Will this be "Independence Day" from the Tories?
As I expected might happen, Gove the deflated toad is standing down, as is Andrea Loathsome.
HIGNFY this evening totally agrees too - it’s not just us - the commentators totally called out that “he wants to lose”
An Irish interest, Morgan McSweeney the Labour Director of elections is from Macroom. Sue Gray one time ran a pub in Newry. Morgan's cousin, Clare Mugovan is an advisor to Leo Varadkar.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/24/meet-the-top-teams-the-key-election-advisers-to-sunak-and-starmer
How could he have been a decent PM? If he has demonstrated anything during his tenure it is that he is spectacularly bad at politics.
Became a poisoned chalice as soon as bonking boris rocked in to town
has there actually been any question marks over why he became prime minister, or is it just idle speculation?
He joined the Conservative Party while he was at university, long before he met his wife which is when he technically became a millionaire. His own parents were doctors I believe, so while fairly affluent, hardly millionaires, unless GPs in the NHS earn a lot more than they do here.
I thought he might have been a decent PM, but it seems that there is too much going on behind the scenes with the Tories for anyone to excel at the moment. They need a complete re-set as a party, which currently seems very unlikely.
yeah I don’t disagree at all
Absolutely. It's a bit like Trump as President. He loved the election and he loved the pomp and ceremony of the job. He hated the actual job itself though - endless people bringing him problems that he had zero interest in since they weren't about himself.
The day he announced it the Spectator (essential reading for Tories) were ready to lead with a story on what a terrible time it "would be" to call an election not knowing the very thing was about to happen.
There doesn't seem to be any other reasoning behind this decision. On almost every issue they would have been, if not better, but had some chance if they waited. So it seems that either he got fed up with the work (and being PM is a difficult and time-consuming job) or he felt that he didn't have MPs' support and simply gave them the two fingers.
There has always been a question mark over why he wanted to be PM. Apart from the base position that everyone has that it sounds great, after a while the sheer difficulty of the position, exacerbated by both the awful position the Tories found themselves in and his clear lack of any real political skills, would grind anyone down. Particularly since he is a multimillionaire and doesn't need the hassle and certainly doesn't need to be living in a relatively pokey flat, being constantly questioned over his use of helicopters and the like.
So he basically threw a bit of a strop, got fed up with the whole thing, and just needs to be through the next 6 weeks before returning to his lavish lifestyle and complete freedom.
can’t help but think Sunak just wants to go back to a life of privilege and is fed up being PM - a good way for him to just bow out - you can tell that his heart isn’t in what he says - he’s just going through the motions - he’s just stopping short of saying “please don’t vote for us”
Maybe he's still a grifting coward though.
Meant more in general than specifically but get what you mean
I'd say Farage is also not interested in actually being an MP, especially one in a tiny opposition party, with no chance of holding sway over a likely Labour big majority.
Imagine him having to show up every day Commons sits, actually having to be present but having no real power. Being an MEP was easy work for him, especially in an anti-EU role, 'sure why would I show up to something I'm against'. But to have constituents calling him about potholes, being expected to be on a committee doing work.
Ok, he'd love his moments in the limelight, like grandstanding at PMQs asking baited questions, but day to day work? Nah
Farage likes immigration sometimes. Remember when multi-millionaire Novak Djokovic was fighting deportation from Australia a few years back and Farage flew to Belgrade to show his support for Novak? So Farage is against deportations and countries should allow people in, as long as the person involved in rich and white. Funny that.
Imagine using Farage's face as an avatar.
*Shudders*
Imagine how fucked in the head you would have to be to shill for him.
That's because he's a grifter and a coward. He's also a racist, a liar and a conman; and no single person has done more to damage the UK in a very long time.
Farage is just a parasite at the end of the day. He's Vidkun Quisling with a cigar and a pint. He's failed to get elected 7 times. He knows trying an eighth time will be an exercise in stupidity. He's better off shilling for Trump and hawking conspiracy theories on the channel nobody watches.
Yep, happier being a talking head on GB News or eating sh*t on I'm a Celeb.
Farage is doing what is best for Farage. He knows that his right-wing racist nonsense carries less sway in the UK now than it did previously and whilst he spectacularly failed to get elected to the HOC on multiple occasions, he has even less chance now. He doesn't care about the UK - he never did. He cares about himself!
Farage said he is not standing because he needs to concentrate on the US election which has "serious global significance"
So Farage is essentially saying a British general election does not have serious global significance. Odd for a country he claimed was more powerful than the entire EU and would have the world queuing up to do business with.
That's before you get into hypocrisy of him being an unelected foreigner telling other people how they should run their country.
So you agree he is a coward. Scared of being called a grifter, or worse.
Luckily real leaders can actually stand up for themselves. Starmer is consistently labelled a dull and worse yet he is standing.
So faced with the future of the country, he says himself that the tories are useless and Starmer is terrible, he put his own feelings first and gas run away to another country.
The irony of a man that hates immigration and decries foreigners influencing British politics is running off to try to influence another country's election is astounding.
Sunak showing again he is down with the common man / woman.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dp_XgGdj-B8
https://www.bbc.com/news/videos/cgllg7p9nx3o
It seems they were planning to oust him so Rishi went first. The tories are a complete mess at the moment and post-election will have to get their politics moving back towards the centre (Leadsom seemed to be aghast that her gravy train was being stopped more than anything else).
If Nigel Farage ran in the upcoming election, he would be accused of being a grifter or worse.
When he doesn't run, Farage is accused of being a coward.
As usual, people want to have it both ways.
Hopefully now the media can stop the love in with him. He is a coward. And not only a coward but a coward that is turning his back on the UK and running off to earn money in the US.
The man should be ridiculed by every interviewer.
I still can't understand how people thought this was a serious idea.
It was clearly kite flying to distract from partygate that somehow grew legs and became government policy.
North of £140m was mentioned earlier this year……..shocking policy and a waste of money.
I thought Arsenal Football Club at one stage might have changed their slogan from "visit Rwanda" to "visit, and stay in Rwanda"!
He probably can't face his eighth successive defeat in UK parliamentary elections.
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