Which Senior Tories Could Lose their Seats?

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  • @Blorp_
    @Blorp_ 7 месяцев назад +1323

    “A portillo moment refers to any senior figure who unexpectedly loses their seat”
    “We’re expecting a number of portillo moments”
    🤯

    • @hemerythrin
      @hemerythrin 7 месяцев назад +77

      Always expect the unexpected

    • @andrewbrown9308
      @andrewbrown9308 7 месяцев назад +51

      Thank God this is the top comment. I needed to know that someone else heard that

    • @davescott7680
      @davescott7680 7 месяцев назад +4

      Fingers crossed

    • @gerardmackay8909
      @gerardmackay8909 7 месяцев назад +27

      Exactly right. The exit poll confirmed that the average swing was 11% but in some very safe seats it was a lot less (ie Liverpool where Tories had no votes to lose anyway) and in some marginals a lot more. Portillo knew an 18% swing was needed in Enfield Southgate to topple him so he was perfectly sanguine and indeed was one of the pundits on BBC Election Special. It was only when he got to his count and saw the nervous looks of the party workers that he started to sweat and then the absolutely unimaginable came to pass. THAT is the essence of ‘The Portillo Moment’

    • @Gdsamplify
      @Gdsamplify 7 месяцев назад +9

      Certified portillo moment

  • @hydra66
    @hydra66 7 месяцев назад +717

    Putting portaits up of 8 Tory leaders and then only discussing 3 of them :(

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii 7 месяцев назад +52

      Yeah, I was expecting them to cover a lot more figures

    • @thecolombian8909
      @thecolombian8909 7 месяцев назад +49

      kind of expected it cause its 9 minutes, still a little disappointed

    • @kitsworld
      @kitsworld 7 месяцев назад +113

      Well, in fairness he did have a 2-minute commercial that he was in a hurry to get to. 🤣🤣

    • @Azhini
      @Azhini 7 месяцев назад +14

      Thanks, comments like this make it easier to avoid wasting time on clickbait-y videos

    • @cullenrooney4964
      @cullenrooney4964 7 месяцев назад +3

      i think they just discussed the most vulnerable besides the position of PM

  • @SuperMickyMc
    @SuperMickyMc 7 месяцев назад +247

    I'm in Sunak's constituency. My polling station was absolutely rammed at 9.30 with queues down the street. It's never been anything like that busy in the last 42 years. I expect he'll keep his seat but that 30k majority may be down to a couple of thousand.

    • @TheWebstaff
      @TheWebstaff 7 месяцев назад +25

      No everyone's making there vote Count!

    • @SuperMickyMc
      @SuperMickyMc 7 месяцев назад +1

      What?

    • @roserose-gt4if
      @roserose-gt4if 7 месяцев назад

      Are you voting for him?

    • @Archman155
      @Archman155 7 месяцев назад +26

      @@SuperMickyMc count binface mate

    • @jonsmith5058
      @jonsmith5058 7 месяцев назад +14

      @@TheWebstaff’Their’ vote Count.
      Recyclons dont accept inproper use of there/their.

  • @ItsTheBoombox
    @ItsTheBoombox 7 месяцев назад +453

    The real question is who will gain Sunaks seat, Niko Omilana or Count Binface?

    • @Mike-bh4bh
      @Mike-bh4bh 7 месяцев назад +97

      Please let it be binface

    • @accountnamewithheld
      @accountnamewithheld 7 месяцев назад +36

      @@Mike-bh4bh Honestly, that would be the biggest political upset since Martin Bell

    • @JohnTCampbell1986
      @JohnTCampbell1986 7 месяцев назад +21

      Hopefully a 30% turnout and 50% of them voting for Binface. Can't think of a better way to show the absolute disgust of the electorate than that (not that any of the elites currently in power or soon to be give a toss)

    • @flamepillarrengoku
      @flamepillarrengoku 7 месяцев назад +38

      Imagine seeing binface sitting in the commons 😂

    • @Mike-bh4bh
      @Mike-bh4bh 7 месяцев назад +11

      @@flamepillarrengoku
      Would be fitting of the absolute clown show it is

  • @Ziolek.2000
    @Ziolek.2000 7 месяцев назад +269

    Really hoping Jacob Rees Mogg gets kicked out 😅

    • @ThePrinceOrtmayer
      @ThePrinceOrtmayer 7 месяцев назад +4

      He's probably the one guy that won't!

