"He was rattled throughout" | PMQs Analysed | 08.05.24

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 7 май 2024
  • James O’Brien and LBC’s Political Editor, Natasha Clark, analyse this week's PMQs as Rishi Sunak faced Sir Keir Starmer.
    To the surprise of many in the Commons, Starmer announced that MP Natalie Elphicke had defected from the Conservatives to Labour.
    'Why on earth are Labour accepting this Tory?'
    'He was rattled throughout'
    'It's not something you can prepare for'
    'She's not destined to become a sparkly jewel'
    'It gives Starmer yet another stick to batter him with'
    'Starmer's launched a two-pronged attack on the Tory Party'
    'This defection statement is seething'
    'A third defection to come?'
    'They've run out of road'
    'Shall we have a little bet?'
    'Sunak is slinging out the same old insults'
    'The mud isn't sticking anymore'
    Listen to the full show on Global Player: app.af.globalplayer.com/Br0x/...
    #Presenter #Subject #LBC
    LBC is the home of live debate around news and current affairs in the UK.
    Join in the conversation and listen at www.lbc.co.uk/
    Sign up to LBC’s weekly newsletter here: l-bc.co/signup

Комментарии • 753

  • @reiw5802
    @reiw5802 21 день назад +417

    Elphicke is the same Dover MP who supported fire and rehire on P&O staff, and the same who left negative comments about Marcus Rashford just because he wanted to feed hungry children.
    She'd better not stand for labour.

    • @captainfrandad1138
      @captainfrandad1138 21 день назад +100

      Apparently she’s not going to stand and Labour already has a candidate in place for that seat.
      This defection feels to me like it’s a very political move designed to embarrass the Tories and underline that their time is up.

    • @anonomous8719
      @anonomous8719 21 день назад +10

      That’s the perfect candidate for labour - in line with their values

    • @garethpreen5929
      @garethpreen5929 21 день назад +19

      Of coarse she's standing for New Torries (I mean Labour). As George Galloway so eloquently put it, they are "two cheeks of the same backside ".

    • @greamespens1460
      @greamespens1460 21 день назад +3

      If a guy who was in Combat 18 join Hope not Hate why can't she be redeemed?

    • @mocko9912
      @mocko9912 21 день назад +14

      ​@@garethpreen5929 wouldn't bother giving him the time of day!

  • @ThomasKing19933
    @ThomasKing19933 21 день назад +242

    Who cares about Natalie Elphicke? Where's Sangita?

    • @anonomous8719
      @anonomous8719 21 день назад +8

      Sacked due to low viewership numbers

    • @greamespens1460
      @greamespens1460 21 день назад +3

      ​@@anonomous8719 Yes they should bring Majid back

    • @ThomasKing19933
      @ThomasKing19933 21 день назад +6

      ​@@greamespens1460 I liked Majid. I was dissapointed when he was pushed out.

    • @benwilson6145
      @benwilson6145 21 день назад +5

      Who cares! Get over your school boy crush!

    • @ThomasKing19933
      @ThomasKing19933 21 день назад +16

      ​@@benwilson6145Grow up. Silly person.

  • @dw-yl3ln
    @dw-yl3ln 21 день назад +196

    That was Sunak's worst PMQs. He looked knackered, he was whiny, he lacked convinction. He kept harping on about Labour being anti-semitic and was very obviously and gracelessly dodging questions.
    And finally, finally Starmer said 'he's getting ahead of himself. He's asking so many questions because he thinks I'm the Prime Minister already.' I've been waiting for him to say that for months.

    • @uniquerebeljaney3639
      @uniquerebeljaney3639 21 день назад +1

      Bringing up Blair again because the Corbyn attacks weren't working. He's so desperate.

    • @alexharrison2743
      @alexharrison2743 21 день назад +24

      I really can't remember a single PMQs where Sunak hasn't done terribly (and I tune in every week), but this week really is the most atrocious, pathetic, weak display he's put on to date. What an absolute coward - call a general election.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад +2

      @dw Stalmer being anti-Semitic is totally unacceptable of course!

    • @sempressfi
      @sempressfi 21 день назад +1

      ​@@chatham43 yep, the way the labour party has treated Palestinians, including their own members, is pretty disgraceful

    • @thejuiceking2219
      @thejuiceking2219 21 день назад +5

      @@chatham43 is it wrong that at this point people calling labour anti-semetic has lost all meaning to me?

