Or third. The Tories are terrified of a Lib Dem advance, but this is a fiasco of industrial proportions. They don't deserve defeat, they deserve obliteration.
I really hope the election is not going to dominated by Steve fucking Bray drowning out every flipping interview with his megaphone and his amplifier. Someone lock him in a tiny room, how can we let a sole and tragic lunatic like him warp our politics; it is RIDIC
What a shit speech from Sunak. Labour's gonna win a super majority, and is going to use it to govern like Tories anyway. It's all extremely depressing...
OK so I was wrong about January, but only wrong once. As it happens, I'm about £25 green largely through opposing October and November.
As said on the BBC, many Conservative MPs are gobsmacked (and hence the talk of leadership challenges) because effectively what Rishi has done is bring forward their redundancies by six months.
Between the weather on his suit and Things Can Only Get Better that was the most tragic speech I've ever seen.
It was. Desperately bad. Steve Bray should be hurled into the Channel but that was still awful
His delivery is so bad, and wooden, it's weird. Ah well, he will be gone soon enough
Like a supply teacher who's given up hope of controlling the class. Hard words without conviction.
Very good analogy! Indeed perfect
Thats exactly what he sounds like. A weak teacher defeated by an unruly class that knows it has the teacher on the run
We had one of those at my secondary school. My Polyblank. That was his name. Taught music, or, rather, tried to teach music even as the entire class ran riot every lesson, he would stand there mouthing pointless firm words which made everyone laugh
Between the weather on his suit and Things Can Only Get Better that was the most tragic speech I've ever seen.
It was. Desperately bad. Steve Bray should be hurled into the Channel but that was still awful
His delivery is so bad, and wooden, it's weird. Ah well, he will be gone soon enough
Like a supply teacher who's given up hope of controlling the class. Hard words without conviction.
Great observation. It stank of supply teacher - too long and too flat no one is listening. Good few digs at the leader of the opposition at the end but he buried the good stats (the few that he has) and confused me with the reference to furlough payments at the start. If a listener has to think “what are you going on about” you are doing it wrong.
Did I miss the bit where he says “that’s why I am calling an election for 5th July?” If he said it, my mind must have wandered, since suddenly he seemed to be talking about an election he hadn’t actually called.
AFAICS the only Lab policy we are aware of that you can drop on your foot is the VAT on school fees.
Not that it will matter, people are sick of the Cons and they will duly be booted out on July 4th. But Lab will have at least to do a smidge of thinking about how they plan to run the country. For all its farce they might be vulnerable on Rwanda. They don't want a "come all ye" narrative to take hold. Which the Cons will try to ensure.
@lewis_goodall I cannot think of a less auspicious start to a general election campaign for any prime minister.
Brown did a speech in front of his cabinet then went off to get on a train to ostensibly campaign somewhere, I think.
Even Gordon Brown managed to make a GE announcement look quite good. When Sunak can’t meet the dizzying heights of Gordon Brown you know you have a problem.
Did I miss the bit where he says “that’s why I am calling an election for 5th July?” If he said it, my mind must have wandered, since suddenly he seemed to be talking about an election he hadn’t actually called.
He mentioned that he spoken to King Charles III about a dissolution which had been granted.
Did I miss the bit where he says “that’s why I am calling an election for 5th July?” If he said it, my mind must have wandered, since suddenly he seemed to be talking about an election he hadn’t actually called.
He hasn't called an election for the 5th July. So no, you didn't miss it.
Between the weather on his suit and Things Can Only Get Better that was the most tragic speech I've ever seen.
It was. Desperately bad. Steve Bray should be hurled into the Channel but that was still awful
His delivery is so bad, and wooden, it's weird. Ah well, he will be gone soon enough
Like a supply teacher who's given up hope of controlling the class. Hard words without conviction.
Very good analogy! Indeed perfect
Thats exactly what he sounds like. A weak teacher defeated by an unruly class that knows it has the teacher on the run
We had one of those at my secondary school. My Polyblank. That was his name. Taught music, or, rather, tried to teach music even as the entire class ran riot every lesson, he would stand there mouthing pointless firm words which made everyone laugh
Very sad. And that is Sunak, you are bang on
Polyblank? Really? I always have a faint admiration for people who have gone into teaching despite having an absurd name. Is it Cornish, I wonder?
Did I miss the bit where he says “that’s why I am calling an election for 5th July?” If he said it, my mind must have wandered, since suddenly he seemed to be talking about an election he hadn’t actually called.
My favourite part was the opening. In which the underlying assumption was that we all knew what he was talking about, having memorized the course of his star spangled career. Which we didn't. Then it turned out it was the Furlough Scheme.
As most of you know I am the Liberal Democrat candidate in Aberdeenshire North and Moray East. Anyone else want to out themselves as candidates? For any party in any constituency?
Or is this evening the evening that the Sun publishes a picture of Starmer ##### with a ##### in the #####, wearing a ##### and it was all planned ahead?
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SKS may be no good at TV, but he only has to be better than that.
Surprisingly unpopular.
NEW: Our first take on the General Election ahead.
21 Point Labour Lead, highest since November 2022.
LAB 48 (+4)
CON 27 (+3)
LD 8 (-2)
GRN 2 (-5)
RFM 8 (-)
SNP 3 (+1)
OTH 4 (-1)
F/w 21st - 22nd May. Changes vs. 10th May 2024.
Although with Sunak he might even mess that up.
Go on John. You know you want to. Make it a referendum on independence.
His delivery is so bad, and wooden, it's weird. Ah well, he will be gone soon enough
21 Point Labour Lead, highest since November 2022.
LAB 48 (+4)
CON 27 (+3)
LD 8 (-2)
GRN 2 (-5)
RFM 8 (-)
SNP 3 (+1)
OTH 4 (-1)
F/w 21st - 22nd May. Changes vs. 10th May 2024.
Survation.........
I suspect he won’t lose quite as badly as some will predict. But lose he will.
I cannot think of a less auspicious start to a general election campaign for any prime minister.
Wtf?
That's actually LLG-2
No-one will vote for that.
That’ll be fun for us over the next 6 weeks
As said on the BBC, many Conservative MPs are gobsmacked (and hence the talk of leadership challenges) because effectively what Rishi has done is bring forward their redundancies by six months.
The worst thing about this is that it has forever curtailed the prospect of billionaire public schoolboys becoming PM for a generation at least.
Thats exactly what he sounds like. A weak teacher defeated by an unruly class that knows it has the teacher on the run
We had one of those at my secondary school. My Polyblank. That was his name. Taught music, or, rather, tried to teach music even as the entire class ran riot every lesson, he would stand there mouthing pointless firm words which made everyone laugh
Very sad. And that is Sunak, you are bang on
Not that it will matter, people are sick of the Cons and they will duly be booted out on July 4th. But Lab will have at least to do a smidge of thinking about how they plan to run the country. For all its farce they might be vulnerable on Rwanda. They don't want a "come all ye" narrative to take hold. Which the Cons will try to ensure.
Even Gordon Brown managed to make a GE announcement look quite good. When Sunak can’t meet the dizzying heights of Gordon Brown you know you have a problem.
Then the fun begins....
The issue being that he is not 1992 vintage John Major.
And Raynergate still hasn’t been resolved . The Manchester police need to make a decision ASAP.
I always have a faint admiration for people who have gone into teaching despite having an absurd name.
Is it Cornish, I wonder?
I want to hear the Prime Minister not the opinions of Steve Bray.
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