No he hasn't, you just want us to think so, Legacy Media has spun what Farage said about Putin, understanding your enemy, understanding how they will spin events back home and use for justification, not underestimating your enemy and recognising their abilities is NOT supporting them or justifying their actions. The Establishment Uniparty is sh1tting itself, we see you.
Means he can move to California sooner. He knows he’ll be sacked after the election and he’s claimed he’ll see out the next 5 year term as a backbencher but lots of us are sceptical.
Can we talk about The Election Campaign (traditionally only two weeks), which has been elongated so that The Media can make even more money from they're american tourists), and american rourists only?
The more I see of Sunak, the more I dislike him. He is a spoilt privileged schoolboy who earned his money betting against this country as a hedge fund manager and bears responsibility for the collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland. Vote him out!
@@Lindafoy11 do t be stupid they haven't been bad for 14 years Why havent wonderful labour git on.because they were unelectable and still are in my opinion can't trust starmer. Rishi has said he wlbsn gender drugs for children and ban sex education for under 9s.i will vote for him. Starmer will not protect our children . Will hurt the motorist and will be terrible prime . Minister. I ca t vote for a party that throws cement and I can't vote for party that wants to lower wome s rights a d I hate their policies of envy Y hate the tory party and I hate the la our party.
Rishi Sunak earnt money as a hedge fund manager betting against his country. He is singularly ill placed to condemn other Tory MPs for betting against their party.
@@methanedirigible Look who his families companies are. Then cross reference contracts awarded during his reign. Then add up the value of those contracts. Then cry that you didn’t study PolItic studies at college.
@@davidwebb4904Excellent. McPrice has made a bundle by stealing 'common land' from the monarchy. Do they teach you that (we got cops on our side too)!
He was elected by MPs in the party who were also elected. Remember the MPs were voted in to represent the constituencies’ views and apparently landed on Sunak.
Sunak is an elected MP and was elected into the position of PM. If you're going to take a pop at him make it something worthwhile, for example his complicity in a genocide or refusal to try and get the PPE fraudsters to refund the UK tax payer.
For the people in the replies to this comment saying he was elected. He quite clearly wasn't. He ran unopposed after an 18 person committee (1922 Committee) changed the rules on to prevent other candidates from achieving the watermark for selection. Due to this mechanism he was automatically selected with no vote and therefore no election. It was highly regarded that this was due to the fact that the party vote - which was denied due to their being only one nomination - would likely have went back to Boris at the time - something a minority in the parliamentary body of MPs wanted to avoid. So no. Definitely NOT an elected Prime Minister. To this day there are people in the Conservative party membership who feel disconnected from the process, and from Sunak who did not hold a (admittedly optional) confirmation vote. Hilariously the rules will almost certainly need to be changed again post election (if Sunak resigns / is kicked out) due to insufficient numbers of parliamentary members, meaning the last three conservative leaders will all have differing levels of provenance.
So it is. But you have to rely heavily on semantics to convince me that there's a democratic process at work. You allude to rules and processes. These were altered to achieve a partizan result. Elected unopposed. Reading from the handbook doesn't lesson the charge that Sunak wasn't elected by the people of this country.
@@Alanturner-c5x I completely agree with you! - I was trying to make it clear that he was in no way elected. By anyone! - By outlining the process by which he became PM :) - Sorry if this reply was meant for someone else in your replies.. TH-cam isn't great at understanding the flow of replies..
If Corbyn had beaten Boris Johnson, this country would now be in considerably better shape than it is. Contrary to popular opinion ( largely the result of the right-wing media ) his policies were not "looney left," and would've been quite acceptable in any other European country with a left-leaning government. Corbyn was never the problem. The strangle-hold the Murdoch press/Daily Mail, etc. has on this country is the problem, and has been for far too long.
Corbyn /McDonnell wanted to take 10% of company profits on top of increased Corpn tax and 1/3 of the boards for non executive workers. What would they even say? How many would stay in the UK? This was all nuts
Corbyn was awful as a politician and very unpopular with the wider UK public. He effectively enabled more Tory governments and also Brexit by being anti EU. I’m leftwing and would prefer more leftwing Labour policies. Maybe a more competent left wing leader could have done better but Corbyn was a poor leader and personally the problem more so then the policies.
