Westminster rumours Rishi Sunak could call a summer general election

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  • Опубликовано: 20 май 2024
  • “They may as well go now and not be prisoner of events.”
    Conservative peer Daniel Finkelstein says he’s picked up “a bit of talk in government circles” that Rishi Sunak could call a general election in July because the Tories “don't think that things will improve”.
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Комментарии • 238

  • @beverleybrooks8247
    @beverleybrooks8247 12 дней назад +146

    Please hurry up. Let's just have an election. I'm fed up with this clown show!

    • @andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928
      @andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928 12 дней назад +5

      This is EXACTY why the GE will be at the 24th of January 2025.

    • @paulmatley8818
      @paulmatley8818 12 дней назад

      You do realise that Sunak and Starmer are a team? They share a bunk at Davos,
      Neither of them are there for the electorate and the moment Starmer gets his landslide, and resulting mandate for his globalist masters, the UK will enter its final death throes.
      Farewell civilisation, and we thank you...

    • @nosuchthingasshould4175
      @nosuchthingasshould4175 12 дней назад

      @@andreasarnoalthofsobottka2928sadly, yes.

    • @egorshitikov885
      @egorshitikov885 12 дней назад +1

      Stop ! I love the podcast.

    • @geoffreynhill2833
      @geoffreynhill2833 12 дней назад

      They're waiting for a sub from the Cayman Islands. 🤔

  • @daholmes1
    @daholmes1 12 дней назад +86

    On what planet is Sunak a decent human. He is NOT

    • @rodbenson5879
      @rodbenson5879 12 дней назад +9

      Yes anyone who fans the culture wars and reemploys Braverman definitely isn't an honourable person.

    • @andyknowles772
      @andyknowles772 12 дней назад

      Nasty, British and short....

    • @DarrenJamiesonJamieson
      @DarrenJamiesonJamieson 12 дней назад +2

      Doesn't even know how to count to one billion and was Chancellor of The Exchequer. Those books have been properly cooked!

    • @bradwhiteuk
      @bradwhiteuk 12 дней назад +6

      A decent human doesn't endanger the public for petty PR gain (Eat Out To Help Out).
      A decent human doesn't break one of his own laws (Party-gate).
      A decent human doesn't cave in to racists and scumbags by pushing through a policy already found to be illegal by courts both national and international, and which they themselves are on record saying "won't work" (Rwanda policy).

    • @DarrenJamiesonJamieson
      @DarrenJamiesonJamieson 12 дней назад

      @@bradwhiteuk He is not decent. If The Internet (media), is so good: Why was it banned here in WWII?

  • @sol2746
    @sol2746 12 дней назад +25

    Bring it on i'm sick of waiting.

  • @pip1723
    @pip1723 12 дней назад +68

    Yes please tories out.

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 12 дней назад

      Their just delaying the inevitable Sinai is.

    • @DarrenJamiesonJamieson
      @DarrenJamiesonJamieson 12 дней назад

      I heard that democracy has been promised to US Republicans so I don't actually see here an election is coming from (less worlds largest diamond, worlds largest sapphire, less excalibre (whats the calibre)), and I don't think that they even like us (envious as in enviroment).
      Don't worry. The Yanks will be paying us for it all (with our own money), which we'll all be paying the odd couple of grand each that we'll get for democracy back to US for The Internet.
      You are not allowed to leave for a safe country.

    • @samanthapatrick4345
      @samanthapatrick4345 12 дней назад +1

      Keep your fingers crossed that they get voted out.

    • @davidpowell6098
      @davidpowell6098 12 дней назад +1

      Out forever.

    • @robroots2493
      @robroots2493 12 дней назад +1

      Labour out, Conservatives in, Conservatives win, Rishi is de best.

  • @Cherrytune386
    @Cherrytune386 12 дней назад +52

    YES MAKE IT A JULY GE! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 TORIES OUT

  • @billseymour-jones3224
    @billseymour-jones3224 12 дней назад +31

    Lets be honest, the GE was well overdue this time last year.

    • @chrisrevill8717
      @chrisrevill8717 12 дней назад +1

      It should have happened after the Liz Truss debacle.

  • @spacemonkey200
    @spacemonkey200 12 дней назад +38

    Rishi will only call an election after the next Infosys contract is awarded.👍

  • @spacemonkey200
    @spacemonkey200 12 дней назад +23

    Expenses scandal. Post Office scandal. Blood scandal. PPE scandal. "Safe and Effective" scandal. Died suddenly scandal.

    • @scienceevolves4417
      @scienceevolves4417 12 дней назад

      And which of those wouldn't happen under liebour gubberment???

