Conservatives to be ‘worldwide laughing stock’ if Rishi Sunak is replaced as leader
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- “We would be not only a laughing stock in this country, but we'd be a laughing stock around the world.”
With the Conservatives expected to lose “half” of their seats in the May local elections, polling expert Lord Hayward says some in the party are already preparing calls for Rishi Sunak to go, but warns it would make them “a laughing stock”.
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This country is a mess and the Tories are fully responsible
And the people who voted them in.
Don't just blame the people put the blame on those in parliament who had the secret vote to put that clown in power we didn't get the chance to vote who ever wins,@@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn
@@JohnHollyoak-vx6pn I don't dislike those who believed the lies but I dislike those who do not reach out to mislead.
Not wholly responsible. It was Blairs government who opened the doors and cosied up to the Human rights band wagon. I agree they have done nothing to rectify the issues.
@@user-sd3ik9rt6d I have no sympathy for idiots who voted Tories they must have known worzel Johnson was a Tom pepper he got sacked twice for lying
This country needs the Tories out.
They’re not in!
For a generation at least!!
yeah but we don't need Labour in, that's the problem. The cupboard is bare of leadership.
@@sam3317 Then people must use their vote, to try to get rid of all these useless politicians.... I think that all 650 of them should be voted out !
@@sam3317looking at candidates for the London mayoral election it’s the same, I want anyone except khan to win though he’s actually made my and my family’s life actively worse since being in charge
They already are a laughing stock
I feel like i have been Mug'd
laughing stock is not the description of the current situation. There is nothing to laugh at- nothing.
@@rogergreen2695 Yes, the quality of our ' politicians ' has been going downhill for the last 50 years... They are all NOT FIT FOR PURPOSE... !
🎉❤😂 EXACTLY what I said !!!!!!!
Zero seats. Zero seats. Zero seats.
I hope so, they are terrible.
ZERO SEATS
Zero seats, rinse and repeat :)
The Tories are fighting for themselves, not the country.
It's always been selfishness with Torys , I'm alright jack etc. Me and my cronies are ALL that matters
They and their acolytes and press follows always act in a way that puts PARTY before COUNTRY. That cannot be right. COUNTRY MUST BE BEFORE PARTY.
As usual.
All politions do that.. they are all greedy corrupt self serving pigs
Laughing stock with or without Sunak 🤬
True
They are a laughing stock now.
@@TheSuperPsychoKiller It is just a shame that, whilst these useless politicians play, the normal people suffer !
The Tories are now hated. Their only option is to scapegoat now. They must scapegoat the poor, trans and immigrants.
A bit like they’ve been doing for last 13 years
No they love mass immigration. It keeps their properties multiplying in value and keeps the unemployed in poverty and desperate for any job they can find, however awful.
Aussie here. The Tories became a laughing stock when Boris was replaced by someone with a shorter shelf life than a lettuce.
Nah...we became a laughing stock when that clown Johnson was elected.
The lettuce may return as Patel's Redbox handler, so it has been rumoured.
She is secretly a Lib Dem who wanted to abolish the monarchy, video is on here, and then she meets the Dear Queen RIP to be sworn in as PM, what a joke.
They were laughing stock before then, but funny.
Be in no doubt…. it’s nervous laughter.
The tories have been a laughing stock for a long time, going back to the days of dodgy Dave Camoron.
The trouble is that they are laughing all the way to the bank with our money!
@@thegoat11111absurd comment.
They have sabotaged their own party ever since they pulled the rug out from under Margaret Thatcher in 1990.
@@jimthompson9370Why?
When he rolled up his sleeves, and said call me Dave.
at around 12.30 he states that the UK is in better place than Germany..... when was the last time he was there, I see staffed hospitals, high speed rail, industry, manufacturing, and on and on... the UK need to wake up from the dream world they live in ... the fact is that you are the same as Alabama in the USA !!!
The fact London is so rich covers up the fact the rest of the country is so poor.