The first sitting Prime Minister to lose his seat? Many of us still remember the time when Arthur Balfour 1st Earl of Balfour lost his seat as Prime Minister in the 1906 general election. What a night that was! Of course the cheeky young journalists of today overlook that important moment in the history of this great country.
Balfour was the first leader of the Tories to lose his seat, but he'd resigned as PM a few weeks before the election was called, meaning that the Liberal leader, Henry Campbell Bannerman was technically PM at the time.
After Sir Beer Starmer, he pushed for longer and harder! And never even received a fine for the lunchtime drinks party.... But when you have friends in high places within the police! Nothing to see here.....
@@TheJon2442 Are you looking for a legal summons? Keir's food delivery with one San Mig each was late at night when all places were closed and staff had done a ten hour shift. Learn a little before spouting.
Sunak losing his seat isnt a true portillo moment as he has no influence on future of tory party direction. Portillo was tipped as a future leader and a surprise defeat. Sunak would just be a really nice surprise. Badenoch or Truss losing would be comparable.
Sunak's campaign "strategy" has been strange to say the least. Early in the campaign he visited Henley on Thames (where he was photobombed by the Lib Dems). Henley is as Tory as it gets. Previous MPs include Boris Johnson and Michael Heseltine. It's pointless for a Tory leader to visit places like that.
I enjoy the informed reporting of The New Statesman. As an American, it’s refreshing to see a newsy podcast that isn’t so ridiculously sensationalized as everything here is. Everyone on your podcasts are fantastic Oh, and for sure, Freddie is definitely a keeper. 😉
I'm sure friend is a lovely person, but I don't think the Labour party politicians have took on board that people are voting against the Tories, not for Labour. If the Labour party governs like they are secretly planning, then they'll be lucky to have more than one term.
@mikefish8226 exactly there is no love for labour, they are going to govern the same as the tories. They are not offering change, its more of the same rubbish that doesn't work, it's why I believe the polls are massively underestimating the vote for reform
@TheAegisClaw You obviously haven't been paying attention then. They have been very specific to name three taxes that they won't increase (despite the fact they've announced an increase in the scope of one of them). They intend to increase lots of other taxes. They will just increase other taxes once in government despite it not being in their manifesto. They are planning a load of other stuff that's not in their manifesto too.
I could see a longer term Liberal Democrat and Green coalition / merger working quite well. Look at the Teals in Australia as an example. The preservation of the Environment is a very strong through line between both parties; and indeed a LOT of one nation rural Tories. All of those factions tend to be socially liberal or at least tolerant. That sort of place is where you could easily find a Rory Stewart and would be a strong counterpoint to a Reform.
It would be an act of mercy for Sunak's electors to relieve him of the embarrassment of having to immediately resign his seat after the election. BTW, here in Canada, we're quite used to both three-way splits and to Prime Ministers and Provincial Premiers losing their seats in general elections. Often, party leaders, senior ministers and star candidates headed for seats in Cabinet here actually prefer to stand in marginal seats precisely because they have no interest in being demoted to the opposition benches when they lose an election.
There are certain places where tactical voting is absolutely essential to ensure that the Greens have representation. If there was a Single Transferrable Vote System many would vote Green with Labour as the second option so that the vote may not be 'wasted'. Then, as more people do the same, one day the Greens win on First Option.
Your statistician typically uses the expression “based off” which is an Americanism. In British English we should say “based on or based upon”. We have such a rich language and the British English version of it is the best, so we should all be alert to the anything that dilutes our own English For broadcasters in particular, proficient use of the language should be an aim and greatly helps to promote whichever version of English the broadcaster uses.
The guy is beyond apauling. What he has done to disabled people to cover other deals gone wrong is beyond. Oh to have someone who actually wants to try save this country!.. Well it's probably beyond help now. Rich guy with no common sense given everything in life never worked for anything. Not what we need!!
When you consider that the RishiBot only seems to open his mouth to change feet would you really want his ‘support’? More and more seem to want to pretend they’ve never heard of him.
