Rishi Sunak’s D-Day early exit plays into Nigel Farage’s fanbase
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- Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
- "Looked at cold, it does seem an incomprehensible political error. And perhaps it was."
The decision for Rishi Sunak to leave D-Day commemorations early “could not be better calculated” to increase Nigel Farage’s support, says Daniel Finkelstein.
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Sunak couldn't even manage one day of National Service, and yet wants to re-introduce it. 🙄😞
This was not a gaffe. It was a clear demonstration of his lack of understanding of the duties of a Minister of the Crown, and in particular the duties of the Prime Minister. The man is unfit for office.
Putting himself before the country, as usual.
Even Liz Truss would have stayed. That's how bad Sunak's judgement is.
Who says she would have stayed? Someone as dense as her?
Truss 's problem is she doesn't leave.
What's judgement got to do with it? Honouring the fallen comes from the heart.
THE ENGLISH IN ISLAMIC BLACK & INDIAN BRITAIN SAID THEY WANT SADIQ KHAN LAMMY OR ABBOTT TO RUN THE UK THAT'S WHY THEY VOTED SADIQ KHAN IN FOR A THIRD TERM THE ENGLISH ALSO SAID THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF ILLEGALS & MASS IMMIGRATION
He doesn't even know what umbrellas are for.
As PM, Sunak was representing Britain as a nation. To leave early is indefensible and to try to brush it under the carpet as things happen in the rush of campaigning is ludicrous. I'm appalled by his behaviour and genuinely deeply saddened
He left to record an interview with ITN to defend his lie about independent treasury officials in the debate with more lies.
That isn't due to be broadcast for a week.
*I CANT EVEN TAKE JOY IN SUNAKS MISFORTUNE* cos Im so upset for the veterans and the people we lost - beyond disgusting.
"If those young men who were at Normandy in 1944 could of seen Britain today, they wouldn't of gone 40 yards up those beaches ". ~ David Irvine
@@evolassunglasses4673 *David Irwin
@@evolassunglasses4673 Do you mean David Irving?
@evolassunglasses4673 Are you referring to convicted holocaust denier and renowned anti-semite David Irving?
I'm upset for them even if I am Finnish.
Who on earth advises him or is it just stupidity?
The PM cant wait to get his Green Card off to America.
Where's he getting this green card from? He's rich enough to but it!
Besides, the UK is too easy a political and economic market to do as you please (he ended up PM without being elected after all).
All he's done here is show his contempt for the simpleton masses that have allowed their nation to be ravaged by his vulture mates.
Don't blame him
We don’t want him.
He already had one
Biden won't let him in. He may have to go India
The man applied for a US green card and was then promoted to UK PM. Have to wonder about his initial loyalty to the UK - and past events have proven him to be ineffective, inept and ill considered for the job... now time to reapply for that green card !
"gaffe" has a kind of knockabout, slapstick, oopsie kind of energy. Unequivocally poor judgement is more like it.
Sunak thinks of himself before other people and shows absolutely no respect for those veterans and their families!
This was not a snap decision. This was planned. On top of that, it's not the first terrible mistake Sunak has made and the effect is definitely becoming cumulative.
Even Boris Johnson would have stayed too I reckon. Also an apology is too late and I think it’s lost the tories a lot of voters. Also regarding his leadership it’s dreadful
He would have stayed , for a romp in the dunes.
He would have taken a fridge with him to hide in, if things got too hot.
No cigar for Danny but nice try in semi defending... a Tory. Sunak was total and utterly disrespectful to the entire nation that he doesn't represent in any way whatsoever!
"There is signal and there is noise and this is noise." Hmmmmm er....whatever.
12yrs RAF served so it's personal how amateur no mandate Sunak committed sacrilege!!.... leaving D-Day ceremony early for politics?? Sober up drunkard!
4:05 It doesn't matter because of "European solidarity," it matters because a lot of brave men died so that we may live.
Spot on. It’s about respect.
Words are lost on the gentlest of breeze, only by their actions shall you really know them !
How can anyone try and defend his actions, if Starmer had done it every newspaper headline would have said Traitor!
I'm beginning to think he is trying to loose on purpose
Same
One wonders if he expected to be in power for this long!
After Truss's short stint, he Maybe thought he'd collect his PM participation badge and get out!
*lose, but it certainly seems that way.
Guess making a few more billions in California is his objective.
@@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar alright spellchecker 😂 🤣 😂
*lose not 'loose'.
