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  • Pro_Rata
    Pro_Rata Posts: 5,690
    Red echo incoming on the radar.

    Suit getting drenched.

    Lost track of his droning already.
  • TimS
    TimS Posts: 15,712
    He's making excuses
  • FrancisUrquhart
    FrancisUrquhart Posts: 85,724
    Why wouldn't you just do it inside? He really is a plonker.
  • Sunil_Prasannan
    Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,077
    Music??
  • Scott_xP
    Scott_xP Posts: 39,295
    rambling shite so far
  • BatteryCorrectHorse
    BatteryCorrectHorse Posts: 4,967
    This is a weird speech?
  • Pro_Rata
    Pro_Rata Posts: 5,690
    Oh, dear!
  • Mortimer
    Mortimer Posts: 14,229
    Wow. He looks like he has given up. Has he finally realised he isn't very good at politics?
  • Andy_JS
    Andy_JS Posts: 36,292
    Things Can Only Get Better in the background.
  • Mexicanpete
    Mexicanpete Posts: 33,115
    So job done.

    Things can only get better still in the background.
  • MartinVegas
    MartinVegas Posts: 56
    I'm not sure being rained on is a good start or look
  • twistedfirestopper3
    twistedfirestopper3 Posts: 2,641
    He's fixed the economy!
  • Big_G_NorthWales
    Big_G_NorthWales Posts: 66,238
    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements
  • BatteryCorrectHorse
    BatteryCorrectHorse Posts: 4,967
    One wonders if he was waiting for inflation all this time and this was always the plan
  • GIN1138
    GIN1138 Posts: 22,938
    Why doesn't Rish use some of his gazillions to buy an umbrella?
  • AlsoLei
    AlsoLei Posts: 1,522
    Things Can Only Get Better.

    Peak Rishi.
  • Big_G_NorthWales
    Big_G_NorthWales Posts: 66,238
    King grants request for the 4th July
  • twistedfirestopper3
    twistedfirestopper3 Posts: 2,641
    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
  • not_on_fire
    not_on_fire Posts: 4,451
    edited May 2024
    BatteryCorrectHorse said:

    This is a weird speech?

    Yes, feels more like a resignation than calling a GE
  • TimS
    TimS Posts: 15,712
    Sounds like Steve Bray is doing his Steve Bray thing.
  • Alanbrooke
    Alanbrooke Posts: 25,926
    BatteryCorrectHorse said:

    This is a weird speech?

    Why is it Leftie fuckwits cant just let people listen to events in peace.
  • Leon
    Leon Posts: 63,049
    it does feel like a superbly bathetic end to the Tory rule
  • MarqueeMark
    MarqueeMark Posts: 55,458
    Monksfield said:

    Sunak standing in the ran for his speech sums it up really.

    I almost feel a bit sorry for him.

    Return of the Tory wet.....
  • viewcode
    viewcode Posts: 25,202
    Monksfield said:

    Sunak standing in the ran for his speech sums it up really.

    I almost feel a bit sorry for him.

    An easily avoidable problem that with only a little thought could be made better. The metaphor arrived, clunkily... :(
  • FrancisUrquhart
    FrancisUrquhart Posts: 85,724
    edited May 2024
    Leon said:

    Oh God some twat with an amplifier trying to drown it all out. It's not big and it's not funny, just punch them

    It really is pathetic and childish. I thought the authorities had been given the power to remove the equipment.
  • Nigelb
    Nigelb Posts: 79,356
    The mixture of and self aggrandisement, delivered in the flattest of tones, is pretty dire.

    The faint incidental music track is a nice touch though; what is it ?
  • Mexicanpete
    Mexicanpete Posts: 33,115
    So he's already seen Chas. Brady foiled- for the moment.
  • BatteryCorrectHorse
    BatteryCorrectHorse Posts: 4,967
    Confirmed. 4th July.
  • Artist
    Artist Posts: 1,893
    First big election gaffe in the announcement itself.
  • BatteryCorrectHorse
    BatteryCorrectHorse Posts: 4,967
    Nigelb said:

    The mixture of and self aggrandisement, delivered in the flattest of tones, is pretty dire.

    The faint incidental music track is a nice touch though; what is it ?

    TONY BLAIR'S MUSIC
  • Taz
    Taz Posts: 19,666
    Some Grade A window licker playing Things can only get better loudly to drown this out.

    Leon is right. Punch them.