Don’t think the Tories will do as badly as people make out Labour will get a healthy majority but won’t be surprised if it’s around 100 seats and I think the wipe out of the SNP will be overstated there is still a strong Indy feeling in Scotland and these people hate labour
Everything depends on how many Conservative and Labour Voters choose to take a gamble on Reform They will be the king makers this election even if they only manage a handful of seats themselves
The more I see of Sunak the less I like him. His lies proliferate, his answers obfuscate, and his behaviour in debate is both aggressive and discourteous. I would rejoice if he lost his seat. He deserves nothing less.
If he does, it´s not a Portillo moment, but a Balfour moment (cf. 1906). But I thought that his seat had been redistricted in such a way that the Labour-leaning wards had been dumped on a neighboring seat, and a few hard-blue wards had been "happened to be included", so as to guarantee him re-election. My understanding is that the Tories would have to dip below 16% nationally before Richmond comes into play.
Ben talking about Yorkshire with such pride makes me so proud to be from Yorkshire too! Waiting on our devolved parliament and legal seccession from England !!
What Ben didn’t mention (unless I missed it) is that the Green campaigns in Bristol and Waveney are being assisted by the fact they’re being fought by the two party leaders. A higher profile never hurts when you’re gaining ground. (The fact that Siân Berry, a several-times candidate for London mayor, is standing in Brighton Pavilion is working the same way.) Ellie Chowns, the candidate in N Herefordshire, doesn’t have the same national profile, but she was MEP for the W Midlands prior to Brexit, so she’s not a complete unknown.
My intuition is that “higher profile” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I hadn't heard of Carla Denyer or the other one before the start of the campaign, and I still can't name the other one now.
It would be fascinating to get a group of greens from around the country and make them speak to each other. Because I get the feeling its currently the broadest Church in British politics with rural conservatives, young urban liberals and socialists and corbynites all there alongside die hard environmentalists. Not much agreement in there
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I'm in Bristol and I'll vote for Thangham, but I would be surprised if she wins. Greens are going hard here and the demographic shift to hemp wearing extinction rebellion trust fund kids emigrating from London is palpable.
I grew up in this seat when it was safe(-ish) Tory. It fell in the Labour wave of ‘97, then the LibDems grabbed it in ‘05 as Blair’s support declined. Then Labour took it back as the LibDems suffered the coalition fallout. Now it looks like it could easily fall to the Greens. Tory > Labour > LibDem > Labour > Green It’s not hard to see why. It’s a mostly affluent middle-class seat which also takes in underprivileged areas. It’s always had a - what shall I call it? - a kind of quiet radicalism, a polite progressiveness. It looks like that low-volume subversion is turning louder as statues are toppled and Tescos trashed. So I’m not surprised to see the Greens performing well.
There is a lot of support for Corbyn beyond his constituency - it's not gone away. It can be seen in the support of other independent socialist candidates all over the country.
If Sunak loses (please dear Jesus), I'm looking forward to Laura Kunessberg on July 5th explaining that Sunak's defeat is really a Conservative triumph.
And why Sunak was made cut his own term, during which he could earn more voters? The only party which benefited from that is Labour party as people knew them already from their longterm advertisement more than even Sunak who is just for more than a year.
John Howard was a PM in Australia. He lost his seat and his Liberal party lost the general election. I guess at least Howard was in a fairly marginal seat all along as opposed to the safe seat the UK Tories like to occupy.
I can also confirm that many sitting Canadian Prime Ministers and provincial Premiers have indeed lost their seats at general elections. It's often an act of mercy on the part of their electors...
Watch next: Nigel Farage has lost the right - Andrew Marr th-cam.com/video/YBYW3khd5ro/w-d-xo.html
No he hasn't, you just want us to think so, Legacy Media has spun what Farage said about Putin, understanding your enemy, understanding how they will spin events back home and use for justification, not underestimating your enemy and recognising their abilities is NOT supporting them or justifying their actions.
The Establishment Uniparty is sh1tting itself, we see you.
Don't shout at the start!!
The Right WHAT? You taunt him and the Reform Party for being far right! You sound lost, maybe journalism is too difficult a career for your intellect?
Andrew Marr has lost the plot
@@Clare0116 Far-right is still on the right. It's just further on the right of the political spectrum.
You forget he WANTS to lose his seat. Probably even has a bet on it.
They are betting on Zero Seats
Means he can move to California sooner. He knows he’ll be sacked after the election and he’s claimed he’ll see out the next 5 year term as a backbencher but lots of us are sceptical.