German trains are notoriously unreliable
We’re a southern state in the US???
@@jimthompson9370ah hear your being very unfair on that southern us state
Unfortunately the only people living in a dream state in the UK are the wealthy, the rest of us live in a country with more food banks than McDonald's restaurants, numbers of homeless growing, NHS crumbling along with schools, criminals being released early as prisons are full and millions of children living in poverty that's the reality for many.
Tories are a worldwide laughing stock anyway. 😂😂😂
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Get em out.
The Conservatives are already the world laughing stock
One should always do the right thing, even if one becomes a laughing stock.
The actual problem is that the Conservative party takes its image more seriously than doing the right thing.
First they would have to have a clue what the right thing is.
There on for around 150 seats at the next election.
Who the fk is voting for sewage in the water, a privatised NHS, £billions given to donors in dodgy contracts, £500 million for 200 seats to Rwanda etc...
You have to wonder. Lot of gullible people in this country.
@@kevinjohnson3782yep, they’re a disgrace. I’ve no doubt things will get worse when Labour are in power though.
@@jimthompson9370 not even possible, given the last 14 years.
@@kevinjohnson3782 Given the likes of Lammy, Dodds, Rayner and Butler… I’m not sure. But we’ll see.
@@jimthompson9370there is no evidence for that! The country was in a far better state the last time Labour were in power. That’s just counting 😂
Bojo the Clown, Truss the Bonkers and the New Mr Bean.
They are laughing at us, not with us.
All d way to d bank😂😂😂
We are switched off because we have lost hope. Come back Labour
Labour the hope destoyer, at least the Conservatives only throttled hope...
They're already a laughing stock in my house
Best show in town😂😂
The Tories have been a laughing stock for the past 13/14 years.
Add some zeros to the end of your numbers. Seems like 1500 would be the year… the inception date.
For many people, ALL the politicians, have been useless, for 50 years !
The Tories already inspire peels of insane laughter.
Laughing stock anyway. Horrible government
The electorate are getting more angry by the second, so call an election or face the consequences.
No more videos defending Wragg? Shameless lot.
The perverts are looking after each other.
The 0:59 UK became a laughing stock the moment it voted for Brexit. As sensible people predicted it's only got worse since.
When your government is outsourced to a foreign technocratic power it infantilizes your political class. We are seeing the results of 40 years of not being independent.
We are the laughing stock now, doesn't matter if they sack "Johnny Short Trousers".
They are a laughing stock so it would make no difference if they replace sunak they have nothing to lose
Bit of a stretch to think Sunak and his Tories aren't already a worldwide laughing stock!
Newsflash: they already are
What is it with Times Radio. Different people saying the same thing every day while wringing their hands.
"Conservative Polling Expert" - so thats the bias sorted out then !!
Be fair, the hosts did occasionally stop nodding and raise their eyebrows as the Conservative was speaking. Hard-hitting stuff.
We already are a laughing stock!
I think every Conservative MP should be given a seat, In a small cell with a strong door and bars on a tiny window.
Simple , sensible solution . 👏👏
Not just the Tories....... ALL 650 of them !
@@richardruff8712 If you do that then you should do the same with every retired MP and MP who is in the Lords.
@@willtricks9432 Ha ha ha.... Yes, couldn't agree more... Of course, as an alternative... We could send them all to Rwanda.... After all, our Government has decided that Rwanda is, indeed, a SAFE country....
What you mean will be a laughing stock ... we already are. Real Democracy has gone and we all know it. 😠 i have no idea what country i live in anymore its changed soooo much. 😢
Worldwide laughing stock? 😂 That horse bolted out of the stable in 2016…the world has been laughing ever since.
And it's getting better 😂😂
Are you really under the impression the Conservative party is not already a laughing stock???
If the Tories lose half of the seats they are defending on 2nd, May I think that would be a good result for them. If extrapolate that to the general election (I accept that is not very accurate) that would give them 180 seats. I suspect their result in the general election will be worse than that.
