Watch in full: Rishi Sunak announces general election on July 4 2024
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- Rishi Sunak has called a snap election on July 4 following months of speculation about when the country would go to the polls.
The prime minister addressed the nation in the pouring rain, as he battled against the deafening sound of ‘Things Can Only Get Better’ playing in the background- the 90s hit which famously played during Tony Blair’s successful Labour campaign.
In a drenched suit, he said the King granted his request to dissolve Parliament and promised to “fight for every vote” over the next few weeks.
In a sign that security and the economy will be key battlegrounds, Mr Sunak said: “This election will take place at time when the world is more dangerous than it has been since the end of the Cold War.”
Sir Keir Starmer declared “it’s time for change” and told Britons to “vote Labour” in response to the PM’s announcement.
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Let's aim for 0 seats!
I lost my job , i am in my late 50’s and will likely never have a job again. I get nothing as i have savings that i have to spend before i get benefits.
……..i am British and am a second class Citizen in my own Country.
I feel like a complete Ass !
❤
They scammed our support allowance retirement accounts packages 📦
benefit& pensions packages 📦
Dont give us this nonsense. You can easily go out and apply for your HGV licence, invest them savings, do taxis or become a delivery driver to earn an income. Plenty of warehouse jobs out there too. Problem nowadays with the british is most people are lazy af and rely soley on the government. I hope they scrap the welfare system.
The savings cap is £16,000 or above to not be eligible for universal credit. You had over 16k and expected benefits ?
@@forevertipsy3550 not being funny but 16k is not even a years pay. how are people expected to live on thin air?
@@riazhussain2333 ….i would normally agree with you however, i am past my mid fifties and Employers see folk like me as a bit “ over the hill” and prefer younger Guys as they are fitter .
I love how he shows he can read a speech someone wrote with real feeling.
And he couldn't even learn it by heart... this is pathetic
Couldn't even organise an umbrella, what a bloody shower this lot are, ...literally, the funniest walk back ever
He looks like ❤️ he got told off
@@user-ry6uf5dp1l Having been pissed on by the rain, he went away stooping
The song in the background "Things can only get wetter" 😆
And the Oscar goes to Rishi Sunak for his outstanding speech performance in emotional theatrics and expertly gaslighting the British public.
Silence!!
Standing in the rain, election on the 4th July, we are watching "a show."
no coat of arms on the podium - UK already dissolved
So he has a press conference in the rain and with someone blasting music pretty much drowning him out, and he thinks he can win? This guy is a disaster!
Now let's try and get some common decency, compassion and social awareness into our Government. Run on behalf of real people not the greedy, corrupt millionaires. Goodbye Tories!
Starmer and his motley crew will destroy the UK even further than this clown and his muppets. Give the UK citizens the chance to leave the UK and start again.
Oh look a flying pig.
Show me political party who gives a hoot and will happily vote for them, unfortunately Parliament is unfit for purpose.
Yes, agreed but we won't get that from Starver and his clown car of right winger MPs
eat the rich and start with sunak.
Now he converted his overseas money 💰 into real assets ££££$$$$
Uk growth RATE ----(1) US, (2) China, (3) Germany, (4) Japan and (5) India,(6) UK IMF data (as of April 30, 2024) SO hes lying agian .
Woah, when did Japan fall below Germany? Wasn't Germany in a recession?
You know he's lying his mouth is moving!
why is he standing in the rain without an umbrella WTF 🤣🤣🤣
2:50 THINGSSSS CAN ONLY GET BETTERRRRRRR
The Labour Party was tipped off by the traitors in No 10.
Announcing a general election in the rain while someone plays Blair's fight song in the background.
Time is ticking for the Conservatives, and it's quickly running out.
*They are mocking you.*
😂 respect to whoever placed the old Labour Party celebration music, 👏
Surely ,someone could hold an umbrella,while the leader of a nation speaking in rain.so sad.😮😮😮😮😢
He has made hundreds of millions from insider trading while in office. He will get over it. The real sadness is labour rayner and starmer are to now run the country. there is nobody to vote for. country is sinking fast. no longer GREAT britain
He finished his pm/mp, now rich 💰 enough paycheque 😂😂😂❤❤
He increased taxes vats expenses inflation ect
It will be good to see the back of this unelected person posing as our PM
Silence snowflake!
Love the background music. Well done Steve Bray!
Do you really trust a prime minister who cannot even organize an umbrella? And his scriptwriter, who says, "inflation is back to normal"? Wishy washy slush from a little man with no substance. He's almost as bad as Starmer.
Its only going to get worse as the disabled will be punished for their dissabiltys where there money will be removed and possibly homeless, homelessness is up 120% while we spend £15 million on illigals ,inflation is going up higher than wages
A wonderful speech. I bet the whole country listened to this speech with tears in their eyes and a lump in their throat as they listened to Britains greatest leader. xx
what are you yapping about 😭🙏
@@_cheddarcheese_ The Churchilian speech here. x
Was the music part of the broadcast.
By the protests nearby
I am glad the election is on July 4th independent day in United State
Who was responsible for the loud music?
Blair
A fuckin legend.
I don't think he understands every country outside G7 is dumping USA treasury bonds 😂😂😂.
The fact it started raining
Bye
The rain says it all
Is his hair made of steel? How did it stay in that rain???
If he’d said he had a clear plan and was prepared to take bold action I might have been swayed to vote for him but he never so I’m going to have to vote Labour.
Rishi will get his Independence Day
loved the backing group! things, can only get wetter :)
Sunak Rishi MUST get out NOW
I love how the Election Day falls on the day of the United States Independence Day the 248 anniversary of our independence and our country
😊 he knows hes going to loose so calling it in July he can have the rest of the summer off. Also he vant handle all the unrest in this and other countries around the wot. He is so rich he can escape off to some paradise island . He doesn't give a toss about this country.
