel and Hardy moment.

[@Rob-hm6rk]

He launched an election campaign in the rain 😅

[@TheSuperPsychoKiller]

Nothing goes right for him. 😂

[@philleggitt3005]

launched, its never going to float, even with a biblical flood...We need reform...

[@Stephanie-wf6xr]

The rain that was falling on Sunak should have been cow dung, from the water crisis 😂😂

[@paulinequinton1478]

"He's had a tough time as Prime Minister..." Not as tough as we have had with him as Prime Minister.

[@DukeJon1969]

Pouring rain, New Labour's theme song blaring in the background... the optics couldn't have been any worse

[@irinemasawi2939]

He has no clue at all. Not sure whether it’s dictatorship. Hopefully he will go!!!!!

[@gareth2736]

Of course he will go. He's a very fairly normal British politican who respects the institutions and is more or less honest.

[@tezinho81]

We're not quite there yet. I wouldn't say that of sunak as much as I dislike him. BoJo proroguing parliament came close though, most of the current tory slop were foursquare behind him

[@redcaoimh3127]

It's not a dictatorship. It's a theme park ruled by unelected inbreds with an unelected PM at Westminster, and unelected FM in Scotland....that's been sold off to YankCorp

[@SuzanneJones-qy3zh]

Only if you all stop voting these spivs in your call

[@CARLIN4737]

Brilliant loved every second of the chaos.

[@SpuriusCassius8]

Tories text saying they are doomed - good riddance!

[@SarahTheNearlyInSP]

Turning a GE announcement into a Party Political Broadcast was disgusting and disgraceful!!

[@willtricks9432]

Standard Rishit Action.

[@krishnagondhea7428]

He wants his party to stay in power.

[@NeonVisual]

Yeah but it was in the rain, and set to a Labour anthem. Bahahaha what cluelesss wonders the Tories are

[@aragornthebrave]

@@krishnagondhea7428 But took the worst possible action :)

[@stevemitchell1454]

The Tories are all disgraceful. They have zero humanity.

[@jsd8981]

He is a fool !!! Is it really that surprising ???...

[@thomasrobinson3453]

Vote out to help out

[@timminsmark]

Every single day I get to see how terrible the tories are dodging the craters in our third country roads

[@markjackson8261]

Just 13 seats predicted for the CONS 😀😀😀

[@iamrocketray]

@markjackson8261🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞

[@stephengraham1153]

That's 13 too many.

[@cherylsalmon8429]

🥳🎉🥳🎉

[@Nemothewonderfish]

13 too many

[@DS9TREK]

85, actually

[@finlybenyunes8385]

Soontax is thinking about his daughters starting their autumn term in California...

[@harrylyme2913]

Geeze there must soon be some really bad news coming down the track!

[@ogribiker8535]

Probably been told enough letters have been submitted!

[@pjo4622]

You are correct. It's called Labour.

[@melgrant7404]

​@ogribiker8535 my thoughts also.

[@MarkInOxford]

“I have unfinished business” - Liz Truss. Vote Labour. Vote anyone but Tory!

[@oldgamer1299]

Open Borders, the Islamification of Britain?! No thank you!

[@CammieRacing]

Or vote reform to split the tory vote haha.

[@toomanysecrets7121]

Never Labour ever

[@susanroberts9218]

VOTE REFORM EVERYONE PLEASE we need a complete change 😊

[@timsimmons5953]

Don't mention Brexit. I did once but I think I got away with it.

[@willtricks9432]

And the two dead pigeons in the water tank.

[@geraldineanneboyd9165]

the Tory Party certainly got away with it!

[@davidpearson243]

⁠@@willtricks9432 what they doing up there !!!! Oink Oink

[@timminsmark]

Nice one Basil😂

[@willtricks9432]

@@davidpearson243 How they up there Fly?

[@user-xs9fp3ic9y]

In July! Not time to campaign. He’s given up.

[@hubertluke8730]

Sunak want to get out of politics, he is not happy having to to. Stan and make those crazy statements in support of Israel and zelenky k knowing he is in the wrong

[@Leo_DaViincii]

When Sunak said 'the world is a dangerous place' it reminded me of the Terminator film where Arnie says, '"Come with me if you want to live" lol

[@markelmslie6832]

Less so with the Cons out of power!

[@oneoflokis]

​@markelmslie6832 Well at least he won't be able to deprive the disabled of more of their rights..

[@rossmurray6849]

More like the Black Knight in Monty Python, "Come back here and I'll bite your legs off." IMO

[@PeteJosephs]

The rain will make Sunak's trousers shrink even shorter.