  • @finlayfraser9952
    @finlayfraser9952 21 день назад +99

    Labour should have nothing to do with Elphicke, she has appalling views, she is acting out of cynical self interest!

    • @tomcharles8786
      @tomcharles8786 21 день назад +3

      ...she has already made alternative [lans...is standing down at the next GE...it's a token gesture, is all....

    • @tryingmybest9819
      @tryingmybest9819 21 день назад +1

      ​@@tomcharles8786 I'm sure reform would have loved to have her

    • @kityhawk2000
      @kityhawk2000 21 день назад +3

      In fairness Labour are taking her out of self interest too. It's another stick they can beat Sunak and the Tories with to show how even their own MPs have lost faith in them

    • @tryingmybest9819
      @tryingmybest9819 21 день назад

      @kityhawk2000 only in the short term. Doubt they'll stand down the person they picked to have Starmers choice forced on them. Starmer never had a principle he wasn't willing to sellout

    • @ashimsen9520
      @ashimsen9520 21 день назад

      Which mirror that of her husband who was dropped by the Tories and she then took his seat. I don't trust her in the slightest

  • @jasoncooper9391
    @jasoncooper9391 21 день назад +279

    14 years of Tory Failure

    • @georgemorrison9280
      @georgemorrison9280 21 день назад +2

      ……wait until you see Labour’s performance over the next five years .

    • @kbspark
      @kbspark 21 день назад +40

      ​@@georgemorrison9280 Sheer whataboutery.
      What MIGHT happen in your fevered imagination,against what HAS happened in the last 14 years of Tory shambles .
      Can you name one thing that's improved since then ?

    • @benrichardson3031
      @benrichardson3031 21 день назад +25

      ​@@georgemorrison9280 Still a thousand times better than what we've currently got

    • @Rosskles
      @Rosskles 21 день назад +15

      ​@@georgemorrison9280 At least you've accepted the inevitable 😂

    • @RoofLight00
      @RoofLight00 21 день назад +13

      @@georgemorrison9280
      Broadcasting straight from Leningrad.

  • @jimmeltonbradley1497
    @jimmeltonbradley1497 21 день назад +22

    If she does stand, it will be a disgrace to the Labour party. She is awful in almost every way.

  • @brianoriordan7281
    @brianoriordan7281 21 день назад +25

    Completely agree she should not be given the Labour Whip. She clearly cannot be trusted and is simply trying to ensure she doesn't become unemployed.

  • @Shephard1978
    @Shephard1978 21 день назад +115

    An interview with Elphicke regarding food banks was precisely the reason I took my food bank just an assignment from my photography degree to a full blown photography project. Voted against free school meals for kids but urged people to support their local food bank! Awful!

    • @limpethead
      @limpethead 21 день назад

      What are people having kids for, if they can't feed them? Having kids and then making it everyone else's responsibility. I very much doubt you have asked anyone, that question. Maybe, l should take care of the assignment, and give it some kudos.

    • @toriesdontgettazered7464
      @toriesdontgettazered7464 21 день назад +3

      ​@@limpetheadno too bright eh!

    • @limpethead
      @limpethead 21 день назад

      @@toriesdontgettazered7464 sticking the old fingers in the ears are you? And going " la la la".

    • @Shephard1978
      @Shephard1978 21 день назад +2

      @@limpethead It’s like you started half way through a rant and aimed it at me. How exactly would you lend the project kudos? You don’t even know what the project is beyond the brief description one exists here!

    • @limpethead
      @limpethead 21 день назад

      @@Shephard1978 No l don't. But l know folk that go to food banks when the benefits get blown on drugs. That's a common. And when l say benefits, I'm talking £3k a month benefits and more.

  • @user-sd3ik9rt6d
    @user-sd3ik9rt6d 21 день назад +288

    She does not deserve to stand as a Labour candidate

    • @waynereid9471
      @waynereid9471 21 день назад +61

      She’s not
      She leaving at the next election

    • @nichemphill8321
      @nichemphill8321 21 день назад

      she's not, it has been confirmed she will stand down at the election

    • @marques-jr
      @marques-jr 21 день назад

      The BBC reports that she will stand down, so she's not a Labour candidate

    • @pip1723
      @pip1723 21 день назад +15

      Tories falling to bits like the country.

