Has Rishi Sunak made a terrible mistake? | Election 2024 | New Statesman
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- After one week of election campaigning, Rishi Sunak is looking weaker than ever.
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Love that the Tories are now suddenly supporting Abbott given their recent history of defending the donor who said she should be shot and made him hate all black women. I note this is not mentioned anywhere when reporting on Tories suddenly deciding that Abbott is marvelous.
not to mention the unending piss taking of her poor maths
@@stevecoppin6396 to be fair, that was a gaffe and a half. But the pisstaking didn't happen when Laura Trott didn't know what she was on about and she's second in command at the Treasury, so there's a definite double standard.
@@31Blaize or suella braverman
@@31BlaizeSpot on mate!!!
Quite agree. The Conservatives’ hypocrisy is there for all to see, but most of the media seem blind to it. Keeping Hester’s money was their prime objective.
Hopefully Sunak has made a gargantuan mistake that will send the Tories into oblivion. (Keep up the "great" work Rishi).
Good luck with that... They still have THE MONEY - Never underestimate that!
the moment the tories chose a non white man to be not just the leader of the tory party but also to be britain's pm, they were doomed!! old school socialists & traditional tories alike, are not ready to accept a coloured pm of this country!! the decision to make sunak pm was a major blunder & i said so at the time!!!
The Tories cannot be in oblivion when Starmer is in charge. He runs the red Tories.
If the name changes but the policies stay the same its still Tory.
@@jonsmith5058 it's just whether angela rayner organises a coup & dethrones starmer overnight!
socialism has died under 'sir' keir!!!!
As Napoleon said "Never interrupt your enemy when they're making a mistake".
On Abbott gate, wasn't it the Times newspaper that ran the story of Abbot being blocked, nothing had come from the NEC or Labour. So she was never blocked by the party.
Unfortunately, it took too long for Starmer to speak up in Abbott's favour.
Other sources reported that the NEC had drawn up a shortlist of candidates for Abbott's constituency - and that her name didn't appear on the list. If there's a list of potential candidates and your name is not on it, then to all intents and purposes you're blocked, whether or not there's been an official announcement.
@@thetragicyouth "other sources". Definitely not from the right wing press, then 😼
There is no smoke without fire. Starmer is paying off people like Akerhurst who helped to bring down Corbyn whist in the pay of the Israeli lobby.
They did block her. The same Starmer stripped her of her position
who do you think the times got the story from??? they're not going through david evans' bins or hiding in an NEC boardroom cabinet to get these stories, are they? they are being given them by someone they have reason to believe is speaking on starmer's behalf. most people with some historical knowledge have pointed the finger directly at morgan mcsweeney and luke akehurst but the times are too scared to reveal their source and starmer is too scared to further reveal how little control he has over his own office
As an over 70 year old, I am appalled and ashamed that this current ‘government’ propose a form of national service for the youngest adults in society. My generation were not called up and neither has any since and if my contemporaries are now supporting this in large numbers I’d be very surprised. If they want a bigger army we need to pay for it properly.
As an over 60 myself I completely agree. If Rishi thinks a promise to hold a royal commission to look at this terribly thought out plan will inspire anyone to change their vote towards his shambolic party that has given us a mess of a deeply divisive referendum, destabilised Northern Ireland, and given us Boris the liar and Liz the conspiracy theorist he must think we are all idiots.
Making volunteering compulsory just shows how little he understands real community.
How do you suggest we pay for a bigger Army???
Lower pensions increases please do advise. Perhaps cut NHS to all the free loaders.
@@911Mitul Increased taxes if necessary. Both major parties seem to be terrified of being tied down to saying they will not cut taxes, but taxes can not be continuously cut without consequences, as we have seen in the crumbling edge of quality, deteriorating services, potholes, etc we have seen particularly in the last 14 years. When I started working in 1979 the basic rate of income tax was, if I recall correctly, 33% or 34%. While I wouldn’t want things back at that level, it is justifiable to sometimes increase revenue when necessary - there’s no law that taxes MUST always be cut.
