Rishi Sunak’s ‘hung parliament’ prediction ‘is for the birds’ | Ipsos
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- “The crumb of comfort is Keir Starmer's personal ratings…Unfortunately, next to that is a cup of cold sick, which is that people are utterly fed up with the Conservatives.”
Rishi Sunak’s prediction that the UK is heading for a hung parliament is “for the birds”, says chief executive of Ipsos Ben Page.
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The Tories will find it most definitely won't be a hung parliament. But, it definitely won't be a Tory government.
They are gone.
For good this time I hope, we cannot allow facism to ever win! We also can’t allow capitalism to continue as it is, I don’t want to live in another dickens era thanks
What do we do when they get back in?..its safe to say our elections are rigged...
"Crumb of comfort"? Why on earth would the Tories deserve any comfort? Millions of us are suffering under this Govt.! Don't we deserve a crumb of comfort?
Who in the video said they deserve it?
Vote Tory for sky high taxes, rents, mortgages, utility bills, train fares, petrol and food and they’ll chuck a crumb to thank you
Some deluded people think there will be no suffering under Labour, lol.
@@dragonfly6908 "Wahh wahh Labour wahh" is all people hear when your lot pipe up. Go vote for your racistUK party, you'll get nothing and like it.
@@Redsleather I misread that as "train feces" and y'know what? After some of the crazy s*** outta their mouths, I could kinda see that just making its way into the manifest.
"Fed up," is the most British way of saying, "Apoplectic with rage."
Hung Parliament? As usual the Tories are taking people for fools.
Doesn't seem to be working anymore
I couldn't believe they honestly feel this will happen..... One of Sunak's lackies was on the TV a couple of nights back, reeling off the old "things have started getting better" routine.... Jesus man, you've had 14 years....
@@Brian-om2hhsunak needs 2 go hes not doing anything good hes attacking t poor and t sick people and helping t rich
@@PatrickLawrence-rn1tv The end of October at the very earliest for an election. Let's have an Autumn statement and more tax cuts.
@@jjefferyworboys8138tax cuts? Thought you kept up with current affairs? We have the highest taxes for 70 years.
Hilarious that they changed the mayoral voting system to first past the post, thinking it would benefit them; and they lost by even larger margins. Solid gold 😂
Love it 😂😂😂
The Tories are always predicting a hung Parliament. They use fear of a hung parliament to persuad people back into the Tory fold.
Persuade.
They'll never get my vote the Tories have never been of any use to this country they've always been interested in themselves
Its also a fear tactic to their core voters, several times they've tried to put the idea of a terrifying Left-wing coalition bringing it all down, ignoring that the Left leaning parties have shown minimal inclination to work together, far less so then the right leaning parties
The votes show a trend on the whole a vote against the conservatives
Exactly this. Trying to cling onto votes by any lie they can
So far the odds are:
- Labour Majority - 95%
- Labour Minority - 4%
- Conservative Minority - > 1%
- Conservative Majority - > In a pig's eye.
those arent odds
One thing you can be sure of is an increased smear by the right wing media
I thought the Pig's Eye probability was for David Cameron's odds for retaking the leadership of the tory party
@@Matthew-bu7fg
It wasn't the pig's eye Dave was interested in.
But in the interests of good taste, I think we'll leave it there...
What's the bookies odds on Reform UK not fielding candidates in Tory seats when it comes to the general election?
@@pauln6803probably quite low, maybe 1-4 against. Reform have nothing to gain from the tories at this point.
Dead Party Walking
I remember the old 'don't vote labour because you'll get a coalition of chaos' argument just before Cameron and Clegg went on to impose austerity on the country. Now that was a coalition of catastrophe. In particular, Clegg sold the students down the river, many of whom had voted for his party because of his pledge to scrap tuition fees; the fees tripled.
Yes, the Tories made education a business.
Wasn't that following over a decade of a labour government with illegal wars based on lies, a global crash and bailing out all the banks?
You are partly right in that clegg was a total disaster. But please remember that labour left a note saying that there was no money left. There was no choice but to have a period of austerity. Labour always raise taxes, waste the money and bankrupt the country. I am not a tory supporter, but they didn’t ask for the covid pandemic and ensured people and companies were not left destitute. I wonder what Starmer and his cheating sidekick would have done?
Really Chaos?? ... compared to the last 9 years it was a sea of perfect tranquility 😂
Tories OUT.
Fed up is an understatement ... I've asked all my friends and family ... not one is voting Tory - even my 80 yr old mum has run away from this bunch of poison pills.
In a hung parliament there's no chance that he or any other tory will be PM. No-one else will (or should) be willing to prop up this worn out, clapped out mess.