    Is it that twat with a top hat ?
  • MarqueeMark
    MarqueeMark Posts: 55,458
    Leon said:

    Oh God some twat with an amplifier trying to drown it all out. It's not big and it's not funny, just punch them

    Fair chance he'll be elctrocuted....
  • DM_Andy
    DM_Andy Posts: 1,400
    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    This is still a free country last time I looked.
  • Andy_JS
    Andy_JS Posts: 36,292
    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    King grants request for the 4th July

    Is he going to the Palace?
  • IanB2
    IanB2 Posts: 52,311
    Shame there are no letters to fall off
  • Alanbrooke
    Alanbrooke Posts: 25,926
    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    of course but that doesnt just give you the right to shit on everyone else.
  • Mexicanpete
    Mexicanpete Posts: 33,115
    Nigelb said:

    The mixture of and self aggrandisement, delivered in the flattest of tones, is pretty dire.

    The faint incidental music track is a nice touch though; what is it ?

    Bad people playing DReam
  • RochdalePioneers
    RochdalePioneers Posts: 30,611
    Hang on. Rambling shit speech. With the announcement thrown in as an aside in the middle, going straight on with more rambling shite.

    This is going to be a FUN campaign...
  • Heathener
    Heathener Posts: 7,085
    Kinda feel sorry for him. This is so awful.
  • CatMan
    CatMan Posts: 3,326
    Maybe he should have announced it inside after all
  • londonpubman
    londonpubman Posts: 3,665
    Loving it that someone is playing 'Things can only get better' in the background!
  • not_on_fire
    not_on_fire Posts: 4,451
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Leon said:

    Oh God some twat with an amplifier trying to drown it all out. It's not big and it's not funny, just punch them

    It really is pathetic and childish. I thought the authorities had been given the power to remove the equipment.
    And remove them to Rwanda?
  • Barnesian
    Barnesian Posts: 9,221
    Andy_JS said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    King grants request for the 4th July

    Is he going to the Palace?
    He's already gone
  • Morris_Dancer
    Morris_Dancer Posts: 62,742
    The British Grand Prix weekend starts the day after the election.
  • Nigelb
    Nigelb Posts: 79,356
    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    Freedom of speech ?
  • twistedfirestopper3
    twistedfirestopper3 Posts: 2,641
    .
    Alanbrooke said:

    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    of course but that doesnt just give you the right to shit on everyone else.
    That's not stopped the Tories......
  • GIN1138
    GIN1138 Posts: 22,938
    Andy_JS said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    King grants request for the 4th July

    Is he going to the Palace?
    No. King already granted dissolution
  • Sunil_Prasannan
    Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,077
    Taz said:

    Some Grade A window licker playing Things can only get better loudly to drown this out.

    Leon is right. Punch them.

    Is it that twat with a top hat ?

    I prefer the Howard Jones version :)
  • Pro_Rata
    Pro_Rata Posts: 5,690
    Who let this go ahead like this.

    Good grief.
  • Peter_the_Punter
    Peter_the_Punter Posts: 14,779
    Why can the police not stop the noise of the attention-seekers down the road?
  • Chris
    Chris Posts: 12,059
    Taz said:

    Some Grade A window licker playing Things can only get better loudly to drown this out.

    Leon is right. Punch them.

    What makes me think the Tories aren't going to accept defeat gracefully?
  • Chameleon
    Chameleon Posts: 4,265
    Can he at least put Steve Bray on the plane to Rwanda before he heads off?
  • FrancisUrquhart
    FrancisUrquhart Posts: 85,724
    edited May 2024
    His suit jacket is sodden.

    Surely somebody must have said bad weather, dick with a PA, lets do it inside.
  • bigjohnowls
    bigjohnowls Posts: 22,951
    Sunak getting piss wet through a fitting end to his Premiership.

    Someone playing things can only get better at full blast
  • Mortimer
    Mortimer Posts: 14,229
    Pro_Rata said:

    Who let this go ahead like this.

    Good grief.

    The end of the Tory wet wet wets.....
  • Alanbrooke
    Alanbrooke Posts: 25,926
    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    .

    Alanbrooke said:

    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    of course but that doesnt just give you the right to shit on everyone else.
    That's not stopped the Tories......
    Labour will shit on everyone too or havent you realised that ?
  • Mexicanpete
    Mexicanpete Posts: 33,115
    If Starmer is a worse campaigner than what we are currently seeing, Starmer must be really sh1te.
  • Monksfield
    Monksfield Posts: 2,905
    Moving onto the ad hom! Classic
  • DM_Andy
    DM_Andy Posts: 1,400
    Leon said:

    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
    Pot. Kettle. Black.
  • wooliedyed
    wooliedyed Posts: 12,806
    Whoever advised him to stand in the rain like a twat needs talking to. Disastrous speech
  • AlsoLei
    AlsoLei Posts: 1,522
    Cringe cringe cringe.
    Stop rambling, Rishi!
  • pm215
    pm215 Posts: 1,302
    Well, my expectations about the election date were totally wrong. Just as well I didn't have any money on it :-)
  • Sunil_Prasannan
    Sunil_Prasannan Posts: 55,077
    Mortimer said:

    Pro_Rata said:

    Who let this go ahead like this.