    • @ineedmoreflavour1955
      @ineedmoreflavour1955 21 день назад +1

      Leftist purity tests like this from people like you are why the Corbyn left and such never win anything.

  • @user-sd3ik9rt6d
    @user-sd3ik9rt6d 21 день назад +109

    We are all suffering under long Conservative

    • @DeltaV-sayno2CCP
      @DeltaV-sayno2CCP 21 день назад +8

      All by design, get everyone in poverty and arguing while the rich get richer.

    • @traviscutler9912
      @traviscutler9912 21 день назад

      O'Brien forgets that he along with the establishment side of Labour helped Johnson by smearing Jeremy Corbyn as an antisemite despite there being zero evidence to support that accusation. They'd rather the incompetentce of the Tories than Corbyn's commitment to actual working class people as well as human Rights for EVERYONE, even brown people.
      O'Brien is duplicitous +w@+ but some of us remember.
      Free Sangita Myska and have a real journalist on the air instead of this establishment hack.

    • @traviscutler9912
      @traviscutler9912 21 день назад +1

      ​@@DeltaV-sayno2CCPprecisely

    • @iskrajackal9049
      @iskrajackal9049 21 день назад

      Vicious, deadly virus called Long COnservaVID

  • @lazslostpierre9951
    @lazslostpierre9951 21 день назад +19

    Natalie Elphicke defecting to Labour. What wormhole have I travelled through, to what parallel universe. Bonkers!

    • @alikamal3464
      @alikamal3464 21 день назад +3

      It suggests to me even more now that Conservative and labour are different, only in name.

  • @LeeJPryer
    @LeeJPryer 21 день назад +8

    BRING BACK SANGITA

  • @carolkelly5578
    @carolkelly5578 21 день назад +19

    Natasha blends beautifully into that chair 😅

  • @gm9460
    @gm9460 21 день назад +24

    “Believes it’s a waste of his time” - of course he does. Sunak is arrogant and doesn’t believe he should be questioned at all

  • @PhilosoG
    @PhilosoG 21 день назад +21

    Prime ministers questions is the perfect name for it, as it is all questions and not a single answered question...

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад +1

      @philo The pennies dropped!!😊

    • @Paragon62
      @Paragon62 21 день назад

      Just like this channel not very balanced, complaint to ofcom again.alwats communist.

  • @debswalker529
    @debswalker529 21 день назад +4

    Bring back Sangita the only journalist with true integrity 🇵🇸🇵🇸🇵🇸

  • @nickpage7333
    @nickpage7333 21 день назад +29

    She won’t be a Labour candidate. This is the right political move by Labour right before PMQs and after the LEs. They’ll bin her when the GE is called.

  • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
    @user-ol6rd7pl5t 21 день назад +18

    The party's over Rishi, grab your coat.

  • @serhanmmiah7315
    @serhanmmiah7315 21 день назад +7

    It's infuriating when politicians ditch their party just to save their own skin. They should have the backbone to stick to their principles, even if it means facing the consequences head-on.

  • @Provenom100
    @Provenom100 21 день назад +69

    Genuinely thought Sunak was going to start crying during that.

    • @WilliamMacKenzie-dq6bf
      @WilliamMacKenzie-dq6bf 21 день назад

      Could it be that it's finally dawning on Itchy Bawsack that his party are a shambolic disaster!

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад +1

      @provenom And for once you're being genuine!

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @provenon And for once you're being genuine!

    • @shaun906
      @shaun906 21 день назад

      😪

    • @FranzBieberkopf
      @FranzBieberkopf 21 день назад

      @@chatham43 You don't need to repeat yourself

  • @paulc1553
    @paulc1553 21 день назад +110

    Bring back Sangita Mysak. No to Vanessa Feltz.

    • @williamelewis464
      @williamelewis464 21 день назад +8

      She's moved on so should you

    • @DeltaV-sayno2CCP
      @DeltaV-sayno2CCP 21 день назад +6

      Get rid of James O Coward, Ferrari and Fogarty. All IDF apologists.

