Tories battling against the ‘shadow’ of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss
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- “Rishi Sunak cannot get out from under the shadow of those two prime ministers without actually actively and decisively repudiating them.”
The Tories are not fighting the Labour Party but the legacy of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, says columnist Trevor Phillips.
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The Conservatives should be out of office for a generation.
Yep. Just in time to do it all over again.
A liar and a buffoon is the only hope for the Tories? What about hope for the country?
Pretty sure they stopped caring about the country rather than party around....... February 20th 2016
The only side Boris was in on was Boris .
A proven liar, to his family, to every employer, the Queen and Parliament, but apart from that fine..
Boris Johnson: he tried and failed... spectacularly detested.
Correction: Boris Johnson was never on the side of 'little people', he was pretending to be on their side, while knowingly lying to them about the outcome of Brexit - a result that he never expected and never prepared for, but campaigned for in order to position himself to become Prime Minister.
Ditto Nigel Farage
2019 Tory Manifesto was a lie from start to finish! Can't understand why other parties haven't made more of that!
Just like Reagan and Thatcher. What do the have in common? They're all conservatives. STOP voting for them!
I used to like Trevor Philips but he's increasingly detached from reality. Trump not so bad? Seem to have completely forgotten his blackmailing of Zelenskyy in an attempt to get him to smear his political opponent with false allegations.
never happened
7 trillion added to debt just like…..oh wait that’s not right
I agree. Trevor is too mixed up and become an irritant
@@marvellis6762 Trevor Phillips was kicked out of the Labour Party so he has an axe to grind and should not be on the Sky GE team.
@@snakeplissken5480 not in your fantasy world maybe, but here in the real world it is exactly what happened. There are recordings of it.
The Tories haven't had a lead in the polls since Partygate broke in the news. Bringing him back would only remind voters of that scandal and how they spent months trying to defend him. It's just make the situation ten times worse and provide more fuel for Labour, LDs and Reform
The only thing useful in bringing back Boris back would be to give Labour even more seats at the election.
Boris thinks the little people are a joke - only wants their vote
This is far too generous to Sunak. I think you could make a case he's not as bad as Johnson or Truss, but that's a very low bar. Any half-decent leader would have repaired at least some of the damage. Sunak has managed to make things worse if anything.
Agreed. Totally incompetent on so many levels Sunak is. If they'd been any justice there should of been a general election soon Tru s was PM. Just running away from the electorate as they've done for twos years now, hasn't made things any better for them in fact it's made it worse them.
An election should of been in 2023.
The tory circus needs to leave town and never come back
Boris - if you want a circus clown. Yes people will say they want some entertainment, but not as a completely incapable leader who spends his life lying.
The Tories should look into their "approval process" of Boris as Party Leader
They only made him leader because they thought he was a vote winner. The country can get effed as long as we are in power. They knew he was a feckless gobshite, a weathervane and basically bone idle with tickets on himself.
Fighting populism with a more effective populist - how muddled was that thinking?
"Hip hip hooray the money is on its way " before 220.000 deaths due to vovid and English men and women still surport him urgh 😢
It's not any individual who is to blame. It's the collective of self-centered, raving narcissists and all their corruption. They are all in politics for the themselves and thats what is wrong. We have sussed them out.
Of which Boris Johnson was the prime example.
A testament to honesty, integrity and truth in high public office..... not.
Tbf majority of the people against Boris were never going to vote Tory anyway. And therefore can be ignored
Partygate will never be forgotten.
If the Conservatives had honoured the promises that they made on the run up to the last general election, they would not be in the mess that they are in now.
The way they talk about Boris Johnson 'coming back' really gets on my nerves and shows that they STILL think the rules just shouldn't apply to him. HIS PARLIAMENTARY PASS HAS BEEN REVOKED!
How can he 'come back' when he is literally barred from entering Westminster? When you hear people talking about him 'coming back' what you are hearing is 'yes, he is a liar who committed such atrocious acts of dishonesty that he was forced out of office in disgrace - but it's 'Boris' so we can just ignore the rules and find a way to get around the fact that he's been barred from Westminster - because it's BORIS! the rules don't apply to him!'
It's not just himself that thinks he's special - the media allow him to think that and act accordingly. It's like if a really horrible kid had been expelled from school, but the parents just carried on sending him anyway and the teachers let it happen because they like him a bit and he refuses to go away.
No. 'Boris' CANNOT come back. One more time - HE IS BARRED FROM WESTMINSTER FOR LYING TO THE HOUSE!
How long is he barred for? Indefinitely?
He has always been a liar
I can categorically deny, there were NO parties!😂😂😂
The Tory’s downfall started with Boris the clown Johnson .
First Class SHYSTER
Cameron f'ed it all up. Cameron is 100% to blame for the mess we're in, and have been in for years.
His " Punishment " ! Was made a. LORD , you couldn't make it up. !
As an American whose been following this interesting British election, I feel like he's glossing over a lot of the issues you see with Trump. Policy-wise, surprise surprise both Biden and Trump can work within political realities. But the similarities start and stop with certain common ground policies and their age, both in terms of policy stances and as individuals.
Also, I feel like if Boris did come back, that might drive voters into the arms of the party's rivals even as it brings voters back from Reform. the GOP here has that happen in 2020, 2022, and there are signs its happening again in 2024.
Philips really isn't making much of a point here.
What what!
Old Bojo making a good old jolly chap come back.
What what!
Spiffing and Spaffing!
Head prefects yes please.
Please please bring him back.
If his champions sound like this.
You misspelled "Spaffing"
I would say the 14 years of dreadful mismanagement are the real problem here.