@@glyngreen538Foreigners out!
Can we talk about The Election Campaign (traditionally only two weeks), which has been elongated so that The Media can make even more money from they're american tourists), and american rourists only?
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The more I see of Sunak, the more I dislike him. He is a spoilt privileged schoolboy who earned his money betting against this country as a hedge fund manager and bears responsibility for the collapse of Royal Bank of Scotland. Vote him out!
He's a Tory. They're a bunch of chancers these days, the days of the grandees are long gone.
At worst he was a good finance Minister's assistant, at best an utter dingus of a PM
Farage isn't really much different. Very similar background
We didn't even vote for him. He saw an opening and came in with a bravo as a winner.
@@stevec6427It’s absolutely incredible that ordinary people think he’s on their side.
I hope Sunak loses his seat
Beer starmer awful man
DONT threaten US with a GOOD TIME!! 😊😊 After 14 years of DESPICABLE Tories .....NOT sure could Handle it!
hes had to go with out sky tv and when the ice cream man came his mum always told him its choc ices in the freezer hes had hard life
As an Indian I used to think same .
@@Lindafoy11 do t be stupid they haven't been bad for 14 years
Why havent wonderful labour git on.because they were unelectable and still are in my opinion can't trust starmer. Rishi has said he wlbsn gender drugs for children and ban sex education for under 9s.i will vote for him. Starmer will not protect our children . Will hurt the motorist and will be terrible prime .
Minister. I ca t vote for a party that throws cement and I can't vote for party that wants to lower wome s rights a d I hate their policies of envy
Y hate the tory party and I hate the la our party.
Rishi Sunak earnt money as a hedge fund manager betting against his country. He is singularly ill placed to condemn other Tory MPs for betting against their party.
Rishi doesn’t care. He got what he care for. His family has made billions out of his short time in office.
How? Billions?!
@@methanedirigible In "intelligence" and fossil fuel contracts.
@@davidwebb4904 evidence that he _personally_ made billions from fossil fuel contracts?
@@methanedirigible Look who his families companies are. Then cross reference contracts awarded during his reign. Then add up the value of those contracts. Then cry that you didn’t study PolItic studies at college.
@@davidwebb4904Excellent. McPrice has made a bundle by stealing 'common land' from the monarchy. Do they teach you that (we got cops on our side too)!
He's already is an unelected prime minister!
He was elected by MPs in the party who were also elected. Remember the MPs were voted in to represent the constituencies’ views and apparently landed on Sunak.
Sunak is an elected MP and was elected into the position of PM.
If you're going to take a pop at him make it something worthwhile, for example his complicity in a genocide or refusal to try and get the PPE fraudsters to refund the UK tax payer.
For the people in the replies to this comment saying he was elected. He quite clearly wasn't. He ran unopposed after an 18 person committee (1922 Committee) changed the rules on to prevent other candidates from achieving the watermark for selection. Due to this mechanism he was automatically selected with no vote and therefore no election. It was highly regarded that this was due to the fact that the party vote - which was denied due to their being only one nomination - would likely have went back to Boris at the time - something a minority in the parliamentary body of MPs wanted to avoid. So no. Definitely NOT an elected Prime Minister. To this day there are people in the Conservative party membership who feel disconnected from the process, and from Sunak who did not hold a (admittedly optional) confirmation vote. Hilariously the rules will almost certainly need to be changed again post election (if Sunak resigns / is kicked out) due to insufficient numbers of parliamentary members, meaning the last three conservative leaders will all have differing levels of provenance.
So it is. But you have to rely heavily on semantics to convince me that there's a democratic process at work. You allude to rules and processes. These were altered to achieve a partizan result. Elected unopposed.
Reading from the handbook doesn't lesson the charge that Sunak wasn't elected by the people of this country.
@@Alanturner-c5x I completely agree with you! - I was trying to make it clear that he was in no way elected. By anyone! - By outlining the process by which he became PM :) - Sorry if this reply was meant for someone else in your replies.. TH-cam isn't great at understanding the flow of replies..
I’m genuinely concerned that Count Binface is going to split the anti-Sunak vote.
WTF has happened to the world? 😂😂
Yeah same! If it’s close a tiny amount of votes for Binface could be the difference between a loss or win for Rishi.