    • @ACammies
      @ACammies 7 месяцев назад +26

      We're in his constituency and polling is currently pushing labour well ahead of him as it stands

    • @rufus1346
      @rufus1346 7 месяцев назад +11

      It would be more surprising if he kept his seat. He's a dead man walking as far as this election goes.

    • @connormclernon26
      @connormclernon26 7 месяцев назад

      Getting that moron out of power would be immensely satisfying. The fact he’s lasted as long as he has…

    • @anatolydyatlov5196
      @anatolydyatlov5196 7 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@ThePrinceOrtmayer alot of MRP polls think he's done for

  • @ragalyiakos
    @ragalyiakos 7 месяцев назад +91

    Please, please, PLEASE have Jacob Rees-Mogg lose his seat! I want to see that smug, entitled, arrogant smile he perpetually has on disappear from his face.

    • @henryhunter9643
      @henryhunter9643 7 месяцев назад +11

      I'm reminded of a clip from QI.
      Mogg was out canvassing accompanied by his nanny. When ridiculed for it, his response was something like 'you only mock because she is my nanny, you would not mock if I were accompanied by my valet'.
      How can anyone so incredibly out of touch with how life actually works get elected?
      I swear, too many people vote for the 'funny man' rather than a competent politician.

  • @oliverleonard7730
    @oliverleonard7730 7 месяцев назад +9

    Jacob Rees-Mogg being removed by the Lib Dems would be a classic moment.

  • @metlinematt
    @metlinematt 7 месяцев назад +143

    Come on Britain. Let's get the Tories into third place 💪🏻

  • @rsantana389
    @rsantana389 7 месяцев назад +45

    Sunak losing his seat would be AMAZING

  • @jon19101
    @jon19101 7 месяцев назад +392

    get Rishi out - vote Count Binface

    • @MrLordLowbob
      @MrLordLowbob 7 месяцев назад +7

      what happened to lord buckethead, is Count Binface his younger relative? ;D

    • @NoobLord98
      @NoobLord98 7 месяцев назад

      @@MrLordLowbob Allegedly the Count has had to rebrand due to copyright issues surrounding the name Lord Buckethead

    • @Praevalidum
      @Praevalidum 7 месяцев назад +59

      @@MrLordLowbobAccording to Count Binface; he had to change personas and drop Lord Buckethead after running afoul of the planet “Copyright”.

    • @TheWebstaff
      @TheWebstaff 7 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@MrLordLowbobthere was an 80's cartoon who shared his name and asked him to change it.

    • @derorje2035
      @derorje2035 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@Praevalidum did you watch Matt Parkers video as well or is that a real quote of him?

  • @iruisoleil6370
    @iruisoleil6370 7 месяцев назад +510

    I want Sunak to lose his seat

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii 7 месяцев назад +11

      Current predictions put that a little under 50/50

    • @Kj16V
      @Kj16V 7 месяцев назад +32

      Your spelt "head" wrong.

    • @IainFrame
      @IainFrame 7 месяцев назад

      I honestly don't know how anyone could vote for that man. He's an out-of-touch toff who has never done anything for the people of Ripon. Parachuted in by the Tories who are so disrespectful that they didn't even select a Yorkshire person for the seat.

    • @roserose-gt4if
      @roserose-gt4if 7 месяцев назад +12

      ​​@@Kj16V😂 no that ship's already sailed. Lost his head months ago

    • @hydra66
      @hydra66 7 месяцев назад +8

      As a doctor, Im more interested in Hunt losing his seat. Otherwise even as a non cabinet minister, he'll worm his way onto the health and social care committee again

  • @SirBradiator
    @SirBradiator 7 месяцев назад +157

    If we are expecting it, is it a portillo moment by that definition?

    • @ThePageofVoid
      @ThePageofVoid 7 месяцев назад +12

      We might, but it depends on if the candidate expects it or not.