    • @dannyquinn9128
      @dannyquinn9128 21 день назад +1

      What's wrong with Feltz?

    • @mwd331
      @mwd331 21 день назад +7

      ​@DeltaV-sayno2CCP just go away and listen to something else then, who are you to make demands on all our behalf?

    • @combatwombat2134
      @combatwombat2134 21 день назад +4

      ​@@DeltaV-sayno2CCP As someone who absolutely supports Israel, it's where I most disagree with James because I dislike Palestine support.
      I don't know what you've been watching but he isn't pro IDF. I'm pro IDF and he doesn't support a similar stance to me at all.

  • @paulc1553
    @paulc1553 21 день назад +148

    Tories are toast.

    • @DeltaV-sayno2CCP
      @DeltaV-sayno2CCP 21 день назад

      Labour will continue the corruption.

    • @fergusdenoon1255
      @fergusdenoon1255 21 день назад

      not if they all defect into the Labour party...

    • @DavidEdwards-uf5lg
      @DavidEdwards-uf5lg 21 день назад

      So are we iff slippery starmer gets into number 10.

    • @RoofLight00
      @RoofLight00 21 день назад +17

      @@DavidEdwards-uf5lg
      I can smell your desperation from here.

    • @angiehaddington6462
      @angiehaddington6462 21 день назад +3

      We can only hope....

  • @martynjones8560
    @martynjones8560 21 день назад +12

    For those who doubt the existence of zombies, I present exhibit A: The Tory Party.

  • @kbspark
    @kbspark 21 день назад +9

    Even Sunak doesn't belief the guff hes spouting .
    You can see it in his face and hear it in his voice .
    He's only staying there to lengthen his CV for his next job

  • @emmanuelminet1233
    @emmanuelminet1233 21 день назад +48

    I am so disappointed Sir Keir did not ask 'WHERE IS SANGITA?'.

    • @seanomaille8157
      @seanomaille8157 21 день назад

      Where's Sangita? LBC has been captured by Israel lobby. LBC = Lost Basic Credibility! Time to make a stand James!

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @Emma He's already married!

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад +1

      @emma Because he's not a creepy obsessive stalker like 👍 you!

  • @michaelkemp6857
    @michaelkemp6857 21 день назад +12

    Would you believe that in my post today was a news letter from Natalie Elphicke extolling all the wonderful things that the Tories have acheived for the towns of Dover and Deal and two hours later she has defected to Labour. You couldnt make it up could you!! The country has gone down the toilet - just pull the chain!!

  • @Esta-Beed
    @Esta-Beed 21 день назад +11

    Rishi Rich Sunak the WEAK Tory noodle

  • @Dani20240
    @Dani20240 21 день назад +13

    We want a general election now.

  • @paulharrisharris5761
    @paulharrisharris5761 21 день назад +44

    When is Sunak going to throw the towel in 😩

    • @thejuiceking2219
      @thejuiceking2219 21 день назад +6

      when he's done siphoning taxpayer money into his and his family's pockets

    • @martywestywood6004
      @martywestywood6004 21 день назад

      When he's finished the swim in his pool?

  • @joshuacampbell1625
    @joshuacampbell1625 21 день назад +81

    Sunak was incredibly vexxed throughout pmqs today

    • @miketemple876
      @miketemple876 21 день назад +7

      Discombobulated, even

    • @Nilguiri
      @Nilguiri 21 день назад +3

      Nearly had a conniption.

    • @pastlesandfish
      @pastlesandfish 18 дней назад +1

      He's always vexed. You'd think someone as rich as him would be happier.

  • @GerryT.
    @GerryT. 21 день назад +10

    Elphicke is hardly an advantage to Elphicke, she is seen as one of the thickest MPs from any party.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @Gerry. and you know all about being thick. Labour relys on it!

  • @michaelcoward1902
    @michaelcoward1902 21 день назад +5

    Meanwhile James isn't even slightly rattles about sangita being cancelled by Israel...

  • @MrPaulmorris7777
    @MrPaulmorris7777 21 день назад +16

    I seem to remember Boris being an unelected PM, after he ousted Theresa May.