I predict Sunak will say "The plan is working and we are delivering for Britain" at every pmqs until next election.
It is. If they could find a way to postpone the election for 3 years then we would start seeing the results of their new policies. They still have a large majority so I am pretty certain they could pass emergency legislation to make that happen. A conservative government is the better of the two options right now and people need to understand that.
@nickmagee-brown739
What planet are you living on?
Christ almighty!!!
Sunak couldn't deliver a cold pizza!
@@nickmagee-brown739 funny
@@nickmagee-brown739wtf have you been smoking
The Tory copim is strong in the media channel
Murdoch owns it no matter what they say.
The Tories are so strung out on copium Sunak has his hand down pub toilets to fish out some more.
distract distract distract so he can commit more corruption before November
That's 'the plan'...
Yep...
We were told this back in 2015, look at the chaos that ensued after the Conservatives won.
Yeah because it's rigged
Down with the tories
Vote them OUT
Vote Labour ✅
They said the exact same thing last year and since then they've been trounced in by election after by election and the polls haven't changed. The idea that local elections that most people dont even vote in and where people vote for the Residents Association and other 3rd parties have any bearing on a GE is delusional, not least as it was only some places in England anyway.
Look at the mayoral elections, the Tories got trounced in West Yorkshire, trounced in Greater Manchester, trounced in South Yorkshire, trounced in Merseyside, lost in the East Midlands, lost in the West Midlands and even lost in North Yorkshire - thats true blue North Yorkshire and they lost. And the reality is if they hadnt rigged the voting system and changed it back to FPTP theyd have lost most of the PCCs they held onto as well.
We had a byelection on the same day and the Tories were trounced by Labour and nearly came 3rd behind Reform. If the Tories want to keep spreading this nonsense then fair enough but it wont be 2015 where they scare voters into sticking with them; all it'll do is motivate people to get out and vote to oust the Tories - they're pathetic and the GE can't come soon enough
Well said!
When do you expect Labour politicians to start saying "a vote for the Workers Party is a vote for the Tories"...
@jamonit7169 never because they're not worth talking about. Galloway will be gone in the GE like he always is. He and his cronies win in by-elections and local elections on a low turnout by spreading hate and division but when it comes to the GE or the next local election and they're revealed as the charlatans they are, they're gone
And they might have lost Teeside as well if Reform hadn't stood their candidate down...looks like some sort of deal was done there.🤔
@anthonygrayson7753 they'd have lost most of their PCCs if they hadn't changed the system back to FPTP too
The Tories will be lucky to get 150 seats. I can't stand Starmer, but he's going to merc this next GE. Sunaks running the country on behalf of the Uber Rich. Most of us have clocked this.
You don't need to be a rocket scientist or a statistician to realise, Sunaks toast.
Elephant in the room is sunak.........a man who never answers a question during pmqs.
The Indian elephant in the room.
and the rest of his tuskless herd
More like African, with those ears.
Yes, exactly the same as Truss & Bodger before him
Don’t give Sunak all the credit! It’s the Tory way, perfected in Johnson’s era, of NEVER answering a question. And with the chocolate teapot presiding over PMQs, it’s the only way!
The Tories are recycling the old "coalition of chaos" argument form 2015. God they are bereft of anything most of all honesty and candour.
Instead we've had 14 years of tory chaos.
The Tory party is a true coalition of chaos.
Just imagine another 5 years of these goons in power.For gods sake,make sure that you have valid id on election day,and vote the jokers out.
looking at some of the headlines today it all seems to revolve about what the conservatives need to do/ offer the public to survive...that sums the problem up perfectly, they have always shown how self obsessed they are with their own careers, rather than simply working hard to help our Country recover ...hopefully selfishness like that will be punished in the next election So my advice to them is STOP developing any more pledges the electorate isn't listening to you any more !
100%. It is alway, ALWAYS party before people, self serving..."Me before them". Its the exact opposite of what a government is supposed to be.
Stopped listening long ago 😂😂😂😂
Sunak just doesn't get Britain.
Sunak doesn’t get anyone who isn’t a wealthy, privileged ex-banker who lives in an elite bubble
Don’t forget he’s here as a stooge for the Indian Government!
Or working class.
He does not get politics in general. I think he'd be equally bad wherever.
A projection is NOT a prediction. The uk celebrates ignorance of numeracy skills.
Poor journalists with poor analytical skills.
thats Times Radio in a nutshell. they claim to need to get a hang of things that have been bleeding obvious for AGES. they pretend to be confused.
Sounds spot on.
