‘I’m genuinely BAFFLED’ - Andrew Neil on Sunak’s summer election gamble | SpectatorTV

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  • The Spectator's Cindy Yu speaks to Andrew Neil about the upcoming summer election. Will the gamble pay off?
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Комментарии • 1,8 тыс.

  • @SpectatorTV
    @SpectatorTV  23 дня назад +22

    Why did Rishi Sunak call a July election rather than wait until November?

    • @catpaintypo8869
      @catpaintypo8869 23 дня назад

      India trade deal fell through, Rwanda plan isn’t going to work, Tory party likely to implode by November..

    • @Raj-sp3ts
      @Raj-sp3ts 23 дня назад

      Its obviously isn't it? He wants to get over to California before he is issued with an arrest warrant by the ICC.

    • @williamvorkosigan5151
      @williamvorkosigan5151 23 дня назад +10

      Is it because Mrs Sunak wants them to move to India before the winter?

    • @kygo
      @kygo 23 дня назад +9

      He's just showing how little he cares about the country. If he actually cared, he would use all the time he had to actually try improve the country and fix it whilst he still can, even if it was just to give his party a better chance in the elections, but he clearly doesn't care about his party or the country, and would rather just quit now and go live in the US and spend his millions, as that's all he cares about, himself. A growing trend we have in the UK now.

    • @dwood37
      @dwood37 23 дня назад +14

      Because, we all know he’s already packed his bags for Santa Monica, California. He’ll arrive there in time to register his children in school before it starts in the fall. And, it should be no surprise that he chose July 4-America’s Independence Day-knowing full well he’s going to lose. He’s giving the UK the finger as he goes out.

  • @shelleyscloud3651
    @shelleyscloud3651 23 дня назад +432

    Does anyone believe Rishi gives a flying flamingo about the UK?

    • @skinwalker_
      @skinwalker_ 23 дня назад +31

      He doesn’t even give a flying flamingo about the Tory party and his MPs 😅

    • @vehement-critic_q8957
      @vehement-critic_q8957 23 дня назад

      Well he's a Hindu who adheres to caste system so constitution & democracy aren't in his dictionary

    • @alexanderromanov737
      @alexanderromanov737 23 дня назад

      Sunak should have changed the locks when he moved in to No.10. Johnson's still got a key, that was him, the lying fatso, pissing down from the bedroom window, on little Prime Miniscule Shortpants, what a bunch of prats we got. Eh?

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад +15

      He’s lived here long enough, he’s worked here enough, he’s also prospered here, what’s there to suggest he wouldn’t?

    • @RaikenXion
      @RaikenXion 23 дня назад

      He never did, he's done his "Job" what was ordered to him from Bilderberg.

  • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
    @user-ol6rd7pl5t 23 дня назад +345

    It only took them 14 years but finally the Tories have done something in the country's best interests.

    • @rgsnr8702
      @rgsnr8702 23 дня назад +6

      wow ,labour is in our best interest ,deluded if you think that

    • @SMGAPR8
      @SMGAPR8 23 дня назад +6

      And labour have done what since Iraq?

    • @quique2886
      @quique2886 23 дня назад +10

      @@rgsnr8702 What have the Tories done since 2016?

    • @quique2886
      @quique2886 23 дня назад +10

      @@SMGAPR8Nothing since 2010! . And if you think about it during the time the Brits were fighting in Iraq only 179 soldiers died! In like 7 or 8 years, 179 soldiers died! That’s like 22 soldiers a year in a war! I bet you more in UK died due to motor vehicle accidents in a year that all the soldiers that died in Iraq and that were injured during the entire time the UK was in Iraq!

    • @justinehayward2553
      @justinehayward2553 23 дня назад

      @@rgsnr8702 a case of that finger on the trigger there.

  • @funnythat9956
    @funnythat9956 23 дня назад +312

    maybe there was a credible attempt to remove Sunak and he made that leadership challenge impossible

    • @Chipchap-xu6pk
      @Chipchap-xu6pk 23 дня назад +35

      Now that's probably close to the truth. He probably threatened this to quell a revolt but had his bluff called. Except it wasn't a bluff.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад +7

      There’s no credible candidate that’s come forward, so how is the attempt credible?

    • @mrsmojo6920
      @mrsmojo6920 23 дня назад +8

      Yes, the thought crossed my mind, either that or he has had enough

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 23 дня назад +13

      ​@@matthowardtvthere doesn't need to be a credible candidate for the threat to be carried out.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад +2

      @@DS9TREK I’m sure there does, it’s a party, after all, and a party needs candidacy

  • @Godonstilts
    @Godonstilts 23 дня назад +41

    As a public sector worker, I can tell you from my bank statements that my wages have barely frikkin moved in 14 years.

    • @PaulRandle-sc8qk
      @PaulRandle-sc8qk 23 дня назад

      So, you've noticed that the value of your work is not what it used to be, but you're too stupid / lazy to do anything about it?

    • @deanunio
      @deanunio 23 дня назад +4

      They have, in real terms they’ve gone backward…

  • @geraldbutler5484
    @geraldbutler5484 23 дня назад +80

    California dreaming on such a rainy day!

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 23 дня назад +1

      LoL...

    • @anonnemo2504
      @anonnemo2504 23 дня назад

      Nice one! Re the video, though the remark was directed at Sunak the Usurper's sodden speech, Mr. Neil's "brewery" reference could be applied to everything the Tories have done since 2016.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 23 дня назад

      I was thinking of the song "Why Does It Always Rain On Me?" by Travis. 🙂

  • @MrGavinBoyd
    @MrGavinBoyd 23 дня назад +432

    Worst government of my lifetime.

