Sunak’s campaign is already a ‘disaster’ | Former Labour advisor
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- “The number of enforced errors from the Sunak campaign just keeps growing.”
Rishi Sunak is a “worse stump political campaigner than Theresa May was in 2017”, says former Labour advisor Kevin Meagher.
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Sunak doesn't care he just wants to get to California before school starts there.
How clever of you repeating the media talking points
Is PM or x-PM “ Sunk “ accompanying Nigel Farage.
Exactly
@@Millie.com232 Because we all know the UK media's dominated by lefties🤣🤡
My thoughts too, back to his Malibu mansion to enjoy the summer
You can´t help wondering if his advisers are actually taking the Michael Mouse out of him, betting amongst themselves if he really is DUMB ENOUGH to follow their advice.
Unfortunately not. They’re just very, very thick.
@@sircxx8621 Either that or Sunak NEVER follows their advice. Great stuff for a movie, too.
That’s a good point he’s got to go so how do we do it
@@alanforrester6900 By getting a good laugh.
Anyone competent left the team or was fired long ago for not having the "correct vision" (they weren't yes people).
He's just left with the dregs, this is legitimately their best effort.
Looks like they are running the campaign like they run the country not very well !
More like ruining.
@@TheLucanicLord em dashes. Em dashes are important!
Understatement of the year! 🤣
This man is sick and tired of running this country for ungrateful people , he plans to lose and leave Uk for Sunny California.... ❤
Does it matter who is the PM?
Starmer has been pulverizing Sunak at PMQ's every weeks? and you think he afraid of more debate?
The Consevatives have sunk so low that not even Bob Ballard could find them
James Cameron in a Marianas Trench grade submersible!
If they do remakes of Mr. BEAN, we know who will be perfect for the part.
It'll satisfy diversity quotas
roland rat
This has to all be set up right?
He can’t seriously have had this many disasters in 3 days of campaigning
Well, he's had the best education the UK has to offer. Watching the likes of him and Cameron in action, it gives the lie to the notion that people with top-dollar degrees are better decision-makers than oiks from secondary schools...
The UK's in a much worse state than the titanic!
You are so right far more people are dying because of lockdowns than died on the titanic
Must be nice to be able to retire at 56 because you are tired...good luck to their constituents that get tired at 75...
I wonder if the Tories would have been so keen on Brexit if they had realised that it would mean the end of the Conservative party? 💀 🗳 🤔
The ‘Top’ Tories were purged by Johnson. If you mean the dregs of the right-wing slops bucket currently in ministerial positions, they don’t ‘think’. Staggering ignorance is a prerequisite for ministerial office in this appalling travesty of a parliamentary party.
To blame Brexit for the plight of the Tory party is completely absurd...
I'm sure you will disagree, but I believe that the Brexit zealots would be prepared to sacrifice ANYTHING on their poorly-defined altar of "sovrinty".
@@nicolek4076 Brexit is a death cult 🇬🇧 💀
@@nicolek4076 I certainly would disagree; you interpret my sentiments with great accuracy. And as to "Brexit zealots"; I think you misconstrue. People like myself who voted for Brexit, did so out of simple choice as per the ballot form, not "zealotry". You may recollect that the opportunity to vote at all was actually given to the nation by a remainer - Cameron. If the referendum result had been in favour of `remain', I and every Brexiteer I know would've swallowed the bitter pill and gone quietly on with our lives. However, the disappointed remainiacs have done quite the opposite, and moved heaven and earth to overturn or stymie the lawful and democratic result. Even now, 8 years on, they never miss an opportunity to exercise their angst. So; when you employ the term "zealots", I would counsel you to apply it to the appropriate cohort...
ZERO SEATS!!!
CONservative party
Rather Tories than Reform UK, so maybe a couple.
Sinai visiting the docks that built the Titanic. You couldn't make it up couldn't you.
Sunak needs 6 debates to explain 14 years of Tory failure.