You don't understand the simplicity of the situation; sunak doesn't want to be elected on 04 July. The early election is a peculiar way to resign, but that's what it is.
It is like each day they brainstorm ways to sabotage what's left of their chances of holding even a single seat.
The cenotaph/donkey jacket incident was Michael Foot not Jeremy Corbyn
True. But we are dealing with the Tory client media
Was both actually
I understand Danny’s argument about things being easier in retrospect, but come on! This would have been obvious to even the most naive advisor. I can only think that Rishi is himself an idiot and he is surrounded by idiots. The interview he rushed back for isn’t even being shown for several days, he could have done it any time
It's not about advisors, it's about disrespecting our 250,000 war dead. I'm not an aging Tory, just someone whose forefathers fought for my freedoms, like most of us.
If he felt the way I felt yesterday then advisors wouldn't come into it. I wouldn't even care if crying like a baby looked bad for the cameras. Tbf... If I had been there this year I would probably be leaving on crutches at the 6am the next day. At the going down of the sun and in the morning...
The United Kingdom and Canada made up 1/3 of the ground forces that stormed the beaches in Normandy. Ike appointed Gen. Montgomery in charge of the allied infantry. We didn’t do this alone: the Queen’s Rifles, the 2nd Army, even 3000 men of ANZAC were there.
This was a galling, appalling snub by the alleged leader of the United Kingdom - not just of Britain’s closest ally, but its very history.
The idea of booking an interview to coincide with such a major event demands apologies from the attendee and the organiser as the interview date could have been rescheduled for a later date 💭.
Surely time to re-name this "how to lose an election" in honour of Sunak.
Not only did the tories dance while we died but now they dance on our hero's graves.
If Sunak and his advisers couldn't see how damaging this deliberate decision was going to be, they are incomprehensibly imcompetent! He is nailing himself into that coffin ....
Another Canadian fan, I really enjoy staying in touch with British politics.
I like Finkelstein's observation that miscalculations are much easier to spot after you've made them (3.04). What a genius! They're definitely hard to spot before you've made them...
This says it all
Rishi Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton General Hospital in Southampton, Hampshire, to East African-born Hindu parents of Indian Punjabi descent, Yashvir and Usha Sunak.
Danny Finkelstein seems to equate indecision with intelligence, when all he needed to say was that Rishi Sunak took fright at being called out as a liar over his £20,000 Labour tax claim and then took flight from Normandy to an ITV News studio in London where he tried (in vain as it turns out) to argue his case with the interviewer, Paul Brand. His team called Brand directly and gave him just one slot when Sunak would be able to appear - the afternoon of the D-Day commemoration ceremony.
£2000
Partied through COVID whilst the nation suffered, now he disrespects our fallen ! Horrible creature 😡😡😡
An alarmingly poor act of judgement from our current PM and even his apology sounded half hearted and arrogant. I don't think He's actually grasped the degree of disgust He's generated.
Oh, I think he understands just fine. He just doesn't care.
Sunak has deliberately been disrespectful to every man and woman who gave their lives defending this country. It shows that he cares about no one but himself.
She makes a good point that you can’t over support/show support for vets as a politician
Need more...pro Brit...channels..100%..to support...our country...need Brit..leader...
I've lived in my house for 70yrs & in all that time I've only ever seen a local MP once,even then he was only stuffing leaflets thru doors.
Vote Reform. Get rid of the two corrupt parties.
The other day Danny was running defence for Sunak's £2k lie. Now he thinks that this is going to basically blow over and that the problem is that Sunak "isn't good at political symbols". I love Danny, and his recent book was incredible, but he's clearly wildly out of touch with the British public
All of the panelists, of all political persuasions/party loyalties all seem to be away with the fairies. No idea how the average man on the street lives or thinks. Explains a lot.
There is on British blood in sunak or that London mayor.
He needs to resign ! Can't see anyone voting for him..... will never forgive this lot for the damage the next gov will do.
Oh, and what damage will that be then??
@@robtyman4281 country is still paying for the damage done by the war criminal Blair.
I've just watched Dwight Eisenhower on CBS. His humbling modesty was so impressive. Modern World Leaders by comparison are an embarrassment. How could RS have ended up as PM. The mind boggles. Starmer will end up as PM only by default and not, because he is PM material. I absolutely despair. There's noone out there. All duds.