    • @steadfastandyx4947
      @steadfastandyx4947 23 дня назад +17

      And over the last fourteen years.

    • @ibana8449
      @ibana8449 23 дня назад +44

      @@steadfastandyx4947 I am 58, and I have lived with a Thatcher Gov (terrible), A Blair Gov (lots of promise, and still nothing), A Brown Gov (sold the gold), And then the Tories who have spent their entire term shredding the public sector into to small unfunded affairs. The only things that increase in the country apart from taxes, are illegal immigrants and potholes. The change that is required is way beyond the current rabble of two party politics. Vote Tory, Vote Labour, get the same old crap, their only differences are the colour of their ties.

    • @LeoSavantt
      @LeoSavantt 23 дня назад +31

      @@ibana8449 Got to say only Blair out of any of them was the aggressor in two (decades long) wars, leaving a million or two dead and Britain even more hated than normal. The promises Blair gave weren't war crimes. Sunak isn't any good, but he ,isn't bad (morally) unlike Blair. Sunak's mark will be nothing, Blair's mark, death, war crimes and destruction will be felt for generations to come.

    • @Chris-gs8kc
      @Chris-gs8kc 23 дня назад

      Well, if the polls are correct, you're about to have a Labour government that will be even worse. Hard to believe I know.

    • @pizzamad3334
      @pizzamad3334 23 дня назад +12

      They've all been bad since the 90's

  • @Brookspirit
    @Brookspirit 23 дня назад +318

    He's probably already lined up an obscenely well payed job somewhere else.

    • @pablorossini3840
      @pablorossini3840 23 дня назад

      Sunak is his wifes puppet.She will now put him back in the kitchen

    • @cypresse1620
      @cypresse1620 23 дня назад

      Yes… probably by Clegg 🥹🥹

    • @HelmutSchmacker.
      @HelmutSchmacker. 23 дня назад +15

      He’ll be picking up his bonus checks first for services rendered, disguised as earnings on the speakers circuit.

    • @gibbo822
      @gibbo822 23 дня назад +11

      He's got his PM wage for life

    • @nigelmarche
      @nigelmarche 23 дня назад

      Probably working for Pfizer or moderna

  • @22448824
    @22448824 23 дня назад +277

    Sunak just wants to get out without just quitting. Off to America for him.

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 23 дня назад +5

      Know him do you?

    • @urbanimage
      @urbanimage 23 дня назад +10

      @@TimComley Do you?

    • @osric190
      @osric190 23 дня назад +10

      Can't blame him. Look at the shambles the rest of his colleagues are. Christ. California or this mess? Know what I'd choose.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад

      I don’t think so, but it’s a tough polling period

    • @mael2839
      @mael2839 23 дня назад

      @@osric190 California is a cesspit of crime.

  • @kevint1719
    @kevint1719 23 дня назад +57

    When people vote on the economy, they aren't voting on data, they're voting on their own wages and cost of living. Politicians would do well to remember that.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад

      Also newspapers, who have a duty to print all the relevant data prior to an election, surely?

    • @simonkramer9463
      @simonkramer9463 23 дня назад

      @@matthowardtvyeah cause we all still buy and read newspapers 🤨

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад

      @@simonkramer9463 Many do, many use websites, some don’t - what’s your point?

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 23 дня назад

      Correct, at last, an adult in the room.

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 23 дня назад

      @@simonkramer9463 Are you ill?

  • @user-vb3gc5se9k
    @user-vb3gc5se9k 23 дня назад +107

    His handlers have dropped him!

    • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
      @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 23 дня назад +10

      Not so much drop him - but told him to call this election, basically to get Starmer in and further their agenda.

    • @Helvetica247
      @Helvetica247 23 дня назад +1

      Who are your handlers who tell you what’s what ?

    • @rwo5402
      @rwo5402 23 дня назад

      ... in the rain....

    • @nottmfunguy
      @nottmfunguy 23 дня назад +3

      They were the ones who told him to stand in the rain, he complied without question.

    • @ashleystyles6888
      @ashleystyles6888 23 дня назад

      Satanic Humiliation ritual

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 23 дня назад +337

    The Tories have destroyed England's cultural identity

    • @weedheals4202
      @weedheals4202 23 дня назад +12

      How so? Just by proxy of having someone who isn’t of the traditional cultural identity?

    • @Sameoldfitup
      @Sameoldfitup 23 дня назад +21

      @@weedheals4202 what?

    • @Sameoldfitup
      @Sameoldfitup 23 дня назад +9

      @@vch1935 Thatcher love

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад

      No way, not at all - is this a call for an “identity” card?

    • @RaikenXion
      @RaikenXion 23 дня назад

      Both Labour & Tories have over these past Decades. Everyone seems to forget what Blair did and him with the fake eye, sold all the country's gold.

  • @duckndive.
    @duckndive. 23 дня назад +228

    TORIES will now pay for their disregard for the will of the people, over the last 5 years especially. MAY, JOHNSON, SUNAK. This is on you.

    • @terencefield3204
      @terencefield3204 23 дня назад

      Idiotic parochial spleen

    • @vanessac1721
      @vanessac1721 23 дня назад +24

      And we will all pay having a Labour government. Everyone loses, yay.

    • @yetidodger6650
      @yetidodger6650 23 дня назад

      @@vanessac1721 as opposed to only the rich winning under this mob?

    • @CryWillus
      @CryWillus 23 дня назад +39

      @@vanessac1721 Comments like yours confuse me. I'm 43 and the only times in my life that the UK seemed to have any hope or optimism, seemed to be governed for the many rather than the few and seemed to improve, was under Labour.