  • @leebex100
    @leebex100 12 дней назад +47

    The only reason they'll call it early to lump Labour with the dodgy blood compensation payments.

    • @garyturner5739
      @garyturner5739 12 дней назад +2

      But previous Tory PM and Health Secretary Kennth Clark have both been seriously criticised in the report.

    • @jasonluckhurst2854
      @jasonluckhurst2854 12 дней назад +4

      it is us that will be paying the compensation sorry to say

    • @DarrenJamiesonJamieson
      @DarrenJamiesonJamieson 12 дней назад

      No. You will not be getting an election. Democracy has been promised to The USA (why Satan is leading in the polls).
      There is no escaping the forthcoming slavery (that's right), whch you have all already agreed to a thousand times.
      There is no escape.

    • @mp71001
      @mp71001 12 дней назад

      bingo 🎯

    • @SlowhandGreg
      @SlowhandGreg 11 дней назад

      There doing a lap of honour now about inflation falling and the economy coming out of reccesion, also small boats will keep increasing and inflation will rise in the autumn as fuel and food prices start to go up again.
      Also there hoping July will see low turnout along with the voter suppression measures.

  • @storms9023
    @storms9023 12 дней назад +5

    We can’t keep going on like this. A lot of us are at the end of coping.
    And please… He’s not a decent human being. He’s just not.

  • @fenderek666
    @fenderek666 12 дней назад +11

    Bring it on

  • @williamthompson4389
    @williamthompson4389 12 дней назад +10

    There is no point in prolonging the agony. The sooner the General Election the better.

    • @DarrenJamiesonJamieson
      @DarrenJamiesonJamieson 12 дней назад

      People like you make me laugh. Parliament is to be sold to USA, soon as Satan is elected (November). You will not be getting an election without Satan's say so.
      Everybody is agreeing with this at every slight opportunity (especially foreigners wirh Roman blood), who have a history of enslaving the english and are seriously envious of us.
      There is no escape.

  • @grantmarion5208
    @grantmarion5208 12 дней назад +9

    I absolutely love Peter’s “Gordon growl”.

  • @ashleyprussell5752
    @ashleyprussell5752 12 дней назад +9

    He won't until last minute

  • @bobmcdougall988
    @bobmcdougall988 12 дней назад +11

    What surely there must be some more money for the tories to steal before they walk off into the sunset

    • @slyfondle1885
      @slyfondle1885 12 дней назад

      They recently doubled the compensation payments for MPs who lose their seats.

  • @samanthapatrick4345
    @samanthapatrick4345 12 дней назад +7

    Rishi Sunak will never call a july General election he'll hold onto power for as long as possible

  • @tan2611
    @tan2611 12 дней назад +7

    Came for the summer election rumours, stayed for the Eric Heffer stories.

  • @tonywalsh1408
    @tonywalsh1408 12 дней назад +12

    He will stall as long as he can to make more money so corrupt

  • @DJWHITE_
    @DJWHITE_ 12 дней назад +30

    There’s that Sunak is a ‘decent human’ talking point again! Why are The Times so hung up on that term?

    • @In_Paradiso58
      @In_Paradiso58 12 дней назад +4

      It's code for him belonging to a certain segment of society...

    • @robroots2493
      @robroots2493 12 дней назад +1

      He is decent.

    • @kicorse
      @kicorse 12 дней назад +2

      I don't know whether he's a decent human or not, but Johnson and Truss clearly aren't, so I suppose the idea that he might be is something to cling to.

    • @edmurth
      @edmurth 12 дней назад +4

      Decent people don’t think human rights only apply to some humans.

    • @timwilliams113
      @timwilliams113 12 дней назад

      He's like Johnson without the charm

  • @GG-hu9dn
    @GG-hu9dn 12 дней назад +3

    If a sheer miracle, Sunak wins there will be civil unrest in the Uk!

    • @archgirl7797
      @archgirl7797 11 дней назад

      And for that reason, he will never win 😂
      It'll be a landslide for Labour. We are so done

  • @ErinStephanie-mf2qk
    @ErinStephanie-mf2qk 12 дней назад +6

    It won’t be July. But it won’t be January either. A lot more unfavourable bank statements land on voter doormats in January, than any other time of year. The smart money is on a first October election, for exactly 50 years. And possibly on exactly the same date as the second 1974 election: October 10th.