    • @davescott7680
      @davescott7680 7 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@ThePageofVoidI think all the Tory's potentially have an incling

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy 7 месяцев назад +16

      We're expecting a lot of Tory losses, but it would still be a Portillo moment if a popular-with-Tory-voters candidate lost in what's usually considered a safe seat, for instance.

    • @accountnamewithheld
      @accountnamewithheld 7 месяцев назад +6

      I would qualify losing in any 'safe seat' a portillo moment

    • @chrisoneill3999
      @chrisoneill3999 7 месяцев назад

      By election night, quite a few people realised Portillo's seat was in play. Back in January, lots of people thought 'the next election' would leave the Conservatives with a minority government.

  • @inwalters
    @inwalters 7 месяцев назад +17

    As an American, my fear is that Labour will forget how lucky they are and not immediately pass proportional representation and single transferable voting. Unlike in the USA they can do this by statute, while in the USA we'd have to amend the constitution to get rid of entrenched GOP minority rule. Starmer needs to remember this election's result were caused by a once in a century perfect alignment of the planets.

    • @glorifiedonion6676
      @glorifiedonion6676 7 месяцев назад

      They have put forward plans to push back the parliaments summer break so they could be planning something to get done when they would be on holiday

  • @freeman10000
    @freeman10000 7 месяцев назад +77

    Aussie here. We had a sitting Prime Minister lose his seat during an election (John Howard 2007). It was awesome 🎉

    • @bernardkealey6449
      @bernardkealey6449 7 месяцев назад +10

      My best birthday present ever…
      Tho damn it was good to see Abbott lose his seat too. Wish the UK would keep him.

    • @marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760
      @marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 7 месяцев назад +6

      It was a terrible day for our country and signalled the beginning of the era of incompetent politicians that is still occurring to this day.

    • @ub3rfr3nzy94
      @ub3rfr3nzy94 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@bernardkealey6449 old toe knee ab butt

    • @ezioauditore3128
      @ezioauditore3128 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@bernardkealey6449 Because your political class is so great now.🙄

    • @ezioauditore3128
      @ezioauditore3128 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@marnuscoreyempanadaslooseb6760 True. These people are nuts.

  • @lildozen42069
    @lildozen42069 7 месяцев назад +37

    Putting James Cleverly in the Braintree constituency is just taking the piss

    • @MikeAG333
      @MikeAG333 7 месяцев назад +1

      Huh? He is the Braintree MP. Why is that talking the piss?

    • @JRDZ1993
      @JRDZ1993 7 месяцев назад +3

      ​@MikeAG333 his name vs the name of the constituency

    • @Dendarang
      @Dendarang 7 месяцев назад +1

      @@MikeAG333 He's James CLEVER-ly in BRAIN-tree constituency.

    • @MikeAG333
      @MikeAG333 7 месяцев назад

      @@Dendarang It was the word "putting" which I was querying. He has been the Braintree MP for 9 years, so he hasn't been "put" anywhere.

  • @cardwitch91
    @cardwitch91 7 месяцев назад +27

    Well done for putting the “Chancellor” before the “Hunt” - many journalists have tripped up over that. Sometimes it felt like the Conservatives gave him ministries that begin with a ‘c’ purely as a joke 😂

  • @primykins106
    @primykins106 7 месяцев назад +21

    This is our Bindependence Day! 👽

  • @djtomoy
    @djtomoy 7 месяцев назад +3

    I always thought a Portillo Moment was when you soiled yourself while eating a large Italian beef sandwich

  • @gerardmackay8909
    @gerardmackay8909 7 месяцев назад +9

    My immediate boss in Westminster some years back was Portillo’s principal private secretary in the 90s and headed his office for several years. He said that hands down he was the nicest politician he had ever worked for (and he had worked for many some of whom he was less than complimentary about)

    • @ianclark9598
      @ianclark9598 7 месяцев назад

      I can believe that. I have met a few.

  • @mazdamaniac4643
    @mazdamaniac4643 7 месяцев назад +23

    Count Binface for the win in Richmond & Northallerton.
    Sunak needs to get Binned! 🗑

    • @TheWebstaff
      @TheWebstaff 7 месяцев назад +10

      Make your vote Count!

  • @anthonyferris8912
    @anthonyferris8912 7 месяцев назад +7

    Turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to Portillo…He got a life and became a popular TV travel presenter.