    • @TheOwlsarewatching606
      @TheOwlsarewatching606 23 дня назад +6

      bollocks

  • @weedheals4202
    @weedheals4202 23 дня назад +26

    I think when Sunaks own cabinet started coming out against his student visa plans he thought f@Ck it I want out. I’m too rich to take this shit from these ungrateful plebeians.

  • @steadfastandyx4947
    @steadfastandyx4947 23 дня назад +118

    I cannot believe what I'm seeing and hearing. Mr Sunak wants out. Towel is thrown in.

    • @Lynn.hot.legs.peters
      @Lynn.hot.legs.peters 23 дня назад

      He needs a towel lol

    • @heijd
      @heijd 23 дня назад +13

      Truly baffling, considering he really needed that towel

    • @terencefield3204
      @terencefield3204 23 дня назад +5

      Who would not!??? The country is a nightmare.

    • @GuestInMyOwnCountry
      @GuestInMyOwnCountry 23 дня назад

      His globalist masters have found a labour stooge.
      They want to fill the country with Africans before a "populist " party wins

    • @yetidodger6650
      @yetidodger6650 23 дня назад +2

      @@terencefield3204 because of the tories.

  • @Chris-gs8kc
    @Chris-gs8kc 23 дня назад +109

    He has probably got a job offer in the USA.

    • @andyetheridge
      @andyetheridge 23 дня назад +7

      Quitting before the summer onslaught of dinghies arriving!

    • @terrytunney4089
      @terrytunney4089 23 дня назад +1

      Or Astra Zeneka might employ him

    • @forevertoons9022
      @forevertoons9022 23 дня назад

      We already too many illegals entering the US. If and when President Trump is back in the White House, he'll be sending them back. I'd guess little Sunak will be one of them, saying 'bye-bye' for his return trip.

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 23 дня назад +1

      He is one of the few people in the UK who doesn’t need a job, child.

    • @PamelaGreen354
      @PamelaGreen354 23 дня назад

      Stay at Gaum ?

  • @liberalmatt
    @liberalmatt 23 дня назад +18

    They didn't even have the foresight to check the weather or hold it indoors away from external interruptions. THAT is just how presumptuous and incompetent they are.

  • @Greenpoloboy3
    @Greenpoloboy3 23 дня назад +32

    He knows he is finished. He is doing this before he gets pushed out by his own party.

    • @SpectatorTV
      @SpectatorTV  23 дня назад

      What is your prediction for July 4th? How many seats will the Conservatives lose and to which party?

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 23 дня назад +2

      ​@@SpectatorTVI'm sad. I wanted Thursday 5th November. It would be more appropriate.

    • @WeRemainFaceless
      @WeRemainFaceless 22 дня назад +1

      @@SpectatorTV I'm predicting the Tories take 77 seats. Labour 334. Independent and LibDems take the rest. Reform get 0.
      Expect many of the well known Tory MP's to lose their seats.

  • @thomas79marshall
    @thomas79marshall 23 дня назад +55

    "I've been dreaming of a time when The English are sick to death of Labour and Tories" - Morrissey.

    • @mr.mayhem7402
      @mr.mayhem7402 23 дня назад +6

      It's taken this long for the rest of England to finally catch up with Mozzer.

  • @wendycurrie9629
    @wendycurrie9629 23 дня назад +16

    Amazing how music was blasting out while the prime minister was speaking. It just made me feel this country is lost. Mass immigration, Brits living in poverty, a political class that does not represent the British people. So sad that my country is broken.

  • @Nobody-to5fu
    @Nobody-to5fu 23 дня назад +10

    The state of politics in this country is rank rotten.

  • @AchtungEnglander
    @AchtungEnglander 23 дня назад +188

    What's to lose? What a dumb question.
    The guy is a millionaire, married to an heiress of a billionaire.
    There is your answer. He has lost nothing.

    • @brianlopez8855
      @brianlopez8855 23 дня назад +10

      He will be off to California by July.

    • @Azureecosse
      @Azureecosse 23 дня назад +7

      For wealthy people there is never enough money, Rishi is also a Hindu their Caste system is very unlike the western approach to wealth and divinity it is of utmost importance that Hindus attain material wealth as part of attempting to achieve moksha, This is the ultimate goal of an individual who practices Hinduism. What you regard as wealth is not what Rishi or his family regard as extreme wealth. I worked in wealth management for over thirty years you will rarely find a poor Hindu in the west.

    • @geraldbutler5484
      @geraldbutler5484 23 дня назад +6

      This old Tory Neil scratching around at the bottom of his cage for crumbs of hope for the Nasty Party.

    • @TheOwlsarewatching606
      @TheOwlsarewatching606 23 дня назад +5

      if you don't lie around on benefits, you too can become successful

    • @dipeshvaria2372
      @dipeshvaria2372 23 дня назад +2

      Are you anti-capitalist??

  • @patriciac8488
    @patriciac8488 23 дня назад +9

    Sunak can't even figure an umbrella out.
    Worst Party ever.

  • @dogkicker100
    @dogkicker100 23 дня назад +20

    worst gov in all my 65 yrs born here

    • @Brookspirit
      @Brookspirit 23 дня назад +1

      You have forgotten Blair?

    • @dogkicker100
      @dogkicker100 23 дня назад

      @@Brookspirit cant be worse than torys ffs

    • @johnmartin7158
      @johnmartin7158 23 дня назад +4

      Worst of the worst.
      Blair was 11 times better than this mob.