    • @stuartwilson1190
      @stuartwilson1190 21 день назад +4

      At least boris went to the public with an election

    • @alexharrison2743
      @alexharrison2743 21 день назад

      ​@@stuartwilson1190after a year in office and unlawfully proroguing parliament to try to get what he wanted. If the polls hadn't shown for him he wouldn't have called an election either and would have clung on as an unelected charlatan

    • @davelangford2439
      @davelangford2439 21 день назад +1

      What's your point?

    • @MrPaulmorris7777
      @MrPaulmorris7777 21 день назад +2

      @@davelangford2439 Boris is a backstabber.

    • @davelangford2439
      @davelangford2439 21 день назад +2

      @@MrPaulmorris7777 fair enough, agreed.

  • @jamesdenny5078
    @jamesdenny5078 21 день назад +3

    Starmers best PMQs arguably. Totally skewered Sunak, who, as usual, had no answers to anything.

  • @johnrussell3961
    @johnrussell3961 21 день назад +18

    Life is an exam. He thinks it’s course work.
    Bandanock is the worst. She’s hates having to explain to the house and select committees what she is doing and why.

    • @JoelJoel321
      @JoelJoel321 21 день назад

      Badenoch*

    • @blazzz13
      @blazzz13 21 день назад

      @@JoelJoel321 woosh

    • @JoelJoel321
      @JoelJoel321 21 день назад +1

      @@blazzz13 Clearly. Would you mind explaining the joke?

    • @stephenjon3502
      @stephenjon3502 21 день назад +1

      @@JoelJoel321Badenuf

  • @ashifhassan1148
    @ashifhassan1148 21 день назад +28

    Bring back Sangita

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @ash And change your bedsheets!😊😊

  • @nichemphill8321
    @nichemphill8321 21 день назад +57

    ELPHICKE will stand down at the Election

    • @vomgrady
      @vomgrady 21 день назад +4

      I hope so but I haven't managed to find it being reported (yet)

    • @marksuttonbiodynamicbreath2374
      @marksuttonbiodynamicbreath2374 21 день назад +3

      @@vomgrady reporting it now by chris mason on the BBC

    • @davecross4493
      @davecross4493 21 день назад +4

      She's standing down. They have a candidate already. Just looked it up.

    • @vomgrady
      @vomgrady 21 день назад +4

      @@marksuttonbiodynamicbreath2374 Cheers. I'm relieved.

    • @dianamincher6479
      @dianamincher6479 21 день назад +1

      We hope!

  • @annishilcock4587
    @annishilcock4587 21 день назад +52

    It was John Crace..... Rishi Sunak has just died on his feet. It is an act of cruelty to let him continue

    • @peterspowage5752
      @peterspowage5752 21 день назад +2

      Oh he's hanging on to keep the earth shouldering, the Mail has already got 5 years of script written.

    • @DarrenSmith-wu8cm
      @DarrenSmith-wu8cm 21 день назад +2

      You need to stop watching the circus and look at the bigger picture get ready for another banking crisis

    • @peterspowage5752
      @peterspowage5752 21 день назад +1

      @@DarrenSmith-wu8cm Let me know when I can start shorting the pound.

    • @DarrenSmith-wu8cm
      @DarrenSmith-wu8cm 21 день назад

      @@peterspowage5752 short the pound now it's up to you

  • @michaelhyatt3191
    @michaelhyatt3191 21 день назад +8

    LBC needs to bring back Sangita

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @michael And if not you'll start sulking!

  • @noellenn2122
    @noellenn2122 21 день назад +5

    Won’t be surprised she defects to Reform the moment the GE is done.

  • @JO-tg6xm
    @JO-tg6xm 21 день назад +8

    Why so little so late
    She made the calculation to go for the best way of holding to her job
    Vote her out if she stands
    Carpet bagger.

  • @jake751
    @jake751 21 день назад +22

    Where is award winning journalist sangita???

    • @djdoolittle1315
      @djdoolittle1315 21 день назад +1

      Who are you? 😊

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @jake In hiding from the stalkers!

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @jake Hiding from the stalkers!

  • @djdoolittle1315
    @djdoolittle1315 21 день назад +9

    Sangita 💚

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @Mrs Little💄!

  • @richardfinlayson1524
    @richardfinlayson1524 21 день назад +20

    The Conservatives need to just go away

  • @susannahhunt100
    @susannahhunt100 21 день назад +5

    Bring Sangita back.