  • @kevinrobb86
    @kevinrobb86 7 месяцев назад +9

    If Mogg loses his seat it will go to show how bad people think they have been

  • @ub3rfr3nzy94
    @ub3rfr3nzy94 7 месяцев назад +2

    There is irony in the statement "We are expecting a number of portillo moments"

  • @US-SPX-500
    @US-SPX-500 7 месяцев назад +2

    All of them

  • @spiderfandom7592
    @spiderfandom7592 7 месяцев назад +55

    I can not wait for tonights election coverage.

    • @calahoon22
      @calahoon22 7 месяцев назад +3

      Hoping theres a few twists to make it more entertaining. Would be hilarious if many known politicians(for all parties) don't win their seats

    • @rufus1346
      @rufus1346 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@calahoon22 Really, so you see this as mere entertainment. You want good MP's from Labour and the Lib Dems to lose so you can have a good laugh.

    • @mycodingchannel9690
      @mycodingchannel9690 7 месяцев назад +1

      revolution wouldn't be televised lol

    • @ibnurismail5964
      @ibnurismail5964 7 месяцев назад

      Hi Malaysians here,Where I Can find live coverage 2024 UK GE elections?

  • @captainufo4587
    @captainufo4587 7 месяцев назад +54

    I'm starting to get a little scared of these landslide predictions. Not because I wouldn't like to see the Tories kicked in the teeth, but because I fear so many people think it's a done deal and don't vote, and we end up with a hung Parliament

    • @KarakuraNinja
      @KarakuraNinja 7 месяцев назад +12

      People should just use their votes building up smaller parties and independants that are purer for next elections
      The main two parties are deeply immoral

    • @pyrogunslinger1877
      @pyrogunslinger1877 7 месяцев назад

      Do you think it's useful to vote for pro Palestinian independents?​@@KarakuraNinja

    • @KarakuraNinja
      @KarakuraNinja 7 месяцев назад +2

      @@pyrogunslinger1877 yes

  • @VaucluseVanguard
    @VaucluseVanguard 7 месяцев назад +39

    Will poor old Michael Portillo lose this epitaph and be replaced by a ‘Sunak moment’.

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii 7 месяцев назад +10

      I think a Sunak moment would be going from Government to 3rd largest party. Or maybe a Macron

    • @wildfire9280
      @wildfire9280 7 месяцев назад

      ⁠@@Septimus_ii Only if the copyright Asquith and George share has expired by now.

    • @earthball2024
      @earthball2024 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@wildfire9280102 Years... It has!

  • @harryhudson785
    @harryhudson785 7 месяцев назад +1

    Arthur Balfour lost his seat in 1906 - Rishi Sunak may become the second pm to lose his seat

  • @Silverwidows
    @Silverwidows 7 месяцев назад +2

    I'm gonna laugh so hard if rishi loses his seat

  • @janhumiecki2827
    @janhumiecki2827 7 месяцев назад +3

    The TL;DR Paradox: you are expecting something that is by definition unexpected 😂

  • @Crimethoughtfull
    @Crimethoughtfull 7 месяцев назад +1

    If the answer isn't "all of them because just look at the state of things" then we're doing it wrong.

  • @brunolondinese5857
    @brunolondinese5857 7 месяцев назад +24

    Why wouldn't sunak want to lose his seat? He'd have to serve as an MP

    • @Septimus_ii
      @Septimus_ii 7 месяцев назад +7

      Much less embarassing to win his seat and retire quietly in a year

    • @rufus1346
      @rufus1346 7 месяцев назад

      No he doesn't, he can and will resign as an MP almost straight away so he can move his family to America. More than likely already booked his flight and school for his girls. He has made as much as he can from us, smash and grab.

    • @Iymarra
      @Iymarra 7 месяцев назад +3

      Still gets his PM pension, retiring to the backbenches still gives him MP salary / expenses with little requirement to do anything

    • @rufus1346
      @rufus1346 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@Iymarra He made 120 million doing nothing last year from his shares. And when he moves to America he'll make his yearly MP's salary just about every week from just being there. He'll lose money staying here as an MP.

