Sunak’s ‘daily blunders’ are handing Keir the keys to No.10
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- Опубликовано: 24 май 2024
- There may be some merit in Rishi Sunak taking a day off from campaigning to work out what’s going wrong, says Theo Usherwood.
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Love the implication that the Tories should scrutinise Starmer’s inability to spend money because of the Tories’ failures.
Yep, we idiots broke the country so YOU have a credibility problem explaining how to mend it
The problem is that the Tories delivered the most massive blunder since WW2, exiting the EU with no benefits for anyone but the wealthy and powerful. Sadly our current prime minister is amongst the culprits and this fact cannot be avoided.
@marksimons8861 Lets not forget the largest transfer of wealth in history from the people of this country.
The blunder was exiting the EU. Not the lack of "benefits"
The problem is Rupert Murdoch has chosen Starmer and everyone falls for it every time.
@@clivet3252yeah? Must have missed that news. Source?
@@clivet3252Murdoch picks winners, he is an opportunist driven by money and power, nothing more, nothing less.
This guy is deluded. Sunak can’t handle Starmer‼️
Don't you ever get tired of bashing Keir Starmer? Do you think that the Tories will win the beauty competition if they get a grip on their campaign strategy? You're living on a planet of your own.
Whats not to dislike about any politician?
So, Starmer's there for the taking because the Tories have fouled things up so much he won't have any money to do anything. But that applies to the Tories too, and they created the mess in the first place. There is no way out for them.
Sunak, like most narcissists, cant recognise his own weaknesses. He's launched a campaign predicated on his ability to persuade the electorate...but he's terrible at campaigning, awful with the public, and comes across like a spoiled tetchy manchild in debates. Usually elections get closer near to the end, in this case I expect the gulf to widen even more.
and today's blunder, a leak indicates that Sunak wants to send 18 year olds to the army. He just lost the youth and parental vote.
The only reason Sunak was elected in the first place is because the people of Richmond would vote for a squirrel if it wore a blue rosette!😂 😂
He wasn't elected.
They would have been better off voting for the squirrel.
Meanwhile in the real world, I have an urgent appointment at the food bank.
Rishi will need more than a rethink to make the country forget about the last 14 years. Its too late rich boy.
Who is he kidding that "Starmer is there for the taking"? It's 14 years of mismanagement not Sunak's 'daily blunders' that are going to (hopefully) lead to a them being kept out of No. 10 for at least a generation
I feel like these reporters saw a very different campaign with Boris Johnson than I did. I remember him hiding in a fridge and snatching phones out of reporters hands.
I think if Boris Johnson had been caught in that titanic situation, he would've blustered his way through, made himself look like a clown and then an army of journalists enamoured with his schtick would have praised him for being so clever to make bumbling bafoon his entire brand.
“Handing Keir the keys to Number Ten” Oh behave, that happened some time ago. This is just theatre.
He just called for national service to come back. Add that to the list of daily blunders.
Just as Starmer promises 16 and 17 year old's the vote to help them decide their future, Sunak puts them in the Army for a year
Its as if Sunak is trying to destroy the Tories as much as he can
He doesn't want to get reelected in his own constituency. So he can go to cali without quitting
"Starmer is going to get into Number 10 without being properly tested". what you mean like Sunak did when he was appointed to be PM agter Mad Liz Lettuce Truss? If this guys a political genius, I'm a banana
Imagine thinking the Tories would win if only Sunak didnt stand in the rain 🤦♂️
We see Rishi Sunak as the Norman Wisdom of British politics, and that isn't just a reflection of his ill-fitting suits
*My favourite? Rishi asking Welsh blokes in a pub if they were looking forward to The Euros* 😅😂🤣
Or the guy in the homeless shelter if he was "in business" ffs
Rishi is living proof that you never let the chief beancounter run the company.
Oh yes, a functioning opposition is important, but it shouldn't be the current incarnation of the Tories who don't even deserve to come second.
Legitimately, a LibDem opposition pushing for electoral reform and proper management of public services like water would be significantly better for the country than what the Tories have to offer.
What’s going wrong? 😂
Wishi Washi and 14 years of failure pretty much covers it.
So Theo is a spokesperson for the Tories, is he? Sunak is an intelligent man, Theo says. Hard to know what he's basing his opinion on.
How did someone so bungling and inept get a job at an investment bank ? Perhaps they managed a large sum for a relative of his.
