'Everybody thinks something is going on' | Election rumours analysed | LBC
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- 'I think it's a very weird time to have an election'
'It would not go down well with a lot of voters'
As rumours grip Westminster today that the Prime Minister could call a snap general election as early as July, Andrew Marr joins James O'Brien to discuss.
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The Tories time is finally up, but the damage they've caused is irreparable.
Weirdly EVERYTHING has suddenly got better.
Off to Germany, then, Tom?
@@TheGava4At least there would not be potholes everywhere 😂
@@TheGava4 No, I'm staying in the country I pay taxes to live in. Sorry to disappoint you.
Has Graham Brady received the requisite number of letters to trigger a leadership contest? Rishi Sunak may be in a no-win situation and call a general election that he is going to lose rather than be ignominiously kicked out. I dare say he is packing for California regardless.
Will anyone else be breathing a big sigh of relief when the GE is announced. Can’t come soon enough.
Not going to make any difference. Starmer is as Tory as sunak
Then what ?
@@GuinessOriginal I fear you're correct 😢
@@GuinessOriginal That must explain the difference in the polls and personal rating then !!!......the public in general dont seem to agree with you.
The whole country will breathe a collective sign of relief when the election is called. After that, we need to revert back to the Fixed Term Parliament Act, we can never again be held hostage by a Prime Minister like this.
We had FTPA... But then Johnson changed it.
Such a disastrous PM
Should be an automatic general election as soon as PM resigns
@@GuinessOriginal One snag with that, the PM would never be made to resign. The MPs of the party in power would never force him/her out as they would stand a chance of losing their seat.
@GuinessOriginal it should if the 2nd pm resigned so there have one redo until they f up
@@GuinessOriginal What happens if one dies ?
Go on, make our dreams come true!!
"But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." W B Yeats
Hall and Oates 👍💯
Call it and put this country out of its Tory misery
I won't be surprised if the Tories win by a landslide again, this country is full of absolute bellends!
Oh wow, this could actually be happening. Dare we dream?
Yes 😂🎉🎉🎉🎉
🤞
🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Don't believe the Tories until it's announced.
I don’t think I’ll believe it until I’m stood in the polling booth with a pencil in my hand.
July 4th then! :D
Prolonging the inevitable so they can line their seedy pockets as long as possible.
Who could have guessed that Sunak would announce it to the tune of "things can only get Better" in the pouring rain.
This aged well in 5 hours.
Loving this dream team chatting. Wish they had a show/podcast all together.
I assume this is sarcasm
@@BringbackthesixtiesYou assume wrongly! I think they're great, and listen to both Marr and O'Brien every day. Natasha is on with them both separately. Bring them together for a Week in Politics weekly podcast. Would be awesome.
we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis month on month it will get worse
UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times
Mar 2024 The volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018, the largest five-year decline in goods trade since comparable records began in 1997, according to FT calculations of data published by the Office for National Statistics on Friday.
Or they'll waiting until after the US November Trump coup and then declare martial law! 🤣
*There is a large international conference we are hosting on 18th July where Rishi can wear platform heels and cosplay as a world leader to a gullible electorate. My bet is the Thursday after that.*
Too late.... He will be collecting his P45 on the 5th July....
No chance whatsoever. "Richi" will delay until the last possible second.
So, Thursday 24th January 2025, is it ?
I stand corrected:- July 4 it is !!!
@@grayham1969 Independence Day for the people to gain their freedom from these unbelievable politicians...
'Lurking', is the best word, skuling in the shadows witing to pounce ,,,
Pick a Summer election so that you get maximum OAP turn out, generally those with more of a Conservative leaning, whilst younger people, who are more likely fed up with this government, are on holiday!
Johnson killed a lot of the old age during the covid infection. Look at the pension money they saved
Young people can't afford to go on holiday 😅
@@dh1380it’s cheaper to fly abroad for a week than a night out back home these days
Labour can 'steal' over 3 million OAP votes if they show support for the WASPI women before the election.
