‘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  4 месяца назад +22

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

    • @catpaintypo8869
      @catpaintypo8869 4 месяца назад

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

    • @Raj-sp3ts
      @Raj-sp3ts 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +10

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

    • @kygo
      @kygo 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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.

  • @funnythat9956
    @funnythat9956 4 месяца назад +310

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

    • @Chipchap-xu6pk
      @Chipchap-xu6pk 4 месяца назад +36

      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 4 месяца назад +7

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

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 4 месяца назад +13

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

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 4 месяца назад +2

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

    • @veganvivjones4655
      @veganvivjones4655 4 месяца назад

      Gary Waterman is the reason - see his videos

  • @GaryV-p3h
    @GaryV-p3h 4 месяца назад +345

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

    • @rgsnr8702
      @rgsnr8702 4 месяца назад +6

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

    • @SMGAPR8
      @SMGAPR8 4 месяца назад +6

      And labour have done what since Iraq?

    • @quique2886
      @quique2886 4 месяца назад +11

      @@rgsnr8702 What have the Tories done since 2016?

    • @quique2886
      @quique2886 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

  • @shelleyscloud3651
    @shelleyscloud3651 4 месяца назад +429

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

    • @skinwalker_
      @skinwalker_ 4 месяца назад +30

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

    • @vehement-critic_q8957
      @vehement-critic_q8957 4 месяца назад

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

    • @alexanderromanov737
      @alexanderromanov737 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

  • @Godonstilts
    @Godonstilts 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +4

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

  • @Brookspirit
    @Brookspirit 4 месяца назад +314

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

    • @pablorossini3840
      @pablorossini3840 4 месяца назад

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

    • @cypresse1620
      @cypresse1620 4 месяца назад

      Yes… probably by Clegg 🥹🥹

    • @HelmutSchmacker.
      @HelmutSchmacker. 4 месяца назад +15

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

    • @gibbo822
      @gibbo822 4 месяца назад +11

      He's got his PM wage for life

    • @nigelmarche
      @nigelmarche 4 месяца назад

      Probably working for Pfizer or moderna

  • @geraldbutler5484
    @geraldbutler5484 4 месяца назад +79

    California dreaming on such a rainy day!

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 4 месяца назад +1

      LoL...

    • @anonnemo2504
      @anonnemo2504 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

  • @22448824
    @22448824 4 месяца назад +274

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

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 4 месяца назад +5

      Know him do you?

    • @urbanimage
      @urbanimage 4 месяца назад +10

      @@TimComley Do you?

    • @osric190
      @osric190 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

    • @mael2839
      @mael2839 4 месяца назад

      @@osric190 California is a cesspit of crime.

  • @kevint1719
    @kevint1719 4 месяца назад +56

    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 4 месяца назад

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

    • @simonkramer9463
      @simonkramer9463 4 месяца назад

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

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 4 месяца назад

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

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 4 месяца назад

      Correct, at last, an adult in the room.

    • @lestrem11
      @lestrem11 4 месяца назад

      @@simonkramer9463 Are you ill?

  • @MrGavinBoyd
    @MrGavinBoyd 4 месяца назад +429

    Worst government of my lifetime.

    • @steadfastandyx4947
      @steadfastandyx4947 4 месяца назад +16

      And over the last fourteen years.

    • @ibana8449
      @ibana8449 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +30

      @@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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +11

      They've all been bad since the 90's

  • @Sameoldfitup
    @Sameoldfitup 4 месяца назад +334

    The Tories have destroyed England's cultural identity

    • @weedheals4202
      @weedheals4202 4 месяца назад +12

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

    • @Sameoldfitup
      @Sameoldfitup 4 месяца назад +20

      @@weedheals4202 what?

    • @Sameoldfitup
      @Sameoldfitup 4 месяца назад +8

      @@vch1935 Thatcher love

    • @matthowardtv
      @matthowardtv 4 месяца назад

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

    • @RaikenXion
      @RaikenXion 4 месяца 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. 4 месяца назад +226

    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 4 месяца назад

      Idiotic parochial spleen

    • @vanessac1721
      @vanessac1721 4 месяца назад +24

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

    • @yetidodger6650
      @yetidodger6650 4 месяца назад

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

    • @CryWillus
      @CryWillus 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +6

      bollocks

  • @weedheals4202
    @weedheals4202 4 месяца назад +25

    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.