Hopefully.... MUCH worse than that !
@@richardruff8712 Even with one MP I think that the Tories would be very dangerous.
@@adampowell5376 Ha ha ha.. Yes.... Let us hope that the voters will do something really special, whenever the GE comes along... The way that things seem to be going, it may be very exciting to watch the results coming in, on Election night... hopefully !
Ricky needs more time to sell a country off run down the National Health Service and bring in cheap labour from India he has a plan
The uk is a laughing stock
Not the UK, its government. Most people are able to tell one from the other, especially in the EU. A lot of Eu citizens have at some point lived and worked in the UK. They have friends, and they feel sorry for the people of the UK.
Are they a serious polictical party or a football team fighting relagation into oblivion, what the country needs for is less important than their survival
Does this old bloke think that they're not an international laughing stock already 😂
The biggest factor in putting people off politics in my view is the transparent cynicism of the entire political class from Momentum through to Reform with the apex being the Johnston Government, the majority of the UK media being complicit.
Has a political party ever bern given such a massive mandate for change and totally blown it?
You mean if Sunak is re-elected as PM? Reform is a one trick pony: Brexit/immigration.
Reform isn't even in the conversation is it really...
They already are. Started with Bunter!
What a ridiculous headline - so if they don’t replace Sunak everyone will think they are an honest and competent party? 😂
They are ALREADY a worldwide laughingstock
The Reform Party: All show, no go. Alternatively; All mouth and no trousers.
All stetson and no cattle. 😂
Rishi Soonsacked and the Charlatans will soon be doing a UK tour of their latest album - ‘Our Plan Is Working’, with hits like, ‘Help Me Rwanda’…’When The Boats Come In’…’Tax Man’…‘It’s All Over Now’ and of course their greatest hit…’Tell Me Sweet Little Lies’. Don’t miss out, total tickets sales must add up to approximately £2.5 trillion (to pay off UK debt).
A Frank Hester production.
Wouldn't say laughing stock more HATED WORLWIDE
Please, make sure you differentiate between the people and the government. Current government: laughing stock and probably despised. People: the EU at any rate are definitely feeling very sorry for the people.
We already ARE a laughing stock what you on about?!?💁🏾♀️🙄🤦🏾♀️🤣
Interesting point about ReformUK. However, this chap seems to be trying to get his excuses in ahead of time for how badly the Tories are going to do.
He knows it
Welcome to what America has been going thru. You get rid of the yahoos but they keep
Coming back.
They exhaust me. Listening from Oklahoma
Result of effective 2 party political systems pushing adversarial politics
Oh and that bit about Labour matrix being.poor is just Tory rot
THEY ALREADY ARE A LAUGHING STOCK AROUND THE WORLD!
To quote Frankie Boyle " truss could have been the first prime minister to die because she forgot to breath " 😂
Due to Brexit and all the recent numpty prime ministers we've had, I think we already are a worldwide laughing stock 😬
As a working class person , it just feels that I am paying more and more every year, yet recieving less and less. Until any party can explain to me why that has happened and how they are going to reverse it I am not going to vote for them. I do not expect an answer, from any of them, any time soon. They seem to be far too busy enrichening themselves.
They’re already a global laughing stock; where have you been?
Boris Johnson didn't have a vision.....what a ridiculous thing to say!!
D only vision Johnson had was his bank balance 😢😢
..., and a national laughingstock if he stays, what a conundrum eh!!!🤣
They're already a worldwide laughing stock.
They’re already a worldwide laughing stick, not many of us find it funny though.
They already are we dont need the world to tell us
I'm moving to Ireland this year. Thank God.
Get there quickly before all the housing has been taken.
"Arising from Brexit..." 🧐
They need to get rid of Biggles 😂
We can have a better world if we abandon Rand, Hayek, Freedman and Thatcher.
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And starbot
Vaguely heard of Lord Heyward in the past but never taken much notice but this was very interesting. Excellent analysis
No Immunity for Liar politicians. Prison!