@@911Mitul I like how you mention cutting off poor people from welfare but don’t mention taxing those with the most wealth. Are you a parody account?
No no by all means tax the wealthy, and they all move abroad, What you think Lewis Hamilton, Richard Branson are non docile residence because they don't like paying taxes.....
"Has Sunak made a terrible mistake"? No, he hasn't made A mistake. He's made hundreds of them. Even if the Tories get wiped out I'm not sure calling the election is going to be in the top ten of Rishi's mistakes.
No u turn.!!! At no point did starmer say Abbott couldn't stand.
Just took the whip away from Dianne. Not at all an attack on Dianne. Still the same old hamstringing of a stalwat of Labour just because of her socialist convictions
A lot of people on the left really don’t like Kier
I think they hate him worst than a Tory 😊
Weird take
@waynereid9471 we hate kid Starver because he's a tory who is destroying our party.
@@owencrompton3713have to agree with you always easy to shout about principles when you’re living quite comfortably those of us at the other end of the spectrum are desperate to be rid of the Tories and do not appreciate the constant negativity against Starmer by Starbucks socialists.
@@waynereid9471 that’s always been the case. I’ve voted every election since 1983 and the left then hated Healey more than Thatcher (hence we got nice but unelectable Foot) they hated Blair with a passion in 97 and now they hate Starmer in 24. They literally would rather be in opposition with the likes of Liz Truss in government than have to be in power with someone like Keir Starmer at the helm.
21:57 I suspect the only reason why Parties like Reform and this version of the Tories are doing as well as they are is precisely because the WW2 veterans are mostly gone. Personal experience of fascism has been lost and now it seems exciting again.
It goes in cycles, like the economy, and the reason is eactly what you said.
I enjoyed that discussion, but as a well over 60 voter, I don't have any friends who vote or have ever voted Tory, even the socially conservative ones realise that having a decent NHS is more important than harking back to fantasies of National Service.
This is what happens when you call an election to avoid being deposed
No mistake. Another fuss largely generated by the media. At no point did Starmer say she couldn't stand and I don't think she claimed that she had been told formally that she couldn't stand, she merely said she had "heard" that she was blocked. Who did she hear it from? Someone in a right wing newspaper perhaps?
People seem to think that Starmer is personally selecting every candidate, whilst at the same time campaigning all around the country. My understanding is that there is a committee that handles these things.
As an ex Labour Party member I can assure you that the NEC is packed with Kid Starver place men and women. Starver, who will probably be the next uk pm is as dishonest and corupt as Sunnack if not more so. Tax wealth not work.🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴🏴
You are wholly correct!
Several sources reported that the NEC had drawn up a shortlist of candidates for Abbott's constituency - and that her name didn't appear on the list. Labour did not deny that. If there's a list of potential candidates and your name is not on it, then to all intents and purposes you're blocked, whether or not there's been an official announcement.
I suspect that the Abbot leak was from a disgruntled left winger who hates Starmer. It could well then have been picked up by a Tory shill who fed it to the RW press
@@thetragicyouth Which sources and how reliable are they? The right wing media are desperate to find a wedge against Labour. If such a list did exist, it could easily be a contingency list in the event either she didn't have the whip returned or she chose not to stand, in which case her name wouldn't be on it. There may be contingency lists for every constituency for all you or I know, but the media will happily spin anything to damage the Labour Party right now.
UK went from 1st WORLD to 3rd WORLD in 15 years in many areas.. We know who governed for past 14 years...
From Rule Britannia to Cool Britannia to Fool Britannia to Stool Britannia lol.
Younger people not really rising WW2 veterans barely still live kinda makes sense. Old people who didn't fight in the war or were even born after it associating themselves with that generation is disgusting, it's practically stolen valour
It's older people, but also increasingly people born in the 60s and even later. They attach themselves to the greatest generation like barnacles on a spitfire. It is indeed disgusting.
we're hoping for Canada 92 😂
Diane should go independent!!!!