  • @LoneSheWolf09
    @LoneSheWolf09 12 дней назад +3

    Squatter Sunak has no right holding this country to ransom he should follow the will of the people of whom he’s meant to serve not ignore just to suit his own money grabbing agendas

  • @Bob-3639
    @Bob-3639 12 дней назад +6

    You can tell when there's no news when they rake up this old chestnut 😂

  • @bhutcheons
    @bhutcheons 12 дней назад +1

    I’m Australian I don’t know many of the names mentioned but the stories were fun to listen to. Thank you 😊

  • @billwheeler3687
    @billwheeler3687 12 дней назад +1

    The Tories are going down hard. They know it and they may as well get it over with.

  • @Ahrimas
    @Ahrimas 12 дней назад +4

    Nah. I'll believe it when i see it. Until it's called, I will continue to believe they'll leave it until the very last minute.

  • @johnburrows3385
    @johnburrows3385 12 дней назад +1

    The infected blood payments are due to start being paid out 'late summer'. What price the Tories cut and run before this.

  • @alien4422
    @alien4422 12 дней назад +3

    Make it so!

  • @DC.409
    @DC.409 11 дней назад

    I must remember the golden rule never question Danny Finkelstein’s logic, he appears to be correct.

  • @stephennoble
    @stephennoble 12 дней назад +3

    He will hang on until the end of the year because he is a cling on.

  • @endermasa9451
    @endermasa9451 12 дней назад

    Love the Yorkshire commentary! We're proud to represent our nation. The White Rose Will Rise! Big up God's own

  • @jsd8981
    @jsd8981 12 дней назад +4

    Well that was as boring as it comes...I think sunak will call the General Election sometime between July and January,, it's just a long shot I know but I'm pretty sure it will happen somewhere in that time scale...but I would put my money on it...

  • @orgey92
    @orgey92 11 дней назад +1

    Peter you were right!!! July election

  • @jimmeltonbradley1497
    @jimmeltonbradley1497 12 дней назад +4

    Danny's son has clearly been listening to too much Steely Dan.

    • @robroots2493
      @robroots2493 12 дней назад +2

      Cant listen to too much Steely Dan, great band.

  • @natsdaley9615
    @natsdaley9615 12 дней назад +4

    He'll wait till that Indian trade deal is done and dusted what is it £230mil extra passive income 🤔

    • @SlowhandGreg
      @SlowhandGreg 12 дней назад

      There's no trade deal without a massive visa scheme, not something easily sold to the public as a win

  • @jhonson7079
    @jhonson7079 12 дней назад +1

    Ricky needs more time to sell the country off .

  • @glenmarson924
    @glenmarson924 12 дней назад +1

    So what interest rates reduction is a temporary sweetener before the onslaught of bitterness

  • @SpringsteenRecordings
    @SpringsteenRecordings 12 дней назад +1

    1:25 Henderson's Relish > Worcestershire Sauce hands down

  • @rained5757
    @rained5757 12 дней назад

    Hysterical episode, the balloon story made my day :)

  • @peterturner8766
    @peterturner8766 12 дней назад +1

    I have stopped referring to Sunak as the Leader of the Opposition in Waiting as I think that title should now be given to Sir Ed Davey.

  • @techtinkerin
    @techtinkerin 12 дней назад +1

    This is like really needing a good dump and holding it in

  • @paulsaintclair9761
    @paulsaintclair9761 12 дней назад

    yEAH ... he does not want to call during winter with energy / heating costs impacting ?????

  • @user-zc4yd9ss7h
    @user-zc4yd9ss7h 12 дней назад +2

    Perhaps the predictions of two to three thousand migrants landing every day during the summer has given little Rishi pause for thought.

  • @AM-xj9jr
    @AM-xj9jr 11 дней назад

    Please every single BRITISH CITIZEN needs to vote ,,, vote the party who will be the most beneficial for the people and country 🇬🇧

  • @TimoDyer
    @TimoDyer 12 дней назад

    Please do!

  • @pmcgktr
    @pmcgktr 12 дней назад

    Please turn up the sound or fix the audio I can’t hear anything

  • @richarddavy-smith6626
    @richarddavy-smith6626 12 дней назад +2

    Surely eventually if you think you’ll lose now and lose by more in the future you’ll just stay in power for as long as possible just to be in power. No one gives up power just to lose by less.

    • @JamesHardaker
      @JamesHardaker 12 дней назад

      Unless they get kicked out of opposition

  • @ivanconnolly7332
    @ivanconnolly7332 12 дней назад

    Disney's remake of" Robin Hood" will have Rishi play Sir Hiss.

  • @jsd8981
    @jsd8981 12 дней назад +1

    I've just been reminded why i dont buy the times...going to fall asleep in a momment, need to leave,, bye bye...