Boris is well in the past thank god..yesterdays news like tge Tories
Someone spare us the Johnson apologists.
He lost his job because decades of deceit, lies and abhorrent behaviour caught up with him.
No amount of spin or fear mongering about Farage could justify his return.
'people', 'populous', 'population', electorate'. These are some of the words used in Britain to indicate those who are ruled. In other countries they are called 'the people', but this term is avoided in Britain because 'the people' are not sovereign. That honour belongs to the politicians of Westminster and the Monarchy.
Really the utter mess of party gate and his nonsensical actions during COVID is why I think he should be in jail
Let's not forget the Tory party put these jerks in power, what goes around, comes around serves them, they'll be OUT very shortly.
BloJo reached the parts other s couldn't reach?
Nah-I always thought he was a see you en tee, I've never heard anything to make me revise that opinion
Boris was an utter fool.
Only the media really wants him back and talks up his "comeback", he's an unending source of quotable idiocy with no self-restraint, the dream of a headline writer.
The public has lost confidence in the Tory party because they have failed to deliver on important issues that they promised to fix. They failed because of the leaders they chose, and the majority of the party, did not really believe in the promises they made to the public. After the Brexit referendum, many key Tories did not want to exit the EU, so they delayed and undermined the course of action that should have happened. Therefore 6 years after the referendum, they went back to public, asking for a majority so they could get Brexit done. Boris got his majority but lacked the political courage to do what the public wanted and he shot himself in the foot with his antics. Truss and Sunak were unelected and still didn't have the courage to complete the Brexit plans.
I don't think the public wants Labour but the thought of 5 more years of the incompetence and policital cowardice from the Tories is unsellable!. Reform UK has simply highlighed the divisions in the Tory party. The refusal by some Tories to deliver a proper Brexit is the root of all their current problems.
Trevor is a highly intelligent person putting Boris Johnson aside he is one man who said intelligence led stop, and search is needed to make it work.
Give it a rest with the Truss propaganda, you got away with your coup of forcing her out, you can stop trying to cover it up now.
Ever since Boris arrived in Sweden it turned out to be end of Tories.
30,000 dead pensioners would like to come back too...but it ain't going to happen either.
Tories want to bring johnson back into campaign.....you could not make it up.
we dont want him back....we haved moved on.
They should have stuck with boris. Bringing him bk too little too late. Vote reform. Labour led by a robot and gang load of champagne socialists
What in the mars is wrong with this country
Has an American I can tell you there is a large difference between Biden and Trump. And Trump 2.0 will be far worse than the first incarnation. If Trevor can't see that then he should stop commenting on US politics.
BJ is full of BS.
Sorry, Boris' climb was pure Archer. It left him with nobody competent.
I get bad vibes from the old guy in the blue shirt and beard. He's trying to say people like Trump and Farage aren't monsters because everyone like him lies. He's trying to speak for other people and dismiss those who have genuine criticisms of them, it's a douchy thing to try to do and for what..
It’s blowback from Boris and Liz .. then awkward Sunak.. that is why the tories will lose ..
Vote Labour get the Tories out
He is like trump in so many ways! Hope the UK can recover!
Populists…Farridge and Blonde oaf …….Deary me!
Lol…they killed the goose who laid the golden egg.
The eggshells seemed golden, but turned out rotten inside. Boris was good campainer, because he is charismatic liar, once the truth about his personality transpired, people rejected his nastiness and incompetence.
@@miras2222 So what about the goose?
When the Goose is a turkish muslim Born in the USA with a surname picked to trick the REAL English people he deserved to be ,unlike the Cvd patients he wanted to pile high . The man of the hour must be Sunak , how many surgical operations could have been done if He And His non dom wife paid their taxes. So Glad The Man of (PRIVATELY SCHOOLED) work (Millionaire) ing class has thrown his deluded self into the Ring. Nigel is the anti imigration God to the Great British people (ENGLISH) ,his grandparents were German imigrants
The downfall started with stabbing Boris in the back. Then dumping Truss. Rishi was the last one standing. No loyalty in the Tory Party. Boris could have weathered the storm with Tory support but they chose not to stand with him. Sir Keir stood with his Speaker and saved him. Sir Keir stood with Angela and saved her. Loyalty does count in politics.
Boris was the one doing the stabbing on his rise to power. Then he discovered he wasn't able to do the job: it ended up with Lee Cain and Dominic Cummings doing it, so he fired them, and ended up Timmy No-Friends
Anyone expecting loyalty in the Tory party hasn't ever paid attention
You're suffering from what is known as a selective memory. It's a condition that is common among people in denial. Boris Johnson's Tories lost the North Shropshire seat they held for 115 years. The Liberal Democrats overturned the Conservative’s 24,000-strong majority in the “True Blue” seat of Tiverton and Honiton. The Labour Party won back Wakefield. All while Johnson the lying clown was PM. These losses are what prompted the Tories to "stab Johnson in the Back." He had gone from being a winner to being a liability.
The stabbing culture in the Tory Party would put south London knife crime to shame. All they had to do was solve problems, Pritti Patel and Suella both had stints as home secretary and did nothing to manage migration, including the boats problem. Something should have been done about the NHS waiting list for serious problems. Sunak apparently works as hard as Thatcher, but he's an awful politician and is unable to politically capitalise on the fruits of his Labour, such as inflation down and maybe the Rwanda scheme will actually work.
@@vinay7397 The Bible says, by their fruits will you know them. What are his fruits? None that I can see. Inflation down - after he stoked it. That would have happened anyway. The art of PM isn't do it all yourself, either. It's herding cats, except all he's got are stuffed ones.
you mean "Milkshake" Johnson?
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