Rich-e to hand the baton over to Tzarmer.
He think he can pull through an election?
the uniparty will win
He is glad to escape he was planning long ago,traitor
Turn of Indian origin PM is over.Hope next will be turn of Pakistan origin PM followed by Arab origin PM😂😂
It is time for repay for the nations
He just wants to slither out of the public eye the same as Boris did!
There's a real reason it's because he doesn't want to be in power when the illigal migrents start coming in vast numbers again plus the uk unemployment is going to rise as under the tories they allowed 3000 steel workers lose their jobs, wrecked train building as they gave the contracts to Germany also the docks who service the navy ships the contract as been given to Spain, In other ways we've wrecked the uk and now someone else can pick up the pieces
just wanna say, regardless of general election, work hard for urself as well, then life is more likely to turn ur way
Honorable Sir
We appreciate your gesture of postponement of election cos we have other things on the plate to address with as primary priority and resolve
Great speech
Totally behind you prime minister
Hooray eminye iminyaka emi-5, sithatha izitolo zomgwaqo ophakeme nezisekhoneni ngamunye ngamunye
Sounds like the witches Roald Dahl xxx Are you going to poison Children with Candy bars xxx
such a funny man, Rishi. Calling the general election on the day USA became independent from the Great Britain.
Oh that was so heartfelt..NOT!!!😂
Sunak shd go!
What a drip!
wonky he is a bit wet aint he lol
Said the billionaire.
He is getting out now. The 4 July is not far off. Whats your problem?😊
The problem is Starmer!
Oh!! Dear Sunak, you look like an angel and a hero in a movie !!!!!
Bold action??? ...empty words, no matter how well written. REFORM UK!!!
He has no chance…he must be desperate to take his job at Blackrock
God bless you PM Rishi Sunak God bless you
Rather disappointing that his speech didn't turn into paper mache, or a giant flash of lightening shorten his time in office. I always thought I was agnostic but that's something I'm going to give more serious thought to now. Full marks to Brian Cox for turning up with D.Ream for an ad-hoc rehearsal for the main event. Could be a useful addition to his pension fund....
One of the best British PMs we ever got after Margaret Thatcher. Go Tories!
If you don't have the conviction to do anything you say xxxx Well unfortunately Rishi does and that's the problem xx OUT OUT
What a drip!!!
Loud music from the side is muffling him down - this is pathetic
REFORM ONLY!!!!!!
Ah yes Tory rebrand no 3. Genius.
Oh Genius , Reform ,the far right wing racist fantasy party that all sad fleeing tori voters are moving over to, good please do vote for them then at least it will be one less tori vote for labour to deal with when they landslide this election 😂
Wasn't Putin who blew up Norstream was it Rishi ?
VOTE REFORM
Sunak is toast. Stale, Soggy, Toast.
No umbrella for the snake
Good action
And people think this is real 😅
TORY WET
Sunak is correct in saying that Starver can't be trusted. Starver is correct in saying that the tories need to be ousted. What a shi1 show the main parties have created.
I can almost hear the Muslims praying in the background! RIP London You were once so beautiful and the trend setters in the world’s fashion. Burkas , Burkas everywhere.
You think he's bad you need to look at the other option 😂
What, Reform?
What? Again?! This stupid country!
2024 Election is important!!!
Ignored genocide
lol
BYE FELICIA 😂
What a shower(!) these tories (and labourites) are!
He comes across weak and snakey
uk people deserve London mayor as PM. they will know his value after regime change.. labour will make UK more Islamic
What a load of bollocks.
We'll look forward by PM rishi kind man
Oh you will be very disappointed then .
What a clown vote reform
So the previous Tory clowns in charge 👏👏 What's the definition of insanity again 🤣
😊
That's why all this good news lately , out of recession like a flash , house prices at record highs , inflation somehow at 2.3% 😂😂 , the ecconomy is flying suddenly , all makes sense now that something was very off .
can anyone say any real points in what Wishi have come true.....3. Ok 2, ok 1 then.... Yep nothing
He seems resigned to defeat
No Flights going to Rwanda either !! Labour will have more boats coming in ! VOTE REFORM PARTY !
What about Sunak and Starmer supporting war criminals. The news seems to have been taken over by this story conveniently?
Until and unless the audience isn't on the chair like him you won't realise the fire burning under that chair...so they feel it's an easy affair to handle with honestly it isn't collectively placed oneself and vision it with different specs you will understand the depth of the fire burning under chair of responsibility and accountability till then audience shall have delusional way of thinking cos of crisis.
We would appreciate it if the audience looks into the efforts and attempt of his continuous exchange of dialogue in house irrespective of gender or religion biased against anyone but on safety for his own motherland.
took my shower Good bye ;-)
Such a humble politician, I have never seen before no where
Yes he is such a humble spineless liar and you’ll never see him again after this election
😅😅😅@@MrFilimn
You are delusional
Sorry Not my Prime Minister
We the people Never Voted you as a Prime Minister
You're Dreaming
Quicker the election then Good Redunce
Even the weather is even pi$$ing all over his nonsense. Pure dribble
HOW CAN WE TRYST YOU???
God he twattles on about how hes sorted things. Mate your party has been in power for 14 years soooo guess you guys are a solid solution 🤣 to problems by your own party. Fyi how much was the press room update that isnt being used while you prattle on in the rain.
He doesn't want be done for war crimes fo supporting Israeli war crimes
anyone else notice the dislike are not showing up!!!!
scaremongering!! Does he even believe all the BS?
Tell your wife to stop stealing 😅 British taxes
Sunak out