    • @mikelheron20
      @mikelheron20 23 дня назад +1

      @@Brookspirit Tony Blair was the finest PM of my lifetime. I was born in 1951. I just wish he was Prime Minister again. There hasn't been a decent/competent Prime Minister since. Blair wasn't only a politician he was also a statesman.

  • @MaggieNevin-tv3ib
    @MaggieNevin-tv3ib 23 дня назад +61

    Nigel Farage has said that the reason for an early election is that no planes will be leaving for Rwanda. Also the legal migration figures are due to be published and they aren't good.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад

      They seem ok - www.gov.uk/government/news/migration-numbers-fall-further-as-measures-have-major-impact

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 23 дня назад +1

      3.4 million came in last year

    • @henghistbluetooth7882
      @henghistbluetooth7882 23 дня назад

      @@DJRockford83No they didn’t.

    • @K_j_M
      @K_j_M 23 дня назад +2

      ​@@DJRockford83not on small boats. And this is why the argument is silly. A tiny amount come on boats, the rest are brought in right under your nose yet yiure conditioned to hate those who are mostly fleeing terrible places

    • @steviealessi
      @steviealessi 23 дня назад

      The 'real' British people need to take their nation back before it is too late,

  • @BenLondonN6
    @BenLondonN6 23 дня назад +19

    I'm genuinely surprised that Andrew Neil, whom I respect very much, seems to have missed the point. Sunak has called the election early, because Reform are still in a muddle and won't have time to prepare. By calling the election early, Sunak is saving some of the Conservative vote that he would otherwise be losing to Respect between now and November.

    • @sisiphas
      @sisiphas 23 дня назад +1

      Possibly

    • @lynxo5695
      @lynxo5695 23 дня назад

      Reform*

    • @sararichardson737
      @sararichardson737 22 дня назад

      Now that’s the most coherent speculation I’ve heard so far. I bet you’re right.

    • @michellec1866
      @michellec1866 22 дня назад

      I’m surprised he thinks Biden’s record record is good 😢😂😂

  • @hg82met
    @hg82met 23 дня назад +12

    He's given us one last glimpse of his political instincts - making a general election announcement whilst getting drenched. Let's hope his little suit didn't shrink when it got soaked, otherwise they'd have to cut him out of it.

  • @Deano-vl4bv
    @Deano-vl4bv 23 дня назад +22

    Things can only get wetter... can only get wetter

  • @jillybe1873
    @jillybe1873 23 дня назад +44

    He has to go to California before September, since his girls are enrolled there in school.

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 23 дня назад +1

      Looks like you've nailed it. 👍🏻

    • @riiitch
      @riiitch 23 дня назад

      Any articles you can link to about this?

    • @ksc743
      @ksc743 23 дня назад

      @@riiitch the comment is absolute hogwash which is why you won't receive a response.

  • @michaelpoplett2745
    @michaelpoplett2745 23 дня назад +12

    I agree with Peter Hitchens, and I'm pleased that Mr Sunak has brought forward the GE to July: Only the total destruction of this Tojan horse of a 'Conservative' party can bring about the formation of a true Conservtive party, and we need both, a strong left and right parry, and right now we have neither. As I wrote to Nusrat Ghani several years ago, the 'conservatives' will be decimated at the next GE.

    • @milibaeindustries
      @milibaeindustries 22 дня назад

      Ever the contrarian, Peter Hitchens is now arguing to vote "against Starmer" (meaning for the Tories) as Labour are the greater evil in his eyes.

  • @kristoffscuba5466
    @kristoffscuba5466 23 дня назад +70

    They couldn’t arrest the guy playing music as they announced today they have no empty cells in which to put any more prisoners.

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 23 дня назад +3

      He needed to be removed, but wanted his place in history

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 23 дня назад +3

      Plus, not illegal.

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 23 дня назад +7

      ​@@RH1812Yes it is. There are limits on noise levels

    • @chriswhitmore3835
      @chriswhitmore3835 23 дня назад

      @@matthowardtv Sunak or the bloke with the speakers?

    • @adamboh393
      @adamboh393 22 дня назад

      There are a number of laws which could be used to arrest the guy. Prosecution probably would be impossible but the main thing would be to arrest and stop the music.

  • @RaikenXion
    @RaikenXion 23 дня назад +15

    The fact it's raining on Sunak while he's making his speech shows how much of a wet wick of a PM he truly is. Politics in this Country is all just one big swiz. It's no different than *Wrestling*, they go into their "Arena" and play out their improvised, make believe "Rivalry" for millions to watch at home; jeering at and mocking eachother. Then when its all over and the Cameras are switched off they all go to the Bar in the building and all have a drink with eachother.
    Each "rival side" is really just all Working for the SAME BOSS, and they all pick up a nice big pay packet at the end of it.

  • @PeteLoughlin
    @PeteLoughlin 23 дня назад +17

    "Labour hasn't got a plan" says the man without an umbrella

    • @margaretchapman8499
      @margaretchapman8499 22 дня назад +1

      They have and the public will obey because the WEF say so

  • @douglaswhitrick9743
    @douglaswhitrick9743 23 дня назад +71

    A cosy two party pendulum, conveniently protected by their gleeful creation called “First past the post”
    When an outgoing party is unpopular; the incoming hardly needs to listen to the wish of the electorate host!

    • @Mrc172
      @Mrc172 23 дня назад +11

      We have preferential voting in Australia. Of late, more independents have been getting elected federally. A good thing considering there isn't much difference between the two major parties nowdays.Both have their rich masters calling the shots.

    • @mrsmojo6920
      @mrsmojo6920 23 дня назад +1

      @@Mrc172 yep, would like to be able to vote for people and their policies, not parties. How do you hold them to account over there? Problem is, they make promoses and don’t keep them.