Army of old women vote Tory because they own most of the money and property among the general public. Ruthless in protecting their own selfish interests.
Im so happy at that absolute chaos to sum up 4 years of it. Now finally there is light at the end of the rainbow.
One WEF puppet to another. When will you learn?
Hope Sunk grows a pair and calls it for July.
students have gone home
I cant imagine that they would call an election before the autumn statement. When is that going to be???
November I think! ready for a December or new year election
Yeah exactly
They have actually already said another fiscal statement is not a certainty.
Spoiler alert !... Independence Day is 4th July....
After David Cameron legged it out of office, there was this rumour mill about Johnson becoming Tory leader. He even held a press conference. Then during the press conference he said the time wasn't right for him to become Tory leader (Nadine Dorries was on the verge of tears).
This feels like that. I'll believe there will be an election when it's announced, not when there are rumours or there's a lot of stuff going on in the Tory part
Hopefully soon though, then the Tory party can rename itself the Teeny Tiny Tory party.
I think Count Binface might win this one.
The sound of silence means only one thing in my opinion a calling of an election is imminent
have to say. PMQs did indeed seem weirdly tame and drawn out
I thought that too. It seemed weird, the tories sitting listening to KS solemnly declaring the end of 'covering up' and all the backdoor tricks that have been such a part of Tory rule recently. It took me way back to when PMQ's was not a circus, when the grown-ups were in charge....
I suspect Sunak is trying to stay on until at least the 31st of July, as otherwise his term as PM would be shorter than that of Anthony Eden.
Respectfully, I think that might be a bit of a reach. Politically speaking, what real value would that have?
Interesting idea.
@@ratking1608I see both points, but I am not sure Sunak is making political calculations anymore.
@@alundavies1016 Not sure Sunak has ever made political calculations.
@@mustrumridcully3853 too busy with the financial sort!
Well I haven’t stayed up to watch election results come in for over 40 years but I’ll be staying up for this. Even if I have to drink a gallon of black coffee and tape my eyelids open, I want a ringside seat so I don’t miss any of the carnage😂
I've been saying the very same !
Don't forget you promised to carry that lad shoulder high through the studio.
Say its true 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I always get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when this happens, like when Americans with Trump. Please all Labour turn out & put this government into history.
He is moving to some other contry
After the mess they created
Sunak is the pilot of Singapore Airlines, and I feel we all are the passengers going through the turbulent weather.
I've heard but never seen from an independent source that the debt belongs to parent companies based in places like the cayman Islands who charge higher than commercial interest that then has to be repaid by the customer. Has anyone else heard of this?
Called it 😂
They rinsed as much as they could, time for them to get jobs in defense/pharma i guess.
Andrew was spot-on yet again.
Genuinely thought that said analised 😂😂😂
Imagine England win the Euros and the Tories get a kickin. Ok too much, Tories get a kicking.
England men's football team win something ! ... Don't be preposterous !
Still no Eurovision Song Contest win then ?
14 years of this nightmare soon to be over.
Well this aged well
Love what UA-cam did with your thumbnail on those listed on the right during playback of another. After overlaying the duration of the video you are left with "RUMOURS : ANALY".
Really? Whose policy is this exactly?
Today was the best economic news the Tories were going to have for a while? Well then they should have called a GE a couple of months ago for it to happen today then!
They’ll carry on rigging the poll, calling it for September/ October- before new students have registered at their new addresses. Look out for new ID-related vote rigging too.
Edit: I was wrong. Can’t wait tbh…
Outside chance the King wants to abdicate because of his illness and this is about the succession.
Wouldn't that be announced elsewhere ?
@@richardruff8712 as a matter of protocol, the cabinet would be informed first before the rest of the country. But we’ve only had one abdication before.
@@joestraw8870 I guess you are right... I thought it was something to do with the Court of St James, when it comes to the Monarch... Anyway, I guess we will find out soon, what the ' flap ' is all about.....
This aged well.....
Well, we know now!
Clandestine
James is up Andrews derrière a little here. How dare the lady interrupt 😵💫
July 4th then.
