‘I’m genuinely BAFFLED’ - Andrew Neil on Sunak’s summer election gamble | SpectatorTV

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  • The Spectator's Cindy Yu speaks to Andrew Neil about the upcoming summer election. Will the gamble pay off?
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  • @SpectatorTV
    @SpectatorTV  26 днів тому +22

    Why did Rishi Sunak call a July election rather than wait until November?

    • @catpaintypo8869
      @catpaintypo8869 26 днів тому

      India trade deal fell through, Rwanda plan isn’t going to work, Tory party likely to implode by November..

    • @Raj-sp3ts
      @Raj-sp3ts 26 днів тому

      Its obviously isn't it? He wants to get over to California before he is issued with an arrest warrant by the ICC.

    • @williamvorkosigan5151
      @williamvorkosigan5151 26 днів тому +10

      Is it because Mrs Sunak wants them to move to India before the winter?

    • @kygo
      @kygo 26 днів тому +9

      He's just showing how little he cares about the country. If he actually cared, he would use all the time he had to actually try improve the country and fix it whilst he still can, even if it was just to give his party a better chance in the elections, but he clearly doesn't care about his party or the country, and would rather just quit now and go live in the US and spend his millions, as that's all he cares about, himself. A growing trend we have in the UK now.

    • @dwood37
      @dwood37 26 днів тому +14

      Because, we all know he’s already packed his bags for Santa Monica, California. He’ll arrive there in time to register his children in school before it starts in the fall. And, it should be no surprise that he chose July 4-America’s Independence Day-knowing full well he’s going to lose. He’s giving the UK the finger as he goes out.

  • @funnythat9956
    @funnythat9956 27 днів тому +312

    maybe there was a credible attempt to remove Sunak and he made that leadership challenge impossible

    • @Chipchap-xu6pk
      @Chipchap-xu6pk 27 днів тому +35

      Now that's probably close to the truth. He probably threatened this to quell a revolt but had his bluff called. Except it wasn't a bluff.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому +7

      There’s no credible candidate that’s come forward, so how is the attempt credible?

    • @mrsmojo6920
      @mrsmojo6920 27 днів тому +8

      Yes, the thought crossed my mind, either that or he has had enough

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 27 днів тому +13

      ​@@matthowardtvthere doesn't need to be a credible candidate for the threat to be carried out.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому +2

      @@DS9TREK I’m sure there does, it’s a party, after all, and a party needs candidacy

  • @Godonstilts
    @Godonstilts 27 днів тому +41

    As a public sector worker, I can tell you from my bank statements that my wages have barely frikkin moved in 14 years.

    • @PaulRandle-sc8qk
      @PaulRandle-sc8qk 27 днів тому

      So, you've noticed that the value of your work is not what it used to be, but you're too stupid / lazy to do anything about it?

    • @deanunio
      @deanunio 26 днів тому +4

      They have, in real terms they’ve gone backward…

  • @geraldbutler5484
    @geraldbutler5484 27 днів тому +80

    California dreaming on such a rainy day!

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 26 днів тому +1

      LoL...

    • @anonnemo2504
      @anonnemo2504 26 днів тому

      Nice one! Re the video, though the remark was directed at Sunak the Usurper's sodden speech, Mr. Neil's "brewery" reference could be applied to everything the Tories have done since 2016.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 26 днів тому

      I was thinking of the song "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" by Travis. 🙂

  • @shelleyscloud3651
    @shelleyscloud3651 27 днів тому +432

    Does anyone believe Rishi gives a flying flamingo about the UK?

    • @skinwalker_
      @skinwalker_ 27 днів тому +31

      He doesn’t even give a flying flamingo about the Tory party and his MPs 😅

    • @vehement-critic_q8957
      @vehement-critic_q8957 27 днів тому

      Well he's a Hindu who adheres to caste system so constitution & democracy aren't in his dictionary

    • @alexanderromanov737
      @alexanderromanov737 27 днів тому

      Sunak should have changed the locks when he moved in to No.10. Johnson's still got a key, that was him, the lying fatso, pissing down from the bedroom window, on little Prime Miniscule Shortpants, what a bunch of prats we got. Eh?

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому +15

      He’s lived here long enough, he’s worked here enough, he’s also prospered here, what’s there to suggest he wouldn’t?

    • @RaikenXion
      @RaikenXion 27 днів тому

      He never did, he's done his "Job" what was ordered to him from Bilderberg.

  • @Brookspirit
    @Brookspirit 27 днів тому +318

    He's probably already lined up an obscenely well payed job somewhere else.

    • @pablorossini3840
      @pablorossini3840 27 днів тому

      Sunak is his wifes puppet.She will now put him back in the kitchen

    • @cypresse1620
      @cypresse1620 27 днів тому

      Yes… probably by Clegg 🥹🥹

    • @HelmutSchmacker.
      @HelmutSchmacker. 27 днів тому +15

      He’ll be picking up his bonus checks first for services rendered, disguised as earnings on the speakers circuit.

    • @gibbo822
      @gibbo822 27 днів тому +11

      He's got his PM wage for life

    • @nigelmarche
      @nigelmarche 27 днів тому

      Probably working for Pfizer or moderna

  • @MrGavinBoyd
    @MrGavinBoyd 27 днів тому +432

    Worst government of my lifetime.

    • @steadfastandyx4947
      @steadfastandyx4947 27 днів тому +17

      And over the last fourteen years.

    • @ibana8449
      @ibana8449 27 днів тому +44

      @@steadfastandyx4947 I am 58, and I have lived with a Thatcher Gov (terrible), A Blair Gov (lots of promise, and still nothing), A Brown Gov (sold the gold), And then the Tories who have spent their entire term shredding the public sector into to small unfunded affairs. The only things that increase in the country apart from taxes, are illegal immigrants and potholes. The change that is required is way beyond the current rabble of two party politics. Vote Tory, Vote Labour, get the same old crap, their only differences are the colour of their ties.