  • @AchtungEnglander
    @AchtungEnglander 4 месяца назад +187

    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 4 месяца назад +10

      He will be off to California by July.

    • @Azureecosse
      @Azureecosse 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +6

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

    • @TheOwlsarewatching606
      @TheOwlsarewatching606 4 месяца назад +5

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

    • @dipeshvaria2372
      @dipeshvaria2372 4 месяца назад +2

      Are you anti-capitalist??

  • @thomas79marshall
    @thomas79marshall 4 месяца назад +54

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

    • @mr.mayhem7402
      @mr.mayhem7402 4 месяца назад +6

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

  • @steadfastandyx4947
    @steadfastandyx4947 4 месяца назад +117

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

    • @Lynnpjjbdndji
      @Lynnpjjbdndji 4 месяца назад

      He needs a towel lol

    • @heijd
      @heijd 4 месяца назад +13

      Truly baffling, considering he really needed that towel

    • @terencefield3204
      @terencefield3204 4 месяца назад +5

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

    • @yetidodger6650
      @yetidodger6650 4 месяца назад +2

      @@terencefield3204 because of the tories.

    • @andyetheridge
      @andyetheridge 4 месяца назад +2

      looks like Drippy💧needs a big fluffy pink towel?

  • @patriciac8488
    @patriciac8488 4 месяца назад +9

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

  • @wendycurrie9629
    @wendycurrie9629 4 месяца 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.

  • @Greenpoloboy3
    @Greenpoloboy3 4 месяца назад +31

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

    • @SpectatorTV
      @SpectatorTV  4 месяца назад

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

    • @RichardEnglander
      @RichardEnglander 4 месяца назад +2

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

    • @WeRemainFaceless
      @WeRemainFaceless 4 месяца 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.

  • @Nobody-to5fu
    @Nobody-to5fu 4 месяца назад +10

    The state of politics in this country is rank rotten.

  • @MorningtonCrescent
    @MorningtonCrescent 4 месяца 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.

  • @user-vb3gc5se9k
    @user-vb3gc5se9k 4 месяца назад +104

    His handlers have dropped him!

    • @alphabetaxenonzzzcat
      @alphabetaxenonzzzcat 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @rwo5402
      @rwo5402 4 месяца назад

      ... in the rain....

    • @nottmfunguy
      @nottmfunguy 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @ashleystyles6888
      @ashleystyles6888 4 месяца назад

      Satanic Humiliation ritual

  • @Chris-gs8kc
    @Chris-gs8kc 4 месяца назад +107

    He has probably got a job offer in the USA.

    • @andyetheridge
      @andyetheridge 4 месяца назад +7

      Quitting before the summer onslaught of dinghies arriving!

    • @forevertoons9022
      @forevertoons9022 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @PamelaGreen354
      @PamelaGreen354 4 месяца назад

      Stay at Gaum ?

    • @Speegs23
      @Speegs23 4 месяца назад

      Well, he did choose a July 4th election date.

  • @BenLondonN6
    @BenLondonN6 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +1

      Possibly

    • @lynxo5695
      @lynxo5695 4 месяца назад

      Reform*

    • @sararichardson737
      @sararichardson737 4 месяца назад

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

    • @michellec1866
      @michellec1866 4 месяца назад

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

  • @PeteLoughlin
    @PeteLoughlin 4 месяца назад +17

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

    • @margaretchapman8499
      @margaretchapman8499 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @hg82met
    @hg82met 4 месяца 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.

  • @markstrevett1284
    @markstrevett1284 4 месяца назад +7

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

    • @johnburrows3385
      @johnburrows3385 4 месяца 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.

  • @kristoffscuba5466
    @kristoffscuba5466 4 месяца назад +68

    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 4 месяца назад +3

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

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 4 месяца назад +3

      Plus, not illegal.

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 4 месяца назад +7

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

    • @chriswhitmore3835
      @chriswhitmore3835 4 месяца назад

      @@matthowardtv Sunak or the bloke with the speakers?