Banana curvature has lost the headlines of late, but is of utmost importance! How can we survive without the Daily Mail bringing us these deep existential questions ❓
The fact KS changed his mind is a GOOD sign……
I was happy too. It showed wisdom.
I don't think it's about control, it's about discipline. Any party needs to present a united front to the electorate. Look how factional the Tories are and how that hurts their messaging.
Yep, it's a good job then that Labour are a united disciplined party... (looks at the recent Diane Abbott situation/fiasco)... ohhhhhhhhhh, oh nooo.
Yeah, so Labour infighting between the more left-wing 'Corbynite' factions and the more centrist 'Blairite', and claims that Starmer is trying to 'purge' the left-wing of the party. Granted it probably won't effect the polls, but it is a bad look, especially now.
yep, and the journalists are the first to jump on any party disunity. I'm beginning to realise how our politics have been so badly damaged by media looking for clicks and stories and often manufacturing them it seems.
@@robc7162 This. When it looks like a shoe-in for one party, media will do *anything* to make a story out of nothing in order to feed the algorithm. Bit like having Farage on QT...
@rowejon Yes, party 'diciipline' is a recognised way of putting out a consistent party message, but Starmer's constant breaking promises hss destroyef any semblence of trustworthiness, let alone 'discipline". Starmer is literally even worse than the tories. This means that Labour need voting for only if there is no viable non tory option to Lsbour. Starmer is toxic and cannot be PM.
From about @21:00 This lady has nailed what seems clear, the previously unexpressed view that the generation that I think of as The Spitfire Generation has successfully voted for the winning side for many decades but is now out of touch with the younger consensus. It never seemed to occur to the "Spitfires" that their wonderful service in World War Two led them to conflate loyalty to the British establishment with certain values which had become redundant so continuing to vote Tory actually resulted in increased fascism not less fascism. Some of these 'Spitfires' even bought into the narrative that just because their genetation was blessed with full employment, subsequent ones were workshy or lazy. These staunch anti fascists simply cannot accept just how fascist Britain has already become, so they continue to vote for the very thing that they fought against
Hopefully she’ll stand down
Hopefully she won't.
Thank you for posting the video, Sunak is only in power because he makes £140 million from govt contracts. Has he helped the people, answer is NO.
I used to live in Faiza's seat Chingford and am amazed how low she got the Tory IDS majority in 2019, bucking the downward labour trend. While not super wealthy, Chingford & Woodford Green are naturally Tory, mostly commuters on the edge of Epping Forest and to take that for Labour would be a big achievement.
Let Faiza continue to tirelessly work her magic and make Tebbit's old seat Labour
I think you're giving too much credit to Faiza for that. Labour's only gain in 2019 was in London, Putney. Middle class professional Londoners have been trending away from the Tories ever since 2015. A whole slate of once true blue London/ SE seats will go Labour at the next election. Including Steve Baker's Wycombe, in all probability.
Worst thing they did was take an obscure corner issue on the EU into a defining major issue.
As Brexit was impossible to succeed, when the pandemic started we had the biggest Brexit liar ensured we were the least prepared
Academic Agent. ZERO SEATS👍😁
Typical, headline a story about Sunak making a big mistake but of course lead with what Labour are doing, pathetic.
The polls do not automatically narrow. Saying the polls have not yet narrowed, as though that is inevitable, is unhelpful.
I think Starmer realy shot himself in the foot. People were already a bit miffed by the obvious purge. Having attacked Diane Abbott, has now attracted the focus on ALL the candidates Starmer wants to deselect.
If he had left Diane Abbott alone, people would not be scrutinising who else he is deselecting.
When has he not made a mistake?