    Good grief.

    The end of the Tory wet wet wets.....
    "Why does it always rain on me?"
  • Nigelb
    Nigelb Posts: 79,356
    "They have no plan" is Rishi's slogan.

    Sub-underwhelming.

    "I will earn your trust"
    Bit bloody late for that.
  • Scott_xP
    Scott_xP Posts: 39,295
    https://x.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1793315231147405811
  • not_on_fire
    not_on_fire Posts: 4,451
    Peter_the_Punter said:

    Why can the police not stop the noise of the attention-seekers down the road?

    Are you referring to Sunak or the megaphone guy?
  • DecrepiterJohnL
    DecrepiterJohnL Posts: 31,766
    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    FrancisUrquhart said:

    Where is the lectern?

    Sky

    The statement is to be inside Downing Street
    That aged badly.
  • FrancisUrquhart
    FrancisUrquhart Posts: 85,724
    That was shit wasn't it.
  • twistedfirestopper3
    twistedfirestopper3 Posts: 2,641
    Leon said:

    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
    We've had Johnson, Truss and Sunak in charge. We've not been a serious country for years!
  • IanB2
    IanB2 Posts: 52,311
    Did I miss the actual announcement?
  • TheScreamingEagles
    TheScreamingEagles Posts: 122,806

    NEW THREAD

  • OnlyLivingBoy
    OnlyLivingBoy Posts: 16,660
    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    Mortimer said:

    Pro_Rata said:

    Who let this go ahead like this.

    Good grief.

    The end of the Tory wet wet wets.....
    "Why does it always rain on me?"
    Is it because I lied when I was 17, 18, 19...
  • Stuartinromford
    Stuartinromford Posts: 19,147
    Mortimer said:

    Pro_Rata said:

    Who let this go ahead like this.

    Good grief.

    The end of the Tory wet wet wets.....
    Wishing he was lucky.
  • eek
    eek Posts: 30,707
    Congrats to @No_Offence_Alan for being the only person to get the election date correct, hope you had decent money on it
  • Alanbrooke
    Alanbrooke Posts: 25,926
    IanB2 said:

    Did I miss the actual announcement?

    Given you couldnt hear half of it you probably did.
  • OldKingCole
    OldKingCole Posts: 35,275
    pm215 said:

    Well, my expectations about the election date were totally wrong. Just as well I didn't have any money on it :-)

    Likewise!
    As my wife would say, wrong again!
  • CatMan
    CatMan Posts: 3,326
    HIGNY is going to have a field day with that speech
  • Heathener
    Heathener Posts: 7,085
    FrancisUrquhart said:

    That was shit wasn't it.

    Disastrous
  • Taz
    Taz Posts: 19,666
    Flatlander said:

    Idiot with megaphone may have been funny beforehand, but not now.

    The BBC could have cut it out if they wanted.

    Of course this could have been avoided by doing it indoors.

    Was it that prat with the EU top hat?

    He was evicted last week.

    Homeless now.

    LOL.
  • OnboardG1
    OnboardG1 Posts: 1,589
    Fair play to the Downing Street hairstylist. His coiff was bulletproof. Unlike his majority.
  • DougSeal
    DougSeal Posts: 12,785
    bigjohnowls said:

    Sunak getting piss wet through a fitting end to his Premiership.

    Someone playing things can only get better at full blast

    SKS fans please explain
  • bigjohnowls
    bigjohnowls Posts: 22,951
    Oh look Rishi going on

    SKS is a liar who breaks every pledge he makes and has no principles.

    What a surprise.

    Why did he do it in such torrential rain was like a Monty Python sketch
  • Nigelb
    Nigelb Posts: 79,356
    Leon said:

    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
    No one's saying "you should act like a twat".

    But the police are not there to compel political deference. This was a party political speech, not a ministerial announcement.
  • Stuartinromford
    Stuartinromford Posts: 19,147
    OnlyLivingBoy said:

    Sunil_Prasannan said:

    Mortimer said:

    Pro_Rata said:

    Who let this go ahead like this.

    Good grief.

    The end of the Tory wet wet wets.....
    "Why does it always rain on me?"
    Is it because I lied when I was 17, 18, 19...
    36.
  • DougSeal
    DougSeal Posts: 12,785
    Alanbrooke said:

    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    of course but that doesnt just give you the right to shit on everyone else.
    Hasn’t stopped the Tories
  • another_richard
    another_richard Posts: 27,927
    Cookie said:

    another_richard said:

    Malmesbury said:

    another_richard said:

    Has this been mentioned:

    Nearly three in five Americans wrongly believe the US is in an economic recession, and the majority blame the Biden administration, according to a Harris poll conducted exclusively for the Guardian. The survey found persistent pessimism about the economy as election day draws closer.