    • @LeoSavantt
      @LeoSavantt 27 днів тому +31

      @@ibana8449 Got to say only Blair out of any of them was the aggressor in two (decades long) wars, leaving a million or two dead and Britain even more hated than normal. The promises Blair gave weren't war crimes. Sunak isn't any good, but he ,isn't bad (morally) unlike Blair. Sunak's mark will be nothing, Blair's mark, death, war crimes and destruction will be felt for generations to come.

    • @Chris-gs8kc
      @Chris-gs8kc 27 днів тому

      Well, if the polls are correct, you're about to have a Labour government that will be even worse. Hard to believe I know.

    • @pizzamad3334
      @pizzamad3334 27 днів тому +12

      They've all been bad since the 90's

  • @22448824
    @22448824 27 днів тому +277

    Sunak just wants to get out without just quitting. Off to America for him.

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 27 днів тому +5

      Know him do you?

    • @urbanimage
      @urbanimage 27 днів тому +10

      @@TimComley Do you?

    • @osric190
      @osric190 27 днів тому +10

      Can't blame him. Look at the shambles the rest of his colleagues are. Christ. California or this mess? Know what I'd choose.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому

      I don’t think so, but it’s a tough polling period

    • @mael2839
      @mael2839 27 днів тому

      @@osric190 California is a cesspit of crime.

  • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
    @user-ol6rd7pl5t 27 днів тому +345

    It only took them 14 years but finally the Tories have done something in the country's best interests.

    • @rgsnr8702
      @rgsnr8702 27 днів тому +6

      wow ,labour is in our best interest ,deluded if you think that

    • @SMGAPR8
      @SMGAPR8 27 днів тому +6

      And labour have done what since Iraq?

    • @quique2886
      @quique2886 27 днів тому +11

      @@rgsnr8702 What have the Tories done since 2016?

    • @quique2886
      @quique2886 27 днів тому +10

      @@SMGAPR8Nothing since 2010! . And if you think about it during the time the Brits were fighting in Iraq only 179 soldiers died! In like 7 or 8 years, 179 soldiers died! That’s like 22 soldiers a year in a war! I bet you more in UK died due to motor vehicle accidents in a year that all the soldiers that died in Iraq and that were injured during the entire time the UK was in Iraq!

    • @justinehayward2553
      @justinehayward2553 27 днів тому

      @@rgsnr8702 a case of that finger on the trigger there.

  • @kevint1719
    @kevint1719 27 днів тому +57

    When people vote on the economy, they aren't voting on data, they're voting on their own wages and cost of living. Politicians would do well to remember that.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому

      Also newspapers, who have a duty to print all the relevant data prior to an election, surely?

    • @simonkramer9463
      @simonkramer9463 27 днів тому

      @@matthowardtvyeah cause we all still buy and read newspapers 🤨

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому

      @@simonkramer9463 Many do, many use websites, some don’t - what’s your point?

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 26 днів тому

      Correct, at last, an adult in the room.

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 26 днів тому

      @@simonkramer9463 Are you ill?

  • @user-vb3gc5se9k
    @user-vb3gc5se9k 27 днів тому +107

    His handlers have dropped him!

    • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
      @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 27 днів тому +10

      Not so much drop him - but told him to call this election, basically to get Starmer in and further their agenda.

    • @Helvetica247
      @Helvetica247 27 днів тому +1

      Who are your handlers who tell you what’s what ?

    • @rwo5402
      @rwo5402 26 днів тому

      ... in the rain....

    • @nottmfunguy
      @nottmfunguy 26 днів тому +3

      They were the ones who told him to stand in the rain, he complied without question.

    • @ashleystyles6888
      @ashleystyles6888 26 днів тому

      Satanic Humiliation ritual

  • @weedheals4202
    @weedheals4202 27 днів тому +26

    I think when Sunaks own cabinet started coming out against his student visa plans he thought f@Ck it I want out. I’m too rich to take this shit from these ungrateful plebeians.

  • @Greenpoloboy3
    @Greenpoloboy3 27 днів тому +32

    He knows he is finished. He is doing this before he gets pushed out by his own party.

    • @SpectatorTV
      @SpectatorTV  26 днів тому

      What is your prediction for July 4th? How many seats will the Conservatives lose and to which party?

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 26 днів тому +2

      ​@@SpectatorTVI'm sad. I wanted Thursday 5th November. It would be more appropriate.

    • @WeRemainFaceless
      @WeRemainFaceless 25 днів тому +1

      @@SpectatorTV I'm predicting the Tories take 77 seats. Labour 334. Independent and LibDems take the rest. Reform get 0.
      Expect many of the well known Tory MP's to lose their seats.

  • @steadfastandyx4947
    @steadfastandyx4947 27 днів тому +118

    I cannot believe what I'm seeing and hearing. Mr Sunak wants out. Towel is thrown in.

    • @Lynn.hot.legs.peters
      @Lynn.hot.legs.peters 27 днів тому

      He needs a towel lol

    • @heijd
      @heijd 27 днів тому +13

      Truly baffling, considering he really needed that towel

    • @terencefield3204
      @terencefield3204 27 днів тому +5

      Who would not!??? The country is a nightmare.

    • @GuestInMyOwnCountry
      @GuestInMyOwnCountry 27 днів тому

      His globalist masters have found a labour stooge.
      They want to fill the country with Africans before a "populist " party wins

    • @yetidodger6650
      @yetidodger6650 27 днів тому +2

      @@terencefield3204 because of the tories.

  • @patriciac8488
    @patriciac8488 26 днів тому +9

    Sunak can't even figure an umbrella out.
    Worst Party ever.

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 27 днів тому +337

    The Tories have destroyed England's cultural identity

    • @weedheals4202
      @weedheals4202 27 днів тому +12

      How so? Just by proxy of having someone who isn’t of the traditional cultural identity?