Please! Just the two. I couldn't afford the popcorn!
They're both going to be a clown show!
A trained Solicitor who has torn him a new one at every PMQ but in view of the nation. Not just those who are interested enough and can be bothered to check for it.
Raw and uncut.
Like a comedy horror!
It's 3 years of failure, not 14
@@DS9TREK You think so? Explain what is better now in this country after 14 years? Take your time.
@@davefave4351 SPOT ON MATE - THEY VSAY THE POLLS WILL NARROW? - THE TV DEBATES WONT HELP SUNAK - HE'S NEVER WON A PMQ'S - NVM A UNSCRIPTED TV DEBATE LOL
@@DS9TREK ???
And the 2024 Oscar nomination for best soundtrack goes to.......
Steve Bray
I bet it’s banned on Radio 1 but it will ring out at Glastonbury
Starmers a lawyer they spend weeks debating with a court/prosecution, i think he can handle it.
I really enjoy Times Radio these days. As far as the election, this is also really enjoyable to watch. I have seen how so many times, so many Brits voted against their own interests, that it is truly mindboggling, but It looks like British voters might finally show some sense and stop voting for their own demise. The details of Rishi standing in the rain getting soaked, of his many gaffes, all of this makes it seem like a Richard Curtis Romcom which is highly entertaining.
It ain't just Britain, mate. In America, they made a senile android president. And look at the rest of the world. France's Macron, Germany's Merkel; everywhere you look, countries are in crisis. Even the sensible Swedes have a civil war on their hands...
Sunak is a cross between Norman Wisdom , a thunderbirds character and Mr bean and to think we had benny hill before him! what an absolute joke this all is......
Roland Rat 🐀
He’s NOT worried about Sunlack. He won’t be phased by debating it was his job in trials etc He doesn’t need to be firey or animated. He’s serious, focussed, organised and measured. These are the proper attributes for a PM. But don’t think he’s a pushover or timid! Quite the opposite. He has come from quite a modest background by dint of his STRENGTH OF CHARACTER and intelligence. Just read the book about him, it’s all there!
Did you mean "Mounting Errors"?
I think it's a bad pun on the phrase "Accounting errors".
@@thetragicyouth Thank you! I wondered, thought it could be something like that. Didn't even watch the video, actually, probably should have! But yes, I agree with you--the pun is bad. 😄
I hate the tories, Kier Starmer is so uninspiring though… he is literally only going to win because people are finally taking their head out of the dirt and realising that the tories are the epitome of evil
It is always the case. People do not vote a party in. They vote the government of the day out. However, Tories being in government for 14 years has been disastrous. Tories only look after the wealthy. I mean look at the disaster created by that evil woman Maggie Thatcher. And at the same time, Ronald Reagan was in the US. Their trickle down economics was a total failure. However the rich got richer. This happens in Australia, in the USA as well as in Canada. Labor or Liberal governments depending ob which country you are referring to, do make improvements to the working class. In Australia for example Labor brought in Medicare and Superannuation. I hope the Labour government in the UK if voted in will bring about some positive policies that will help the population in general.
Way back in 1945 people said that Clem Attlee was uninspiring, that he was boring, had no charisma and should move aside to let the more inspiring senior members take over. He stuck with it and according to historians and political commentators was among the best three Prime Ministers the country has ever had with many saying the best.
We've had enough of the populist loud mouths who have run the country into the ground with their constant searching for the next mornings newspaper headlines. Let's have somebody who can actually get on with the job of rescuing the country from the fourteen years of Tory misrule.
It’s all about Policy and Management not Charisma
@@rockerjim8045and starmer is notorious for being indecisive.
I don't think my dog would be nervous with debating with Sunak, think about it Starmer is an experienced trained barrister vs a man who doesn't know how to use a debit card, or an umbrella.
He can probably spell umbrella tho unlike you.