[@michealhunt6607]

Oh dear, how sad. Nevermind eh.

[@user-yj7gh1xk8y]

Noticeably no one offered him a brolly. Very fitting

[@paultaylor7082]

When you've got so few friends, that's not exactly surprising.

[@joannelewis3390]

Get outside it's a beautiful sunny day. It's not raining. In his parallel universe

[@MrSensible2]

Lots of Tory MPs might well be furious but today, the nation is deliriously happy! We only have to wait another six weeks for this truly appalling government to be voted out & consigned to the dustbin of history.

[@yaimavol]

You'll get a radical left one to replace it. You have no idea how much worse it can be. You will find out soon enough.

[@Music_Light_Show]

Bring back the lettuce

[@chrislambe400]

What a clown. Vote out to help out.

[@davidmatthews3093]

I like that. 😊

[@badcarlos551]

They should've played the Benny Hill theme

[@davidpearson243]

That was for Johnston

[@cobbler40]

Did somebody threaten to oust him ?

[@iamrocketray]

@cobbler40 That sounds about right!

[@melgrant7404]

Thats what I thought.

[@Geffo555]

Something certainly triggered Sunak. This might even be his way of getting back at them.

[@melgrant7404]

@Geffo555 maybe he is doing it now before things like rwanda go wrong.

[@Geffo555]

@@melgrant7404 Possibly. Though a lot of people have already worked out that it's just gesture politics. I suspect that Cobbler is right.

[@philmccrackin9114]

Uk growth RATE ----(1) US, (2) China, (3) Germany, (4) Japan and (5) India,(6) UK IMF data (as of April 30, 2024) SO hes lying agian .

[@roystenson6491]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKfVYa1shMiYn8k

[@DS9TREK]

That's a list of economies by size, not growth rate

[@HistoryonYouTube]

I suppose Rishi has been offered a book deal or a job or something similar.

[@user-xs9fp3ic9y]

Why was he standing in the rain!

[@hypsyzygy506]

🎶 He's Sunak in the rain

[@melgrant7404]

He'll do his crying in the rain.🎶🎶

[@sirbarringtonwomblembe4098]

Because he wasn't sitting?

[@DC.409]

The last election in July was 1945.

[@ogribiker8535]

Labour landslide! 👍👍👍

[@voice.of.reason]

@@ogribiker8535 Vote reform , it's the only way out of this mess. After a few years of Labour you will be begging for Rishi back I assure you

[@moomin7461]

​@@voice.of.reasonNo, we won't. 😂😂

[@rachelmatthews3070]

​@@voice.of.reasonI'm sorry this has got to be sarcasm 😂

[@joannelewis3390]

We've done a full circle

[@VoteTACTICAl]

Vote TACTICALLY because we need change and the tories are lost and need 15 years in the wilderness. I am no better off since they came to power. Britain needs reforming from root and branch .

[@peterhamfish]

If tories stay, homelessness will grow, there'll be even more food banks. Charities are a government's failure.

[@stephengraham1153]

So in effect, for many, voting tory is a "lifestyle choice"...

[@FelixstoweFoamForge]

People who still believe in freedom? How about freedom to see you GP rather than having to rock up at A&E, or freedom to get an nhs dentist to look at your child's teeth? That's what we pay out taxes for, not to be told we have to horde bottled water and baked beans because we're in some sort of existential peril.

[@stevenclarke5606]

All thanks to the Tory Party

[@coastalsandwich]

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

[@angelamason-mccarroll3262]

Whatta drip

[@chrisr6794]

God willing, the Tories will never form a government again.

[@joannelewis3390]

Get them out

[@stevefreary7449]

Things Can Only Get Wetter !!

[@accomuk]

It had end of an era all over it. Dull wet and miserable.

[@ciarand2823]

GOOD RIDDANCE RISHI 👏 🎉

[@LoveNature-my8fz]

13 years damages in Britain Tories looted and made millions suffer

[@Clubberdude-sp1gw]

Was perfect to the last detail. The best announcement I've seen from the government (at least in the last 14 years). Sunak soaking wet, announcing a general election (that the tories WILL lose). But the icing on the cake was Sunak's predictable talk being drowned out by D:Ream. I've been waiting over 13 years for this and my god it did not disappoint! *Things can only get better* or should that be wetter.

[@Tom_murray89]

Time for the tories to go

[@joannelewis3390]

I can't wait

[@shaddamiv2212]

neoliberal party 1 or neoliberal party 2. This old sham. We all need to put our differences aside for one term and create a 1 issue party to get PR, then all go our own ways again.