  • @bascol123
    @bascol123 12 дней назад

    FFS bring it on and lets get it over and done with. Sunak in the shyte whenever he calls it.

  • @russodoni5331
    @russodoni5331 12 дней назад

    You're thinking about it wrong. They're all assuming there's some kind of clever calculation going on in Sunak's head to pick the best time for the election from a political point of view. But he has no political instincts and is almost entirely passive, reacting to events. He'll call the election on the last day that he's allowed to do so, because anything else would require him to make a proactive decision.

  • @prideofdurham4776
    @prideofdurham4776 12 дней назад

    Sunak taking credit for putting right HIS OWN mistakes , thinking we dont know.

  • @EppingBlogger
    @EppingBlogger 12 дней назад

    I hear that California is very pleasant in the autumn.
    Finkelstein wrote a great book about his family's history but his services to Cameron make him persona non grata on my PC screen.

  • @brianhazell3586
    @brianhazell3586 12 дней назад +1

    It's a fix a lot of people will be on holiday will there be a time to get a postal Vote if not the vote can not be legal 😢

  • @Bobbybulsara179
    @Bobbybulsara179 11 дней назад

    4th July - You heard it here first

  • @gavinmaughfling960
    @gavinmaughfling960 12 дней назад

    I do wish people would stop saying that Sunak is a 'decent man'. Where is the proof? Rwanda? Attacks on rights toi protest? Chap attacks on trans people? Cuts to foreign aid? Specifically on enquiries - if he's so ';decent', where is the speedy compensation and status rectification for Windrush victims?

  • @jeffhatcher6585
    @jeffhatcher6585 12 дней назад

    Oh yes please. GE cannot come soon enough. Get these clowns out of power

  • @KimWilliams-vz6sy
    @KimWilliams-vz6sy 12 дней назад

    Why wait till July get sunak out now!!!!!

  • @mauricetucker8754
    @mauricetucker8754 12 дней назад

    July early if at a tall ?11 or 18 but most believe October before the clocks changing 25ish

  • @paultaylor9477
    @paultaylor9477 12 дней назад

    Ask Mandy about Jeffrey.

  • @user-xe4xp9tt6m
    @user-xe4xp9tt6m 12 дней назад +2

    labour mp for Walton, Liverpool

  • @Kevin-uw5ld
    @Kevin-uw5ld 12 дней назад

    Please please please call an election and get them put of power for the next 300 years. Conservatives.

  • @user-qr7rr2em8r
    @user-qr7rr2em8r 12 дней назад

    Richie thinks he will stay on as an mp. What makes him think he will win his seat?

  • @martinscholes2023
    @martinscholes2023 12 дней назад

    The tragedy is that one person can effectively “manage” our democratic choice. He should not be able to hold us all to ransom, giving away “tax cuts” as bribes (that the public finances cannot afford).

  • @rinkadink66
    @rinkadink66 12 дней назад +3

    dream on...November

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 12 дней назад

      He would have lost more support by then.

    • @rinkadink66
      @rinkadink66 12 дней назад

      @@melgrant7404 economy on the up.. polls narrowing..

    • @melgrant7404
      @melgrant7404 12 дней назад

      @rinkadink66 unfortunately 14 yrs of government isn't on his side. Change is nigh.

  • @gsygsy
    @gsygsy 12 дней назад

    I can't abide Mandelson.

  • @robinwalton-gm5ms
    @robinwalton-gm5ms 12 дней назад

    Infernal music

  • @aresivrc1800
    @aresivrc1800 12 дней назад

    So Sunak wants to lose his officer sooner? XD

  • @davidorr-ewing4437
    @davidorr-ewing4437 12 дней назад

    So I think at this point we can just conclude there will be “rumours” of an election every month until this is an election

  • @eileenclark7744
    @eileenclark7744 12 дней назад

    Fine being a “Techbro” but not if you have been part of a government which has dismantled public services (which he doesn’t need to use) before going off to live in another country where you will lead a luxurious life.

  • @martincheeseman5809
    @martincheeseman5809 12 дней назад +1

    Rishi will wait til the last possible day to call the next election!

    • @paulmatley8818
      @paulmatley8818 12 дней назад

      No, he'll wait until his team mate, Starmer, indicates he's ready. They share in their national self-loathing and obey the same non domicile masters.

  • @user-up6lc8sb2i
    @user-up6lc8sb2i 11 дней назад

    6 weeks can’t come quick enough, sunak is completely delusional he needs to see what the uk really do think of him, he lives in a fantasy world to actually think we will vote for this continued out of control government for another 4/5 years!!

