Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister

[hairykrishna]

S600BSB said:

Fabulous that Boris was turned away from his local polling station yesterday because he had forgotten his ID!

Seemed a fairly transparent ploy to get his face on the news to me.

Elections seem like a predictable massacre so far.

[Rufus Stone]

hairykrishna said:

Seemed a fairly transparent ploy to get his face on the news to me.

Elections seem like a predictable massacre so far.

He wants to look like a buffoon?

[dundarach]

Rufus Stone said:

hairykrishna said:

Seemed a fairly transparent ploy to get his face on the news to me.

Elections seem like a predictable massacre so far.

He wants to look like a buffoon?

It's ALL he ever had, it worked before and it'll work again.

[Rufus Stone]

dundarach said:

It's ALL he ever had, it worked before and it'll work again.

Fair point.

[Condi]

Anyone who reads Private Eye will be hoping that Tory Teeside Mayor Ben Houchen loses his position when the results are in later. Predictions ahead of time had it as a tight contest with no obvious winner, but the sooner he is sacked and an investigation is launched into the freeport there the better.

[Boringvolvodriver]

dundarach said:

Rufus Stone said:

hairykrishna said:

Seemed a fairly transparent ploy to get his face on the news to me.

Elections seem like a predictable massacre so far.

He wants to look like a buffoon?

It's ALL he ever had, it worked before and it'll work again.

Never understood why so many fell for it really. As someone once said to me “I will bite for Boris because he is a good laugh” went quiet when I said that I prefer a Prime Minister to be vaguely competent

[sugerbear]

Wiped out then.

I fully expect Sunak to continue until the very last possible moment.

[Rufus Stone]

sugerbear said:

Wiped out then.

I fully expect Sunak to continue until the very last possible moment.

Probably. He'll be out soon telling people he is concentrating on delivering what people want while ignoring what people clearly want.

[Countdown]

Condi said:

Anyone who reads Private Eye will be hoping that Tory Teeside Mayor Ben Houchen loses his position when the results are in later. Predictions ahead of time had it as a tight contest with no obvious winner, but the sooner he is sacked and an investigation is launched into the freeport there the better.

AIUI there's already been an Inquiry and gave it a relatively clean bill of health? Certainly nowhere near Michelle Mone levels of dodginess.

https://news.sky.com/story/no-corruption-at-teeswo...

[Tom8]

Interesting review of some areas where independents have come through strongly. If I was looking for something to do right now I would sign up as an indy for the GE as I think there is a very good chance you could get elected. No one wants tories anymore and labour really doesn't inspire or offer anything better.

[bitchstewie]

Rufus Stone said:

Probably. He'll be out soon telling people he is concentrating on delivering what people want while ignoring what people clearly want.

Rwanda.

That's what people want.

Richard Holden said so this morning.

I'm not even joking.

[Mr Penguin]

Tom8 said:

Interesting review of some areas where independents have come through strongly. If I was looking for something to do right now I would sign up as an indy for the GE as I think there is a very good chance you could get elected. No one wants tories anymore and labour really doesn't inspire or offer anything better.

Aren't the independents mostly ex-Labour councillors who quit over Gaza?

[blueg33]

tangerine_sedge said:

bhstewie said:

No comments on the Conservative performance overnight?

I wonder why.

Give them chance to read how to spin it on the Daily Mail website...FFS

I don't think that even the mail can spin this. Looking at their website they are listing losses, eg

Daily Wail said:

Labour also claimed a 'truly historic result' to take Rushmoor - the home of the British Army - from the Tories and end nearly a quarter-of-a century of Conservative control.

[smn159]

bhstewie said:

Rwanda.

That's what people want.

Richard Holden said so this morning.

I'm not even joking.

That's what the gammons want. Normal people - not so much

[Digga]

blueg33 said:

tangerine_sedge said:

bhstewie said:

No comments on the Conservative performance overnight?

I wonder why.

Give them chance to read how to spin it on the Daily Mail website...FFS

I don't think that even the mail can spin this. Looking at their website they are listing losses, eg

Daily Wail said:

Labour also claimed a 'truly historic result' to take Rushmoor - the home of the British Army - from the Tories and end nearly a quarter-of-a century of Conservative control.

Why would the Wail spin it? The crux is the Conservatives no longer represent the interests (Wethers mints, mild zenophobia and nice days out at National Trust sites) of their readership.

Not really sure who represents a very large number or MOR left/right voters.

[captain_cynic]

blueg33 said:

S600BSB said:

Fabulous that Boris was turned away from his local polling station yesterday because he had forgotten his ID!

Especially funny!

less funny is veterans being turned away because their veteran ID isn't acceptable.

I still think that the ID thing is unnecessary.

I'm still of the thought that this will have the unintended side effect of harming the Tory vote as the OAPs who think that it doesn't apply to them or still carry a paper license get turned away.

[Mr Penguin]

captain_cynic said:

I'm still of the thought that this will have the unintended side effect of harming the Tory vote as the OAPs who think that it doesn't apply to them or still carry a paper license get turned away.

OAPs have a lot of different forms of ID including bus passes.

[blueg33]

Mr Penguin said:

captain_cynic said:

I'm still of the thought that this will have the unintended side effect of harming the Tory vote as the OAPs who think that it doesn't apply to them or still carry a paper license get turned away.

OAPs have a lot of different forms of ID including bus passes.

First hand experience?

[abzmike]

smn159 said:

bhstewie said:

Rwanda.

That's what people want.

Richard Holden said so this morning.

I'm not even joking.

That's what the gammons want. Normal people - not so much

They are switching to Reform en-masse - The swings in wards are telling - Con -15%, Ref +15% - Virtually one-to-one correlation splitting the right wing vote and handing seats to Labour.
So despite Reform not having any more of a workable idea about what to do about imigration, Con voters are just sick of the government pretending they do. Finally seeing this on such a scale in ballott boxes will unsettle MPs - Whether they get letter writing we shall see.

Edited by abzmike on Friday 3rd May 09:32

[Doofus]

dundarach said:

Rufus Stone said:

hairykrishna said:

Seemed a fairly transparent ploy to get his face on the news to me.

Elections seem like a predictable massacre so far.

He wants to look like a buffoon?

It's ALL he ever had, it worked before and it'll work again.

When he was at school, he was in a play and he forgot his lines, so he started buffooning and went down a storm. Apparently, that's when he adopted the clown personality.