[@Sekekama445]

I'm glad we had enough decent, fair-minded people in this country , enough of this entitled clowns

[@PeteLoughlin]

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

[@James_08_07]

What does he know that he’s not telling us. Make no mistake he wouldn’t be doing it now if later would have been better.

[@fairyfizz3102]

No confidence letters I predict

[@cliffwillson3643]

Sunak... "Ready for Redundancy" 🤣

[@jmcm8546]

The whole world is laughing at Britain. Big time charlies on a mickey mouse island

[@johnscott6511]

From Eat Out to Wash Out

[@mauricetucker8754]

It's cut and run ,the pm has had enough of the mess this conservative government has left it in dedt crisis and privatisation failure, brixit failure, desperate in the rain.

[@annhutton5651]

No umbrella??? Looked messy

[@Nemothewonderfish]

He's a wet! Lol

[@thegoat11111]

The music, the pouring rain. It would have been perfect had their been a loose electric cable.

[@davidsbain4687]

Ah poor Tory MPs spitting their dummies out.

[@MerryOlSoulGigglesmith]

Rishi's family wealth has gone up. He doesn't need this. He'd rather be on the board of some company. Bankers rule the UK... Not the government or monarch.

[@yaxley3920]

Free uk from Sunak,Bravamen, Patel,Lee Anderson

[@joannelewis3390]

No empathy. Creul horrible creatures

[@grahamturner1290]

GOODBYE TORIES. 😊

[@jimknight5420]

The damp squib can't even organise an umbrella. Will that be the defining image of the election campaign?

[@geoffreyhughes9979]

Time to rejoin the EU.

[@user-yb6eo1xp2f]

Amen to that. As a european, non brit, i ll welcome you back where you belong!

[@lucitonstjames3925]

Small problem , 12 Freeports / 74 SEZ's that dont comply with EU law

[@wolfen210959]

@@lucitonstjames3925 Not a problem at all, few of them are actually operating, and all of them can be closed down with a simple announcement from Downing Street, no legislation required. Which means that the few that are in operation, have to start paying taxes again, so win-win. :)

[@Geffo555]

@@lucitonstjames3925 We had freeports in the UK when we was in the EU. Belfast, Liverpool, and Cardiff were all freeports at one time. The Conservative government cancelled them because they were not that successful.

[@gavinmc5285]

Personality doesn't survive politics

[@robertford532]

He has had a tough time as priminister? He has Increased his personal wealth by a hundred and twenty million.

[@joannelewis3390]

Makes me sick how hes chipped away at our country and our income

[@peterm7548]

Good grief, today I realised I'd be a better PM than Sunak! I'd have done the speech INDOORS like Starmer did!

[@joannelewis3390]

Up there for thinking down there for dancing

[@hughthemusicalengineer4365]

There will be a lot of postal votes in Scotland as that is the first week of the school holidays. I wonder how many of them will actually be counted!

[@roystenson6491]

all of them if they are posted back, they can also be dropped off on the day if people dont get time.

[@hughthemusicalengineer4365]

@@roystenson6491 If you are away on holiday you can't drop them off.

[@andydarbyshir8699]

Nobody in the right mind would vote conservative so do the right thing now

[@stevenhoward3358]

all those tories that held off putting in their letter to Brady will be cussing right now.

[@ZZR1200ZX]

Rain Man.

[@alanconway94]

About time. Just remember, if you live in Scotland, Wales or N. Ireland; you are of no consequence to Sunak. Nor, sadly, to Starmer. They are both fighting for every last Tory vote in England. That's the place they mean when they talk about "the country".

[@JRattheranch]

It would seem to me that he had no intention of doing this but has been pushed by the economy of the future!

[@brianholding4357]

YAY!!!!!!!!! Even the Americans will be celebrating.....🎆🎆🎆

[@SarahTheNearlyInSP]

Bye bye Sunak!! 🎉

[@miras2222]

and bye bye Tories

[@edc8388]

Bye ... Missing you already ... even the weather hates you.

[@paulbird3235]

Course they are furious, he has just cost most of them six months lost salary. Most of them are not as Richy as Sunak are they?.

[@keith2366]

The people want those flights going to Rwanda? Will that have any impact on a regular citizen? Are the flights to Rwanda more important than the 40 new hospitals?

[@stevenhoward3358]

It was not a Henry V speech to rally the troops, more like Adolf in his bunker as the Russian tanks roll into Berlin.

[@paultaylor7082]

More like Comical/Chemical Ali, as the Coalition tanks trundled into Baghdad, back in 1991.