General British politics discussion thread

I have to laugh at the painting of the D-day gaff as being the thing that kills Sunak's campaign. He was dead long before then.

I also think that there's an awful lot of stretching going on with attacking Sunak's decision to leave Normandy early. Sure, it was politically myopic to say the least, but it's kinda mildly galling to see him get hauled over the coals by self righteous people who'd struggle to name the five beaches that were invaded on June 6th or which nations forces landed on which beach.

there seems to be a major effort at the moment to portray Starmer as a statesman. Someone who is above petty populist politics and is big enough for the tough decisions. Like not calling for a ceasefire in Gaza too soon and shaking hands with Zelensky to show that this labour leader is fully on his side. Because of the latter, there was a big push from his aides to get him at the world leaders do, when he wouldn’t normally have been invited.
Because he was there and Sunak wasn’t, it is a huge win for Labour and there is no way it is going to be dropped.
In a non election year, other than the usual Farage type racist sound bites, it would have been forgotten by now.

Do you not remember the feeding frenzy against Jeremy Corbyn because 'he did not bow enough' at the Remembrance Day Cenotaph?

The problem is Sunak was promoting the idea of national service only days/weeks before the D Day events. Leaving early shows an immense lack of disrespect and hypocrisy.

It also annoys his base, the people who care most about events like these. His decision upset practically all voters and those least likely to be upset at the decision are those who would be very unlikely to vote for him anyway.

Yes in terms of decisions that have a practical impact on voters Sunak and the conservatives have made much much bigger mistakes(not looking at you Brexit). However he was behind in the polls and leaving the D Day events early was a spectacular misjudgement. Yes it arguably has no practical impact on voters but it very much highlights his judgement in a way that less flashy if more impactful(at least on the ground) can't.

I do, I know myself better than a randomer, UK politics is boring , Funny Labour will be more entertaining

Corbyn must live rent free in Starmer's head. He, of course, is referring to the manifesto he helped prepare, fully endorsed and went to the people with it and got elected. The man was either lying then or is lying now either way he is a liar

Some of this though is just unnecessarily insulting your own voters.

ITV must have een delighted when they realised they had that apology.

He says an example of him going without when he was younger was he didnt have access to sky tv……

When he was younger, not having Sky was the posh thing - "whats the box on a satellite dish called? a council house" being a joke of the time.

Next he'll be telling us how he had to unwrap the Viscount biscuits all by himself.