I feel sorry for the optimistic people in the comments. If you genuinely think Starmer is going to be much better, you're insane. Things are still going to be bad. The issues in this country aren't just about the last fourteen years. It's much deeper than that.
Whatever happens the post election government will no longer be fearing an imminent election and will probably use the opportunity to put up taxes and make cuts.
Yes, 50 years of problems... Comments such as this, convince me that ' ordinary ' people would do a much better job, than these 650 failure politicians....
That argument is getting boring and repetitive, even if its remotely true it isnt justification for keeping the Tories.
@@malcolmstockbridge2569 True. I want to see the Tories out. But people need to curtail their expectations.
@@jacobwilkins3532 We have a chance to find out......4th July according to the news.
Sunak stated ' there will be an election in the second half of this year'
Well unless it was in the next few weeks (before 30 June) , or in January next year than that's a given! 😊
So, for a 6 week campaign, it is physically IMPOSSIBLE to be in the first half of 2024.... Did he say... " an election "... or did he say... " a General election "..... ? If he said... " an election "... maybe he means another Tory leadership election !
A leadership election would be suicide at this point @@richardruff8712
WE DID IT LADS, THEY'RE OUT!!!
Natasha Clark is so spectacularly wrong so many times, it's impressive.
Not till they've grifted EVERY LAST PENNY THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON!!
unless it's something meaningless to do with the royal family.
The sooner he calls for one, the sooner they’re out - so hurry up Rishi!
Waffling away at the lectern....getting soaked...
To dream the impossible dream
Baseless speculation! Just gives these journos a few more minutes desperately needed 'content'
And your thoughts now are what?
Rishi can take comfort in outlasting a lettuce. Nothing else achieved.
The Lettuce did less damage.
@@marionanderson7059 arguably
@Cupit29 Rumour is, Lettuce is running for PM in July
I think you'll find the name is pronounced "Kid Starver".
So the country of leaseholds and rotten tooth goes to the polls. Lol... What for?
the longer he leaves it the worse it will be for the tories
Turning a GE announcement into a Party Political Broadcast was a disgusting and disgraceful!!
All the signs are there more than any previous time. Just this morning if you said "oh there's a rumour of an election" my reply would have been "oh like the last 20 plus rumours in recent months that fizzled out?"
But this time around there are several factors that Marr highlighted as well as a bit of a 'tease' in response to Flynn at PMQ's where Sunak said 'spoiler alert: second half of the year' which isn't the way to rule it out as we come to the final days where a July election can still be called. Quashing it then and there would have made sense on the same day where an election being called IS actually the best possible time the Tories might actually have with the economic news. But instead people are talking about an election and forgetting about the news already. And he's visiting the King... why? Why today? Why so suddenly?
PQ looked as though Rishi had told Keith and they decided to be nice with each other on the last date.
Keith who?
@@Cherrytune386 Mr. Keir Starmer....................
@@richardruff8712 Sir !
I have a dream and it doesn't involve any of the Cons!
Inflation will go down, and interest rates will also.
I think they’re covering something else up
Me too .
I bet he had a smile on his face. Look at the mess he's left.
aged well in 4 hours lol
Exactly what I was thinking
Whoopy do😅😅😅😅 reform now
5 MORE YEARS TEAM RISHI!!!
Maybe they’re all going to defect together!
6 WEEKS TMRW!!!??? Its clear the Tories are hatching a plan to cancel out the Reform threat to them, and hope to outspend Labour on campaigning
Andrew Feinstein has put himself forward in Starmers constituency Hallelujah …praying Starmer and Lammy will be kicked out .
Right with you there .
Andrew Marr must be looking forward to that compulsory maths 😜
Nothing happened
Bread and circus… pantomime of clowns… distraction from the real issues 😊
I predict he will call an election by tonight by 5
Sausage belly
@@hankybostik7634 Pardon?
The Conservative government know reform party are gaining movement. Probably why they may call an earlier election. I am voting for the reform party
Pity the only viable alternative is Starmer, another Tory.