  • @POOPscooper302
    @POOPscooper302 21 день назад +5

    Natalie who ? Where's Sangita ?

  • @joesoy9185
    @joesoy9185 21 день назад +4

    You should know that she IS INDEED stepping down.

  • @67Parsifal
    @67Parsifal 21 день назад +2

    Relax. She’s moved just to humiliate Sunak. The scheduled Labour candidate will fight the seat.

  • @Randomness1000
    @Randomness1000 21 день назад +70

    Elphicke is standing down at the next election.

    • @robandrews8047
      @robandrews8047 21 день назад

      Where does it state this? Literally can’t find it anywhere

    • @johnm2012
      @johnm2012 21 день назад +2

      ​@@robandrews8047The BBC says that it understands this to be the case.

    • @boldiegoldie
      @boldiegoldie 21 день назад +7

      @@johnm2012 just been confirmed by labour

    • @richardsmith3881
      @richardsmith3881 21 день назад

      Vote her out

    • @user-SubvurzIV
      @user-SubvurzIV 21 день назад

      Of course she is, they doubled the severance package so she's going to milk the taxpayers for as much as she can before she's gone.

  • @sharonpearson420
    @sharonpearson420 21 день назад +14

    bring back Sangita

  • @keremkilicay9995
    @keremkilicay9995 21 день назад +52

    Bring back sangita you sellout

    • @DeltaV-sayno2CCP
      @DeltaV-sayno2CCP 21 день назад +1

      James O Coward likes money over principles.

    • @mwd331
      @mwd331 21 день назад +4

      ​@@DeltaV-sayno2CCP what does he have to do with it? Seriously, have a think at what would happen if he commented on her exit from the company he works for? Give examples of other presenters doing the same?

    • @combatwombat2134
      @combatwombat2134 21 день назад +3

      ​@@DeltaV-sayno2CCP You know that James isn't responsible for the hiring and firing of staff at LBC, right?

    • @DeltaV-sayno2CCP
      @DeltaV-sayno2CCP 21 день назад

      People can speak out against war crimes on a national media platform but they are paid by Israel supporters to stay quiet.

    • @Paragon62
      @Paragon62 21 день назад +1

      Champagne socialist, who sits there talking about the guardian,morally bankrupt.

  • @31Blaize
    @31Blaize 21 день назад +5

    Of course it's a waste of time Sunak prepping for PMQs, he never answers anything and just uses the same phrases question after question so why should he bother? Now if he approached PMQs in the spirit it was supposed to conducted in, he would have to prepare some actual real answers...

  • @jake90052
    @jake90052 21 день назад +3

    At this rate, labour will be full of conservatives and we'll be stuck in the same old mess.

  • @AlanTelford
    @AlanTelford 21 день назад +16

    Sangita ?? Never thought James would be a client Journalist, so disappointed

  • @andygass9096
    @andygass9096 21 день назад +5

    Shes actually standing down at the next election.

  • @jimbo914
    @jimbo914 21 день назад +35

    Says a lot about Keir Starmers Labour party when far-right Tories can find a home there. But something something Corbyn something something antisemite

    • @markbailey1970
      @markbailey1970 21 день назад +21

      It does - it says they are now massively electable

    • @Notalloldpeople
      @Notalloldpeople 21 день назад +7

      As long as the broad church supports a move left (and can get elected), to my mind it’s a means to an end

    • @mustrumridcully3853
      @mustrumridcully3853 21 день назад

      Something, something, Corbyn lost twice, something, something, worst election performances for decades. Move on.

    • @DavidTurner-cn1xj
      @DavidTurner-cn1xj 21 день назад +1

      So true ​@@markbailey1970

    • @user-nj1qu1cs7s
      @user-nj1qu1cs7s 21 день назад +4

      @@markbailey1970 No it says there almost as right wing as the Tories and she is about as extreme as can be.