    • @Sameoldfitup
      @Sameoldfitup 27 днів тому +21

      @@weedheals4202 what?

    • @Sameoldfitup
      @Sameoldfitup 27 днів тому +9

      @@vch1935 Thatcher love

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому

      No way, not at all - is this a call for an “identity” card?

    • @RaikenXion
      @RaikenXion 27 днів тому

      Both Labour & Tories have over these past Decades. Everyone seems to forget what Blair did and him with the fake eye, sold all the country's gold.

  • @Nobody-to5fu
    @Nobody-to5fu 26 днів тому +10

    The state of politics in this country is rank rotten.

  • @duckndive.
    @duckndive. 27 днів тому +228

    TORIES will now pay for their disregard for the will of the people, over the last 5 years especially. MAY, JOHNSON, SUNAK. This is on you.

    • @terencefield3204
      @terencefield3204 27 днів тому

      Idiotic parochial spleen

    • @vanessac1721
      @vanessac1721 27 днів тому +24

      And we will all pay having a Labour government. Everyone loses, yay.

    • @yetidodger6650
      @yetidodger6650 27 днів тому

      @@vanessac1721 as opposed to only the rich winning under this mob?

    • @CryWillus
      @CryWillus 27 днів тому +39

      @@vanessac1721 Comments like yours confuse me. I'm 43 and the only times in my life that the UK seemed to have any hope or optimism, seemed to be governed for the many rather than the few and seemed to improve, was under Labour.

    • @TheOwlsarewatching606
      @TheOwlsarewatching606 27 днів тому +6

      bollocks

  • @liberalmatt
    @liberalmatt 27 днів тому +18

    They didn't even have the foresight to check the weather or hold it indoors away from external interruptions. THAT is just how presumptuous and incompetent they are.

  • @Chris-gs8kc
    @Chris-gs8kc 27 днів тому +109

    He has probably got a job offer in the USA.

    • @andyetheridge
      @andyetheridge 27 днів тому +7

      Quitting before the summer onslaught of dinghies arriving!

    • @terrytunney4089
      @terrytunney4089 27 днів тому +1

      Or Astra Zeneka might employ him

    • @forevertoons9022
      @forevertoons9022 26 днів тому

      We already too many illegals entering the US. If and when President Trump is back in the White House, he'll be sending them back. I'd guess little Sunak will be one of them, saying 'bye-bye' for his return trip.

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 26 днів тому +1

      He is one of the few people in the UK who doesn’t need a job, child.

    • @PamelaGreen354
      @PamelaGreen354 26 днів тому

      Stay at Gaum ?

  • @thomas79marshall
    @thomas79marshall 27 днів тому +55

    "I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories" - Morrissey.

    • @mr.mayhem7402
      @mr.mayhem7402 26 днів тому +6

      It's taken this long for the rest of England to finally catch up with Mozzer.

  • @dogkicker100
    @dogkicker100 27 днів тому +20

    worst gov in all my 65 yrs born here

    • @Brookspirit
      @Brookspirit 27 днів тому +1

      You have forgotten Blair?

    • @dogkicker100
      @dogkicker100 27 днів тому

      @@Brookspirit cant be worse than torys ffs

    • @johnmartin7158
      @johnmartin7158 27 днів тому +4

      Worst of the worst.
      Blair was 11 times better than this mob.

    • @mikelheron20
      @mikelheron20 26 днів тому +1

      @@Brookspirit Tony Blair was the finest PM of my lifetime. I was born in 1951. I just wish he was Prime Minister again. There hasn't been a decent/competent Prime Minister since. Blair wasn't only a politician he was also a statesman.

  • @AchtungEnglander
    @AchtungEnglander 27 днів тому +188

    What's to lose? What a dumb question.
    The guy is a millionaire, married to an heiress of a billionaire.
    There is your answer. He has lost nothing.

    • @brianlopez8855
      @brianlopez8855 27 днів тому +10

      He will be off to California by July.

    • @Azureecosse
      @Azureecosse 27 днів тому +7

      For wealthy people there is never enough money, Rishi is also a Hindu their Caste system is very unlike the western approach to wealth and divinity it is of utmost importance that Hindus attain material wealth as part of attempting to achieve moksha, This is the ultimate goal of an individual who practices Hinduism. What you regard as wealth is not what Rishi or his family regard as extreme wealth. I worked in wealth management for over thirty years you will rarely find a poor Hindu in the west.

    • @geraldbutler5484
      @geraldbutler5484 27 днів тому +6

      This old Tory Neil scratching around at the bottom of his cage for crumbs of hope for the Nasty Party.

    • @TheOwlsarewatching606
      @TheOwlsarewatching606 27 днів тому +5

      if you don't lie around on benefits, you too can become successful

    • @dipeshvaria2372
      @dipeshvaria2372 27 днів тому +2

      Are you anti-capitalist??

  • @Deano-vl4bv
    @Deano-vl4bv 27 днів тому +22

    Things can only get wetter... can only get wetter

  • @wendycurrie9629
    @wendycurrie9629 27 днів тому +16

    Amazing how music was blasting out while the prime minister was speaking. It just made me feel this country is lost. Mass immigration, Brits living in poverty, a political class that does not represent the British people. So sad that my country is broken.

  • @hg82met
    @hg82met 27 днів тому +12

    He's given us one last glimpse of his political instincts - making a general election announcement whilst getting drenched. Let's hope his little suit didn't shrink when it got soaked, otherwise they'd have to cut him out of it.

  • @BenLondonN6
    @BenLondonN6 27 днів тому +19

    I'm genuinely surprised that Andrew Neil, whom I respect very much, seems to have missed the point. Sunak has called the election early, because Reform are still in a muddle and won't have time to prepare. By calling the election early, Sunak is saving some of the Conservative vote that he would otherwise be losing to Respect between now and November.