    • @robe1811
      @robe1811 23 дня назад

      Yep. You know you’re ****ed when the big donors are known to have been courting the leader of the opposition.
      The two party system is just two different recipes for a **** sandwich

    • @RubbishGimpy
      @RubbishGimpy 23 дня назад

      Hence the re-election of the London Mayor.

    • @timelwell7002
      @timelwell7002 23 дня назад

      Spot on. We are in desperate need of Electoral Reform - with FPTP replaced by PR in tandem with STV.
      Sadly, Starmer isn't going to implement electoral reform any more than Blair did, despite Blair making that a Manifesto commitment prior to the 1997 General Election. The moment Blair got his huge majority in '97 he dropped electoral reform like a hot potato.
      In fairness to Starmer, he's said that for him electoral reform is NOT a priority. *I bet it isn't.*
      Starmer knows that he'll get a huge majority on July 4th under FPTP, and he sure as h*ll isn't going to do anything which he would regard as risky.
      And as we know, Keir Starmer is VERY risk averse...

  • @02tom46
    @02tom46 23 дня назад +173

    Zero seats.

    • @JupiterThunder
      @JupiterThunder 23 дня назад +6

      Look out, he's got a plan.

    • @GG-ml3vr
      @GG-ml3vr 23 дня назад +5

      @@JupiterThunder A strong economic plan thats working🤣

    • @hosephanerothe1440
      @hosephanerothe1440 23 дня назад +4

      Strong and Stable

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 23 дня назад +1

      Grow up

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 23 дня назад +1

      @@GG-ml3vrkids with emojis laughing at own jokes 🤫

  • @philipcrossley1279
    @philipcrossley1279 23 дня назад +4

    "...genuinely baffled...."
    Really?
    Everyone else has been genuinely baffled by everything the Conservatives have done or attempted to do since at least 2015.
    This is no different, except it's probably the last "genuinely baffling" thing they will do for a while.

  • @OliverJWeber
    @OliverJWeber 23 дня назад +10

    Andrew brings forward some strong arguments for a later date. So this really makes me wonder what Sunak knows that he felt he had to make this decision. Can’t be good.

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 23 дня назад +3

    Sunak is echoing McClaren's "Wally with the brolly" moment- only without the brolly.

  • @markstrevett1284
    @markstrevett1284 23 дня назад +7

    Doesn't make any sense. But this government hasn't made much sense since 2019.

    • @johnburrows3385
      @johnburrows3385 22 дня назад

      The Tories haven't made sense since 1979 and the wicked Margaret Thatcher who deindustrialised the country and sold off all our national infrastructure.

  • @nicktrier3640
    @nicktrier3640 23 дня назад +8

    Most PMs facing certain defeat cling on as long as possible to the salary and the trappings of power, but Mr Sunak is independently very wealthy and his lifestyle will greatly improve after he loses and resigns the leadership so it is not surprising he just wants it over

  • @lukebignell7846
    @lukebignell7846 23 дня назад +5

    Can his taylor make him a suit that fits and doesn’t make him look like a boy who works in the Soho back room bars?

  • @tt-ew7rx
    @tt-ew7rx 23 дня назад +12

    Vote for us because we have a plan, said the PM whose people failed to plan him an umbrella, and leaked the plan of the day so that he can be pranked by loud music.

  • @K_j_M
    @K_j_M 23 дня назад +3

    It's symbolic that he got pissed on while making this announcement. A perfect metaphor for what will happen in July

  • @user-vb3gc5se9k
    @user-vb3gc5se9k 23 дня назад +46

    Andrew Neil’s not going hungry!

    • @dragonfly6908
      @dragonfly6908 23 дня назад

      Maybe one day he will eat himself.

  • @Westlake72
    @Westlake72 23 дня назад +3

    The Spectator providing the highest standard of impartiality we have come to expect from them as this fearless young journalist holds Andrew Neil to account without fear or favour... 10:42

  • @artrandy
    @artrandy 23 дня назад +8

    This early election date is because of Reform UK, not Labour. The Tories know they will lose to Labour, but how much is really down to how well Reform bite into the Tory vote, and the consensus is that Reform need another 6 months to organise........

    • @macoooos9204
      @macoooos9204 23 дня назад

      Nope, Rishi has done it before Boris came back and took power. The Tories want to lose right to the end.

    • @artrandy
      @artrandy 23 дня назад

      @@macoooos9204
      And I suppose you think that Boris was flying in on Concorde, he doesn't even have a seat buddy. He is without any centre of power right now, didn't you know that?
      Furthermore, there's no guarantee that Boris could get elected on a Reform UK ticket either, Reform is a new party, they can make the Tories lose seats to others, but cannot guarantee to win seats for themselves. Hopefully that will change.
      If Tory back benchers had any kind of backbone, they would have rebelled against Sunak after the dismal local elections, but have not. Now is too late, even Sunak knows that.
      Think before you criticise others, you come over as a lightweight.............

  • @PostingCringeOnMain
    @PostingCringeOnMain 23 дня назад +19

    "real wages are rising faster than prices" ... ok, hands up if your wages have risen... anyone? Anyone at all? No? Didn't think so.

  • @skinwalker_
    @skinwalker_ 23 дня назад +7

    Maybe Sunak grew a conscience and decided he couldn’t put the UK through another six months of the Tories.
    Nah, Californias calling and things are only getting worse.

  • @rickjensen2717
    @rickjensen2717 23 дня назад +3

    Threatened with a covert leadership bid so forced into it; off to his Californian home afterward anyway.