Absolutely, MSM in this country needs serious reform. I'm sick of so called journalists telling the British public black is white. Having said that, many lack critical thinking and are happy to swallow the guff.
It makes a better headline and is 100% deliberate.
Why do people keep saying Sadiq is unpopular? Everyone I know thinks he's great
Because the polls say he's unpopular? If the Tories had picked a Rory Stewart-type Tory then he would've struggled to win but instead they picked an inept MAGA lunatic and handed the election to Labour
they talking from a london wide perspective and compared to himself but in the past that he is less popular now. you probably just have friends that all agree but aren't reflective of the london wide polling
It's usually the media 😂😂. I give you a life hack. do the opposite of what the media is telling you. No one is okay in their mind, will vote for any Torry or Reform for any seat. not rocket science
They are asking people outside London who only hear the tory lies about him
@@bordedup546 "but aren't reflective of the London-wide polling" What? He got an increased mandate, and he is arguably more popular now with Londoners than he was at the last election. The people of London have spoken.
FED UP!! Jesus its A LOT more serious than that
The last time the Tories warned us of a hung parliament and a coalition of chaos (under Ed Miliband) we instead got a coalition of chaos with them and a decade of incompetence and austerity. Let's ignore them!
We've taken tory medicine for years and we are more ill now than ever
This is the "coalition of chaos" campaign reheated. Desperate stuff.
Zoned out and playing with her hair, we are all there! Just want to wake up and be done with this Tory nonsense.
Sunak is a loser. He was a loser the moment he resigned as the Chancellor, and it has gotten much worse since for him.
He has got exactly what he wants. Much richer by robbing the country
I'll be voting Labour for the first time ever. 50 yo.
I be voting for Labour like many other people will be doing. Conservatives WAST Of SPACE.
I didn't vote but I will in the election and it won't be tory ....
Murdoch's Frequencies are hilarious.
COPE Radio.
George Galloway seems awfully quiet at the moment !
He is busy bashing gay marrige.
good
Be thankful for small mercies.
He does I noticed that too...
Sunak is delusional. He just doesn’t understand what we need. And thinks he knows what we want, he doesn’t.
If you think that Starmer and Labour are any different you are seriously deluded.
@@jjefferyworboys8138If they are no different why are you worried about them?
@@jjefferyworboys8138 Of course they are. Maybe not as much as I would like, but they are different.
Tories are toast!!!
Please don't insult toast...
The Tories have their own Momentum problem, loony wing is on the march
How about they try and be public servants instead of worrying about what is best for themselves?
Odd conclusion to draw given the national polls. Is he a liar or an idiot?
He's both!😅 they think saying..hung parliament will encourage their voters to vote Tory, but it also encourages the opposition to come out and vote against them! So it won't work! After the local elections results, if Sunak had any decency he would resign! After all, it was an overwhelming rejection of his ideas!😅
It's probably a bit of both 😂😂😂 Tory fanboy 😂😂😂 media machine in full delusional swing 😂😂😂😂
A lot of both
@@Royboy50 yeah, fair point lol 😆
@Royboy50 yes! They are now 3rd placed in the country, Sunak is unelected, they have no right not to call an election, they have no mandate to rule over us! It's undemocratic!
This cannot go on until dec, Jan 2025, now. Parilament won't be doing anything worthwhile until the election.
Why do we have such a bad system?
Why? Because of asylum seekers, trans kids, Just Stop Oil and the antisemites who want Israel to stop blowing up kids in Gaza. That is why. Don't you listen to the BBC/GB News or read any one of a squillion right wing newspapers owned by millionaires who reside outside of the UK and who enjoy "interesting" tax arrangements.
I think people are fed up with the toris,and party gate did it .people havnt forgotten .
You keep saying sir keir starmer is not popular , you mean with you
This, after the Times ran with Sunak's obvious lie as their front page headline at the weekend. 😂
Zac Goldsmith, Shaun Bailey, Susan Hall, over three elections really appealing Tory candidates!
The people are suffering from illness and fatigue - they are sick and tired of the Toriies.
Suella’s clueless? Surprise, says no one
I’d love to know the time frame on this apparent sudden realisation by Sunak. It’s been as obvious as night follows day for most of us for months possibly over a year . Are we to believe that the PM has only just started to realise this? If so, he needs to go on the grounds of chronic stupidity if nothing else .
Words of a desperate excuse of a tory prime minister who hasn't a clue ,sunrack pack your stuff and go forth and multiply.
The Tories have shafted the British electorate for far too long. I confidently see Labour with a sizable working majority, at the very least, whenever the GE takes place.
Sunak's not taken his pills again.
Does He realize that Scotland and many other counties across the country didn't vote???