Don't matter the WHOLE of UK, is controlled, captured, and $cripted out of Tel Aviv 😮😊
I can only hope that more tories who are deeply uncomfortable with the party, but see voting as a duty, can make an “obvious” protest vote.
Binface should’ve just stepped out of the race in there, it’d be the best thing he could do
I'd be more amused if all other party's stepped out leaving a head to head between rishi and count binface for the seat.
If Corbyn had beaten Boris Johnson, this country would now be in considerably better shape than it is. Contrary to popular opinion ( largely the result of the right-wing media ) his policies were not "looney left," and would've been quite acceptable in any other European country with a left-leaning government. Corbyn was never the problem. The strangle-hold the Murdoch press/Daily Mail, etc. has on this country is the problem, and has been for far too long.
Corbyn /McDonnell wanted to take 10% of company profits on top of increased Corpn tax and 1/3 of the boards for non executive workers. What would they even say? How many would stay in the UK? This was all nuts
Corbyn was awful as a politician and very unpopular with the wider UK public. He effectively enabled more Tory governments and also Brexit by being anti EU. I’m leftwing and would prefer more leftwing Labour policies. Maybe a more competent left wing leader could have done better but Corbyn was a poor leader and personally the problem more so then the policies.
Corban was successfully demonised about " anti semitism.
Murdochs mouthpiece should be taken off air. Its all tripe. Sky arts? The ultimate oxymoron.
Oh, struth, yes! The Sun was like "Der Stürmer" in the run-up to '19's poll.
The first sitting Prime Minister to lose his seat? Many of us still remember the time when Arthur Balfour 1st Earl of Balfour lost his seat as Prime Minister in the 1906 general election. What a night that was! Of course the cheeky young journalists of today overlook that important moment in the history of this great country.
Balfour was the first leader of the Tories to lose his seat, but he'd resigned as PM a few weeks before the election was called, meaning that the Liberal leader, Henry Campbell Bannerman was technically PM at the time.
@@MrCaerbannog Yes - Bananaman was leader at the time. 🍌
Sorry, how old are you? 😂😂
Imagine that, and also Starmer losing his, as Labour win the election, bring it on I say.
@@camoTiarasdeluded
Dear UK people, Dont make him PM again.
If Labour wins... Oh my... I don't even wanna think what is gonna happen to UK
Years of chaos.
@@JohnCox-ut3cv We are still dealing with that Bast**d Blairs govt
Sunak should be jailed for COVID corruption and appalling waste of taxpayers money
After Sir Beer Starmer, he pushed for longer and harder! And never even received a fine for the lunchtime drinks party.... But when you have friends in high places within the police! Nothing to see here.....
@@TheJon2442 Are you looking for a legal summons?
Keir's food delivery with one San Mig each was late at night when all places were closed and staff had done a ten hour shift.
Learn a little before spouting.
So should Labour for repeatedly pushing for more "Lock downs".
Please God, make it happen
By the rivers of #Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered #Zion…
#Psalm 137:1
Sunak losing his seat isnt a true portillo moment as he has no influence on future of tory party direction. Portillo was tipped as a future leader and a surprise defeat. Sunak would just be a really nice surprise. Badenoch or Truss losing would be comparable.
Sunak's campaign "strategy" has been strange to say the least. Early in the campaign he visited Henley on Thames (where he was photobombed by the Lib Dems). Henley is as Tory as it gets. Previous MPs include Boris Johnson and Michael Heseltine. It's pointless for a Tory leader to visit places like that.
Vote Reform.. It's time to fix this country.
He's OK though 150 grand a year pension.... He should donate it to the NHS for life he doesn't need it but he won't because he's a greedy greedy man
He deserves to He paid £13000 for a pool in his constituency home whilst the local state school had to crowd fund to buy computers
State School?
Oh well, there you are!
Rishi winning his seat would be ultra embarassing for Richmond Tories and the Tory party.
I enjoy the informed reporting of The New Statesman. As an American, it’s refreshing to see a newsy podcast that isn’t so ridiculously sensationalized as everything here is. Everyone on your podcasts are fantastic
Oh, and for sure, Freddie is definitely a keeper. 😉
Seriously? Your news must be like Bugs Bunny then.
@@kellypawsoh it is…Fox in mind
@@josephinebrevig8748 Ah, Fox. Darkside Muppet Show.