  • @Cherrytune386
    @Cherrytune386 23 дня назад +5

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Tories are finished. A wet squib lettuce of a party 😆

  • @EamonCoyle
    @EamonCoyle 23 дня назад +8

    I think there are multiple layers of logic in a summer election and I have commented over recent months that I expected it across various RUclips channels. Firstly, there is nowhere else for him to go and the summer is the season of political vacuums with Parliament not sitting. Second to that, July is a time when the good weather generally sends working class people away on holiday and brings older people out of the house both of which are of benefit to the Tories. Third and possibly most important to Rishi, having the election in July means he can be stood down as leader and able to enrol his kids into school in the US for September.

  • @lesliekime7567
    @lesliekime7567 23 дня назад +12

    The wef does not like the idea of removing legal or illegal immigrants is my guess.

  • @JckSwan
    @JckSwan 23 дня назад +58

    The Tories were not serious about tackling migration, legal or illegal, at all. Why not?

    • @brianferguson7840
      @brianferguson7840 23 дня назад +1

      Because it's not a problem. Britain needs much higher immigration, everyone except the racist bigots knows and understands that.

    • @Brookspirit
      @Brookspirit 23 дня назад

      Name a serious politician in the UK? One or two maybe, the rest are a bunch of embarrassing clueless halfwits.

    • @pizzamad3334
      @pizzamad3334 23 дня назад

      Cheap labour, suppressing our wages. Pushing house prices up with mass migration. They stand to win on both fronts, sell their houses high and get out of this now hell hole of a country. Non of the main parties are the answer.

    • @M3mphix
      @M3mphix 23 дня назад +4

      Because they've literally been the ones in sole control of it for the past FOURTEEN FUNUNKING YEARS.

    • @markaustin5884
      @markaustin5884 23 дня назад

      The Kalergi planning in full swing

  • @truckerfromreno
    @truckerfromreno 23 дня назад +3

    When he says 'Our country,' I think 'Whose country?'

  • @urbanimage
    @urbanimage 23 дня назад +5

    Quite amusing to see Andrew Neil still trying to talk up the Conservatives as, hopefully, they stumble towards political oblivion.

  • @wellum1959
    @wellum1959 23 дня назад +5

    Sunak has given up, he doesn't care. Alot of the public feel the same, so a low turnout is probable.

  • @SimonWallwork
    @SimonWallwork 23 дня назад +33

    Sunak also knows these things- but he's gone for July. QED Sunak knows some things that Mr.Neil does not.

    • @batmandestroys1978
      @batmandestroys1978 23 дня назад

      He has been sacked, because of the Local Election massacre! So they just want a new leader to take them forward, because they know they have lost big time!

    • @margaretchapman8499
      @margaretchapman8499 22 дня назад

      He has gone for July so his holidays are not spoiled.

  • @philippemariani9035
    @philippemariani9035 23 дня назад +9

    What an image under the rain … take an umbrella what a shambles …

  • @ScurvyRascal
    @ScurvyRascal 23 дня назад +4

    Something is about to hit the fan and they're getting out of the way so they can blame someone else (Labour) in 4/5 years time.
    Mark my words!

  • @brianferguson7840
    @brianferguson7840 23 дня назад +33

    If it was RAINING SOUP Sunak would go out with a "Fork" 🍴

    • @alexanderromanov737
      @alexanderromanov737 23 дня назад

      Sunak should have changed the locks when he moved in to No.10. Johnson's still got a key, that was him, the lying fatso, pissing down from the bedroom window, on little Prime Miniscule Shortpants, what a bunch of prats we got. Eh?

  • @jimbo-yv5jh
    @jimbo-yv5jh 23 дня назад +78

    Bye, Bye to all fake Tories.

    • @susannamarker2582
      @susannamarker2582 23 дня назад

      Starmer is a communist. At the end of the 80s, Kier joined the Haldane Society of lawyers, when everyone knew it was a cover for the communist party. Blair was a Trotskyist at University.

    • @Paul-eb4jp
      @Paul-eb4jp 23 дня назад +1

      Fake?

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 23 дня назад

      He's as Tory as they come, how's he fake, not white enough?

    • @roguefox5171
      @roguefox5171 23 дня назад

      @@Paul-eb4jp lib-dems in disguise

    • @JamieZero7
      @JamieZero7 22 дня назад

      @@Paul-eb4jp They are fake Tories since they are leftest. We essentially have gotten a Blair government. And labour will win by default which will destroy the UK. Since labour want to turn the UK into a republic. But Keir Stammer isn't bright enough to understand he is copying French policy.

  • @philiphughes4117
    @philiphughes4117 23 дня назад +31

    21st Century, and our PM doesn't have an umbrella. WTF.

    • @The_Truth_Army
      @The_Truth_Army 23 дня назад +3

      He wants sympathy.

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 23 дня назад +4

      He didn’t notice as he’s already wet

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 23 дня назад +2

      @@RH1812 Very good. The sunami of wet jokes over the coming days and weeks are going to be epic!!! And the imposter will deserve every one.

    • @stefanmaslaczyk1259
      @stefanmaslaczyk1259 23 дня назад +1

      Steve McClaren was ridiculed for using an umbrella so maybe Rishi decided it’s better to get wet.

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 23 дня назад

      ​@@stefanmaslaczyk1259the president of the US uses brollies.

  • @jaydenlee2774
    @jaydenlee2774 23 дня назад +2

    The only thing I thank Sunak for is, that he made it super faster than I thought that getting rid of this unfit for purpose PM is immanent now yayyyyyyyyy

  • @peterdockerty8077
    @peterdockerty8077 23 дня назад +26

    Mr Neil employed a guy called James Forsyth who left the Speccy to be Sunaks advisor. Well that worked out well. You all deserve each other a W1 bubble who got rid of Boris and then Truss and gave us the unelected Sunak. How are you all feeling now? Pleased with yourselves?