  • @bluntlaser
    @bluntlaser 4 дня назад

    Oh so Blair and Brown just didn't want an inquiry. Ok, well thats fair enough. FFS

  • @bbbf09
    @bbbf09 12 дней назад

    Ahh come on...give it a rest.

  • @logothaironsides2942
    @logothaironsides2942 12 дней назад

    All UK politics is based on what the other guy doesnt have rather than what the party who is on topright now, DO have . If shunk thinks labour is going to win, he'll defo pick times when its hard for labour..Given the success of reform uk where they had seats in the locals, I wouldnt be at all surprised if he is looking at what is least convenient for them.

  • @user-ck3xz9so7h
    @user-ck3xz9so7h 12 дней назад

    Mandelson is not fit to kiss Eric Heffer's shoes.

  • @andrewlane219
    @andrewlane219 12 дней назад

    Dorris Heffer episode. Best yet

  • @markjohnston7869
    @markjohnston7869 12 дней назад

    It doesn't matter when he calls it he will be unemployed the very next day.

  • @SeeDeeSea
    @SeeDeeSea 12 дней назад

    Yes, Israelis should be experts on this subject, especially one who has a plum job watching cricket.

  • @Project-jf3bz
    @Project-jf3bz 12 дней назад

    Fingers crossed. Election ASAP

  • @VinceLammas
    @VinceLammas 12 дней назад

    Either the relevant Regulator should review serious problems rumbling in their industry ... or the National Audit Office should be tasked with investigating problems that have outgrown their originators.

  • @philipbrown5468
    @philipbrown5468 12 дней назад +3

    Hurry up ya waste of time so you can be kicked out

  • @hilaryjohnson2386
    @hilaryjohnson2386 12 дней назад

    Get him out nice and early.Lovely.

  • @chickenbites8877
    @chickenbites8877 12 дней назад

    I think Sunaj thinks dragging out the election date will make him more popular with the electorate LOL

  • @user-zc4yd9ss7h
    @user-zc4yd9ss7h 11 дней назад

    Labour 25 pts ahead - great moment to go.

  • @nondescriptbrit
    @nondescriptbrit 12 дней назад

    1:20 Henderson's Relish is brilliant and superior to Worcestershire Source. You absolutely deserve criticism for bad mouthing it. And I'm not even from Yorkshire!

  • @brianm102
    @brianm102 12 дней назад

    No chance he has the stones for July

  • @backgammonbacon
    @backgammonbacon 12 дней назад

    I think the idea is that he has to go to another country to do tech because his own government has invested so poorly in this area at home, or allowed our own companies to have been sold for peanuts to foreign buyers and dismantled.

  • @ronanmurphy98
    @ronanmurphy98 12 дней назад

    Will they just let these election date rumours die already. Everyone knows Sunak will push this out for as long as he reasonably can. In what circumstances would any PM this far behind in the polls call an election months before he even needs to. It will almost certainly happen in November.

  • @geoffreynhill2833
    @geoffreynhill2833 12 дней назад

    "Early Election" at 3:30 ... ( Sort of ) ( Did TR get trapped in a pub at lunchtime? ) 🤔

  • @robc7162
    @robc7162 12 дней назад

    7:32 - Daniel saying lots of stories are against the Tories - can't think why with their record! And the media doing their best to do hit pieces on Labour too, mainly without cause i.e. Angela Rayner, Daniel with his heavy bias again.

  • @DC.409
    @DC.409 12 дней назад

    They can’t go in July, Danny. Andrew Neil’s show doesn’t start until September.

  • @chriskinhart491
    @chriskinhart491 12 дней назад

    I hope it comes quickly I can’t wait to vote them out .and bring in reform party

  • @DavidJones-mo9sj
    @DavidJones-mo9sj 12 дней назад

    Mandelson so wrong on going on about the Saville enquiry just shows how he misses the point.

  • @jonnobloggs8642
    @jonnobloggs8642 12 дней назад

    Im going out on a limb here and predicting that there will be an election sometime between July and the end of January .

  • @jeffsmith3392
    @jeffsmith3392 12 дней назад

    Nonsense. Interest rates haven’t moved downward yet and the fiscal event.

  • @user-sf7kl9uh7k
    @user-sf7kl9uh7k 12 дней назад

    No, October or November

  • @stickytapenrust6869
    @stickytapenrust6869 12 дней назад

    It’ll probably be November. Fishy will use the October conference to launch the manifesto and campaign.

  • @StratsRUs
    @StratsRUs 12 дней назад

    Mandelson lol

  • @rustynail1194
    @rustynail1194 12 дней назад

    I'd be surprised as students are home then. I could see Sunak calling it if they try to oust him though.