Political analysts tear Sunak’s snap election speech apart
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- Опубліковано 21 тра 2024
- “Why would you give a speech in torrential rain in Downing Street without an umbrella? Why would you give a speech that doesn’t appear to give a reason for calling an election now?”
Kate McCann, Tim Montgomerie and John Curtice give #TimesRadio their thoughts on Sunak’s snap election speech.
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Thank you, Rishi, for giving the country the opportunity to show what we think of you and your party.
It was a goodbye speech. Utterly bizarre.
Hope so
@@Julian-zj2qy Bollywood "mingin in the rain".
@@ivanconnolly7332 🤣
Very wet head boy leaves in a huff.
It was literally an obituary of the last 14 years, he knows the games up
Disastrous launch. Disastrous government.
Kinda moot point. Torys had no chance anyways.
@@SpectacularDisaster That is because the Tories have always ONLY cared about themselves and their chums!
@@taefravis agreed
Couldn’t even arrange an umbrella
@@josephhughes1498Rishi Soakak.
Can't decide if I've just heard a resignation letter or a suicide note.
'Attach a price to Labour' - like the Tories have been doing for a decade and change. Tories really don't get it, do they? They've stopped being able to scare people into voting for them out of fear of Labour because people have experienced the price of the Tories themselves.
As oppose to the price of Tories the NHS on the verge of collapse, all our roads falling to bits, still little house building, despite endless promises little progress on immigration, Brexit disaster after disaster honestly that list could go on all day.
I don't see how Labour could be any worse, yes mistakes were made under Blair and Brown no doubt but on the whole they did more good than bad. The NHS alone in its best position, Surestart, Tax credits, Min wage (which the Tories fought tooth and nail), Fox hunting ban, Smoking ban an on and on.
The price of the Conservatives is making the UK worse now than when they came to power 14 years ago.
Bring on Square One!
@@norfolkngood8960 Go look up the most celebrated policies in our country's history and you'll see that despite having only held power for 33 years since 1900, most of them were under Labour.
Also whilst the tories blew through 100 billion on dodgy contracts for their mates, which I always thought was bad enough, they've also risen national debt by 2 trillion with absolutely nothing to show for it as all they've done for the last decade is tear things down and sell it all off to their friends and we're all suffering the consequences now.
In fact many non-committed members of the public will want them to invest whatever the cost !!!!!
You do realise you’re listening a radio station full of Tory shill destitute rot
This is a political misjudgement that will define Sunak for the rest of his career.
Very short political career, hopefully.
Disgusting, using the podium and number 10 as a backdrop for political campaigning.
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"...using the podium..." No badge on the podium.
Never EVER trust any tory!
Or any politician…except to act in their own self interest.
Or labor
@@miisu111 Spell Labour?
@@miisu111 fud
No one has mentioned the timing of the payouts for the contaminated blood scandal. Ethically it should have been done years ago. Cynically, it has left Labour with a £10,000,000,000 bill that they'll have to pick up.
They can add it to the Labour 30-100 billion black hole.
Plus the post office compensation.
@@seamuspadraigsanders431 Actually that is the Tories's £100+ billion black hole stemming from..
Failed Tory Brexit!
Failed Tory Liz Truss disastrous mini budget!
Consider yourself educated!
Spot on!, get our before the ship sinks!!!
@@seamuspadraigsanders431Pity Truss, the ppe fraud and the useless track and trace happened or the UK would be about 100 billion better off right now.
Arguably this was the most inept political launch of an election I can remember. What on earth were his advisors thinking. If this is the standard of strategic thinking from within Downing Street, given the reported reactions from the Conservative MPs it’s going to be a long 6 weeks. Separately, it’s reported they haven’t confirmed over 50% of their candidates yet, welcome Times Radio confirming whether this is or is not the case. If true then Sunak has said to himself, I am off I have had enough.
Economy will get worse towards the back end of the year they have done nothing about our reliance on gas, went to Norway to see my brother at Easter drove up in Germany and Denmark there are hundreds of new wind turbines operating close to the motorway as they decouple their economies from Russian Gas
@@SlowhandGreg The thing with the Tories that everyone stupidly ignores is that they ONLY care about themselves es and their chums. I worked once for a Tory MP and I can promise you this is true, they even make no excuses privately about haring the poor and working class.
In 2022 outside earnings by all MPs were £17.7 million and out of that the Tories share was £15 mullion.
The remaining £2.7 million was all other parties from Labour to SNP and Lib dems etc.