Didn't this exact thing happen after the last locals? People pretended to think that the local election results would be replicated and started saying 'oh, it'll be a hung parliament!' and then forgot for a while until now with another set of locals.
Locals elections aren't General Elections.
The crumb of comfort for the Tories is that there is a possibility for them to rebuild over 10 years in the wilderness.
If I was a conservative supporter, that's what I'd see as best for the party
As a Labour voter I say the Tories need a complete clear out or a split. The country needs a decent opposition, a moderate centre right party, but the whole ‘Tory’ brand is now a toxic mess, associated with self-serving grafters with a personal agenda of making themselves richer and destroying any kind of rights for the British people. What do the Conservatives actually stand for, apart from Rwanda and leaving the ECHR?
The local elections tell you nothing about a general election.
Why's that then sweetie?
@Ukipmiddleleft people don't vote the same way because 3rd parties have a chance and only 30% bother to vote in them. Labour still battered the conservatives, they're 20 points ahead, the tories are divided, the country dispises the tories. Labour are gonna win
It's almost as if Sunak is biding time for another scam for his family to benefit from....! Anything in the pipeline that anyone knows of?
Desperation and cognitive dissonance running high in this belief.
Just call the election, get it over with.
guess what torys are toast
Oh Times. Shilling for the Tories as always😂. Slightly devious😛
I love it that the media keeps on saying that Starmer is unpopular, we want a leader not a clown, Starmer's clearly a leader with a PLAN. As a country we're centre left, again Starmer's is clearly centre left.
I am not necessarily the greatest fan of the current brand of the Conservative Party, but my thoughts after the Local Elections results came in were in those very words - that a Labour landslide is "for the birds". After the last General Election I think that Sir Keir Starmer will have pulled off a remarkable achievement should he win an absolute majority of any description. As for a hung parliament that holds no fears for me and it could, as was remarked by that person contacting the show, lead to the introduction of PR - a very positive outcome, I would say.
Can we just talk about that stack of books in the background? Haunted house? Cry for help?
Pulp Jenga,
im so glad someone else mentioned it - thats a man in crisis
didn't have to scroll far to find someone finding it as absurd as me!
I couldn’t get past that either. Very strange.
You should see how his kitchen appliances are stacked
I agree that Kier Starmer and Labour may not be the ideal opposition to lead this country. That is based on people’s thoughts that it doesn’t matter who governs the country, they are as bad as one another.
The fact is, the conservatives have been dreadful and people have lost all faith and trust in them. The country is in a worse state now than what it was 15 years ago, and it’s getting worse.
People are fed up. The country is lawless, the policing is underpowered and quite frankly useless. The prisons are full and under staffed. Sentencing and the release of prisoners is absolutely shocking.
The government’s only focus seems to be on immigration right now. The issues in this country run a lot deeper than that and the government have failed to act on them. Now they have left it too late. The biggest problems have now bottled necked, and so has the mood of the country. We are sick and tired of what this country has become. If politics doesn’t sort things out, I can see the public taking it to the streets and who knows what will happen then.
This will have a reverse effect I think they will push people to vote them out even harder.
Time for competence..not populaity..there is a country to mend.
Why no mention of the Lib Dems?
It is for the birds, the Vultures circling like Suela and Nigel who are just interested in picking at the Carcass.
Who gives you the right to speak for the electorate and say ‘not enamoured with’ line trotted out by Tory central office…..
Murdoch, but only if they swallow his cold sick.
delusional
Labour will not pick up lost Conservative voters, Reform will. Reform ran hardly any candidates in the recent local elections and turnout was a disgrace.
I personally believe when the Tories are defeated they'll look back and see they simply went to far to the right. We may all be miserable and frustrated right now but I don't believe we as a nation are about division and hate and a more right wing Conservative party isn't for even the most frustrated British person
When times are tough the extremists come out of the woodwork to try and cause division and hatred, hence Braverman.
Right wing my @rse. They need to go back to being Conservative. Just look at how they dealt with Covid ? What happened to small state and being the party of enterprise, encouraging small business ? Huge state handouts and in bed with big corp.
The have surrendered to the right wing press who they rely upon to guarantee election results. They have no policies
But people don’t want extremism, they know the blame for their mortgage rates going through the roof is the Tories , they know the blame for their inability to get the NHS and Dental care they need is due to the Tories, they blame Sunak as much as Johnson and Truss. They do NOT have any faith in the Tories to make their lives better and are bewildered by the thought that sending 100 refugees to Rwanda at vast expense is going to change their lives at all. It not easy to blame refugees for problems caused entirely of the Conservative governments making, though the Conservatives are trying very hard.