When you’re rich you don’t have to be smart. AKA bumhole Boris.
What's stranger is that he trusts that bank to make him money, trusts the analysis, yet the same bank said Brexit had had a negative impact on GDP by 5%, but he didn't agree...
The difference is Brexit wasn't linked to his money
"How did someone so bungling and inept get a job at an investment bank"
Connections. In the UK having been to the right school and right university pretty much guarantees you a high ranking job regardless of how good you are. The result is that the upper echelons of all branches of UK government and all large UK companies are stuffed with low talent people who are only there because their parents paid to send them to expensive schools.
It's legalised corruption.
In overtly corrupt countries in the global south people just pay to get high ranking positions in the military, the nationalised industries any company controlled by government officials, and large companies. The result is that high ranking positions in these countries are full of low talent people whose main skill is knowing whose palm to grease.
In the UK we have the same thing, but more discreet. You don't pay directly, you pay for your children to go to expensive schools, safe in the knowledge that'll lead to high ranking positions regardless of their innate ability. The Economist referred to the system as the 'chumocracy', a network of old school chums who dish out jobs to each other excluding people who aren't in the gilded circle.
The result is the same as in countries with more overt forms of corruption. Lots of low talent people in positions of great influence.
Which is why low talent people like Rishi Sunak rise to positions of great influence.
Having lots of low talent people in positions of great influence is why the UK is in such a terrible state.
If keir doesn't win, I'll be stunned into shock
It's their turn now as dictated by the media! Like they did with Bliar come on wake up it's time we realised it's a fore gone conclusion! A slightly more caring government who have said they will keep the Tory fiscal policy! Where is the lefty socialism? These are the same UniParty cnts that have always ruled! Independents day! Vote for anyone other than these elitist serving wankers! As Richard Pryor once said " Vote for none of the above" These parties are both beholden to the corporate controllers! It's no longer left vs right because both sides are utter corporate shills! It's us against the establishment!
Keir won’t win. Sunak will lose.
Daily blunders? Hourly! 😂
Sunak has enough money to ride into the sunset we don’t need someone like that in charge
"Starmers for the taking" how delusional can tories get.
Day three of an election that he called, and they already need a relaunch - but he "has a plan!"
He has a plan and Starmer is change. I think we've got it.
It must be tough for the editors of the Mail, Express, Torygraph and Sun. Be interesting to see their headlines.
Distraction and lies are easy to publish
Its what they do
Why is Richie Soon-axed even campaigning!? What is he hoping to achieve!? The Tories are over. Over. He might as well join the SNP 😂😂😂
Soon axed, brilliant
Have the Tories proposed conscription for 18 year-olds? Totally crazy. Young people won't vote Tory already!!
4:00 "Oh yeah, people go on about Titanic, Titanic... Let me tell you something about the Titanic, people forget, people forget that on the Titanic's maiden voyage there were over 1000 miles of uneventful, very pleasurable cruising before it hit the iceberg!"
Theo very much channeling the Partridge there.
During Johnson’s time they built a multi million pound media centre in Downing Street. Maybe when it’s raining don’t do announcements in the rain and use the media centre. Blue sky thinking….
Two days in and the campaign not going well…. 14 years of Tory Governments and it hasn’t gone well.
A Russian owned company played a key role in the £2.6m renovation of the Downing street media centre
Probably one of Johnson's friends of a friend
I hope someone checked it for bugs
Doesn’t matter how many days off he has, the banking intern has all the personality of a park bench.
Rishi will be in California by July 6th. Fact.
Starmer is there for the taking because there's so little money? And who's fault is that?
Poor Rishi. Comedy is harder than it looks. 😊
Sunak is just a bit weird. Putting him in front of the electorate just reinforces this perception.
Starmer might be a bit dull, but he’s not weird.
He is, though I don't perceive it to be his weirdness/nerdiness that's the problem, it's his inability to own it or embrace it. People have an innate ability to recognise when a politician is tense, or unsure of the 'front' they're presenting to the public. Sunak's like Tony Blair, just without the valuable political talent of making everything you say sound deeply considered. Sunak, to me, always sounds condescending, but it also feels like he'd have no idea why he sounds condescending. That's a fatal mix.
Mr Usherwood needs to be reminded of Bojo's announcement that Brexit would be a ''Titanic success''.