So about 90% of outside earnings were made by the Tories proving my point that they spend all their time enriching themselves and **** all enriching our lives!
Calling an election now gives Sunack time for his family to move back to California before the start of the next school year.
Did he just get out of bed this morning and think "there's nothing on the telly, what shall I do today?"
Sunak's speech outside No. 10 was petty and small minded.
THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER!!
Resignation Speech.
Tories pretending to be disspsionate jouralists with tory guest.!!
Even the weather has turned on him 😂
Felt sorry for that expensive suit
"Felt sorry for that expensive suit" I did not. He can afford a few million of those suits.
Rishi the narcissist will turn around and blame Labour and Jeremy Cornyn for the rain whilst claiming it did not rain 😂.
Vote tactically, vote the Tories out
Little will change under Labour.
Things Can Only Get Wetter 💦😂
The only thing I can think of, is that there was a backbench plan to oust him over the summer holidays and he jumped first..
Sunak really is being advised so badly! Or is he going his own tone-deaf way?
He is a literal narcissist who struggled to even accept his party were in power the past 14 years!
We have a plan and the other guys don't, said someone whose team failed even to plan for him an umbrella.
Labour's plan is not to interrupt Rishi while he puts his foot up his constituency.
Montgomery having a hissy fit. Haha.
Richie rich, suffering from pre-July ejactulation.
THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER!!!
THINGS CAN ONLY GET WETTER
THINGS CAN ONLY GET WETTER
Not if Labour get in. We need to vote Reform in numbers to soften the blow!
@@barriewilliams4526 Oh please do divide the right wing vote. I really hope you do that it'll really send a message about their beloved FPTP system.
Finally we can cast off the horror of the right wing strangle hold on this country.
Your lot have been in power for 14 years and it's high time that ends.
@@barriewilliams4526
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There is no cost to Labour Sunak has already raised taxes to base 37% in the past 2 decades before he became chancellor the base rate had been 33%
The only people that will be affected are those paying school fees Non Doms and those currently avoiding Tax
Just the nationalisation of services could run into the silly numbers.
Taxes on private schools, and trying to further tax non doms will raise very little.
Taxes will be risen across the board.
@@seamuspadraigsanders431 Just the past 14 years tripped the national debt from £1 trillion under Labour to over £3 trillion under the Tories.
@@taefravis Which would look normal on the surface until you realise the economy has been stagnant since 2007 and both Brown, Darling, Osborne and Reeves are using exactly the same economic model with austerity as the main method to achieve balanced books.
To make things extra difficult Labour claim they will not borrow or raise taxes, making them the only economists in history to conjure money out of thin air.
@@seamuspadraigsanders431Because of the state of the economy Labour have no plans to nationalise services except when each private rail contract ends it will go into public ownership. Thus ensuring no payment to the private companies.
@@royboy565 So what are they doing?
Ehr an elephant called Brexit.
Prepare for some really really big big big F#ck Ups!!!!!!
It's about time the country and the people need a change for the better future of the country as a whole.
I'm richer than your king
Fedup from
Tories
Vote Labour
...Sunak will tear us apart
Trying to get it done before the pay review for the NHS and public sector is arranged, as further strikes forecast, they want to get it done before having to deal with all that, which will impact poorly on them as they won’t be offering much.
The problem is that when a political party is in for such a long hall with several leaders being changed and all the nonsense that comes with it, you start loosing your sense of purpose of why you're covering on the first place. I think Briton should have never left the EU and yes, when it comes to British Labour Party, I would hope that they have learnt these lessons being in opposition for such a long time. What ever happens, may good for all the British public comes out of this. God save democracy
As usual they know something most of us don't.
Bye bye little Rishi 👋
Is he just sick of the job and wants a way out ASAP?
Inept pm running an inept government, goodbye
...and down came the rain... and washed poor Incy out. Good riddance Incy
Look you pundits don't get it we don't want the Tories anymore
I wonder if more Tories threatened to defect and that pushed him over the edge?
Doubtful. With the timing its more so that he can hide the failure of his beloved Rwanda plan.
Planes were expected to take off at the end of June...
Now he can avoid everyone seeing the explosion in crossing numbers despite the Rwanda plan. What little support the tories had with the racists would have evaporated.
Tim’s a bit upset isn’t he?!
Labour stands for public service, the party are constantly going on about it. Starmer has put the focus of the Labour party on public service, and as Prime minister he will make the government focused on public service. Solving the problems of our nation; the NHS lists, the prison overcrowding, the housing crisis, the cost of living, the asylum backlog and small boats. No gimmicks just hard work focused on making life better for British people to get on with their lives.