  • @koipen
    @koipen 7 месяцев назад +1

    My friend's running against Sunak in Richmond - would be absolutely insane but he can do it! Go Tom!

  • @the_forbinproject2777
    @the_forbinproject2777 7 месяцев назад +3

    When I was just outside the poll
    I asked the electorate, what will it be
    Will it be Labour ? Will it be Tory ?
    Here’s what they said to me
    Qué será, será
    Whatever will be, will be
    Two cheeks of the same arse you see
    Qué será, será
    What will be, will be

  • @ajdynon
    @ajdynon 7 месяцев назад +7

    In Australia, sitting PM John Howard lost his seat in 2007.

    • @geronimowindow
      @geronimowindow 7 месяцев назад

      Same happened in Canada with Kim Campbell in 1993, though she was only PM because Brian Mulroney resigned about 6 months prior and "fed her to the wolves"

  • @SplitFinn
    @SplitFinn 7 месяцев назад

    Count Binface beating Sunak would be unreal top tier banter.
    He would NEVER live it down.

  • @bowlampar
    @bowlampar 7 месяцев назад +1

    Is that even a remote possibility it will happen in British politic, the answer can be known after today. Just chill, and be patient.

  • @acey457
    @acey457 7 месяцев назад +34

    Vote for eggs benedict - get breakfast done

  • @leeharris7727
    @leeharris7727 7 месяцев назад +4

    The Portillo moment never gets old!

  • @Anton-ji4td
    @Anton-ji4td 7 месяцев назад

    Loose his seat....I think he has lost his mind.

  • @Michelle_Schu-blacka
    @Michelle_Schu-blacka 7 месяцев назад +2

    I'm desperately hoping got sunak, braverman, Badenock, Mordunt and Ress-mogg to lose their seats.
    I'm disappointed that Exit Polls have the Tories winning triple digit seats. How can you vote for a party that has more Jeremy's than a 'corn' website.
    If reform win seats, this country is dumber than I feared.

  • @cjwhiterabbit1
    @cjwhiterabbit1 7 месяцев назад +1

    "Portillo Moment" is an understatement, is gonna be more like Game of Throne's "Red Wedding" lol🤗

  • @leecooper8589
    @leecooper8589 7 месяцев назад +1

    Love to see the phrase "Portillo moment" replaced with "Sunak moment".

  • @Desert-Father
    @Desert-Father 7 месяцев назад +1

    Its going to be the worst July 4th for the Tories since 1776.

  • @jackbarham
    @jackbarham 7 месяцев назад +6

    A "Portillo moment" is when it's unexpected.

  • @johnpotts8308
    @johnpotts8308 7 месяцев назад

    When watching a "Portillo Moment", it's worth remembering that the result is already known by the candidates (and their agents), it's only unknown to the general public. If that wasn't the case, the result would be declared before any recounts (usually asked for by the parties if the result is sufficiently close that errors could make a difference) rather than after.

  • @TheWebstaff
    @TheWebstaff 7 месяцев назад +8

    Every one in fishy rishi's constituency needs to make there vote Count!

  • @iainawatson
    @iainawatson 7 месяцев назад +4

    Christ, Hunt always looks like a possessed ventriloquist's dummy, doesn't he?

  • @fmzaidi2001
    @fmzaidi2001 7 месяцев назад +4

    Count Binface needs your vote! Make it count!

  • @adiuntesserande6893
    @adiuntesserande6893 7 месяцев назад +1

    Honestly, I fully suspect the Conservative Party ends up doing what the Progressive Conservatives did in Canada in 1993: drop from government down to only two seats....

  • @kitcat4512
    @kitcat4512 7 месяцев назад +4

    Politics is pantomime for the media to play in for a captive audience.

  • @ajm35lp52
    @ajm35lp52 7 месяцев назад +6

    By definition, we are expecting and predicting these moments, therefore they arent Portillo moments. Rishi is possibly the ONLY major player who's loss would fit this definition of a Portillo moment, and even then, its already been prediceted enough times it may not count.

  • @V1p3r_spl
    @V1p3r_spl 7 месяцев назад +3

    who's here after the bastard named Jacob Rees-Mogg lost his seat?

  • @fluff8102
    @fluff8102 7 месяцев назад +7

    America's birthday is a beautiful day indeed!