There's simply no excuse for this. What's next? Skipping Remembrance Sunday? There are some things you just do as PM - even if the election is tomorrow - and this was one of them. He's toast.
More than one Canadian listener out here!
Not just embarrassing for our country that he left early, but, frankly, inexcusable.
i cant believe you got a caller from Thunder Bay in Canada, I'm not a long way off and equally curious about UK politics!
Why dig into UK politics? Canada have their problems
Rest of Britain - "Sunak messed up in the worst way, its deplorable" Times - "How close can we get to saying 'these things happen' without actually giving him a pass?"
Aussies voting system is completely different from ours and much fairer.
It’s so funny watching the Tory press slowly see what the rest of us have known for years. Sunak is not qualified for the job. He got rich by luck, school pals and marrying well!
I wonder what the evidence is that Sunak would have done a good job without the catastrophic Johnson and Truss premierships?
Proves he's not British.🇬🇧
@AdamtheEnglishViking the fear of being called that has brought this country to its knees.
@AdamtheEnglishViking absolutely. Obviously I have to tread lightly on BooHoo RUclips, but generally I don't care what people call me.
@@user-um1xt3kh He's an globalist/internationalist with no loyalty to anything but himself and money.
"Has anyone made more gaffes in a campaign than Sunak"
If you're chasing Michael Foot for relevance, you might start to realise you're doing something wrong
17:01 I love your channel and your audience, I'm gonna comment on ALL your videos for years until I reach your level of subscribers.
Think back two years ago, COP Glasgow, he wasn't interested to go, finally persuaded to go. Renaissance man he is not.
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You probably have to be of European origin to fully understand the meaning of D-Day.
Sunak: “We shall leave them on the beaches”
I concur with the statements here but I would like to add to this mounting of professional inability of Sunak is to highlight the dissonance of wanting to reinstate National Service while not wanting to stay respectful to the history of service personnel who have been conscripted by the nation and are now obviously not going to be alive for much longer…
The Tories should now step aside for Reform to stop Labour.
He never intended to attend in the first place Burk.
This is not an ordinary gaffe, it's beyond belief
Daniel Finkelstein desperately trying to gloss over an absolute disaster by Sunak.
Here we go!, here comes the excuses...it never fails with the tory's....
Well sunak a liar like Boris Johnson. But the thing is not even Boris would have left the D-Day.
If penny does a absolute blinder tonight then it may be a good idea to replace
Can Sunak resign?
Can they all?
Good question, presumably not so this is his alternative
Of course he just has to go to the King and advise him to call on Sir Keir to form the next government
It could be an insider’s job to tarnish his remaining support. Otherwise any ordinary human being wouldn’t do this even with someone’s advice. Insider could be from Farage team or Labour….🧐
Weak...leader...of any country..does not deserve to lead..need a strong leader...to be enthusiastic...for the country..
I do tend to like Penny Mordant more than I like most conservatives, but I really don't think changing leaders at this point would help the party at all. It would just underline how broken and chaotic they are. Say you really like Penny Mordant and would want to vote for a conservative party led by her. What's the probability that she'd still be the leader even a year from now? If the party genuinely wanted Penny Mordant as leader, they should have elected her when she ran against Liz Truss, but they didn't. She didn't even get into the final round for the members to vote on, and when the members did get to vote they chose the less competent further right candidate. However much I like Penny Mordant, I don't think the conservative party would continue to like her enough to keep her as leader.
When you vote in a general election, you're voting for a constituency MP and a political party, not for a prime minister. This is not a presidential system. When the conservative party is falling apart like this, that fact really matters.
He might speak English and been a head boy at an English private school, become very rich but does he really understand and have British values?
Those are British values
Farage’s attempted political coup d’etat against the Tory party reminds me of Bonor Law and Lloyd George’s political d’etat against PM Asquith and the Liberal party. Farage wants to make Reform the go to political party of people that vote right wing.
Mr Prime Minister thinks he's running for Conservative voters not for the Whole United Kingdom of Great Britain 😂
You're absolutely spot on
Before this election we’ve never been canvased until yesterday but I wasn’t up at the time however I got leaflets through the letter box which said sorry we missed you.
Ex hedge fund enthusiast conspires to loose.
*lose
@@TheHookahSmokingCaterpillar yes, I imprrrrrroved it.
A mam in his forties isnt mature enough to be PM its a job for a person who has an entire career of statesmanship behind them to avoid these dreadful mistakes.