    • @zxG777
      @zxG777 4 месяца назад

      Yeah cause it did any good arresting him...? Are we not talking about the music even more as a result? Imo it makes rishi look so weak and pathetic, can't even handle a song.
      It was a shitty annoucment, in the rain just to hide the tears... the music was the best part

  • @michaelpoplett2745
    @michaelpoplett2745 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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.

  • @lukebignell7846
    @lukebignell7846 4 месяца 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?

  • @DeanoOwls
    @DeanoOwls 4 месяца назад +22

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

  • @douglaswhitrick9743
    @douglaswhitrick9743 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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.

    • @robe1811
      @robe1811 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

      Hence the re-election of the London Mayor.

    • @timelwell7002
      @timelwell7002 4 месяца 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...

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 4 месяца назад +1

      Didn't we have a referendum about the issue and the electorate being geniuses, voted against it?

  • @RaikenXion
    @RaikenXion 4 месяца 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.

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 4 месяца назад +3

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

  • @OliverJWeber
    @OliverJWeber 4 месяца 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.

  • @jillybe1873
    @jillybe1873 4 месяца назад +44

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

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 4 месяца назад +1

      Looks like you've nailed it. 👍🏻

    • @riiitch
      @riiitch 4 месяца назад

      Any articles you can link to about this?

    • @ksc743
      @ksc743 4 месяца назад

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

  • @Westlake72
    @Westlake72 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

    • @artrandy
      @artrandy 4 месяца 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.............

  • @nicktrier3640
    @nicktrier3640 4 месяца 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

  • @tt-ew7rx
    @tt-ew7rx 4 месяца 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.

  • @mr.mayhem7402
    @mr.mayhem7402 4 месяца назад +20

    The reason that Andrew Neil is baffled is because he's still operating the paradigm that the Tories are distinct from Labour and pursue different policies, where the people who voted for them are under no such illusion.
    Both the main parties are interchangeable cheeks of the same backside, imposing the same Blairite policies, so it really makes no difference who's in government or when they change places.

  • @rickjensen2717
    @rickjensen2717 4 месяца назад +3

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

  • @02tom46
    @02tom46 4 месяца назад +170

    Zero seats.

    • @JupiterThunder
      @JupiterThunder 4 месяца назад +6

      Look out, he's got a plan.

    • @GG-ml3vr
      @GG-ml3vr 4 месяца назад +5

      @@JupiterThunder A strong economic plan thats working🤣

    • @hosephanerothe1440
      @hosephanerothe1440 4 месяца назад +4

      Strong and Stable

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 4 месяца назад +1

      Grow up

    • @TimComley
      @TimComley 4 месяца назад +1

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

  • @JckSwan
    @JckSwan 4 месяца назад +58

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

    • @brianferguson7840
      @brianferguson7840 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @Brookspirit
      @Brookspirit 4 месяца назад

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

    • @pizzamad3334
      @pizzamad3334 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +4

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

    • @markaustin5884
      @markaustin5884 4 месяца назад

      The Kalergi planning in full swing

  • @skinwalker_
    @skinwalker_ 4 месяца 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.

  • @Cherrytune386
    @Cherrytune386 4 месяца назад +5

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

  • @K_j_M
    @K_j_M 4 месяца назад +3

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

  • @urbanimage
    @urbanimage 4 месяца назад +5

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

  • @lairddougal3833
    @lairddougal3833 4 месяца 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?

  • @EamonCoyle
    @EamonCoyle 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +12

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

  • @philippemariani9035
    @philippemariani9035 4 месяца назад +9

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

  • @JohnTonykellum
    @JohnTonykellum 4 месяца 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.

  • @PostingCringeOnMain
    @PostingCringeOnMain 4 месяца 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.

  • @wellum1959
    @wellum1959 4 месяца назад +5

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

  • @ScurvyRascal
    @ScurvyRascal 4 месяца 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!