Can someone please explain to me as a Dutchie, why the UK people want to vote for the Labour Party? Im so confused?! The rest of Europe is become more rightwing as we want to stop this invasion, however the UK polls suggest that the Labour Party will win with a landslide. Someone pls explain!!!!!
We've had 15 years of a right-wing government, getting further right more recently, and most people agree that they feel worse off now than they did 15 years ago. The alternative right wing party have some support but not enough to win seats, whereas labour is an already established party which now seems vastly more competent than the current government. Labour is also moving towards the centre so they have wide appeal.
the Labour Party is no longer a Socialist Party...ask Jeremy Corbyn...
We are not racist
@@felix.henson Labour's been right of centre since Blair. "Overton Window".
another question to throw into the pot is IF the Tories lose badly, will they have the stomach to be in opposition given many of the newbies don't look as if they would be in for a long fight back
So what does the overall profile of labour MPs look like? People claim that there are a lot of Keir Starmer loyalists filled into the party. If we are looking at 500 MPs, will there still be a strong left wing of the party?
Those attacking labour are pro Tory. No ifs, no buts. You are supporting Sunak by attacking labour
My head is already analysing the Labour govt and all the problems they will have. But I get journalists have to talk about the Tories as if there's any chance they'll win. I am more interested in the divides in Labour now.
Wait until your viewers find out about sunak’s part in the theft of 10s of £bns.
did a somehow re-animated Picasso do the video formatting for this
By law he had to announce a general election by January 2025 at that point Mr Useless would no longer legally be able to kick the can down the road
Why do you assume the anonymous briefings were true?
A question: there has been a lot of comment about how the SNP will fare in Scotland and how Labour will perform in Wales in light of party controversies, what do you think will happen in Northern Ireland? Best, Gavin
Starmer created Abbotgate himself by not being clear and saying he could see no reason why Diane Abbot shouldn’t stand as a Labour candidate as Angela Rayner did when she was asked. I think he is more concerned about antisemitism in the party and losing support from Jewish groups if she is reinstated. He handled this situation very badly and it may harm his chances.
It won't. People don't care about that. They care about the mess.
Can anyone explain to me why it "makes sense" that Corbyn has been expelled but doesn't make sense for Abbott? What did Corbyn do that made him deserve that? As far as I'm concerned, Abbott made actual offensive comments whereas Corbyn was just pro-Palestine.
Corbyn destroyed the Labour Party’s chances of becoming the government with his statements on national security, antisemitism, Brexit and many other things. Diane Abbott was suspended for making one thoughtless statement. There is a world of difference between those two things.
He was ejected because he questioned the results of the probe into anti-semitism and refused to apologise for not doing enough to root it out.
Vote out to help out. Vote Labour give them a chance we can always vote them out 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
NO! Vote for the party most likely to keep out the Tory candidate.
@@earlofdoncaster5018 100%. Even a centrist Labour party is better than the tories. Shame Owen Jones doesn't live in reality.
Yes, he's made ALL the terrible mistakes
I don’t think he made a mistake- he just realised he’s crap, so are the Tories and he can’t do what he said rawanda boat policy -
23 points behind in the poll of polls..... the tories are looking at a calamity. That gives them 60 seats. The rest of us can celebrate when the brexiteers are ejected from parliament 😂
I did gigle at KS's rather nonchalant "Diane is free to stand if she wishes" 🤣
was he wrong?
this was a Tory led media story, pure b/s from day 1. Abbott of course enjoys a bit of limelight and does nothing to dismiss the nonsense reporting. Move on!
If he had gone later on it would have been worse
I might be wrong, but i just don't see random constituencies in places like rural Essex, Wiltshire, Lincolnshire, Hampshire going anything but Tory. I think the Tories have a base of about 150 seats based on sheer tribalism. I think there's something a bit off about MRP polling. I don't rate MRP polls.
God forbid the Boomers don’t get their way for once this election. There’s going to be hell to pay for minimum wage retail workers.