Ever since Cameron....
No, my information is that Labours polling nationally beats the Tories on every component below the headline figure, and that was not something Blair couls boast of. Maybe the raw figures are lower than Blair, but that is only relevant to 1997 not 2024. Stop trying to fuddle with statistics, or you'll be accused of being a tory shill.
Sorry but they are a laughing stock already. One word say it’s all.
Do you all think that the politicians care, no because they are shameless. 😊😊😊
UK in a better place than Germany???????????????? Has he travelled there recently??????
No, no, no....Sunak and Hunt are unelectable....Get rid of them both ASAP....
It’s a great work l only can thank you❤
To be a laughing stock? It already is
What do you mean will be a laughing stock! A serving government should serve its people by giving it a choice, not by desperately clinging on!!
Best rid of the nasty little squirt whatever the cost imo
Fools to left of me, jokers to right of me, the way of British politics.
As for verification. I was at a count once where polling district A and polling district B shared a polling station. It took 5 recounts before it was accepted that one more person from district A had put their ballot in box B than vice a versa.
With multiple elections on different ballot papers the first thing you need to do is check that all the papers are in the right box before you start the verification process. Verification won’t do that as someone who puts a paper in the wrong box has probably made the opposite mistake with the second box. Verification only tallies the total number of papers in the box with the number of papers issued so verification won’t catch me putting my mayoral ballot in the council box and my council ballot in the mayoral box.
This is why the papers will be of different colours it is then easy to spot the wrong papers as you don’t have to look at them.
As a party agent verification generally gives you the result as a 2% random sample of the votes (the top vote on a bundle of 50) is often good enough to predict the result. In a local ward it’s +/- 10%, in a constituency it is more like +/- 3%.
Well they're a national laughing stock so go ahead, replace little Rish and become an international laughing stock!
Flat lining in there dreams, more like flat lining downward.
That's the very reason he remains as PM.
It's refreshing to hear an old southern English country accent for change.
"to be" "if" they already are as is the whole country with the mess they have made
Laughing stock if he stays... should concentrate on what's best for the UK, not virtue signalling and how they look to the world politicians
they are a laughing stock already and around the world, doing nothing when everything is collapsing around you is insane.
And little sunak is the best thing that's ever happend to the conservative / tory party 😅😅
They already are a laughing stock. Which started with truss and then sunak
We are a laughing stock now, we have our SECOND UNMANDATED PM and the third of this term. The first kicked out for lieing (Partygate etc), the second who crashed the economy including hard working people's pensions & now a man who can't use a credit card or asks a homeless guy if he's in business. He has selective amnesia over things like covid, while signing off contracts for mates, Donor's & family. As for the local elections, last time they "predicted" they would lose around 800 seats, thinking they'd lose around 500/600 so could claim a victory, yet lost over 1,000. Let's hope they lose more than predicted again....
It's the Tories not just all those other things.
This country is a mess and the Tories are fully responsible .....along with:
Members of the public who don't want to work but expect free housing and cash,
Members of the public who don't want to fight but are happy for others to fight to the death to keep them safe,
Members of the public who aren't content with the body God gave them, but expect others to pay for their "transformation"
Members of the public who think their "feelings" are more important than your freedom of speech and right to express your opinion, however flawed it may or may not be.
We could all do with a good laugh.
Perhaps Reform’s difficulty with grassroots members pertains to Farage’s well-known tendency to treat political parties like his own flat pack furniture.
How can you have the millions to compete with the main parties supported by millionaires.
We already are a laughing stock, honestly we just need a general election.
?This country is going down a toilet.The uk people need to vote in a way that's gonna change for good and that's a brand new party
That’ll be sunak, trump and putin, we’re all laughing at.
Only half? These commentators on Times Radio are always wildly optimistic in their predictions.
Not only widely but firmly, strongly or even dumbly overoptimistic and still are listening to the TR.
And this is from the Times! interesting times!