We shall see.
Sending soldiers to Ukraine, perhaps?
Like a lurker
Starmer honeymoon will be the shortest in history.
Low turnouts always suit the Tories, so my guess is Christmas Day.
The British Prime Minister appeared in the middle of the rain wet, apparently there was no umbrella there to shelter him and announced the new elections for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, called for July 4, 2024. In the middle of the embers, it may make sense to hold on to a burning nail. Rishi Sunak has taken advantage of the drop in inflation in the United Kingdom last April to 2.3% to clear up the great political doubt of recent months. The British Prime Minister announced this Wednesday an advance of the general elections - until now scheduled for the autumn - for July 4, 2024. While the polls give a comfortable victory to the Labor opposition, there is a general consensus in the country in around the increasingly real possibility that Keir Starmer will be the next tenant of Downing Street. Sunak's movement, sheltered by economic data that predicts a meager improvement in the country, is rather interpreted as the way to put an end to the final agony of more than 14 years of Tory governments, as the Conservative Party is commonly called.
Whats the point in a GE, Labour will be just as hopeless as the Torys.
IMO
A Labour Government under PM KS
WILL be worse !
Sir KS has already announced
"There will not be borders"
Sir KS will move closer to The EU
on the subject of illegal immigrants.
Recently reported,
The Daily Express front page
"Under a Labour Government
expect
250,00O extra illegals EVERY YEAR ! "
"I do not intend to announce any policies.
Too many previous governments have made
Manifesto Pledges which have not been upheld"
Sir KS is asking The British Electorate
to vote "blind" for a future
Labour Government.
Vote for starmer
👇
A story about nothing.
General Election!!! Let's goooo BABAY!!!
honestly, I think Labour should sit this election out and let Tories sort their own mess.
Considering that the tories have spent 14 years trying to sort out their own messes I don't think we should risk another round of Tories "sorting out their own mess"
What are you on about lol, is this your contorted way of wanting to keep the tories in power 🤡
Sunak fears the rise of reformUK, who have taken 1 in 3 of Tory GE24 voters & indirectly assist Labour. As per people polling the best pollsters.
Without deep reforms there is not much to be exited about 🤷♂️😑
Reintroduction of rent controls
Preservation of green belts
Food and energy prices needs to be addressed 🤷♂️ we have money for aircraft carriers
if you think your vote matters you are living in a dream world
And if you dont think it matters you have no right to complain.
What's going to change under Labour for young people?
Their wages will continue to fall against inflation.
Their taxes will go up to keep paying for pensioner's triple lock.
The services young people use will continue to be slashed in favour of those which serve the elderly.
We've got to look after the elderly. They've done their bit
@@jeremymerrifield219 My Dad retired at 55 on a gold plated pension that earns more a month than I currently do earning above-average salary. He was a mid-level policeman. I'll be retiring at 70 if the Government stays on the same trajectory upping the retirement age. How is that fair?
We paid for our bit stop whinging and get of your ases
@@robertlegge5231 You did your bit by not going to school? FYI your pension is paid for by those in work, not by what you paid in, you paid for your parent's pensions.
@@mrmajeika6101 So when the time comes for you to claim yours you will say no thanks.....give it to the young....LOL
Won't be voting I will be celebrating independence day 🍺
James is such a weasel!
Interest rates will come down before the next election. Not exactly brain science.
Brain surgery - Rocket science
@@bigmattc Ha ha ha.... Yes... We can also predict that unemployment will magically fall... The boat crossings will magically halve...The number of Doctors and Dentists will magically increase... And we will all become members of the Roswell Weather Balloon Society.... !
Bit late now !
with all the people being called in even the king its either general election or something to do with ukraine
3 journalists talking nonsense.
Then treat us to your inestimable wisdom lestrem......
When there is no news……make some up…..a journalist in action.
We shall see....?
I bet you feel silly now :).....4th July
@@malcolmstockbridge2569 Why would you think I give a monkey’s for Christs sake.😵💫
Go to your room and dont be late for school in the morning.