  • @iandhr1
    @iandhr1 21 день назад +2

    As a Yank, who loves to observe UK politics, because Prime Minister's Questions can be more entertaining than anything on Netflix here are my thoughts. In a first-past-the-post system, the only way you can win is to have as big a coalition as possible. You use the term broad church we use big tent. To my understanding, she is standing down after the ending of this parliament. Having her sit as a Labour MP, even if it's only for a few months, tells lifelong Tory voters that it's okay to vote Labour in this election. And when are dealing with people who have no morals like the Tories, or people who are a direct threat to a democratic system like Donald Trump, sometimes you have to make uncomfortable alliances with people that you would rather avoid in ordinary situations. But unfortunately, those are not the times we're living in.

  • @patrickh8602
    @patrickh8602 21 день назад +4

    Very disappointed that Kier Starmer accepted Elphick into the Labour Party.

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад +1

      @patrick It's so unfortunate...but I'll still vote for the party calling itself Labour!☺☺

  • @user-hh8tf4tb9q
    @user-hh8tf4tb9q 21 день назад +9

    Would they take Jonathon Gullis if he jumped? Of course not, I doubt the tories really want him.

  • @simonanstey5546
    @simonanstey5546 21 день назад +2

    I won't be listening to this. Where is Sangita?

  • @marijadavidovic1316
    @marijadavidovic1316 21 день назад +10

    Bunch of gangsters

  • @Mounhas
    @Mounhas 21 день назад +2

    Can’t labour say to Elphicke “go do one”. Awful person.

  • @annepoitrineau5650
    @annepoitrineau5650 21 день назад +2

    All I know about this woman makes her completely unfit to be a labour person.

  • @AngelicusImmortus
    @AngelicusImmortus 21 день назад +1

    Accepting any floor crossing is fairly straight forward.
    A rule of Politics, make your opponent look weak in any way you possibly can.
    Remember, they havent joined the party and have to do so to stand as an MP.

  • @barrybarry6592
    @barrybarry6592 21 день назад +2

    A total opportunist and lacking in any moral fibre.
    Get rid before she wrecks the fragile labour party in both Dover and the country

  • @user-nh5re9xr7l
    @user-nh5re9xr7l 21 день назад +1

    He was shaking throughout shitnak 😂

  • @mrd64
    @mrd64 21 день назад +2

    Sunak doesn't want to do PMQs. How dare people ask him questions.

  • @ate1o
    @ate1o 21 день назад +4

    Why is Lindsey Hoyle still the Commons Speaker? Do you think he will remain as speaker after the election?

  • @madgedeepers5746
    @madgedeepers5746 21 день назад +7

    'Coup' is pronounced as 'coo' - but I put it down to the defection and all its ramifications

  • @DBuckyBoy
    @DBuckyBoy 21 день назад

    A move like this would have been like an actor going from ITV's Coronation Street to BBC's Eastenders. Nowadays, it's more like Corrie to Emmerdale

  • @skrtdaily5533
    @skrtdaily5533 21 день назад +3

    JUSTICE FOR SANGITA

  • @leadfarmer9396
    @leadfarmer9396 21 день назад +5

    What happened to Sangita?

  • @NSW-ye3xw
    @NSW-ye3xw 21 день назад +2

    Sunak not calling a General Election now is pure and utter arrogance.

  • @bazjoan
    @bazjoan 21 день назад +1

    The MP is not standing at the next election that was on daily politics at lunch time.

  • @heshamallam8829
    @heshamallam8829 21 день назад +16

    It is so revealing for Labour to accept a similar MP, Labour is no longer Labour! And where is Sangita?!

    • @peterspowage5752
      @peterspowage5752 21 день назад +3

      Wake up!! She'll only be there as long as Sunak is, and if her gesture precipitates his demise, she's cutting her own throat.
      What's Starmer got to lose?

    • @alexharrison2743
      @alexharrison2743 21 день назад +2

      "Labour will retain their existing candidate in Dover and Deal at the next general election and Ms Elphicke will stand down", is the line on the BBC News website updated 30 minutes ago - they've accepted her for the impact & optics, but thankfully she's not going to stand in Dover

    • @chatham43
      @chatham43 21 день назад

      @hesham Hiding from you!😊

  • @AuntieSally-go1lh
    @AuntieSally-go1lh 21 день назад +10

    As a labour member i say no way to Elphicke
    Please k Starmer don’t accept her its not right !

    • @SplashTasty
      @SplashTasty 21 день назад +2

      Learn to deal with realpolitik. It's how adults operate in politics.