  • @martinlord5969
    @martinlord5969 7 месяцев назад +1

    When Count Binface takes Sunak's seat, will he need to keep his bin on in parliament?

  • @SashaGrace94
    @SashaGrace94 7 месяцев назад +14

    Vote out to help out peeps, we can do it 🗳️🎉

  • @David_Bower
    @David_Bower 7 месяцев назад +69

    My pants will be getting sticky tonight watching senior Tory after senior Tory losing their seats.

    • @Rampart.X
      @Rampart.X 7 месяцев назад +4

      Revolting

    • @David_Bower
      @David_Bower 7 месяцев назад +23

      @@Rampart.X Yes, they are.

    • @chrisd1982
      @chrisd1982 7 месяцев назад +9

      Revolting....but relatable

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy 7 месяцев назад

      Don't get too excited. The election has been characterised by antipathy towards the Tories but not really a strong feeling towards Labour. The Greens, the Lib Dems and (unfortunately) Reform are the parties that inspire passionate feelings.
      It's possible that the landslide predictions overestimated the number of Labour voters and the results will be a lot less dramatic than most people expect. I certainly don't see the Tories winning another majority government but I'm also not 100% sure Labour will get that historic landslide victory. They're playing it very safe in a political climate where people are increasingly fed up with the status quo and want something very different.
      If the historic wipeout does happen after all, celebrate it however you want. I'm just saying, part of me worries that too many people are going to take it as a given that Labour will win a landslide for that landslide to actually materialise.

    • @Talisguy
      @Talisguy 7 месяцев назад +2

      Save your celebrations for after it's happened. I think there's a risk that people become so convinced a Labour victory is inevitable that it doesn't actually happen.

  • @arseface2k934
    @arseface2k934 7 месяцев назад +3

    please kick out Rees-Mogg

  • @CrystalController
    @CrystalController 7 месяцев назад +1

    🔶🔶🔶 Lib dem for opposition 🔶🔶🔶

  • @rollyunicorn
    @rollyunicorn 7 месяцев назад

    At 1:12 the only thing missing from that picture is captions below each mugshot reading "Arrest Warrant Issued for charges of Treason."

  • @Thurya
    @Thurya 7 месяцев назад +6

    Wait... isn't that the guy who did the "Great Railway Journeys" series?

  • @bensbabble
    @bensbabble 7 месяцев назад +12

    If they are expected, by definition they are not Portillo moments!

  • @andrijherasymenko
    @andrijherasymenko 7 месяцев назад +4

    4:02 perhaps the only example of the first-past-the-post system being a good voting system

  • @the-blue-barron2791
    @the-blue-barron2791 7 месяцев назад

    It's stupid that these top-level politicians have a seat. How can they run a party/country and serve their local constituency?

  • @theworldaccordingto4555
    @theworldaccordingto4555 7 месяцев назад +4

    I hope lots and lots of them lose their seats. As for Sunak, I think he wants to lose, he's probably already booked his flight to the USA and already enrolled his kids in private school there.

    • @owenthomas5103
      @owenthomas5103 7 месяцев назад +1

      I would genuinely not be suppriesed at this point if it turns out he has a large bet on himslef loosing.

    • @martinf8508
      @martinf8508 7 месяцев назад +1

      If that`s the case, then it would be funny if he kept his seat and was prevented from leaving.

  • @tj4234
    @tj4234 7 месяцев назад

    Remember your ID. I saw someone get turned away for not having it.

  • @purpledevilr7463
    @purpledevilr7463 7 месяцев назад +2

    I’d find Labour vs LibDem in government and opposition a fascinating possibility.
    What would that dynamic look like?