@@ann3654 I can spell "though," which is handy, 😂
@@micksmithson6724 touche' , I was using text speak big mistake.
"Gifts from the metaphor elves", a very underrated album. Would have sold much better if not for the controversy about the cover.
Please! Just the two televised debates.
I couldn't possibly afford that much popcorn!
If he was a boxer, he would be accused of throwing the fight. He would be making a good job of it, too. America calls.
From France, so excuse my French... It may not be my place to make this comment, but having known a much more pragmatic and value-oriented UK, I am baffled.
You appear to be in a sad situation frankly...
France isn't in a great situation either (at least on the home front); but at least, from my point of view, we are in the EU...
I guess you are going to have pick yourself up...
But it would be nice to 'recover' the UK I have known when I resided in Scotland in 2000... Many across the world were looking up to you then.
So best of luck...
As a Brit I would add that the French often underestimate just how REALLY GREAT France is 🇨🇵 The French are never satisfied precisely because they expect a much higher standard from their government than do the rather deflated Brits.
@@jeremymanson1781 Thanks Jeremy. The French can be great, but we keep acting like spoiled kids. We keep refusing to face the reality of our problems, and we have a few to deal with.
The Brits are awesome (I mean it) when they apply common sense, pragmatism and honor as you are known to be able to, when you make future-impacting decision on the base of the greater good for you and your community. When you keep in mind that if a sound management team is a significant plus, but the actual success takes place with those handling the actual customers. May I refer you to 'if' by Kipling.
I, as European, need you to behave as men and women, being as pragmatic as you can be optimistic. I do believe we need each other to be as sound and solid as each can be. Remember, if we are to work together, European(be it German, Spaniard, Italian, Irish, Deutsch, French, etc) and Brits, (which we are bound to in the end I believe), we are only as strong as our weakest link... The US isn't strong enough to do it all for you or us.
If you were Scotland you didn't see the real UK. England is 83% of the population and Scotland is 9%. It's like going to Corsica and assuming it represents the mainland France.
@@DS9TREK
What about the Welshs then, Brits or not? So what are the Scots supposed to be? Half way Brits? I am not even trying to provoque here, just a bit baffled by your comment.
People from Corsica are full time French citizen as far as I am concerned, but may be you should ask Corsicana for their views on that question... Best of luck.
It's become quite clear to me that the men in dark suits pulling Sunaks strings have given him a brief of " lose the election " .
No PM campaigning during a GE can be this awful unless it was intentional .
No Sh... a Damp Squib
“…a bit young for a Times Radio presenter” Ouch! That wiped the smug sneer from her face.
It's deliberate - and will cumulate in his departing for California 3 days before the election. He's trying to prove in all this he has got a sense of humour.
I wonder if such a dunce as Sunak will even get invited onto the $100,000/hour lecture tour...
Is Starmer standing candidates in NI? If not, his argument about Scotland isn't correct. Unless he is thinking about the border poll. It's time for a change.
You cannot simply ignore Diane Abbott. She is a force and has many supporters. Treat her with fairness or pay a heavy price.
And she continually attacks Labour. Time for her to 'retire'.
What are you on?
we have a pm who doesn't know the price of a loaf of bread. England is doomed
Scotland may well be essential to Labour, but Labour is by no means essential to Scotland, especially if they intend to do away with the good work of Holyrood.
What good work, housing crisis, education standards declining, one ferry years late and massively over budget, party funds misappropriated, NHS a shambles, schools and hospitals crumbling, does this remind you of any other political party ?
To be fair, the remark about whether he was the captain of a sinking ship was quite clever and witty; so fair play to the journalist for the simple, ingenious witty remark
He’s so wooden and the super skinny tight suits he wears make him look like a school boy.
Love Angela Rainer beaming at Starmer when she loathes the man.
You don't have to like someone to work with them I'm sure many people will agree with that, but at least they show a united front unlike the Tories who seem to spend more time plotting how to get rid of people than running the country.