    • @AdamJones381
      @AdamJones381 23 дня назад +4

      Where do you think Tories would be in the polls if Boris was the leader?

    • @peterdockerty8077
      @peterdockerty8077 23 дня назад +9

      @@AdamJones381 I’m no fan of Boris but the tories were 5 points behind Labour when the ousted him a week later they were 20 points down and for the last 2 years have been 20+ points down. Just saying

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 23 дня назад +3

      ​@@AdamJones381I reckon they'd be slightly ahead of Labour. Boris would've pulled us slightly further back from the EU, cut taxes more and talked a better game

  • @philipbrackpool-bk1bm
    @philipbrackpool-bk1bm 23 дня назад +4

    Would you vote for someone who doesn’t know how an umbrella works.

  • @crouisk
    @crouisk 23 дня назад +11

    school term for the kids in the USA sets timing

  • @RussMcP
    @RussMcP 23 дня назад +23

    Wish they’d dissolved parliament back in 2010 and spared us all 14 years of austerity and war and erosion of civil liberties.

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 23 дня назад +1

      They DID dissolve Parliament in 2010. The Tories and LibDems then formed a government afterwards.

    • @raymondharris6035
      @raymondharris6035 23 дня назад

      Austerity? That is simply not true, they've actually doubled the country's debt, how can that be austerity?

    • @lindabennett6597
      @lindabennett6597 23 дня назад +1

      ​@@raymondharris6035 there was no austerity for the rich but there has been true austerity for the rest of us, just open your eyes and take a look at our town centres. Which begs the question " where has all this borrowing gone, and it evidently wasn't well spent"

    • @riiitch
      @riiitch 23 дня назад

      @@lindabennett6597bingo

    • @RussMcP
      @RussMcP 19 дней назад

      @@DS9TREK yeah, my point is they should have dissolved that parliament before it had a chance to do any damage

  • @user-gp3kp7zc6f
    @user-gp3kp7zc6f 23 дня назад +2

    All those reporters getting paid to stand outside number 10 to hear a statement that could easily be done via social media, that's like twenty nurses cleaning up one patient and all the pompous drama queen usage of the lectern, it's all embarrassingly ridiculous, the public really need to withdraw their energy.

  • @Spyhook
    @Spyhook 23 дня назад +6

    I really don't understand why Sunak called 4th July (Odd day)
    Apparently Labour is on 43% and Tories on 22%
    Which gives him no time to change that state of play.
    IF he held on until Autumn, maybe something would come along.
    The Biggest dent in Starmer Armour is his stance on Israel but Sunak can't use that as he is just the same.
    It does seem as if he has been told to hand over the reigns

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 23 дня назад

      Yep I think he has been advised to sling his hook / bugger off / get lost / go play somewhere else...

    • @iananthonyjames
      @iananthonyjames 23 дня назад

      reins

    • @Spyhook
      @Spyhook 22 дня назад

      ​@@iananthonyjames He handed over the reins of his reign in the rain.

  • @bobbailey7024
    @bobbailey7024 23 дня назад +21

    What a drip. I've always said he's a wet wipe.

  • @thedirediyer5245
    @thedirediyer5245 23 дня назад +8

    Rishi Sunak actually doing ˋ whatever it takes ´ ……..to leave politics

  • @nickgood8166
    @nickgood8166 23 дня назад +3

    Death of a nation. From the fire into the inferno....Sad!

  • @nolslifegren
    @nolslifegren 23 дня назад +10

    Goodbye Tory A team hello Tory B team

    • @jonathanwarne3480
      @jonathanwarne3480 23 дня назад +4

      More like goodbye Labour C team, hello Labour B team

  • @advocate1563
    @advocate1563 23 дня назад +22

    He' wants to spend the summer in california. Simples.

  • @markmanc-zw3td
    @markmanc-zw3td 23 дня назад +2

    That suit is gonna shrink like hell.

  • @fleetingmoments6762
    @fleetingmoments6762 23 дня назад +3

    Is it not super obvious his hand was forced behind the scenes???

  • @SlowhandGreg
    @SlowhandGreg 23 дня назад +29

    He had no mandate to roll back net zero, abandon HS2/3, roll back levelling up, abandon Social Care

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 23 дня назад +1

      Forgotten your meds ?

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 23 дня назад +1

      He had no mandate, quite the opposite, for mass migration. He's presided over a controlled demolition of Britain. Labour will love it because there's nothing left to oppose communism and the Tories love it because they can extract wealth at record levels

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 23 дня назад

      @@DJRockford83 So true, sadly.

    • @mrsmojo6920
      @mrsmojo6920 23 дня назад

      @@DJRockford83 to be fair, Rishi has only been in charge 19 months. Can’t blame everything on him. Labour kick started mass migration, successive Tory govts have refused to tackle it. Boris Johnson was the one who had a golden opportunity. But I checked the requirements for migrants and literally this whole idea of minimum income levels was an outright lie and not the whole truth. The true bar was set incredibly low.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 23 дня назад

      @@DJRockford83 Define your understanding of "communism" for us.

  • @markriding1267
    @markriding1267 23 дня назад +4

    Running before the war crimes trial hits him hard 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Differentbias
    @Differentbias 23 дня назад +2

    Sunak knows small boats' arrival will be huge in August-September. It's safe to call an election before the situation goes out of control.