  • @jediofswtor5738
    @jediofswtor5738 7 месяцев назад

    If Rishi Sunak loses his seat, then the Portillo moment needs to be renamed "The Sunak moment"

  • @ks4733
    @ks4733 7 месяцев назад

    He won it by like 50%😮

  • @larry4789
    @larry4789 7 месяцев назад

    Rees-Mogg, Jenspiv, Truss, BadEnooch, Patel, Williams, Wiiiliamsom, IDS, Baker, Shoeneck, Francois, Shapps unseated please

  • @Frank-Lee-Speeking
    @Frank-Lee-Speeking 7 месяцев назад

    As a Canadian, I should point out that we've had at least one Prime Minister lose his seat in a federal election. The Prime Minister was William Lyon Mackenzie King and the election was in the 1920s if I recall correctly. Another member of his party who had been re-elected stepped down from his newly won seat, forcing a by-election, and King ran in his place, successfully, restoring him to Parliament. (I assume the MP who stood down for him was amply rewarded for his trouble.) We've also had new leaders selected for parties when that new leader was not in Parliament and then the same thing happened: someone in a safe seat stepped down, the new Leader ran in his place, and then entered Parliament that way. The last such instance that comes to mind was Jean Chretien 30 odd years ago. I don't remember it being considered scandalous at the time.

  • @williamblack6912
    @williamblack6912 7 месяцев назад +1

    That would brighten my day.

  • @foxbasedelta338
    @foxbasedelta338 7 месяцев назад +2

    I'm particularly hopeful of Hunt losing - he just has one of those faces.

  • @stephengalley9305
    @stephengalley9305 7 месяцев назад +1

    SNP Independence dream on , no chance knocked back by the tories , a new Labour government a certainty in July 2024 , SNP Independence knocked back again , just accept you are British yes part of the UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇬🇧

  • @imsoboredhahaha
    @imsoboredhahaha 7 месяцев назад +1

    I’m so excited for the results. I love general elections, it’s like Christmas for us political geeks.

  • @rogerhudson9732
    @rogerhudson9732 7 месяцев назад

    Two weeks ago on his GBN show Portillo himself said that a 'Portillo Moment' has to be unexpected and that because the Tories were going to lose badly the only real Portillo moment would be for Sunak to lose. PM for PM.

  • @EnglishScripter
    @EnglishScripter 7 месяцев назад

    20% of the vote and 7 seats, disgusting.

  • @buttershy_
    @buttershy_ 7 месяцев назад +1

    rishi's constituency contains the largest british army garrison in the world. will be very interesting to see what happens considering the scandal

  • @AA-sm7bb
    @AA-sm7bb 7 месяцев назад +1

    He will lose it

  • @AliH-cd7kk
    @AliH-cd7kk 7 месяцев назад

    TLDR News has been eating good these last few weeks!!

  • @ilgatto7327
    @ilgatto7327 7 месяцев назад +3

    How about we wait till tonight and we will know if he looses his seat

  • @fabianholder5053
    @fabianholder5053 7 месяцев назад +1

    Mel stride and IDS need to lose their seat

  • @keithd26
    @keithd26 7 месяцев назад

    I think we need a new term for whats happening... the Sunak moment. Such a huge swing that anyone in the way of that swing is likely to need a doctor.

  • @samuelese22
    @samuelese22 7 месяцев назад +125

    What the hell is with the spam bot comments 💀

    • @jtf5332
      @jtf5332 7 месяцев назад +5

      What comments? The video has only been up for 20 minutes I don't see any spam bot comments

    • @cardwitch91
      @cardwitch91 7 месяцев назад +11

      @@jtf5332 That’s exactly what a spam bot would say! J’accuse! 😂 /s

    • @samuelese22
      @samuelese22 7 месяцев назад

      @@jtf5332 I reported them 🙄

    • @reaperz5677
      @reaperz5677 7 месяцев назад +8

      @@jtf5332 There are, like, 2 comments praising this video about how good/artistic it is. Those profiles have nude profile pictures or something, so yeah, it's spam, but it's not as sensational as that comment is making it out to be.

    • @edwardbernthal160
      @edwardbernthal160 7 месяцев назад +3

      @@jtf5332 there were two, you obviosly didn't see them. They are there everyday and always the first to post.

  • @AlfonsoSegundo791
    @AlfonsoSegundo791 7 месяцев назад +1

    If he loose his SEAT he can always take a FIAT

  • @Tris2000
    @Tris2000 7 месяцев назад

    When Twigg beat Portillo I was screaming with joy, what a wonderful moment. Especially because Twigg was gay, and had beaten a politician who had voted against LGBT policies in spite of having had some gay dalliances in his past that he had wanted to cover up. Funnily enough I warmed to him slightly as a pundit on This Week and his ]videos about trains. But stay away from politics, please. Or if you do, have some respect for your late socialist-replublican father who was exiled by Franco, FFS! Michael must have been such a disappointment to him. RIP Luis Gabriel Portillo. A courageous man, whose six brothers were all Franco supporters but he believed strongly in democracy and socialism. To have his son turn out like his brothers must have been so bitter for him.