    • @sisiphas
      @sisiphas 27 днів тому +1

      Possibly

    • @lynxo5695
      @lynxo5695 26 днів тому

      Reform*

    • @sararichardson737
      @sararichardson737 26 днів тому

      Now that’s the most coherent speculation I’ve heard so far. I bet you’re right.

    • @michellec1866
      @michellec1866 26 днів тому

      I’m surprised he thinks Biden’s record record is good 😢😂😂

  • @kristoffscuba5466
    @kristoffscuba5466 27 днів тому +70

    They couldn’t arrest the guy playing music as they announced today they have no empty cells in which to put any more prisoners.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому +3

      He needed to be removed, but wanted his place in history

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 27 днів тому +3

      Plus, not illegal.

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 27 днів тому +7

      ​@@RH1812Yes it is. There are limits on noise levels

    • @chriswhitmore3835
      @chriswhitmore3835 26 днів тому

      @@matthowardtv Sunak or the bloke with the speakers?

    • @adamboh393
      @adamboh393 25 днів тому

      There are a number of laws which could be used to arrest the guy. Prosecution probably would be impossible but the main thing would be to arrest and stop the music.

  • @PeteLoughlin
    @PeteLoughlin 27 днів тому +17

    "Labour hasn't got a plan" says the man without an umbrella

    • @margaretchapman8499
      @margaretchapman8499 26 днів тому +1

      They have and the public will obey because the WEF say so

  • @jillybe1873
    @jillybe1873 27 днів тому +44

    He has to go to California before September, since his girls are enrolled there in school.

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 27 днів тому +1

      Looks like you've nailed it. 👍🏻

    • @riiitch
      @riiitch 26 днів тому

      Any articles you can link to about this?

    • @ksc743
      @ksc743 26 днів тому

      @@riiitch the comment is absolute hogwash which is why you won't receive a response.

  • @RaikenXion
    @RaikenXion 27 днів тому +15

    The fact it's raining on Sunak while he's making his speech shows how much of a wet wick of a PM he truly is. Politics in this Country is all just one big swiz. It's no different than *Wrestling*, they go into their "Arena" and play out their improvised, make believe "Rivalry" for millions to watch at home; jeering at and mocking eachother. Then when its all over and the Cameras are switched off they all go to the Bar in the building and all have a drink with eachother.
    Each "rival side" is really just all Working for the SAME BOSS, and they all pick up a nice big pay packet at the end of it.

  • @MaggieNevin-tv3ib
    @MaggieNevin-tv3ib 27 днів тому +61

    Nigel Farage has said that the reason for an early election is that no planes will be leaving for Rwanda. Also the legal migration figures are due to be published and they aren't good.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 27 днів тому

      They seem ok - www.gov.uk/government/news/migration-numbers-fall-further-as-measures-have-major-impact

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 27 днів тому +1

      3.4 million came in last year

    • @henghistbluetooth7882
      @henghistbluetooth7882 26 днів тому

      @@DJRockford83No they didn’t.

    • @K_j_M
      @K_j_M 26 днів тому +2

      ​@@DJRockford83not on small boats. And this is why the argument is silly. A tiny amount come on boats, the rest are brought in right under your nose yet yiure conditioned to hate those who are mostly fleeing terrible places

    • @steviealessi
      @steviealessi 26 днів тому

      The 'real' British people need to take their nation back before it is too late,

  • @douglaswhitrick9743
    @douglaswhitrick9743 27 днів тому +71

    A cosy two party pendulum, conveniently protected by their gleeful creation called “First past the post”
    When an outgoing party is unpopular; the incoming hardly needs to listen to the wish of the electorate host!

    • @Mrc172
      @Mrc172 27 днів тому +11

      We have preferential voting in Australia. Of late, more independents have been getting elected federally. A good thing considering there isn't much difference between the two major parties nowdays.Both have their rich masters calling the shots.

    • @mrsmojo6920
      @mrsmojo6920 27 днів тому +1

      @@Mrc172 yep, would like to be able to vote for people and their policies, not parties. How do you hold them to account over there? Problem is, they make promoses and don’t keep them.

    • @robe1811
      @robe1811 27 днів тому

      Yep. You know you’re ****ed when the big donors are known to have been courting the leader of the opposition.
      The two party system is just two different recipes for a **** sandwich

    • @RubbishGimpy
      @RubbishGimpy 27 днів тому

      Hence the re-election of the London Mayor.

    • @timelwell7002
      @timelwell7002 26 днів тому

      Spot on. We are in desperate need of Electoral Reform - with FPTP replaced by PR in tandem with STV.
      Sadly, Starmer isn't going to implement electoral reform any more than Blair did, despite Blair making that a Manifesto commitment prior to the 1997 General Election. The moment Blair got his huge majority in '97 he dropped electoral reform like a hot potato.
      In fairness to Starmer, he's said that for him electoral reform is NOT a priority. *I bet it isn't.*
      Starmer knows that he'll get a huge majority on July 4th under FPTP, and he sure as h*ll isn't going to do anything which he would regard as risky.
      And as we know, Keir Starmer is VERY risk averse...

  • @02tom46
    @02tom46 27 днів тому +173

    Zero seats.

    • @JupiterThunder
      @JupiterThunder 27 днів тому +6

      Look out, he's got a plan.

    • @GG-ml3vr
      @GG-ml3vr 27 днів тому +5

      @@JupiterThunder A strong economic plan thats working🤣

    • @hosephanerothe1440
      @hosephanerothe1440 27 днів тому +4

      Strong and Stable

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 27 днів тому +1

      Grow up

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 27 днів тому +1

      @@GG-ml3vrkids with emojis laughing at own jokes 🤫

  • @OliverJWeber
    @OliverJWeber 27 днів тому +10

    Andrew brings forward some strong arguments for a later date. So this really makes me wonder what Sunak knows that he felt he had to make this decision. Can’t be good.