How soon can we get back to Square One and do the Tory years all over again, this time for the benefit of the British people?
Sunak was cringe worthy. I'm not frightened of Putin, I'm frightened of the tories. 💩🧀🐷. 🚣♂️.
I'm wondering if the wheels are about to come off something big and they know it.....
Definitely 😄
There will not be an election... Just watch 😂
It does feel like they are trying to get ahead of something
almost certainly the ECHR and UN investigations into whether or not the DWP violated human rights of disabled people, the ECHR investigation was announced this morning and the UN investigation has been rumbling on in the background, I suspect he knows the findings of those reports are going to be extremely damaging and/or expose post office style criminality within the DWP and amongst it's contractors and that's why he's legging it rather than give them a few months to publish and have a load of deeply damaging headlines right before the election along with the potential arrest(s) of ministers, senior staff and contractors at the DWP and Capita/ATOS/Serco including Coffey and Stride.
I’m looking forward to seeing the manifestos, which should tell us who has a persuasive vision of the country they wish to lead.
I can only take it that sunak dosen't like dry cleaning...
Was Reform UK mentioned by the panel?
Why bother as all my local caudate had to offer was more local pubs!
I hate to Reform UK but calling us all p!ss heads is not a winning strategy !
Already been caught having a plant in the audience. Interviewers not challenging him media reform please
Looks like something is coming in summer 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
Stability - you mean like economic instability caused by coming out of the EU?
And the £6 million Boris studio? Why wasn't that used? More Tory waste.
Just begging for Starmer and co to paint it red and use it for regular press briefings.
Count how many times you hear the word 'change' between now and 4th July.
Count how many times you hear the Tories say "Everything is fine" or "Jeremy Corbyn" from now until July 4th!
I reckon we will hear the word plan and square one a lot also.
Sunak in a soaking school boy suit - way too small and tight as usual - not even having an umbrella says more than his words. It's a perfect metaphor for the state the Tories are in in the moment of announcing general elections. Not being able to adapt to the weather conditions is proof of improvisation and lack of prevision in general.
Rishi wants to go on holiday.
Er!! The death of Ukraine and Rishi does not want to explain his involvement!!
The Tories will do well to get 100 seats, and those will be occupied by the least appealing of the whole party.
Sorry for the typos below!
Tim Montgomerie versus the recent tory assertion that there are no shape shifting lizards in their midst. His politics, never mind his tongue, all too frequently projected appears to disprove this.
..monti is such a grifter...
Good resignation speech by Rishi: He's happy to dump all the past fourteen years of utter incompetence onto the Labour Party and shoot off in his private jet with his family to the luxury villa to have a good life! Can you blame him?
It all went wrong in 2016. Back then Sunak was a bit player. The Tories don't want to talk about it.
Gay marriage, the only Tory success in the last 14 years will never override the revulsion people feel for having been dragged out of the EU, for no good reason at all.
To para phrase a Steve McLaren headline - The Wally without a brolly.
They got Brexit done. Didn't they?
😂😂🤣🤣🐱.
@@anthonyclegg1511 Or did they?
@@Julian-zj2qy the zombies believed all the tory lies. So somebody got done.
Not bad timing at all, if you realise that there is no way for the Tories to win a majority, but they have a chance to deny a majority to Labour.
The tories have 6 weeks to close down a 20 point lead to about 8point lead if they want to stop a Labour majority. Go back to 2021 when the talk was the tories being in power for 10 or 15 years more to now and it's a massive collapse in trust and the tories only have themselves to blame.
I thought you said the commentary was by a political analyst, not some goober
Poor Tory fan journalists crying into their champagne
Give me a like if u want me to run lol
Well overdue the electorate can have a legitimate Prime Minister. Simply isn't a democracy otherwise no matter how you slice and dice it
We don’t elect prime ministers, we elect parties. So it simply IS a democracy no matter how YOU slice it. Not that I have any love for Sunak or those who came before him particularly.
Millions voted for Boris. Change leader of a party multiple times, but as leader of the nation, that's up to the electorate. The same electorate that voted for Boris... in a democracy!
@@simonkramer9463You aren't wrong there, however I will point out that he completely deviated from the manifesto they were elected on and seemingly changes his mind on policies on a weekly basis. So on that basis you could argue that this isn't what the electorate voted for. I get that isn't the rule, but the rules don't change public feeling.
