Rishi Sunak to announce UK General Election on July 4th?

a reply to: angelchemuel

Ed Davey? Talking about tripe.....

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

It's the Scottish guy for SNP now...... not listening.... yawn....
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Jane

Starmers on.... I'm off to watch Vera.
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Jane

a reply to: angelchemuel

Only saw the highlights.

Starmer was squirming about the Corbyn thing.

Concerning reading for Starmer as the Statista tracker sees them dropping 10 points in less than 3 weeks down from 46% at the end of last month to 36% on the 18th of this month , likely fuelled by Farage taking charge of Reform and good economic numbers from the Tories , Reform are still there or about with the Tories.
www.statista.com...

The Tories are still doomed but I'm warming to the idea that post election the leaderless Tory party will merge with Reform with Farage at the helm ... should he win his seat in Clacton which looks likely , the two combined could bring enough seats to offer a credible opposition to Labour even though Labour will still have a large majority , it will also have Starmer bricking it every Wednesday morning before he faces Farage at PMQs.

No doubt this is the most important election in my lifetime and possibly the most interesting , we're not only voting for a government but also control of our country which will be lost under Labour , don't vote and you're voting for the establishment .... Vote Reform.

a reply to: gortex

I'm hoping the Conservatives defeat is so overwhelming they are all but eliminated as a political force entirely akin to the Canadian Progressive Conservatives in their 1993 election.

That way Reform UK (Who will no doubt serve as better opposition to a labour government) don't have to give any concessions to Tories in any potential merger.

Americans think they have it bad with their two candidates who have a chance of being their leader.

Sunak or Starmer is like choosing between ebola and aids.

We are totally screwed.

originally posted by: Ohanka
a reply to: gortex

I'm hoping the Conservatives defeat is so overwhelming they are all but eliminated as a political force entirely akin to the Canadian Progressive Conservatives in their 1993 election.

That way Reform UK (Who will no doubt serve as better opposition to a labour government) don't have to give any concessions to Tories in any potential merger.

Yes agree - there is a good chance (and hopefully it happens) that the Tory party is destroyed for generations after this election.

It's going to be very painful for quite a few years with Labour in charge, but the demise of the Tory's leaves a vacuum for another party to fill - hopefully, Reform.

We need change - including electoral reform. 'First past the post' does not work unless it is accompanied by decentralisation of some power. In the US it's also first past the post in each State , but they have states' rights, Governors etc who wield great power. In the UK, the constituency representative holds no power at all. They can represent in Parliament but if they are a minority party they have zero power.

Next week Reform might get 20% of the entire UK vote and have zero seats in Parliament.

Nigel Farage took another trip out into the Channel today to once again watch the French Coast Guard escort yet another boat full of illegals to be picked up by our Border Force taxi service.


Report from a Telegraph reporter on the boat with Farage.

His comments came as the number of people crossing since Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister passed 50,000.

Mr Farage, the Reform UK leader, accompanied by reporters, took a catamaran into the Channel as he set out his party’s plans for stopping the boats.

Within three hours of it going to sea, a dinghy packed with 45 migrants was spotted approaching the Channel’s 12-mile midpoint, having been escorted across the still waters from the north of France by the Minck, a rescue vessel contracted to the French Navy.

Hopefully the election will cause voting reform and an end to the Firsr Past the Post system as in an Alternative Vote or Proportional Representation system Reform would wipe the Tories out and likely become the main opposition Party - Under FPTP Ed Davey looks like being leader of the opposition despite Reform getting twice the overall vote share.

Oh dear.

The Gambling Commission launches an investigation into Kevin Craig, who was seeking to become the party's MP for Central Suffolk and North Ipswich, and Labour is understood to be returning £100,000 that the candidate donated to the party.

Guess we now know what price a chance for a seat at the trough costs in the Labour party.

A Labour candidate has been suspended by the party after betting against himself - with the Gambling Commission launching an investigation into him.
news.sky.com...

Bet on himself to lose .....

a reply to: gortex

That's even worse than betting on the date of the election.
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Jane

a reply to: angelchemuel

Snouts well and truly in the trough.

And another Tory , this time a Welsh Tory is being investigated for betting on the election date.

Russell George, a Conservative member of the Senedd, has stepped back from the Welsh shadow cabinet as he faces an investigation by the gambling watchdog over alleged bets on the timing of the general election.

Mr George represents Montgomeryshire in the Welsh parliament - the same area that Craig Williams, the Tory candidate who has had party support withdrawn as he faces similar allegations, represented at Westminster.
news.sky.com...

There's naughty ... isn't it.

a reply to: gortex

Tidy.

a reply to: Oldcarpy2

Thing is, for a man who worked in high end finance and such, how on earth did Sunak 'calculate' that calling the election when he did was a safe bet? Why didn't he wait until the Autumn when financially things would be stronger, he might have got a plane off to Rwanda etc. But he called it when things were stagnant. OK, maybe he knew/knows some sort of financial crash is coming, or no plane was going to take off? Maybe he was feeling the knives at his back, including the WEF's and he thought "we're going to lose anyhow, might as well take them all down with me!"..... or maybe it is going exactly to plan given we're going to get a WEF stooge either way.
I understand he toddled off to see Charles without discussing it with his Cabinet first. That is 'Fishy Rishi'
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Jane

a reply to: angelchemuel

I understand he toddled off to see Charles without discussing it with his Cabinet first. That is 'Fishy Rishi'

I'd have loved to have been a fly on the wall in that room with the King!
They're probably just like mates, who had a good chuckle at the bull# of our democracy illusion 🤣

a reply to: AdultMaleHumanUK

I suddenly thought this morning.... Macron has also called a snap election..... because of what they call 'the far right'. He's a member of WEF too.
Beginning to think there is something more sinister behind these elections.
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Jane

a reply to: angelchemuel
I have similar thoughts.
Slightly off topic, but this got me curious as well:
uk.isidewith.com...

The Biden administration “threw in the towel” over its fight with Julian Assange because it did not believe a Labour government would extradite him, the WikiLeaks founder’s former legal adviser has said.

Geoffrey Robertson KC, who mentored Sir Keir Starmer when he was a young barrister, told The Telegraph that American prosecutors knew they “couldn’t rely on” a Starmer administration to put Assange on a flight across the Atlantic.

So, is Starmer the new white knight of politics and justice in the UK, or is he just not 'in the bigger club' so we're about to find out how irrelevant our prime ministers really are in the global scale?!😳