  • @adiadi5832
    @adiadi5832 23 дня назад +2

    Maybe Rishi know something we don't....how about to cease power to labour before economic storm ?Let the Labour face it rather than getting annihilated in November

  • @gavrob1802
    @gavrob1802 23 дня назад +3

    I think he might be getting ahead in the acceleration of boat crossings in the summer months.

  • @VaucluseVanguard
    @VaucluseVanguard 23 дня назад +3

    Andrew saved the only bit of potentially good news right to his last sentence. How big will be the SNP meltdown in Scotland.

  • @michaelhannah5376
    @michaelhannah5376 23 дня назад +2

    I think Sunak was on the verge of being tapped on the shoulder by the grey men. So he cut and run before he was given the revolver and glass of whisky.

  • @lairddougal3833
    @lairddougal3833 23 дня назад +2

    Oh Gods! So many memes:
    “He hasn’t got the sense to come in out of the rain.”
    “What a shower!”
    “Another wet Tory.”
    And then there’s the date. “Independence Day”. If that doesn’t become a clarion call for Labour’s campaign, I don’t know what else would.
    What was he thinking?

  • @ianbarnes8593
    @ianbarnes8593 23 дня назад +9

    My god, how true about the music playing outside the gates. What on earth is going on in this damn country nowadays? Where are the police ffs. That spectacle today was a disgrace and makes this country a laughing stock. I’m angry as hell.

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 23 дня назад

      Sunak and the Cons / Tory party havebeen making this country a laughing stock for many a year, so nothing new there !!!...

    • @BillyBob-dz9rg
      @BillyBob-dz9rg 22 дня назад

      Would never of guessed.

    • @stephenhill545
      @stephenhill545 18 дней назад

      He wasn't breaking any laws.

  • @harveybrown37
    @harveybrown37 23 дня назад +4

    Was Sunak handed the whisky and pistol?!

  • @jem2264
    @jem2264 23 дня назад +2

    It's amusing to speculate on what the King said to Sunak on being requested permission to dissolve parliament, thinking of the time when the microphone picked up his remark to Liz Truss of, "Dear oh dear!"

  • @barbaraarndt5293
    @barbaraarndt5293 23 дня назад +10

    WHY? It's obvious. He already packed his bags for Santa Monica. He had enough. Wanted to impress his Billionaire Father in Law.

  • @MARTINA-gc3tq
    @MARTINA-gc3tq 23 дня назад +56

    I am now utterly convinced that the PM is ia labour fifth columnist.

    • @johnscott-kw3bf
      @johnscott-kw3bf 23 дня назад +1

      Not impossible.

    • @user-ol6rd7pl5t
      @user-ol6rd7pl5t 23 дня назад +10

      And what does your psychiatrist have to say about that.

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 23 дня назад

      😂

    • @allymcmoist1484
      @allymcmoist1484 23 дня назад

      Both WEF puppets.

    • @MARTINA-gc3tq
      @MARTINA-gc3tq 23 дня назад +1

      @@user-ol6rd7pl5t I haven’t seen her yet. Mind you I did ask your mother and she didn’t express an opinion either way but she did mention what a tool her son was……or that’s what I think she said…..her mouth was full at the time….and the room was pretty noisy as I wasn’t the only bloke there.

  • @SistorCarrera
    @SistorCarrera 23 дня назад +2

    Andrew you said that the PM has had enough my old mum said that,you can not both be wrong...

  • @lad1981uk
    @lad1981uk 23 дня назад +2

    After all those £millions spent on that plush press conference room at Downing Street, he chooses to stand in heavy rain next to a protest playing Labour's theme tune. 🤭

  • @callumturkington5856
    @callumturkington5856 23 дня назад +2

    Summer is coming he wants to go sailing but not in the English Channel !

  • @funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871
    @funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871 23 дня назад +3

    There's a lot of weird stuff going on right now. Old Klaus Schwabb is stepping down from the WEF. Messages for us to stock more food. Royals stepping back.

  • @simonkramer9463
    @simonkramer9463 23 дня назад +3

    Commence five years of “the mess we inherited” in retort to every challenging question. Also tax…lots of tax. Hurray for my small business 😒

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 23 дня назад

      14 years of a mess...

    • @simonkramer9463
      @simonkramer9463 23 дня назад

      @@jsd8981 well get used to it.

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 23 дня назад +1

    People won't feel living standards rise while they see their towns and cities empty with most shops boarded up looking like ghost towns.

  • @Mickyway
    @Mickyway 23 дня назад +2

    He said: Immigration is finally coming down
    He talks about it like the weather. It is (supposedly) coming down from the outrageous levels that they increased it to, more than tripling net migration to 750k largely from Africa and South Asia.
    It's statements like that, treating the public like idiots is why people will not vote for them.

  • @alplop
    @alplop 23 дня назад +25

    Rishi wants to go on holiday.

    • @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
      @BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne 23 дня назад +1

      Rwanda?

    • @andrewmcgonagle6290
      @andrewmcgonagle6290 23 дня назад +1

      @@BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne
      I haven't got a pilots licence, but i'll give it a go if it helps Prime Miniature Rishi to get to paradise.

  • @user-sf6sx4ri1v
    @user-sf6sx4ri1v 23 дня назад +3

    New school term begins in August in US get girls settled start my new highly paid job

  • @johnm9014
    @johnm9014 23 дня назад +2

    That job in California has come up sooner than expected ?

  • @VelGer-hq7ms
    @VelGer-hq7ms 23 дня назад +1

    Didn't Zippy realize that one doesn't step into a shower whilst still wearing one's clothes? He's probably unaware of such practices. I guess he'll get the hang of things after a few weeks!