This feels very much like when Neil Kinnock slipped over on the beach and tried to laugh it off.
It's nothing like that at all. You need to get your priorities right.
@@robtyman4281 I am guessing that this is a bot generated reply and it has malfunctioned. Your code has correctly detected that the first part of my comment had the word “feel” and so it decided to disagree ( fair enough as that is a sentiment weighting and there is a fifty percent chance of being correct ) but you didn’t use a 3rd gen or higher language model and so it has the context all wrong. Therefore I say to the owner of the ai bot that replied to my message that you should take this comment and replay it into the ML engine ( I assume you are using a neural network ) and use it to adjust the weights on your nodes because this reply was a fail.
@@Simon-xu1qtthere's no comparison between a bloke slipping over into the sea and another bloke snubbing veterans
@@DS9TREK that’s not the point I was making.
@@Simon-xu1qt ....I have no idea what you're talking about. You've lost me completely. Are you mad?
Come on it was disgraceful .
The 1st gentleman never defined the narrative he promoted repeatedly. Fuzzy at best. Not definitive at all.
He shouldve gone weeks ago...it s over.
Shouldn't have been appointed. They'd be winning if they'd let Boris come back. Love him or loath him Boris is a winner
The nation should give him a white feather for disrespect of the people who gave there live for there country. TORIES OUT
Rashi Sunak no clue what he doing British people has to come rescue the country.
Tech bros gotta tech bro
We don't have leaders of old we have opportunists, who are no better then con men.
The woman with the black hair is insufferable. D-day matters because we should show our respects to the fallen, not because of some political motive.
Exactly. In particular now. In particular when the veterans themselves are not going to be there for the 90th anniversary. It’s our last chance to show that respect.
Rishi take Nigel with you and go show him India and Pakistan they are such a beautiful country's
Why the F would Rishi show him Pakistan 🤣
Gonna say India and Pakistan hate each other. Hence their war, which neither has resolved to agree a long term truce.
@@jt5765 His parents were expelled from Uganda rather than India by Edi Armin, same as Braverman I believe.
@@AbAb-th5qePriti Patel as well
They're absolute dumps. In India a third of people still defecate in the street.
You couldn't write this stuff. Did someone turn off the remote control. rishi4labour
Tories just don't give a hoot !!!
The gift that keeps on giving. No doubt his green card is in the post just in time for his decamp the US of A . 😊
I think Sunak is doing this deliberately like maybe not consciously aware but there's a bit of his mind that reallllllllly wants to lose so it can go to California and be where it's happiest not in dreary UK bankbenches doing constituency work for the next 5 years
disgraceful
Where is Andrew Neil hiding just now? After his pompous, virtue signalling speech about how we undervalue the D Day veterans, doesn't he have anything to say about Sunak's act of total disrespect?
He's not hiding. He's probably gone home to France for the weekend
@@DS9TREK He's a devout Tory who yesterday took the "political class" to task for their lack of sympathy and knowledge about the people who made the D Day sacrifices. Later the PM leader of the party he supports showed a complete lack of respect for these same people that made front page headlines. He's been giving us daily updates on his opinions on the course of the election. But he has nothing to say about this? That looks very much like hiding to me.
zelencky was there all the time and his country is at war. no excuses he shouldve stayed. even the king stayed and he ill disgusting
We are are going to ever 9:05 y excuse under the sun for sunaks behaviour...
Another wrong move
Silly mistake ..but i don't think hes done anything wrong
Sunak 🤥Till lies .Why would you vote for Tories.
British people's views of Aussie politics are spoon fed soundbites by the Conservative party and right wing headbangers. Sending asylum seekers to Papua New Guinea and Naura was an unmitigated disaster causing many deaths. The Australian healthcare system is far from perfect - consider £1500+ for a root canal and, if you can afford health insurance, it covers 'standard care', so expect large additional bills at the end of it. Without cover, ambulances cost thousands for short journeys.
PS. My wife is an aussie and we've been going annually for 20+ years. Now looking at emigrating as, for all it's faults, it's far better than here.
The idea of Farage at a commemoration...i struggle to find words other than Exploitation and Insincerety. An opportunist to the marrow; if he was present at a commemoration, I think that even I would want to leave. Hopefully F was not invited.
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sunki know he not proper posh ven Tori's hate him that's how pathetic he is... He knows he not going to win the electrice full stop he put of there...
He's lost the pensioners tory calamity sunak is clueless letters must be flying into the 1922 commitee