The brits are in for a rough ride

[K1052]

Great start to Sunak's campaign - make the election announcement standing outside while getting soaked to the skin in a torrential downpour.

A Tory 'wet'?

This man's brain is already kicking back in his Santa Monica penthouse drinking a margarita.

 

[cytg111]

Inflation numbers alone is not gonna pull a 20% rabbit up the hat… What else he got in there that could pull it off?

War?

 

[WelshBloke]

Great start to Sunak's campaign - make the election announcement standing outside while getting soaked to the skin in a torrential downpour.

A Tory 'wet'?

That needs to be in a frame! "A man contemplating his life choices"

 

[WelshBloke]

Inflation numbers alone is not gonna pull a 20% rabbit up the hat… What else he got in there that could pull it off?

War?

I think that he doesn't give a shit anymore. He'll just piss off with his billions to comfort him leaving behind the smoking ruins of the Tory party.

 

[cytg111]

I think that he doesn't give a shit anymore. He'll just piss off with his billions to comfort him leaving behind the smoking ruins of the Tory party.

Mkay. Its just not in-character for power people… Unless you’re talking straight up stress/depression. But lets hope.

 

[WelshBloke]

Mkay. Its just not in-character for power people… Unless you’re talking straight up stress/depression. But lets hope.

He doesn't have a lot of power. Most of his party hate him. He's a Prime minister rather than a President.

 

[sdifox]

He doesn't have a lot of power. Most of his party hate him. He's a Prime minister rather than a President.

Liz Truss unified UK into all hating her. Sunak doesn't even manage that.

 

[WelshBloke]

A Tory 'wet'?

Splishy Rishi? Soggy Sunak?

 

[WelshBloke]

Liz Truss unified UK into all hating her. Sunak doesn't even manage that.

Nearly there!

 

[pmv]

Not sure if linking to the middle of the blog works, so here's a screenshot. Sounds as if a last gasp of chaos and farce could potentially be on the way.

Sunak says Labour taking victory for granted as Starmer calls on voters to ‘stop the chaos’ – as it happened

Prime minister announces early summer election with date putting parties on campaign trail for six weeks

www.theguardian.com

 

[K1052]

Not sure if linking to the middle of the blog works, so here's a screenshot. Sounds as if a last gasp of chaos and farce could potentially be on the way.


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Sunak says Labour taking victory for granted as Starmer calls on voters to ‘stop the chaos’ – as it happened

Prime minister announces early summer election with date putting parties on campaign trail for six weeks

www.theguardian.com

Now more than ever:

 

[Timorous]

Now more than ever:

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If they go through with it, the end of the conservative party.

If they don't, the conservative party losing heavily.

 

[WelshBloke]

Not sure if linking to the middle of the blog works, so here's a screenshot. Sounds as if a last gasp of chaos and farce could potentially be on the way.


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Sunak says Labour taking victory for granted as Starmer calls on voters to ‘stop the chaos’ – as it happened

Prime minister announces early summer election with date putting parties on campaign trail for six weeks

www.theguardian.com

He's already gone to the king and desolved parliament. No backsies now!

 

[WelshBloke]

Sound on!

 

[pmv]

Sound on!

Suddenly I see Sunak as a sit-com character.

 

[mikeymikec]

Not sure if linking to the middle of the blog works, so here's a screenshot. Sounds as if a last gasp of chaos and farce could potentially be on the way.


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Sunak says Labour taking victory for granted as Starmer calls on voters to ‘stop the chaos’ – as it happened

Prime minister announces early summer election with date putting parties on campaign trail for six weeks

www.theguardian.com

If Sunak is forced to resign, how many leaders will the conservatives have gone through during their time in power? 😀

Almost enough for a Joker "six?" reference 🙂

 

[pmv]

If Sunak is forced to resign, how many leaders will the conservatives have gone through during their time in power? 😀

Almost enough for a Joker "six?" reference 🙂

Sadly (and I am almost disappointed - objectively I guess an election is preferable, but a 'palace coup' would have allowed Larry to add one more PM to his already-impressive wikipedia entry, allowing him to overtake the previous record-holder*) it appears the rebellion fizzled out.

*Peter, who served from 1929 to 1946

 

[sdifox]

Pentagram PMs works

 

[pmv]

Latest masterstroke from the Tory campaign - Sunak holds a campaign event at the Titanic exhibition. Cue inevitable press questions as to whether he is running a sinking ship.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1794012705604477039

 

[sdifox]

He's gonna come out and tell you to vote for someone else tomorrow.

 

[WelshBloke]

He's gonna come out and tell you to vote for someone else tomorrow.

I want to see him come out with a can of Stella in one hand a i love you in the other and to go "Fuck you guys! Here's a head of lettuce, that's our candidate".

 

[jones377]

So apparently there is a Minister for common sense in the UK government. She and a few others want to oust Sunak as Tory party leader, call for a vote of no confidence against Sunak as PM, install a new Tory leader/PM and call off the July 4 election. All before the King officially dissolves the parliament next Friday.

This is not a joke.

edit: the title is apparently unofficial

 

[brycejones]

So apparently there is a Minister for common sense in the UK government. She and a few others want to oust Sunak as Tory party leader, call for a vote of no confidence against Sunak as PM, install a new Tory leader/PM and call off the July 4 election. All before the King officially dissolves the parliament next Friday.

This is not a joke.

edit: the title is apparently unofficial

Well one of her signature efforts is to eliminate rainbow colored lanyards for government staff, you know in the name of "common sense".

TLDR, she is a fucking loon.

 

[pmv]

Well one of her signature efforts is to eliminate rainbow colored lanyards for government staff, you know in the name of "common sense".

TLDR, she is a fucking loon.

Also quite ruthless in maximising her income

Esther McVey claims expenses to rent flat while husband lets out nearby home

‘Minister for common sense’ who has criticised Whitehall waste is said to have received £39,000 in two years

www.theguardian.com

GB News’s highest-paid Tory MPs – and how much they have received

What the channel has paid the likes of Lee Anderson, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Esther McVey and what it has got for its money

www.theguardian.com

 

[pmv]

They seem to be going all-in on pandering to angry pensioners. I guess they are aware that the over-70s are now the only group who vote for them.

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/lagging-polls-uk-conservatives-pitch-national-service-18-2024-05-26/

‘No one going to jail’ for avoiding UK national service, says Cleverly

Home secretary says teenagers will not face criminal sanction if they refuse to join military or do volunteer work

www.theguardian.com

Also this

“This is about dealing with what we know to be the case, which is social fragmentation. Too many young people live in a bubble within their own communities. They don’t mix with people of different religions, they don’t mix with different viewpoints.”

...sits awkwardly with the way they are simultaneously defending the private school system - which is all about keeping the children of the rich "in a bubble with their own communities"

PS, found a photo of the only person who approves of this policy (and I don't mean Warren Mitchell)