  • @michaelpoplett2745
    @michaelpoplett2745 27 днів тому +12

    I agree with Peter Hitchens, and I'm pleased that Mr Sunak has brought forward the GE to July: Only the total destruction of this Tojan horse of a 'Conservative' party can bring about the formation of a true Conservtive party, and we need both, a strong left and right parry, and right now we have neither. As I wrote to Nusrat Ghani several years ago, the 'conservatives' will be decimated at the next GE.

    • @milibaeindustries
      @milibaeindustries 25 днів тому

      Ever the contrarian, Peter Hitchens is now arguing to vote "against Starmer" (meaning for the Tories) as Labour are the greater evil in his eyes.

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 26 днів тому +3

    Sunak is echoing McClaren's "Wally with the brolly" moment- only without the brolly.

  • @markstrevett1284
    @markstrevett1284 27 днів тому +7

    Doesn't make any sense. But this government hasn't made much sense since 2019.

    • @johnburrows3385
      @johnburrows3385 25 днів тому

      The Tories haven't made sense since 1979 and the wicked Margaret Thatcher who deindustrialised the country and sold off all our national infrastructure.

  • @tt-ew7rx
    @tt-ew7rx 27 днів тому +12

    Vote for us because we have a plan, said the PM whose people failed to plan him an umbrella, and leaked the plan of the day so that he can be pranked by loud music.

  • @nicktrier3640
    @nicktrier3640 27 днів тому +8

    Most PMs facing certain defeat cling on as long as possible to the salary and the trappings of power, but Mr Sunak is independently very wealthy and his lifestyle will greatly improve after he loses and resigns the leadership so it is not surprising he just wants it over

  • @lukebignell7846
    @lukebignell7846 26 днів тому +5

    Can his taylor make him a suit that fits and doesn’t make him look like a boy who works in the Soho back room bars?

  • @skinwalker_
    @skinwalker_ 27 днів тому +7

    Maybe Sunak grew a conscience and decided he couldn’t put the UK through another six months of the Tories.
    Nah, Californias calling and things are only getting worse.

  • @user-vb3gc5se9k
    @user-vb3gc5se9k 27 днів тому +46

    Andrew Neil’s not going hungry!

    • @dragonfly6908
      @dragonfly6908 27 днів тому

      Maybe one day he will eat himself.

  • @artrandy
    @artrandy 27 днів тому +8

    This early election date is because of Reform UK, not Labour. The Tories know they will lose to Labour, but how much is really down to how well Reform bite into the Tory vote, and the consensus is that Reform need another 6 months to organise........

    • @macoooos9204
      @macoooos9204 27 днів тому

      Nope, Rishi has done it before Boris came back and took power. The Tories want to lose right to the end.

    • @artrandy
      @artrandy 27 днів тому

      @@macoooos9204
      And I suppose you think that Boris was flying in on Concorde, he doesn't even have a seat buddy. He is without any centre of power right now, didn't you know that?
      Furthermore, there's no guarantee that Boris could get elected on a Reform UK ticket either, Reform is a new party, they can make the Tories lose seats to others, but cannot guarantee to win seats for themselves. Hopefully that will change.
      If Tory back benchers had any kind of backbone, they would have rebelled against Sunak after the dismal local elections, but have not. Now is too late, even Sunak knows that.
      Think before you criticise others, you come over as a lightweight.............

  • @JckSwan
    @JckSwan 27 днів тому +58

    The Tories were not serious about tackling migration, legal or illegal, at all. Why not?

    • @brianferguson7840
      @brianferguson7840 27 днів тому +1

      Because it's not a problem. Britain needs much higher immigration, everyone except the racist bigots knows and understands that.

    • @Brookspirit
      @Brookspirit 27 днів тому

      Name a serious politician in the UK? One or two maybe, the rest are a bunch of embarrassing clueless halfwits.

    • @pizzamad3334
      @pizzamad3334 27 днів тому

      Cheap labour, suppressing our wages. Pushing house prices up with mass migration. They stand to win on both fronts, sell their houses high and get out of this now hell hole of a country. Non of the main parties are the answer.

    • @M3mphix
      @M3mphix 27 днів тому +4

      Because they've literally been the ones in sole control of it for the past FOURTEEN FUNUNKING YEARS.

    • @markaustin5884
      @markaustin5884 27 днів тому

      The Kalergi planning in full swing

  • @lesliekime7567
    @lesliekime7567 27 днів тому +12

    The wef does not like the idea of removing legal or illegal immigrants is my guess.

  • @brianferguson7840
    @brianferguson7840 27 днів тому +33

    If it was RAINING SOUP Sunak would go out with a "Fork" 🍴

    • @alexanderromanov737
      @alexanderromanov737 27 днів тому

      Sunak should have changed the locks when he moved in to No.10. Johnson's still got a key, that was him, the lying fatso, pissing down from the bedroom window, on little Prime Miniscule Shortpants, what a bunch of prats we got. Eh?

  • @EamonCoyle
    @EamonCoyle 27 днів тому +8

    I think there are multiple layers of logic in a summer election and I have commented over recent months that I expected it across various UA-cam channels. Firstly, there is nowhere else for him to go and the summer is the season of political vacuums with Parliament not sitting. Second to that, July is a time when the good weather generally sends working class people away on holiday and brings older people out of the house both of which are of benefit to the Tories. Third and possibly most important to Rishi, having the election in July means he can be stood down as leader and able to enrol his kids into school in the US for September.

  • @SimonWallwork
    @SimonWallwork 27 днів тому +33

    Sunak also knows these things- but he's gone for July. QED Sunak knows some things that Mr.Neil does not.

    • @batmandestroys1978
      @batmandestroys1978 27 днів тому

      He has been sacked, because of the Local Election massacre! So they just want a new leader to take them forward, because they know they have lost big time!