  • @Spyhook
    @Spyhook 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

    • @iananthonyjames
      @iananthonyjames 4 месяца назад

      reins

    • @Spyhook
      @Spyhook 4 месяца назад

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

  • @lad1981uk
    @lad1981uk 4 месяца 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. 🤭

  • @truckerfromreno
    @truckerfromreno 4 месяца назад +3

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

  • @philipbrackpool-bk1bm
    @philipbrackpool-bk1bm 4 месяца назад +4

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

  • @jaydenlee2774
    @jaydenlee2774 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +4

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

    • @peterdockerty8077
      @peterdockerty8077 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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

  • @VaucluseVanguard
    @VaucluseVanguard 4 месяца 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.

  • @VelGer-hq7ms
    @VelGer-hq7ms 4 месяца 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!

  • @iaindennis3321
    @iaindennis3321 4 месяца назад +50

    Conservative, Labour - same s h1t, different bucket.

    • @dekmackie
      @dekmackie 4 месяца назад +3

      na, life was so much better with a labour government

    • @foundpat
      @foundpat 4 месяца назад

      People need to realise the way the tories behave isn't normal even by pre 2010 tory standards. This current crop are particularly nasty people without morals who feed off each other's nastiness and because they behave so abnormally for civilised people, it is unlikely labour will be as blatantly bad or they won't get a second term.

    • @macoooos9204
      @macoooos9204 4 месяца назад

      At least Labour st@b you in the front.

    • @martinwarner1178
      @martinwarner1178 4 месяца назад

      love that one, gonna spread that gem my friend , should get a few laughs. peace and goodwill.

  • @Mickyway
    @Mickyway 4 месяца 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.

  • @SimonWallwork
    @SimonWallwork 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

  • @alastairwinner
    @alastairwinner 4 месяца назад +1

    He wants to enjoy a summer in America. He will be on the beach on July 5th, leaving us to suffer with a Starmer government…. Another spineless leader with no principles.

  • @SleepyDreamCatcher-jc7tz
    @SleepyDreamCatcher-jc7tz 4 месяца назад +7

    So Andrew Niel thinks things are coming right. I'd hate to see it going wrong! People can't afford to eat, we have a housing crisis where rents are so high people are in poverty on good wages. Unfettered illegal immigration is destroying the fabric of society and if anyone dares say otherwise they're pilloried for wanting to protect our once great country.

    • @barrydawson2838
      @barrydawson2838 4 месяца назад

      Dont Forget Andrew Neil doesn’t even live in the U.K. he lives in France. Unfortunately, he’s pro conservative.

    • @davidzof
      @davidzof 4 месяца назад

      but nobody is going to fix that

  • @crouisk
    @crouisk 4 месяца назад +11

    school term for the kids in the USA sets timing

  • @ClaireDewhurst-h5n
    @ClaireDewhurst-h5n 4 месяца назад +3

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

  • @brianferguson7840
    @brianferguson7840 4 месяца назад +33

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

    • @alexanderromanov737
      @alexanderromanov737 4 месяца 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?

  • @stumccabe
    @stumccabe 4 месяца назад +2

    Sunak knows things are going to get worse as the year progresses, particularly immigration and the preposterous Rwanda "plan"; he also doesn't want to give Reform a chance to prepare, that's why he's going for July.

  • @adiadi5832
    @adiadi5832 4 месяца 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

  • @user-vb3gc5se9k
    @user-vb3gc5se9k 4 месяца назад +45

    Andrew Neil’s not going hungry!

    • @dragonfly6908
      @dragonfly6908 4 месяца назад

      Maybe one day he will eat himself.

  • @michaelhannah5376
    @michaelhannah5376 4 месяца 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.

  • @markstar6056
    @markstar6056 4 месяца назад +8

    I guess he’s booked the flights for the Sunak family’s move to California, be glad to see the back of him.

    • @Helvetica247
      @Helvetica247 4 месяца назад +1

      He has said he will continue as an MP

    • @alexanderstefanov6474
      @alexanderstefanov6474 4 месяца назад +2

      You think they fly commercial?

    • @markstar6056
      @markstar6056 4 месяца назад +1

      @@alexanderstefanov6474 very true! More likely their own private plane.

  • @funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871
    @funkyanimaltheearloffunkdo1871 4 месяца 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.