    The poll highlighted many misconceptions people have about the economy, including:

    55% believe the economy is shrinking, and 56% think the US is experiencing a recession, though the broadest measure of the economy, gross domestic product (GDP), has been growing.
    49% believe the S&P 500 stock market index is down for the year, though the index went up about 24% in 2023 and is up more than 12% this year.
    49% believe that unemployment is at a 50-year high, though the unemployment rate has been under 4%, a near 50-year low.

    https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/22/poll-economy-recession-biden

    49% of Democrats think the USA is currently in recession.
    61% of Democrats think that inflation is currently increasing.

    Apparently there's a 'vibecession' phenomenon.

    Now this might be the fault of Sleepy Joe - or Trump or Brexit :wink: - or it might just be that people's expectations are increasing faster than which any government can meet.

    And likely happening in other Western countries as well.

    People are still shocked by the big price increases post COVID. A lot of people are saying “I can’t afford to do X anymore”.

    This is how most people measure prosperity.
    Saying it doesn't necessarily make it true.

    There are pay rises to go with the price rises.

    Not to mention asset value rises - firstly housing and now shares/pensions.

    But it does seem increasingly common for people to be claiming poverty even when they are certainly getting richer.

    Similarly every oldie seems to think that their pensions increase is "all being taken back through tax" or that their increased winter fuel allowance 'doesn't count'.

    I, at least, will admit to never having been as affluent as I am today.
    I'm definitely poorer than I was five years ago, and struggle more to get through the month more than I did. My salary has increased quite a lot, but my outgoings have increased by more, and inflation means that the capital I have is worth less. My house is worth more but given that I will always want to live in a house this doesn't feel like wealth which does me any good whatsoever.

    It's kids' activities which are killing me. I rarely go out, I have quite basic requirements in clothing, I don't have a mortgage. Food has gone up but has actually started coming down again. But kids' activities are just going up and up and up and up. And because of working from home they have the opportunity to do so many more of them.

    Again, its worth pointing out that a return of inflation to pre-covid levels doesn't mean a return of prices to pre-covid levels.
    Is this the Lancashire millionaire equivalent of Monty Python ?

    I think you've proved my point.

    People will always find a way to claim poverty.

    Even if they have good pay rises and don't have a mortgage.
  • DougSeal
    DougSeal Posts: 12,785
    bigjohnowls said:

    Oh look Rishi going on

    SKS is a liar who breaks every pledge he makes and has no principles.

    What a surprise.

    Why did he do it in such torrential rain was like a Monty Python sketch

    Like clockwork
  • Richard_Tyndall
    Richard_Tyndall Posts: 33,463
    not_on_fire said:

    BatteryCorrectHorse said:

    This is a weird speech?

    Yes, feels more like a resignation than calling a GE
    Of course in many ways it is a resignation. Just announcing it on behalf of all 650 MPs.
  • Penddu2
    Penddu2 Posts: 787
    So is he a 'Wet' now?
  • SandyRentool
    SandyRentool Posts: 23,156
    A wet D.ream for Labour?
  • Anabobazina
    Anabobazina Posts: 23,795
    Mexicanpete said:

    So job done.

    Things can only get better still in the background.

    What are you going to do every night now you can't drone on about an election happening in January?
  • Anabobazina
    Anabobazina Posts: 23,795
    Taz said:

    Some Grade A window licker playing Things can only get better loudly to drown this out.

    Leon is right. Punch them.

    Is it that twat with a top hat ?

    It must be hard for you to take, as a "lifelong Labour voter".
  • kinabalu
    kinabalu Posts: 46,272
    Leon said:

    twistedfirestopper3 said:

    Big_G_NorthWales said:

    How is this pa being allowed to drown out Sunaks announcements

    It's a free country.
    Just because it is a free country doesn't mean you should act like a twat; this is the UK PM announcing an election. I want the Tories gone, but really. We are not a serious country, we need to get a grip on childish shit like this
    Says person who lapped up Boris Johnson's clown show.
  • bigjohnowls
    bigjohnowls Posts: 22,951
    Westminster Voting Intention:

    LAB: 48% (+4)
    CON: 27% (+2)
    LDM: 8% (-2)
    RFM: 8% (=)
    SNP: 3% (+1)
    GRN: 2% (-5)

    Via @Survation, 21-22 May.
    Changes w/ 9-10 May.

    SKSICIPM surely can't blow it from here. Survation usually has been on of Pollsters with smaller leads too

    Last person being this far ahead at the start of a campaign was T May in 2017 ended with a hung Parliament thanks to Jezzas amazing campaign. Don't think Rishi has it in him to turn that around.
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