    • @margaretchapman8499
      @margaretchapman8499 26 днів тому

      He has gone for July so his holidays are not spoiled.

  • @urbanimage
    @urbanimage 27 днів тому +5

    Quite amusing to see Andrew Neil still trying to talk up the Conservatives as, hopefully, they stumble towards political oblivion.

  • @wellum1959
    @wellum1959 27 днів тому +5

    Sunak has given up, he doesn't care. Alot of the public feel the same, so a low turnout is probable.

  • @crouisk
    @crouisk 27 днів тому +11

    school term for the kids in the USA sets timing

  • @philippemariani9035
    @philippemariani9035 27 днів тому +9

    What an image under the rain … take an umbrella what a shambles …

  • @K_j_M
    @K_j_M 26 днів тому +3

    It's symbolic that he got pissed on while making this announcement. A perfect metaphor for what will happen in July

  • @PostingCringeOnMain
    @PostingCringeOnMain 27 днів тому +19

    "real wages are rising faster than prices" ... ok, hands up if your wages have risen... anyone? Anyone at all? No? Didn't think so.

  • @philipcrossley1279
    @philipcrossley1279 27 днів тому +4

    "...genuinely baffled...."
    Really?
    Everyone else has been genuinely baffled by everything the Conservatives have done or attempted to do since at least 2015.
    This is no different, except it's probably the last "genuinely baffling" thing they will do for a while.

  • @Cherrytune386
    @Cherrytune386 26 днів тому +5

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tories are finished. A wet squib lettuce of a party 😆

  • @truckerfromreno
    @truckerfromreno 27 днів тому +3

    When he says 'Our country,' I think 'Whose country?'

  • @rickjensen2717
    @rickjensen2717 26 днів тому +3

    Threatened with a covert leadership bid so forced into it; off to his Californian home afterward anyway.

  • @philiphughes4117
    @philiphughes4117 27 днів тому +31

    21st Century, and our PM doesn't have an umbrella. WTF.

    • @The_Truth_Army
      @The_Truth_Army 27 днів тому +3

      He wants sympathy.

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 27 днів тому +4

      He didn’t notice as he’s already wet

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 27 днів тому +2

      @@RH1812 Very good. The sunami of wet jokes over the coming days and weeks are going to be epic!!! And the imposter will deserve every one.

    • @stefanmaslaczyk1259
      @stefanmaslaczyk1259 27 днів тому +1

      Steve McClaren was ridiculed for using an umbrella so maybe Rishi decided it’s better to get wet.

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 27 днів тому

      ​@@stefanmaslaczyk1259the president of the US uses brollies.

  • @Westlake72
    @Westlake72 27 днів тому +3

    The Spectator providing the highest standard of impartiality we have come to expect from them as this fearless young journalist holds Andrew Neil to account without fear or favour... 10:42

  • @philipbrackpool-bk1bm
    @philipbrackpool-bk1bm 27 днів тому +4

    Would you vote for someone who doesn’t know how an umbrella works.

  • @ScurvyRascal
    @ScurvyRascal 27 днів тому +4

    Something is about to hit the fan and they're getting out of the way so they can blame someone else (Labour) in 4/5 years time.
    Mark my words!

  • @thedirediyer5245
    @thedirediyer5245 27 днів тому +8

    Rishi Sunak actually doing ˋ whatever it takes ´ ……..to leave politics

  • @peterdockerty8077
    @peterdockerty8077 27 днів тому +26

    Mr Neil employed a guy called James Forsyth who left the Speccy to be Sunaks advisor. Well that worked out well. You all deserve each other a W1 bubble who got rid of Boris and then Truss and gave us the unelected Sunak. How are you all feeling now? Pleased with yourselves?

    • @AdamJones381
      @AdamJones381 27 днів тому +4

      Where do you think Tories would be in the polls if Boris was the leader?

    • @peterdockerty8077
      @peterdockerty8077 27 днів тому +9

      @@AdamJones381 I’m no fan of Boris but the tories were 5 points behind Labour when the ousted him a week later they were 20 points down and for the last 2 years have been 20+ points down. Just saying

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 27 днів тому +3

      ​@@AdamJones381I reckon they'd be slightly ahead of Labour. Boris would've pulled us slightly further back from the EU, cut taxes more and talked a better game

  • @markriding1267
    @markriding1267 27 днів тому +4

    Running before the war crimes trial hits him hard 🤣🤣🤣

  • @SlowhandGreg
    @SlowhandGreg 27 днів тому +29

    He had no mandate to roll back net zero, abandon HS2/3, roll back levelling up, abandon Social Care

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 27 днів тому +1

      Forgotten your meds ?

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 27 днів тому +1

      He had no mandate, quite the opposite, for mass migration. He's presided over a controlled demolition of Britain. Labour will love it because there's nothing left to oppose communism and the Tories love it because they can extract wealth at record levels

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 27 днів тому

      @@DJRockford83 So true, sadly.

    • @mrsmojo6920
      @mrsmojo6920 26 днів тому

      @@DJRockford83 to be fair, Rishi has only been in charge 19 months. Can’t blame everything on him. Labour kick started mass migration, successive Tory govts have refused to tackle it. Boris Johnson was the one who had a golden opportunity. But I checked the requirements for migrants and literally this whole idea of minimum income levels was an outright lie and not the whole truth. The true bar was set incredibly low.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 26 днів тому

      @@DJRockford83 Define your understanding of "communism" for us.

  • @RussMcP
    @RussMcP 27 днів тому +23

    Wish they’d dissolved parliament back in 2010 and spared us all 14 years of austerity and war and erosion of civil liberties.

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 27 днів тому +1

      They DID dissolve Parliament in 2010. The Tories and LibDems then formed a government afterwards.