  • @nolslifegren
    @nolslifegren 4 месяца назад +10

    Goodbye Tory A team hello Tory B team

    • @jonathanwarne3480
      @jonathanwarne3480 4 месяца назад +4

      More like goodbye Labour C team, hello Labour B team

  • @gnoelalexmay
    @gnoelalexmay 4 месяца назад +3

    Does anybody else get the feeling that the "emergency election" is more accurately the "next step in a series of planned emergencies"..?

  • @simonkramer9463
    @simonkramer9463 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

      14 years of a mess...

    • @simonkramer9463
      @simonkramer9463 4 месяца назад

      @@jsd8981 well get used to it.

  • @busterbuster1641
    @busterbuster1641 4 месяца назад +1

    Sunak wants to have time to get his kids into school in US. That simple.

  • @markriding1267
    @markriding1267 4 месяца назад +4

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

  • @Differentbias
    @Differentbias 4 месяца 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.

  • @thedirediyer5245
    @thedirediyer5245 4 месяца назад +8

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

  • @stevev238
    @stevev238 4 месяца 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.

  • @SistorCarrera
    @SistorCarrera 4 месяца назад +2

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

  • @gavrob1802
    @gavrob1802 4 месяца назад +3

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

  • @RussMcP
    @RussMcP 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

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

    • @raymondharris6035
      @raymondharris6035 4 месяца назад

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

    • @lindabennett6597
      @lindabennett6597 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

      @@lindabennett6597bingo

    • @RussMcP
      @RussMcP 3 месяца назад

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

  • @nickgood8166
    @nickgood8166 4 месяца назад +3

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

  • @SlowhandGreg
    @SlowhandGreg 4 месяца назад +28

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

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 4 месяца назад

      Forgotten your meds ?

    • @DJRockford83
      @DJRockford83 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

      @@DJRockford83 So true, sadly.

    • @paulgibbon5991
      @paulgibbon5991 4 месяца назад

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

  • @harveybrown37
    @harveybrown37 4 месяца назад +4

    Was Sunak handed the whisky and pistol?!

  • @jem2264
    @jem2264 4 месяца 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!"

  • @philiphughes4117
    @philiphughes4117 4 месяца назад +31

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

    • @The_Truth_Army
      @The_Truth_Army 4 месяца назад +3

      He wants sympathy.

    • @RH1812
      @RH1812 4 месяца назад +4

      He didn’t notice as he’s already wet

    • @philiphughes4117
      @philiphughes4117 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад +1

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

    • @DS9TREK
      @DS9TREK 4 месяца назад

      ​@@stefanmaslaczyk1259the president of the US uses brollies.

  • @aal-e-ahmadhussain3123
    @aal-e-ahmadhussain3123 4 месяца назад +29

    Labour and Conservatives are two cheeks of the same arse.

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 4 месяца назад +6

      Not really, poverty rises under the Tories and falls under Labour.

    • @michaeljennings3207
      @michaeljennings3207 4 месяца назад +1

      @alien4422 Not under Starmer he will change nothing of importance

    • @archvaldor
      @archvaldor 4 месяца назад +2

      @@alien4422 Poverty droppped under Labour because the global economy was booming. It won't be this time.

    • @alien4422
      @alien4422 4 месяца назад +2

      @@archvaldor It wasn't booming when Labour took over after WW2 yet Labour created the NHS. The UK had plenty of money until the Tories started giving it to their rich friends.

    • @dallysinghson5569
      @dallysinghson5569 4 месяца назад

      Poverty follows poor health. Investing in NHS stages some of that off, as opposed to gutting it.

  • @dangumbo4835
    @dangumbo4835 4 месяца назад +3

    Just shows, I doesn't matter how much wealth you've created off the back of workers, you'll never have power over the weather or trolls.

  • @markmanc-zw3td
    @markmanc-zw3td 4 месяца назад +2

    That suit is gonna shrink like hell.

  • @bobbailey7024
    @bobbailey7024 4 месяца назад +21

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

  • @jimmi831
    @jimmi831 4 месяца назад +1

    first patriotic act a tory has made in decades.

  • @ianbarnes8593
    @ianbarnes8593 4 месяца 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 4 месяца 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 4 месяца назад

      Would never of guessed.

    • @stephenhill545
      @stephenhill545 3 месяца назад

      He wasn't breaking any laws.