U turns are risky business. You alienate the people who agree with the original decision, probably more than if it went the other way to start with; like a goal that's disallowed on VAR innit. And then you alienate those who didn't, because you took your time about it.
Oh I love Freddie’s wallpaper
It looks like Rachel is in my old flat 😅
YES so do I - fantastic
Sounds like a euphemism😂 do the curtains match the carpet?
Why was the u turn so sudden? Because that's all the Tories have been doing for the last 14 years and they're getting very good at it!
Dont worry, Sunak will defect to Starmer soon, saying he feels at home in the Labour party. Starmer will greet him warmly as he shuns Abott.
If every commentator prefaced their remarks with "In my opinion...." or "It seems to me...." the world would be a marginally better place.
Lots of speculative blah blah blah here but almost no verifiable facts. You could reasonably argue that it has taken way too long to resolve the 'Abbott situation' but I've never heard Starmer say she can't stand.
'Has Rishi Sunak made a terrible mistake?' You people are supposed to inform us, not ask us questions!
On July 4th, I will be voting for labour (or rather my postal vote will get counted at some point!) I'm not going to be influenced by the left who want him gone, and another five years of Tory austerity and defunding. I suspect the anti-Starmerites are comfortable and well fed.
Goldman sachs boy has done his deals, now he's running away.
How, exactly, are the Red Tories under "Sir" Keir different from the Blue ones under Rishi? Besides the colour of their rosettes. Enquiring minds would like to know.
There he goes again, saying Ed Davey has been kept away from target seats. He's been to a new one every day.
All the New Statesman subscribers go to bed early
Starmer is a bit of worry
Made?….he IS a terrible mistake!
certainly hope so
Why didn't the teenager say left wing MPs?
I rhink its great
😂😂😂😂 uturns already.. 😂😂😂 imagine being the kind of person to vote for Diane Abbot! That should bar.you from being able to vote 😂😂 she constantly embarrassed the party, what a joke this country is becoming. 😢 revoke IR35!!!
Is Sunak not going the wrong way by engaging so deep in two-way wars, Ukraine and Israel ？ As a political leader does he lead UK towards economic growth and social cohesiveness ？
Those who actually served in WWII may well be dead, for the most part, but most of those over 65 had parents who did serve and many had fathers (especially) or other relatives who died in that service. WWII had an important impact on their lives even if they were too young to have actually served. Young people should not be dismissing the importance of WWII for the older generation.
The people who served and worked in ww2 voted against Brexit.
I think there is one way Sunak has made a terrible mistake. This was his one and only chance to ever be PM, and he shortened it by over 20% to hold this election early. He will be PM for something like 20 months instead of 26 months.
It was his *one* shot, why would he choose to make it so short?
FAST catamoron sailing….puh-leeeze !
From rule Britannia to STOOL Britannia in 15 years, thanks Tories😂😂
Well done Diane and also particularly Deputy leader Angela Rayner. Let's get behind Labour in Hendon and the Cities of London &Westminster . Fabulous candidate with Georgia Gould in Maida Vale and Queens Park . Let's have a clean sweep against the Tories in North West London .
What sodding U-turn? The most I've heard him say is that "the decision hasn't been made yet". Language matters, get it bloody right. You're supposed to be effing professionals.
If Rishi loses he'll get a knighthood and go into the City and make more money he doesn't need, then write his memoirs about how he personally saved the universe from collapse.
I'm not surprised someone who is a Tory would be outraged if Abbott couldn't stand. She's a walking disaster as an MP in terms of the Labour Party's image as a whole. She's a walking, talking Dunning-Kruger effect, and worse, she is a fairly prominent figure for various reasons, particularly post Corbyn era. Whilst she has a whole lot of diehard fans on the left, she _really_ turns off a lot of non-automatic Labour voters, and even many automatic Labour voters.
Sunak should learn from Keir as to how to deal with internal malcontents.