    • @raymondharris6035
      @raymondharris6035 26 днів тому

      Austerity? That is simply not true, they've actually doubled the country's debt, how can that be austerity?

    • @lindabennett6597
      @lindabennett6597 26 днів тому +1

      ​@@raymondharris6035 there was no austerity for the rich but there has been true austerity for the rest of us, just open your eyes and take a look at our town centres. Which begs the question " where has all this borrowing gone, and it evidently wasn't well spent"

    • @riiitch
      @riiitch 26 днів тому

      @@lindabennett6597bingo

    • @RussMcP
      @RussMcP 22 дні тому

      @@DS9TREK yeah, my point is they should have dissolved that parliament before it had a chance to do any damage

  • @bobbailey7024
    @bobbailey7024 27 днів тому +21

    What a drip. I've always said he's a wet wipe.

  • @harveybrown37
    @harveybrown37 27 днів тому +4

    Was Sunak handed the whisky and pistol?!

  • @nickgood8166
    @nickgood8166 27 днів тому +3

    Death of a nation. From the fire into the inferno....Sad!

  • @advocate1563
    @advocate1563 27 днів тому +22

    He' wants to spend the summer in california. Simples.

  • @nolslifegren
    @nolslifegren 27 днів тому +10

    Goodbye Tory A team hello Tory B team

    • @jonathanwarne3480
      @jonathanwarne3480 27 днів тому +4

      More like goodbye Labour C team, hello Labour B team

  • @Spyhook
    @Spyhook 27 днів тому +6

    I really don't understand why Sunak called 4th July (Odd day)
    Apparently Labour is on 43% and Tories on 22%
    Which gives him no time to change that state of play.
    IF he held on until Autumn, maybe something would come along.
    The Biggest dent in Starmer Armour is his stance on Israel but Sunak can't use that as he is just the same.
    It does seem as if he has been told to hand over the reigns

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 26 днів тому

      Yep I think he has been advised to sling his hook / bugger off / get lost / go play somewhere else...

    • @iananthonyjames
      @iananthonyjames 26 днів тому

      reins

    • @Spyhook
      @Spyhook 25 днів тому

      ​@@iananthonyjames He handed over the reins of his reign in the rain.

  • @jimbo-yv5jh
    @jimbo-yv5jh 27 днів тому +78

    Bye, Bye to all fake Tories.

    • @susannamarker2582
      @susannamarker2582 26 днів тому

      Starmer is a communist. At the end of the 80s, Kier joined the Haldane Society of lawyers, when everyone knew it was a cover for the communist party. Blair was a Trotskyist at University.

    • @Paul-eb4jp
      @Paul-eb4jp 26 днів тому +1

      Fake?

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 26 днів тому

      He's as Tory as they come, how's he fake, not white enough?

    • @roguefox5171
      @roguefox5171 26 днів тому

      @@Paul-eb4jp lib-dems in disguise

    • @JamieZero7
      @JamieZero7 25 днів тому

      @@Paul-eb4jp They are fake Tories since they are leftest. We essentially have gotten a Blair government. And labour will win by default which will destroy the UK. Since labour want to turn the UK into a republic. But Keir Stammer isn't bright enough to understand he is copying French policy.

  • @lad1981uk
    @lad1981uk 26 днів тому +2

    After all those £millions spent on that plush press conference room at Downing Street, he chooses to stand in heavy rain next to a protest playing Labour's theme tune. 🤭

  • @jaydenlee2774
    @jaydenlee2774 26 днів тому +2

    The only thing I thank Sunak for is, that he made it super faster than I thought that getting rid of this unfit for purpose PM is immanent now yayyyyyyyyy

  • @VaucluseVanguard
    @VaucluseVanguard 27 днів тому +3

    Andrew saved the only bit of potentially good news right to his last sentence. How big will be the SNP meltdown in Scotland.

  • @fleetingmoments6762
    @fleetingmoments6762 26 днів тому +3

    Is it not super obvious his hand was forced behind the scenes???

  • @user-gp3kp7zc6f
    @user-gp3kp7zc6f 26 днів тому +2

    All those reporters getting paid to stand outside number 10 to hear a statement that could easily be done via social media, that's like twenty nurses cleaning up one patient and all the pompous drama queen usage of the lectern, it's all embarrassingly ridiculous, the public really need to withdraw their energy.

  • @Differentbias
    @Differentbias 26 днів тому +2

    Sunak knows small boats' arrival will be huge in August-September. It's safe to call an election before the situation goes out of control.

  • @gavrob1802
    @gavrob1802 27 днів тому +3

    I think he might be getting ahead in the acceleration of boat crossings in the summer months.

  • @MARTINA-gc3tq
    @MARTINA-gc3tq 27 днів тому +56

    I am now utterly convinced that the PM is ia labour fifth columnist.

    • @johnscott-kw3bf
      @johnscott-kw3bf 27 днів тому +1

      Not impossible.

    • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
      @user-ol6rd7pl5t 27 днів тому +10

      And what does your psychiatrist have to say about that.

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 27 днів тому

      😂

    • @allymcmoist1484
      @allymcmoist1484 27 днів тому

      Both WEF puppets.

    • @MARTINA-gc3tq
      @MARTINA-gc3tq 27 днів тому +1

      @@user-ol6rd7pl5t I haven’t seen her yet. Mind you I did ask your mother and she didn’t express an opinion either way but she did mention what a tool her son was……or that’s what I think she said…..her mouth was full at the time….and the room was pretty noisy as I wasn’t the only bloke there.

  • @adiadi5832
    @adiadi5832 26 днів тому +2

    Maybe Rishi know something we don't....how about to cease power to labour before economic storm ?Let the Labour face it rather than getting annihilated in November

  • @markmanc-zw3td
    @markmanc-zw3td 26 днів тому +2

    That suit is gonna shrink like hell.

  • @anglosaxonbreed
    @anglosaxonbreed 27 днів тому +15

    I to am baffled why to call election now he is delusional.