  • @LetterboxTuxedo
    @LetterboxTuxedo 7 месяцев назад

    I seriously thought the Curb your Enthusiasm song was gonna play at :37 in after they announced the results.

  • @Ruddpocalypse
    @Ruddpocalypse 7 месяцев назад +1

    ♪ RISHI’S IN A BOX, IN A BOX
    RISHI’S IN A BO-OX ♪

  • @81Earthangel
    @81Earthangel 7 месяцев назад +1

    How can you have a parliament seat and be part of the government at the same time? Shouldn’t there be a separation of legislative and executive power in every democracy? Could we get an explainer video on that please?

    • @owenthomas5103
      @owenthomas5103 7 месяцев назад

      in theory maybe, but in practice the dozen parliamentary votes of the cabenat are usually insignificant compared to the number of back benches. And it dose give them some more direct accountability to parliament and to a local constiuancy.

    • @owenthomas5103
      @owenthomas5103 7 месяцев назад

      the real problem is with the Honorable move to make a Lord a member of the government so he doesn't face any accountability from the House of Commons.

  • @stellacollector
    @stellacollector 7 месяцев назад +3

    Will Rishi Sunak become the first sitting PM to be defeated in his own constituency? This is kinda exciting.

    • @Vtarngpb
      @Vtarngpb 7 месяцев назад +1

      Spoiler alert… Count Binface didn’t win 😓 Lettuce Truss got a slow clap though 😂

  • @gaberobison680
    @gaberobison680 7 месяцев назад

    Dubai is expected to experience the worst defeat in British history. Of course he’s going to lose his seat, he demolished an entire social safety net for his rich friends. He’s lucky to be alive after what his party did

  • @shaneryan7622
    @shaneryan7622 7 месяцев назад

    From an outside perspective, all I can say is good luck Britain, you’re going to need it

  • @DanGreen-n4k
    @DanGreen-n4k 7 месяцев назад +1

    Does not matter all fixed all liars were screwed either way 😢

  • @MaggsKirky
    @MaggsKirky 7 месяцев назад

    All of them !!

  • @TryDiy
    @TryDiy 7 месяцев назад

    My list is: Philp, Michael Greene (Shapps), Rees-Mogg, Truss and Cruella De Vil.

  • @HalesBales-j8c
    @HalesBales-j8c 7 месяцев назад +4

    I voted REFORM - give us a chance to get our country back!

    • @alansharman3644
      @alansharman3644 7 месяцев назад +1

      what like we did when brexit happened. how has that gone for you so far?

    • @4m4n40
      @4m4n40 7 месяцев назад

      @@alansharman3644we don’t speak about that

    • @Queinty
      @Queinty 7 месяцев назад

      Nazis in sheep's clothing.

  • @hornetgamer8980
    @hornetgamer8980 7 месяцев назад +1

    The phrase "Portillo moment" must be replaced after this election. The replacement needs to keep someone the Tories would prefer we all forget in the public consciousness for a generation to come.

  • @Srindal4657
    @Srindal4657 7 месяцев назад +3

    Vote for your interests. Thats all I will say today.

  • @napoleonfeanor
    @napoleonfeanor 7 месяцев назад +4

    Proportional representation would be better. Pretty much every system is better than fptp

    • @alansharman3644
      @alansharman3644 7 месяцев назад +1

      names in a hat would be better than fptp

    • @allthenewsordeath5772
      @allthenewsordeath5772 7 месяцев назад

      Just restore the Kings power, Charles and William seem like OK chaps at least.

  • @Hutchyy
    @Hutchyy 7 месяцев назад

    I just spent too long trying to figure this out so worth adding that Jeremy Hunt's constituency South West Surrey is now Godalming and Ash after the boundary change. Yougov exit poll predicts a 51% Lib Dems win