Over the Hill at 56? I'm 57 and i don't feel that's over the hill.
I'm 71. So I must be over a small mountain and far away 🤔
Rishi is over the hill and he is only 4Ft 3ins
a land without Tories beckons
Not when Starmer is in Downing Street!
If so many people can foretell the future why is the country in this state, you would have thought they would have spoken out sooner.
I genuinely don't remember another world leader who was this bad at politics. He really is the victory of overpromoted mediocrity.
"Amounting errors" is beautifully ironic.
Ironic in what sense? Surely it's a pun (admittedly a weak one) on the phrase "accounting errors"?
@@thetragicyouth It's not a pun, it's a typo, "mounting errors" is clearly what was meant. There were no accounting errors in the piece, it was about the Conservative campaign. It's perfectly ironic because it's a headline criticising errors which itself contains an error.
Come on, it shouldn't have been necessary to explain that.
The problem with having a Labour spokesman pretend his comments are impartial is no one trusts him. But writing as a REFORM voter on this occasion I agree.
Well done you! I had no idea that any of you boys were even semi-literate.
The financial forecast for world economy for the next 4 or 5 years isnt very good and therefore its more like a competition of who wants it least just like last time! How did the conservatives get such a huge majority? Labour threw it all away in their direction! Why will Labour get such a huge majority this time? Well, it wont be because Mr Starmer is such a great leader...
He was recommended by some geezer in Israel, the one that said there is no genocide in Gaza.
He just can't do politics - and neither can his advisers apparently.
It's almost like he's completely out of touch
Oh blair was worse.you know the war criminal who is starmers advisor with Mandelson 😮
Maybe he's doing it to loose
Cally here we come.
Making England an illegal immigrant free country would be a good start.
Please define illegal immigrant.
You can’t know till they are processed. Oh look the people to process them were cut years ago. Now there are lots of applicants not processed. They said at the time “part of the plan to put people off” now there is a massive backlog costing a fortune. What a shock! Next came the complaints that there are lots of people you can point at. Throw in a list of actions that were designed not to work but create a lot of noise. Almost as if it was planned that way to create a focus for the easily distracted.
@@paulb9003 Illegal immigrants (coming into this country illegally).
@@bustercolin7507 really? There are no legal routes so not much choice really. If they were processed we could send them back. However that would undermine the distraction they provide for the easily distracted.
I was told at school in the early 1970s there was a demographic time bomb. Too many older people not enough young. The people arriving have get up and go. Process them send back the ones that don’t have a claim. The French will even let us do it across the channel. However that would come too close to solving the problem certain people want to keep on the boil to distract the easily distracted.
"Former Labour advisor" says his opponent is useless. 🤷 So much philosophical insight.
He's not wrong though the Times is normally a Tory cheerleader
What does Sunak offer? He's rolled back and destroyed most of Johnson's key pledges and retail offer to the majority and crawled into Thatcher mode. No one but the deluded faithful wants that
Nothing to do with philosophy: it's a discussion on strategy.
I'm not voting Tory but can someone tell me what Labour will do?
The same, but worse. Higher taxes to pay for a quicker net zero push, more immigration, more convergence with the EU, even more Nanny State, and of course, votes for 16 year olds.
FA
Getting rid of this guy should be the start of better things for the UK
Drowned rat, now titanic…. This can’t be by accident.
it’s a Suicide Mission
As David Steele once said "go back to your constituencies and prepare for Government" and Neil Kinnock "all right, all right, all right, all right, all right, " So high in the polls and they can be so wrong, going to be interesting how the UK vote
United Kingdom will be always United Kingdom and Scotland will be never an independent country you are together strong...I'm a Somalian living in uk for 24 years and before that I used live in Germany for13 years I'm so grateful for helping me so many years but the problem I have is at the moment they want to send me to Somalia and I don't know nothing about Somalia when I came to Europe I was only 8 years old....
