Will this be "Independence Day" from the Tories?
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!
Yep, happier being a talking head on GB News or eating sh*t on I'm a Celeb.
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.
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.
Imagine how fucked in the head you would have to be to shill for him.
Imagine using Farage's face as an avatar.
*Shudders*
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.
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
Meant more in general than specifically but get what you mean
Maybe he's still a grifting coward though.
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”
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.
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.
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.
yeah I don’t disagree at all
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.
Became a poisoned chalice as soon as bonking boris rocked in to town
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.
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
HIGNFY this evening totally agrees too - it’s not just us - the commentators totally called out that “he wants to lose”
As I expected might happen, Gove the deflated toad is standing down, as is Andrea Loathsome.
I'm scratching my head why he ever became an MP. He was already a multi-millionaire worth hundreds of millions (and his wife's family worth billions) and yet he wanted to be a Member of Parliament at age 35….a really strange move for someone in his position.
Sunak welshed on the £1000 bet with Piers Morgan over the Rwanda horsesh1t aswell, #10 say they're not going to pay up.
He'll need 24 hour security for the rest of his life, its bizarre.
He joined to Tories at Oxford where politics is just a game for posh boys and a chance at a bit of fame and glory. You win the game by becoming PM, there is no bonus points for being a good PM and if anything you would lose points for putting in effort.
A near billionire refusing to pay up, I heard that somewhere before.
he married in to money, are you suggesting he should just become kept man?
that’s just reverse snobbery.
I’m pretty sure Diane Abbot got in to politics at Oxford as well, or does it only count if they’re Tories?
Why write a cheque you cannot cash? Sunak just looks more foolish than ever.
It's all quite fascinating. Rwanda was an important policy plank for Sunak, and he was unable to implement it thanks to the legal challenges of the NGO lobby groups. Its failure has severely damaged his personal reputation and that of the Conservative party.
I don’t think it’s just its failure, the entire thing was a complete farce.
It was a very unpopular (even among a lot of Tory voters) hill he chose to die on.