@@kellypaws, well I’d prefer you not denigrate Bugs Bunny - he and Daffy are pretty cool. 😀
@@brandonkepley8205 My apologies. Point taken.
A friend of mine is the Labour candidate for Chester South and Eddisbury. Its starting to look good for Labour even there! Good luck Angeliki!
I'm sure friend is a lovely person, but I don't think the Labour party politicians have took on board that people are voting against the Tories, not for Labour. If the Labour party governs like they are secretly planning, then they'll be lucky to have more than one term.
@mikefish8226 exactly there is no love for labour, they are going to govern the same as the tories.
They are not offering change, its more of the same rubbish that doesn't work, it's why I believe the polls are massively underestimating the vote for reform
@@mikefish8226 I don't know what this "secret plan" you're talking about is. It must not be very secret.
@TheAegisClaw You obviously haven't been paying attention then. They have been very specific to name three taxes that they won't increase (despite the fact they've announced an increase in the scope of one of them). They intend to increase lots of other taxes. They will just increase other taxes once in government despite it not being in their manifesto. They are planning a load of other stuff that's not in their manifesto too.
@mikefish8226please tell - what are Labour secretly planning?
These photos are priceless , what a funny little man.
Very good analysis especially from Ben Walker, who displays detailed knowledge of many constituencies.
I could see a longer term Liberal Democrat and Green coalition / merger working quite well. Look at the Teals in Australia as an example. The preservation of the Environment is a very strong through line between both parties; and indeed a LOT of one nation rural Tories. All of those factions tend to be socially liberal or at least tolerant. That sort of place is where you could easily find a Rory Stewart and would be a strong counterpoint to a Reform.
It would be an act of mercy for Sunak's electors to relieve him of the embarrassment of having to immediately resign his seat after the election.
BTW, here in Canada, we're quite used to both three-way splits and to Prime Ministers and Provincial Premiers losing their seats in general elections. Often, party leaders, senior ministers and star candidates headed for seats in Cabinet here actually prefer to stand in marginal seats precisely because they have no interest in being demoted to the opposition benches when they lose an election.
Rishi's bags are packed ready to take up his USA citizenship
Just what I was thinking
I feel sorry for USA!!!
Hip. Hip. Hooray! Vote for REFORM UK. We need our country back.
Back from where?
After 14 years they've reached the bottom of the barrel.
If Rishi sunak does win his seat, he should stay as Tory leader.
Remember, they've got another week to go!
Regarding North Herefordshire, I was driving round there yestarday and saw a lot of Green party posters, absolutely none for anyone else.
There are certain places where tactical voting is absolutely essential to ensure that the Greens have representation.
If there was a Single Transferrable Vote System many would vote Green with Labour as the second option so that the vote may not be 'wasted'.
Then, as more people do the same, one day the Greens win on First Option.
Vote reform reform reform
Your statistician typically uses the expression “based off” which is an Americanism. In British English we should say “based on or based upon”. We have such a rich language and the British English version of it is the best, so we should all be alert to the anything that dilutes our own English For broadcasters in particular, proficient use of the language should be an aim and greatly helps to promote whichever version of English the broadcaster uses.
I doubt if many will shed any tears........
None will 😂😂😂I already arranged a huge get together already !!!
Sunak will be in sunny california smoking some bad ass weed next friday
Can't wait to get rid of RATTATOILE SUNAK!!
I would like to go with him because I am not looking forward to "Starmergeddon". 😮
His got to go .🦦
I give Saint IKEA Starmer around a year before "The Unions" start circling him like sharks. 🐋
The guy is beyond apauling. What he has done to disabled people to cover other deals gone wrong is beyond. Oh to have someone who actually wants to try save this country!.. Well it's probably beyond help now. Rich guy with no common sense given everything in life never worked for anything. Not what we need!!
No loss.
That saves him the hassle of resigning from the Con leader and returning to California
When you consider that the RishiBot only seems to open his mouth to change feet would you really want his ‘support’? More and more seem to want to pretend they’ve never heard of him.
Who cares? Sunak doesn't care, he is going to the USA.
Sunak voters please remove him from Parliament.
Saint IKEA Steamer gives me the creeps.