    • @vibhac5403
      @vibhac5403 27 днів тому +2

      I think he looks fed up.

    • @lisadefries6718
      @lisadefries6718 27 днів тому +7

      Because he was about to be drummed out by his own party

    • @iljaliasenko143
      @iljaliasenko143 27 днів тому

      He wants to blame the rate cut consequences on someone else. It will be either a make or break decision, so I guess both of the parties will be able to blame the decision on each other or take credit for it if it turns out good. It would be funny though if LibDems will win the election. Then all planning between the ruling parties will go down the drain

    • @mrsmojo6920
      @mrsmojo6920 27 днів тому +2

      Suspect he has had enough. I suppose there is just a chance they have decided to hold it whilst labour’s position on terrorists and cosying up to appease a certain section of society, is clear to the public. But really think he has had enough. We will see. Cannot stand Labour though.

    • @RubbishGimpy
      @RubbishGimpy 27 днів тому

      It genius. He knows the Tories are fuqqed and have nothing more to offer.

  • @alplop
    @alplop 27 днів тому +25

    Rishi wants to go on holiday.

    • @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
      @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 27 днів тому +1

      Rwanda?

    • @andrewmcgonagle6290
      @andrewmcgonagle6290 27 днів тому +1

      @@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
      I haven't got a pilots licence, but i'll give it a go if it helps Prime Miniature Rishi to get to paradise.

  • @michaelhannah5376
    @michaelhannah5376 26 днів тому +2

    I think Sunak was on the verge of being tapped on the shoulder by the grey men. So he cut and run before he was given the revolver and glass of whisky.

  • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
    @user-ol6rd7pl5t 27 днів тому +5

    I'm really looking forward to celebrating my first ever independence day on the 4th of July, a Tory-free Britain.

    • @user-xk4ff2kn3h
      @user-xk4ff2kn3h 26 днів тому

      Be careful what you wish for same policies different ties

    • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
      @user-ol6rd7pl5t 25 днів тому

      @@user-xk4ff2kn3h There's only one party capable of doing a worse job than the Tories & that's Reform UK.

  • @simonkramer9463
    @simonkramer9463 27 днів тому +3

    Commence five years of “the mess we inherited” in retort to every challenging question. Also tax…lots of tax. Hurray for my small business 😒

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 26 днів тому

      14 years of a mess...

    • @simonkramer9463
      @simonkramer9463 26 днів тому

      @@jsd8981 well get used to it.

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 27 днів тому +1

    People won't feel living standards rise while they see their towns and cities empty with most shops boarded up looking like ghost towns.

  • @jem2264
    @jem2264 27 днів тому +2

    It's amusing to speculate on what the King said to Sunak on being requested permission to dissolve parliament, thinking of the time when the microphone picked up his remark to Liz Truss of, "Dear oh dear!"

  • @vicjones3992
    @vicjones3992 27 днів тому +12

    Hare-brained from Sunak......

  • @ianbarnes8593
    @ianbarnes8593 27 днів тому +9

    My god, how true about the music playing outside the gates. What on earth is going on in this damn country nowadays? Where are the police ffs. That spectacle today was a disgrace and makes this country a laughing stock. I’m angry as hell.

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 26 днів тому

      Sunak and the Cons / Tory party havebeen making this country a laughing stock for many a year, so nothing new there !!!...

    • @BillyBob-dz9rg
      @BillyBob-dz9rg 25 днів тому

      Would never of guessed.

    • @stephenhill545
      @stephenhill545 21 день тому

      He wasn't breaking any laws.

  • @Mickyway
    @Mickyway 27 днів тому +2

    He said: Immigration is finally coming down
    He talks about it like the weather. It is (supposedly) coming down from the outrageous levels that they increased it to, more than tripling net migration to 750k largely from Africa and South Asia.
    It's statements like that, treating the public like idiots is why people will not vote for them.

  • @DollyPocket
    @DollyPocket 27 днів тому +4

    The reason he is going for 4th July is because he knows there are no Rwanda flights this side of November. He does not want to wait to November and suffer months of criticism for that.

    • @margaretchapman8499
      @margaretchapman8499 26 днів тому

      Never happen nd if it did only 300 would go and e hve to take wht thy re turning out so it’s a con from start to finish

  • @dangumbo4835
    @dangumbo4835 27 днів тому +3

    Just shows, I doesn't matter how much wealth you've created off the back of workers, you'll never have power over the weather or trolls.

  • @gnoelalexmay
    @gnoelalexmay 27 днів тому +3

    Does anybody else get the feeling that the "emergency election" is more accurately the "next step in a series of planned emergencies"..?

  • @VelGer-hq7ms
    @VelGer-hq7ms 26 днів тому +1

    Didn't Zippy realize that one doesn't step into a shower whilst still wearing one's clothes? He's probably unaware of such practices. I guess he'll get the hang of things after a few weeks!

  • @howmanybeansmakefive
    @howmanybeansmakefive 27 днів тому +9

    Rishi knows the Universities/Councils/Prisons/Water Companies are about to go under, and would rather those (and scandal payouts) happen while he's out office, and can retreat to California in time for a holiday and the new school year.
    Also what's more British than the people playing a song beside the prime minister? Appealing to euro/US presidential haughtiness and police suppression doesn't seem very patriotic to me.

    • @andrewwrench1959
      @andrewwrench1959 27 днів тому

      Thames Water won't survive to the Autumn. Hastings didn't have water over the /may bank holiday. Just today police chiefs are advising police not to arrest criminals because prisons are full to bursting. Andrew Neil has let partisanship blind himself to the utter disasters ongoing and things getting clearly worse day by day.

    • @AtticusBleep
      @AtticusBleep 26 днів тому

      How about British good manners? Being a good sport? Respect for monumental events? It was pathetic to allow that music.