@@marvellis6762 no, millions voted for the Tories under Boris’ leadership. It’s perhaps a seemingly subtle distinction, but an important one. If you’re basing your vote purely on the leader, you’re not doing your due diligence. But the validity of our “democracy” actually has nothing to do with the person in No. 10. It’s not his name on the ballot (unless you live in Uxbridge and South Ruislip).
@@jdolanout well but that’s a separate point though. Parties deviating from their manifesto and breaking promises is not a recent thing!
Starmer will flip and announce that Labour will recognise the state Of Palestine on day one of being elected to bring back muslim vote.
More interested in the state of the UK.
@@royboy565 He's only interested in power and will say and do anything to achieve that.
Wow !!! Life's gonna get better in 6 weeks time? Different government same terrible politicians
A few facts for you to deal with...
Last Labour government..
Cut child poverty in half!
No food banks!
Higher growth!
NHS best in Europe!
NHS operation times were average of 18 weeks!
Ambulance times were 9 minutes!
Debt was £1 trillion!
Under the Tories!
Child poverty has doubled back to pre 1997 levels!
Over 1400 food banks!
Stagnant growth!
NHS worst in Europe!
NHS operation wait times average of 18 months+
Ambulance wait times measured in hours!
Debt tripled to over £3 trillion !
So no, both parties are not the same!
Tim Neanderthal
When Rishi replaced Liz Truss I sighed with relief. Too late sadly, to bring down my mortgage from £450 to the original £119 per month which it was immediately before the arrogance and complete ignorance of Truss and Kwarteng. I am not a natural Tory supporter but I thank Rishi Sunak for the help during Covid and for his steady hand after the utter chaos of the complete Truss disaster, for all my family and millions of other with mortgages and the out of control electricity companies = raising prices with complete impunity. Whoever is next I hope the government gets a grip on the entitled privatised utilities, the rail companies and the nhs all - every single one - with HUMUNGOUS salaries of the top managements.
I’m shocked very few people seem to understand that labour or Tory is just more of the same.
I dunno, I think a lot of people understand that. Hence the general apathy and despondency of the electorate.
Different policies on Rwanda, different policy on the right to protest, different policy on union reform, different policy on private schools, different policy on planning reforms to build houses, different policies on rent controls, different policies on bedroom tax, different policy on relationship with the E U, different policies on share of money going to councils, different policies on windfall taxes, different policies on youth services etc etc. Yeah, both the same.
Soontax looks like a dodgy estate agent, more Prime Miniature than Prime Minister...
Rishi isn't bothered- he knows he's done, but it wont really affect him. I'm a tory, but the tories deserve what they are about to get- unlike the people of the UK. Every Single Thing will be a little worse under Labour.
Worse under labour based on what exactly ......
@@pip1723 the irrational, right wing voices in his head 😂
Nope!
Last labour government...
Debt at £1 trillion - now it is over £3 trillion!
No food banks - now over 1400!
Higher growth at over 2.5% - now luckily if it is above half a percent!
No nurses and Drs etc striking !
Ambulance wait times 9 minute - now 9+ hours !
NHS best in Europe - now the worst!
NHS operation east times 18 weeks - now 18+ months!
Etc etc
Cope!
Imagine what be like with Labour in we have it all before Blair the war criminal Rayner !!
Oh you mean like..
More growth?
Less debt?
No food banks?
No striking nurses etc?
Child poverty cut in half?
No crumbling schools?
No crumbling hospitals ?
Ambulance wait times in 9 minutes not 9+ hours?
NHS op wait times 18 weeks not 18+ months?
NHS best in Europe not the worst?
So tell us how everything is so perfect under 14 years of criminal Tories ?
Reform👍
The gang that sold you a doubling of illegal migration and a trebling of illegal migration no thanks
Idiot 👍
Will their candidates be alive or 6 feet under by any chance
Reform ...no thanks .
Nope! My local Reform UK caudate had on apology which was more pubs!
I do not know about you but we are not all alcoholics!
Labour is in bed with the WEF WE NEED BOTH OF THEM OUT VOTE REFORM UK
Do you even know what the purpose of the WEF is?
You're focusing too much on the rain. That's not of interest to anyone, we don't care about rain. We care bout issues. You take your viewers too lightly by incessantly pointing out the superficial optics of the rain,
All three are utterly shallow, as are most of the presenters on Times Radio.
VOTE GREEN!
😂😂😂🤪. I see that care in the community is going well, or do your meds need changing
Sunak's tactic to just rip off the bandaid and getting his defeat over with. Masterful gambit sir.
The samosa sunak has already booked the ticket to America on the 9th of July