Don’t think the Tories will do as badly as people make out Labour will get a healthy majority but won’t be surprised if it’s around 100 seats and I think the wipe out of the SNP will be overstated there is still a strong Indy feeling in Scotland and these people hate labour
I’d agree. I think there are a lot of shy Tories out there, who will still turn out. Or maybe I’m still traumatised by 1992.
Everything depends on how many Conservative and Labour Voters choose to take a gamble on Reform
They will be the king makers this election even if they only manage a handful of seats themselves
I think you underestimate the number people nationally that still like Jeremy Corbyn.
Sadly we will go from awful to totally abysmal.... When Liebour get the key No. 10!
Cry those tears deeply and profoundly.
Live in the seat. Not voting for him. He won’t lose it.
Dead ppl vote in Northallerton, we know that.
SUNAK WILL LOSE NOTHING ~~~ HE WILL WALK AWAY LAUGHING AFTER DRIVING BRITAIN EVEN FURTHER INTO ''THE PIT''.
I was in Waveney Valley earlier today. LOADS of Green signs there
Sunak losing his seat .... what a sweet sweet moment that would be .
The more I see of Sunak the less I like him. His lies proliferate, his answers obfuscate, and his behaviour in debate is both aggressive and discourteous. I would rejoice if he lost his seat. He deserves nothing less.
And oh how we will laugh….the Tories are toast❤️
California Dreaming....🎶 🎵
If he does, it´s not a Portillo moment, but a Balfour moment (cf. 1906).
But I thought that his seat had been redistricted in such a way that the Labour-leaning wards had been dumped on a neighboring seat, and a few hard-blue wards had been "happened to be included", so as to guarantee him re-election. My understanding is that the Tories would have to dip below 16% nationally before Richmond comes into play.
❌ Were you up for Portillo?
☑ Were you born for Balfour?
All the better - Fishi!
Oh gosh let’s hope so! Rishi’s so full of self pity and empty of political leadership!
Good
Ben talking about Yorkshire with such pride makes me so proud to be from Yorkshire too! Waiting on our devolved parliament and legal seccession from England !!
Tories heading for a 'World Beating' loss... Oh, the irony...
Rishi doesnt want his seat thank you he has a cosy chair in California hes f#####d up this country hes off before the s@@t hits the fan.
Sunak deserves to lose his seat, its his pathetic lack of leadership and betrayal, it would only be right if he went the way of the dinosaurs.
What Ben didn’t mention (unless I missed it) is that the Green campaigns in Bristol and Waveney are being assisted by the fact they’re being fought by the two party leaders. A higher profile never hurts when you’re gaining ground.
(The fact that Siân Berry, a several-times candidate for London mayor, is standing in Brighton Pavilion is working the same way.)
Ellie Chowns, the candidate in N Herefordshire, doesn’t have the same national profile, but she was MEP for the W Midlands prior to Brexit, so she’s not a complete unknown.
My intuition is that “higher profile” is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. I hadn't heard of Carla Denyer or the other one before the start of the campaign, and I still can't name the other one now.
Whether he holds his seat or not is irrelevant. He will be off to California within months either way.
Please don't say he'll be moving to Montecito California.
Modi will offer him a Job as his Russian Envoy in Moscow 🤣🤣
We're all voting REFORM 🇬🇧🏴🏴🏴🇬🇧
The only thing Sunak wants now is a seat in the House of Lords. A title to impress his neighbours in Santa Monica. Lord and Lady Sunak of Southampton.
It would be fascinating to get a group of greens from around the country and make them speak to each other. Because I get the feeling its currently the broadest Church in British politics with rural conservatives, young urban liberals and socialists and corbynites all there alongside die hard environmentalists.
Not much agreement in there
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The GURKHAS have indeed sacrificed the cream part of their lives and fought for FREE and shed river of blood across the globe for the vested interest and the expansion of the "British Empire".
It is now 209 years the GURKHAs are still struggling hard to find the STATUS dignity and identity and still barred from the basic voting and human rights abuses' and facing family separation.
Treated the GURKHAS as an alien 👽 and illegitimate children and now the GURKHAS are in verge of becoming "LIMBO" and" ILLUSION" in the 21st century.
No justice no peace!
No justice no Vote!
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He needs to have a better idea of his own limitations and his inability to cover up his Insider Trading and Corruption.