Andrew Brigden in an interview on May 14th said "Rishi wants out, he told the generals that he doesn't want to be a wartime prime minister". On the 22nd of May Rishi calls for a snap election, which we all know he will lose. Sir Keir Starmer will be our wartime prime minister...
Trying to think of a worse source (for anything) than Bridgen, but it's tough. Generally speaking it's better to get information from sane people with at least a slight toe-hold on reality. (I'm being slightly unfair there, Bridgen might not be crazy. He could just be a grifter who''s found a gullible bunch of people to milk for every penny he can get...)
Goodness me, the state of British journalism. There is no u-turn. Starmer said DA was the subject of an independent enquiry as to whether DA retained the Labour wip. The independent enquiry concluded she should retain the wip. Starmer said that it was for the NEC whether DA would be entitled to run as an MP. He has left it to the NEC. The New Statesman’s search for clicks has driven this drivel of a ‘u-turn’.
Shock-horror! Politician listens to opinions other than their own.
Tory media have made a feast of the Abbott non story😊
It won't change anything.
Libs don’t get coverage. That’s why.🤦🏻♂️
My view is that mass immigration over the past 25 years under Labour and the Tories is responsible for the rise in sectarian politics. Nobody voted for mass immigration; taxpayers have had no say in it; and everybody has been told in no uncertain terms that they must accept it. But in so many ways it has caused more problems than it has solved.
A third of a million people from the subcontinent and 140,000 from Nigeria came to live in Britain in the last year alone, according to the ONS last week. Will they all integrate fully into British society?
Who,s interest is this for,? We have zero voice , we want our country back...i get it.
Just noise
While it might be welcomed to see the demise of the Tories, can a case be made that a party can win too many seats? After all, there are only so many cabinet seats available and only so many committees to chair. What do you do with the rest of the MPs who then have nothing much to do (constituency work, yes, but there are assitants for that). Isn't one of the problems the Tories had in the current parliament that there were too many members who had nothing better to do than connive collectively to cause problems for the PM? Will that also be the case for Labour?
Diversity would help here
Euw the camera quality come on.....
making sunak leader of the party & pm of britain, was a major error by the tories, which has sealed their fate! it was like not having enough boats on the titanic!! being 'woke' is not conservatism! i said at the time of sunak's appointment, 'you'll be sorry'! & indeed they are now!!!
Rishi Sunak IS a terrible mistake.
Here’s some words of wisdom and insight …… Wot a tool
Sunak 25 points down in the last 3 polls … he d do better for the Tory’s if he started supporting labour
Mistake, he is a mistake, how these two can say ok if Tories are still opposition, if they get under 150 seats they will rip themselves apart
Lazy interpretation of the situation there, how about Sunak changing his mind occasionally that wouldn't be a bad thing, he's like a stuck record
Sunak can't win. It doesn't matter when he runs.
Pleased DA has been allowed to stand. The whole mess had been idiotic.
Clowns out 😅😅😅😅😅
Biggest mistake has done that he became too cocky in regards to Natn. Service whatever he is too much of a Boris Johnson's boy guided by William Haig.
Boomers love to LARP as the greatest generation, it's embarrassing.
Congratulations on using the word "mitigate" properly: poor Jon Sopel didn't (confused it with "militate against"); one up for the New Statesman team over the News Agents. Congratulations also on pointing out the huge variety in the so-called Boomer vote: I'm 73, my mother was 94, my aunt 95, all of use vote(d) Labour: and got and get very irritated by being lumped together with Brexity Tories....
Im stll a labour member. Im getting 3 or 4 emails a day from labour begging for funds after they have spent 4 years insulting me.
Political Suicide
Not interested in the views of sixth formers, sorry.
'Wet behind the ears' would be an accurate description of the journalistic offerings on show here. In case people haven't guessed it, the New Statesman is supposedly broadly left wing supporting.
Yawn
Is Rachel kneeling on the floor?