Rishis lived a sheltered life - how ironic 😂😂😂 .... Talk Radio winning it for me - pls keep up the good work 😂😂😂👌❤️❤️❤️👍
The Barry brewery gaffe had nothing to do with rugby, Theo - Sunak asked if they were looking forward to this summer's football, totally unaware that Wales hadn't qualified for the Euros.
Absolutely agree that Labour will need to have a strong opposition to keep them in check, I just don't want it to be the Tories. Liberal Democrats 2nd place, replicating the now number of councils is the dream. Will it happen? Probably not, but it's worth hoping for!
It would if we had PR. The Tories would never get into power again with less than 40% of the popular vote.
@@ianworley8169I think Labour opening voting up to 16 year olds will help them at the next election (lib dems too tbh) but yes PR would be even better
I could over look comical campaigner blunders If they were preceded by fourteen years of making the country prosperous and successful 😮
What is abundantly clear is that the party machine is just going through the motions and following a grid mindlessly. I suspect they haven't got the experienced people (who would ask the tough questions) left in the staff as well.
When the man demonstrates on a daily basis that he's out of touch, that's not "a narrative". He is actually out of touch and he can't escape it
A poor campaigner is a classic sign of someone who was gifted or bought their seat and never had to fight for it.
The Titanic was, like this government, 'unsinkable'.
The Tories sunk under Sunak
@@TheVicarThey went down for the third time.
I am retired so I take many days off in Wetherspoons. The present state of our country is enough to drive anybody to drink. Problem is we just cannot afford the petrol!
Should you be drinking AND driving? 😁
I suffer from Rhumatoid Arthritis so I NEVER drink and drive because my car is such a vital part of my life! Such a shame when you are not allowed to do what you want to do. Never mind when I am Prime Minister things will be different - FREE BEER TOMORROW!
I recall BoJo asserting that Brexit would be 'a Titanic success'. Have Team Sunak learned nothing? Apparently not.
This guy is delusional if he thinks Sunak’s problem is unforced errors. As Mace Windu once said:
This party’s over.
If Sunak needs to take a day off on Day Three then he is clearly way out of his depth and will fail miserably - as well as hilariously.
Take the whole week off Rishi...No, the month of June. It's over. Give up. Your MPs are....
We shall have poor Rishi
On a little dishie
When the votes come in 🎶
Times Radio YT titles: "Tories will struggle to fill seats..." / "Sunak's campaign flops..." / "Sunak's daily blunders...". Looks like Rupert has made his mind up then. It's almost like he blows with the wind - surely not?!?
He always follows the winner
Even if he has to U-turn quite a lot
Sunak bringing in national sevice ....cost 2.5 billion a year... really
We will need a strong opposition to Starmer, but that opposition doesn't need to be the conservative party.
Don't need Conservatives to form a strong opposition; the Lib Dems will do a better job.
Yes a strong opposition is important but where does it say they must be one of the current big two?
I can think of about 1000 reasons off the top of my why the Tories are tanking, before I’d get to Sunak’s blunders. He is an awful politician though true
What I will say turning one about the so-called current prime minister he's way out of his death he ain't a really a prime minister he got put into his position because he knows about finance ok and that is it we can all see how uncomfortable is and I think most of the Conservative Party have come to realise that they will lose a general election
Great at...............................budget....when he was chancellor £8 billion was lost on PPE contracts. He got done for not wearing a seat belt. Now his latest wheeze is....National service....dreamt up overnight by the look of it. Take it with a pinch of salt.
Tyson Fury put up more of a fight the other week. Sunak is finished.
BTW nice to hear Theo again, wish he could be summoned more often.
Tyson put up a good fight actually, love him or hate him but don't compare him to this mug
Good to see Theo again.
A day off...what a SKIVER....he's done a few days and he's putting his feet up.
Yeah, nothing to do with the last 14 years lol
Apparently the Tories are the party of change
(Stealing all your change)
"He's being accused of being very woolly... By us, and only us and we can't name anyone else and we're only referring to his appearance on our show" Totally holds up
There for the taking. He thinks we've forgotten the corruption and incompetence.
4:28 I was under the impression that the design of the bulkheads and speed of the boat was the problem, not the iceberg. Thats like blaming a parked car for causing an accident.
Of course we need a functioning opposition, but It doesn’t have to be a Conservative opposition.
Good point
Always have time for Theo.
He should take one day off at each of his houses. Then we'd never see him again.