I hope so
Farage is a perennial pantomime performer - here today, gone tomorrow. Zero responsibility, zero accountability.
They are bricking it! So funny.😂
He should loose a lot more than his seat vote reform
I wanted to know where he was going initially but did not get to ask thank you. 👍🏽 For data.
Poor Rishi, he's already lost his mind, his dignity, his integrity. He can always return to his job as a Roland Rat lookalike.
I really hope he does lose, this would be a ringing endorsement of how much the public disapprove of his and Tory politics. 😅😅😅
Would love it if Sunak and Starmer both lost their seats ....lol
Loosing hid seat will be good news to us.
I'm in Bristol and I'll vote for Thangham, but I would be surprised if she wins. Greens are going hard here and the demographic shift to hemp wearing extinction rebellion trust fund kids emigrating from London is palpable.
Terrifying for young people to vote to not live on a dying planet. Shock horror what a privileged position.
Born and raised in Bristol Central. Met Thangham Debbonaire twice and Carla Denyer a few times. Definitely voting green
I grew up in this seat when it was safe(-ish) Tory. It fell in the Labour wave of ‘97, then the LibDems grabbed it in ‘05 as Blair’s support declined. Then Labour took it back as the LibDems suffered the coalition fallout. Now it looks like it could easily fall to the Greens.
Tory > Labour > LibDem > Labour > Green
It’s not hard to see why. It’s a mostly affluent middle-class seat which also takes in underprivileged areas. It’s always had a - what shall I call it? - a kind of quiet radicalism, a polite progressiveness. It looks like that low-volume subversion is turning louder as statues are toppled and Tescos trashed. So I’m not surprised to see the Greens performing well.
I like Rishy Sunak, he is always happy and smiling and positive even when Rome is burning. 🙂
Freddy is so dreamy!! 🥰 🥰 🥰
I wonder what odds he could've got on that in February?
Just saying.
Here in South West London ,since the election was called ,driving around I have yet to see a single Tory poster .
Hammersmith here. There’s a posh square with big townhouses nearby. Lots of Tory posters last time. This time: nothing.
Twickenham and Richmond have the usual Lib posters up but nothing from the other Parties
Rishi has already booked his plane ticket out of the uk his work is done for his master's
A vote for labour is a vote for shariah law .
Fingers crossed
Very Good
Time for change VOTE REFORM !!!
It'd be a change alright - no NHS, reduced workers' rights, best pals with Putin.......
@quirkybird3551 - in other words, a FASCIST UK dominated by Little England.
God, I hope so. It would be awful to have this smirking sycophant anywhere near politics again.
This year we are having some of the biggest elections in the world,
First Indian elections
Second UK elections
Third US elections
Fouth.....
If it happens, we will rename it to the Sunak moment.
I would fucking love it if Niko won Rishi’s seat and started serving in Parliament, it’d be so fucking funny
No one deserves it more
He has broken it
Led By Donkeys has a short video on Rishi Sunak's rise to power and the involvement in the financial crisis in 2008.
dont vote for either ...they are both as bad as each other....😂😂
There is a lot of support for Corbyn beyond his constituency - it's not gone away. It can be seen in the support of other independent socialist candidates all over the country.
The important question is What's the name of Freddie's wallpaper pattern.
"Welcome to the jungle"
Found it - William Morris Owl & Willow
If Sunak loses (please dear Jesus), I'm looking forward to Laura Kunessberg on July 5th explaining that Sunak's defeat is really a Conservative triumph.
Oh please please
After 14 years of misery, started by Cameron and Osborne put in number 10 by Clegg how can 1 in 5 of our population want more of the same?
Liz, Boris… Hold my coat.
And why Sunak was made cut his own term, during which he could earn more voters? The only party which benefited from that is Labour party as people knew them already from their longterm advertisement more than even Sunak who is just for more than a year.
You all who advertise for Labour are mean and greedy people. I despise you.
John Howard was a PM in Australia. He lost his seat and his Liberal party lost the general election. I guess at least Howard was in a fairly marginal seat all along as opposed to the safe seat the UK Tories like to occupy.
I can also confirm that many sitting Canadian Prime Ministers and provincial Premiers have indeed lost their seats at general elections. It's often an act of mercy on the part of their electors...