If only they would listen to people telling them what they want, ie a better standard of living they wouldn’t be in this mess they have got themselves into.
What are they right-wing on? Immigration?
Identify policies?
DEI training?
Highest borrowing ever?
They a party obsessed with Britain's multiculturalism Rishi did a speech not long ago.
Attacking Nick Griffin calling him a racist.
The Trolls who say that Labour would be worse are all Tories who are grasping at straws!
That's all they've got...
Thank you The Times for covering this in a sensible way and cutting through the bs we have seen in coverage over the last few days
Never was the term "delulu"better used than to describe Sunak at this stage.
I think a lot of people would be quite happy with a Labour Lib Dem Government, in fact it might encourage people to vote tactically for those parties against the Tories if they believed it was a realistic outcome.
I do not know one person who believes Labour will not end up with a substantial majority - almost certainly in three figures.
Suella Braverman: HOMELESS IS A LIFESTYLE CHOICE.
I'm liking the book tower in the background - remember Roy Castle standing beside something similar on RECORD BREAKERS a few years ago!
He needs to add a few small ones at the top to make it look like it's holding the ceiling up
If Rishi is banking on the SNP not to lose seats so getting him a Hung parliament he's knowledge of British politics even worse than it first appeared.
Sunak is more concerned on how far down he can get us rather than running a country, we really need an election.
When did we become America and have popularity contest between the leaders. Should it not be about what the parties are going to do for us. All the Tories go on about is Rwanda and the boats. What about the British public🤷♂️🤷♂️
Correct. When I vote it's on the policies of the party plus, in this case, if the present lot have made a pigs ear of things. I will vote for the party that has most chance of getting rid of my tory M P. Last time it was Labour who were second so that's who I will be voting for unless local polling tells me different.
Great point. God forbid we ever have presidential elections in this country. You can be sure that the likes of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage will be licking their lips at the prospect.
It should but a parties leader is the representative for the party as a whole and so they get conflated with the party as does there personal popularity, this has always been the case and is not a new phenomenon.
Well said! 😢
I agree
This should be renamed Tory Radio. I am so not interested in looking for crumbs of comfort.for the Tories.
But people are still voting for the tories.
Only a small minority. Heaven knows why though so I take your point
Sunak continues to lie, and while it's all going wrong, lie some more, that's the strategy.
18% lolz
Clearly they're NOT.
Traitors
He really is clutching at straws now , ent he ?
I don't believe that propping up a ceiling with a stack of books is the best idea anyone has ever had.
The times regurgitating Tory propaganda
I would argue that the Tories haven't drifted to the right, they've been pushed to the right. Labour have claimed the centre ground to such an extent that the Tories, to try and differentiate, have been pushed further right (which is why their rhetoric sounds similar to Reform UK).
fed up with this two bob lame Bombay duck
Mumbai
@@sarangistudent8614 Sorry you are right it is now Mumbai, I was just referencing the historic English menu description with the metaphor for someone still holding high office after power and credibility have gone.No offence intended to denizens of Mumbai.
Dont these idiots in the tory party, Braverman, Truss etc. realise that it is them that is causing the party’s slump by being so divisive?
Whats going on with that pile of books in the background? Does he need to call the Ghostbusters?
Rishi is a wet lettuce 🥬😂😂
There is a hung parliament since 2016.
lie lie lie lie all the lie of tory lie lie lie
Also: the very right wing Susan Hall did not appeal=far right is not appealing. So when Rish! lost his soul to the far right, he gambled and lost: this was never the will of the people.
Yes, the move to PR is the most important issue. Fed up with Labour investing in public services and rebuilding the infrastructure, only for the Tories to smash it all down again. This constant yo-yoing is why this country is failing.
Sunak being as politically tone-deaf (and dishonest) as he always is.
If the local elections are a good guide to a General Election, then didn't the Tories come third in this one?
Is Sunak claiming these results prove that the Tories will finish behind the Libs in a GE?
In addition, if the polls showed a genuine close race between Labour and Tories, then it would motivate Tory voters to turn out because of concerns of Labour having to join up with the Libs and the Nationalists. But the election results, if we are unwise enough to use them as a guide to the GE, show that it would be easy in the case of a hung Parliament for Labour to join up with the Libs and no other party.
Sorry, Sunak, but you are just encouraging people even more to vote to get you out. Resign.
No sack couldent stop one single boat... hes a forigner with forigen intrests and an islam supporter...
That 1 pile of books in the background are swaying 😂.
Rishi sunak MUST resign now
No. His presence will help change come about at the next GE. But this GE must come SOON! ASAP! YESTERDAY!