    • @Paragon62
      @Paragon62 21 день назад

      You’re still a member have u learnt nothing.

  • @owennoble8575
    @owennoble8575 21 день назад +4

    Where's Sangria?

  • @janeking9540
    @janeking9540 21 день назад +1

    Embracing a Tory into the Labour party is another reason I will not be voting Labour, after a lifetime of voting Labour. I have the rare luxury of voting with my conscience, as I live in a true blue constituency, much to my chagrin.

  • @annepoitrineau5650
    @annepoitrineau5650 21 день назад +2

    Now, what about Sangita????

  • @andreasstavrinides6980
    @andreasstavrinides6980 21 день назад +1

    Poor old Sunak. Utterly out of his depth.

  • @writtenenglish
    @writtenenglish 19 дней назад

    How could neither of you have known she had already confirmed she was not standing in the next GE?

  • @Chrisnffc82
    @Chrisnffc82 21 день назад +1

    Natasha is blending in with the chair

  • @ianbanks3016
    @ianbanks3016 19 дней назад

    That a tory as appalling as Elphicke feels so comfortable joining Starmer's Labour party (and the fact Starmer is delighted to have her) tells me more about the direction it's heading in, than it tells me anything about turmoil in the Tory party. Grim stuff.

  • @ForzAvantiVelez
    @ForzAvantiVelez 21 день назад +3

    LBC… where is Sangita?

  • @jasoncooper9391
    @jasoncooper9391 21 день назад +6

    Tories game is up 😂😂😂😂

  • @fredpearce1531
    @fredpearce1531 21 день назад +1

    Elphicke isn’t standing for the General Election - Mike Tapp is the candidate for Labour for the new Dover/Deal seat

  • @alana8863
    @alana8863 21 день назад +1

    She's said she won't stand again.

  • @bryansmith1920
    @bryansmith1920 21 день назад

    I'm sorry James, can I as a 70yr old Brit, trying to put my thoughts, in a semblance of order, 1 how is it Morally ok for a MP that was voted for as a(what ever political party)allowed to stay in Parliament, on resignation from that Party, Can office workers, tell HR, I'm going to be the CEO's PA Monday morning, 🤔🤔🤔 I feel a temper tantrum coming on,

  • @mbrierley144brierley3
    @mbrierley144brierley3 21 день назад +2

    I heard she was stepping down.

  • @leedavis6000
    @leedavis6000 21 день назад +1

    Conservatives going to Labour says a lot about Labour.

  • @nickwalsh527
    @nickwalsh527 21 день назад +1

    Labour already has a candidate for Elphicke's Dover and Deal seat at the next election - Mike Tapp (actually it wont even be called Dover and Deal in the future due to boundary changes). I doubt very much that Elphicke will displace him and she's so toxic I dont know where else she might go, at least as a Labour canididate.

  • @timthegallant
    @timthegallant 21 день назад +1

    We shouldnt be having hard line tories in the labour party.the doctor that defected fair enough as he was supporting the nhs.but this person.why.

  • @susanpettitt713
    @susanpettitt713 21 день назад +23

    Blame Gordon Brown is all he had left....GE

    • @NSW-ye3xw
      @NSW-ye3xw 21 день назад +4

      Ha ha, yes and whatever he did the tories had 15 years to fix it.

  • @murder13love
    @murder13love 16 дней назад

    This just shows how close the labour and tory parties are 👍

  • @KippaxDan
    @KippaxDan 21 день назад

    She doesn’t acknowledge the member of the public asking the question. Typical behaviour

  • @jonpritz8358
    @jonpritz8358 21 день назад +1

    May I be so brave to ask what has happened to Sangita..😢

  • @reddirtuk
    @reddirtuk 21 день назад +2

    Where's Sangita ?

  • @alexy8520
    @alexy8520 21 день назад +1

    Sunak was deflated today. Utterly hammered by Starmer.

  • @williamevans9426
    @williamevans9426 21 день назад

    Please could someone at LBC politely point out to Ms Clark that the word 'coup' is pronounced 'coo', not 'coop'! BTW, Elphicke has indicated that she will be standing down at the General Election.

  • @isabellucas1379
    @isabellucas1379 21 день назад +6

    Don't let Elphicke in. Send her to Reform!!!!