3:15 A tory advisor wouldn't know that. He'd probably hold it by the metal end. Manual work is not for the Tarquins.
4:25 If Corbyn blamed the iceberg they'd say it's antisemitic.
Sunak is great with numbers - taxing the poor - banking bonuses for the rich....
We saw what happened with weak opposition between 2015 - 2020 and the disastrous period that was.
Debating if Rushi is going to lose? It’s obvious, the Tories are toast.
The poor dear was completely unprepared to start a campaign unlike Labour, now if only we could figure out who was responsible for that.
Genuinely it's not even a week and in a conversations about blunders they didn't even bring them all up that's how many there have been. If Starmer is any kind of competent politician he is going to play a defensive game until the election.
Please turn the lights out .
Always great to hear from Theo Usherwood! Very balanced presentation.
The problem with sunak is he's already damaged his way with so many way. Example he allowed suella to make negative comments about all the Muslim meb
Maybe Sunak should list all the benefits of Brexit. Oh wait, there aren't any
This interview is the equivalent of 2 blokes chatting in the pub. It's literally adding nothing.
'Starmers there for the taking' ..... delusional opening line. Sunak has no political skills, his comms team are inept and is heading up a fragmented and deeply unpopular party. Starmer will eat him for breakfast.
If you want to talk about borrowing the conservative party over the last 14 years, I’ve increased the national depth by 1.4 trillion
Sunak is what's wrongwith Sunak. How can they miss that?
It’s already too late
"After 14 years of conservative government, there's no money left. If only Rishi Sunak pointed this out - Starmer would be finished!" yeah this guy remains an idiot
Get Andy Street elected and make him the leader. You need a sensible opposition party.
I saw Rishi Sunak drinking a large Gin @ Tonic with an iceberg in it singing 'Dancing in the rain'! 🤣🤣
Intelligent without speed of thought? I was under the impression he had speed of thought (maths) without any common sense. So maybe he has neither
Is this guy a political commentator or a Tory campaign manager ?
Meritless. Bank balances don't necessarily prove competence.
Well, Sunak and Starmer play for the same team. And it's not the British people it's the WEF based in Davos. So is Sunak bothered that he will be handing the baton to a team mate after all. NO NOT AT ALL.
I think Rishi just looks so uncomfortable around regular people, he seems socially awkward, I cringe watching him campaigning, he has no chance of winning over voters at this point. The Labour guys is dull as dish water, is this really the best we can come up with for the leader of our country?
I think Starmer is head and shoulders above anything the Tories have to offer……dull as dishwater !! Are you serious after the catastrophe of the last 14 years.
Starmer is there for the taking? What are you talking about? You think the Tories can take on Labour due to the fact there is no money for Starmer to spend and therefore the Tories that have left us with no money to spend. This guy is a complete Muppet
He's right..... Sunak does have a little bit of hope. He might get another job after leaving office.
Sounds like trivial details of appearances.
His team lack the experience and expertise of running a national campaign. They are incompetent, gaffe ridden and thoroughly unprepared. It dosent help that Sunak has the personality of an empty shell
Great to see Theo back sorely missed on LBC .
Sir Keir Starmer already has the keys.
The iceberg wasn't the problem it was the the incompetent crew who sped towards it just because they wanted to be quickly (Lets liken that to Tories rushing policies without thinking)... Didn't have enough qualified crew on board (Lets liken that to complacent, unqualified MP's resting on their laurels) A captain who wouldn't leave dinner early to solve a problem (Leader not a the helm/incompetent leadership), they couldn't see the ice berg coming because there was only one set of binoculars, locked in a locker with only one key, which was with someone not on duty (lack of equiptment, lack of planning lack of staffing... Lets call this one the Covid response and VIP lane). Then they hit the iceberg and insisted there wasn't a problem, lied to everyone for a long time until there wasn't any time to actually come up with a plan (lets call this one Brexit, both preparation and delivery. They thought that "incredible feat of engineering" could stay afloat with it half full of water (i'm sure there's some jokes to be made about denial about the economy) Then the real kicker...they didn't have enough life boats!!! (So lets call that fundamental flaw in design but also the real point of irony for this government... THEY DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH SMALL BOATS 🤣🤣🤣. And the fact you and your wife spend that much time coming up with ways to defend Rishi but not realise it was doomed to start with says a lot.
Summon the Usherwood!!
3 days into the campaign and already Sunak needs a day off to cope and seethe...