Ireland went independent from the UK, so there's no reason Scotland can't. As someone from England we'd kinda benefit from Scotland leaving, because it's very left wing and parties would have to shift to the right to win more support in England.
Mounting??
Giving excuses that he's creating a job he's just creating a restaurant job for buying food and selling
It might be but Labour are a disaster waiting to happen don't delude yourself Labour will bring change and are the only answer they're not they are part of the problem
This situation has all the hallmarks of a , potential , criminal being advised by his solicitor. Plead guilty to a lesser offence and you will get a much more lenient sentence. Let's be realistic, gold plated Rishi is never going to see another poor day in his life.
Sound levels
shhhhh!
He will make sure his wife assets are safe before leaving and his gets all his tax benefits
How many disaster can he cause in his own life time...
A change is needed. Before the Tories take this country into a pointless war.
They Should bring back Liz Truss
Things just got worse for Ritchie. Elon Musk has only offered him a job as head of Cybertruck sales.
but you have to admit it's the best comedy show for years.......................................
Even disable people he's taking their money out from their pocket what should they eat and Survive
The media should not entertain candidates’ debates as we don’t want to throw Labour off course.
Good
Sunak has just confirmed my view that he is not a seasoned career politician. His Rwanda policy is already failing to deter migrants from crossing the Channel and his campaign has got off to the worst start.
And to make matters even worse, Conservative MPs are abandoning the sinking ship. He faces total humiliation on July 4th
I still prefer him over Starmer. May, 2024.
Hindu giza 🐕 will fail tories in election
After 14 years of misery is bye bye to the evil selfish Tories 🎉
All the jobs they are creating in UK is restaurant jobs Italian restaurant Polish restaurant Czech restaurant
I’m fed up already is anyone else getting the Conservative campaign advertising, popping up constantly whenever I play online games …it must be costing them a bloody fortune😡
Don't worry the Russians are paying.
I *almost* feel sorry for him on a purely human level. It's painful to watch. I know he's unloaded untold pain on the nation and decimated our public services, with his Tory accomplices, and will be jetting off to California on June 5th, but can we please put him out of his misery now?! Another 6 weeks will be tortuous...
The world needs decent men like Jeremy Corden, Bernie Sanders, in the future.
He's a Wally.
Quing up ? 😂😂😂😂
He will leave for American soil
yes
I think it’s clear that Labour will win the next election, but also that Reform could split the Tory vote. So my guess is his primary objective was to “wrong foot” the Reform party which, given that Farage doesn’t have time to run for MP again, he does seem to have done successfully.
Sunak the headless chicken 🐔
Hindu giza 🐕 will fail tories in the election
Sunak is a clown 🤡 he's mandating our kids to join the Army once they're 18. Well let him sign his own kids in first & if they survive alive then we may consider but he needs to start with his own kids first if he thinks it is safe, he wants to drag our kids in but I wanna see him go first with his own kids. I'm not & never been against anyone joining the army because that's a choice but we are not going to be forced to do anything we don't want to do.
THE HOME OF DUFF AUDIO LEVELS!
Starmers no better
Just comes across as wooden and insincere
But hasn't advocated for a party that wanted 'the bodies to pile high'. Absolutely nothing alike.
@@dolleywhite4438 yes he did
Refused to call for a ceasefire
he is gonna work in business soon
I will never vote mainstream again
Thus ensuring a mainstream govt. but without your participation. What is needed is PR but that isn’t going to happen.
Sunak doesn't really want to continue in the position. The after dinner speaking racket beckons.
the returns in his modeRNA $hares will cover the ice creams on the Californian beaches
How did some one like Sunak become prime minister? Who voted for him?
No one. He bullied Boris into not running against
Jeremy Corbyn will win his seat. Truth will win the day.
No chance
Looking at Sunak talking to people I think we are talking about actual social anxiety, if it were anyone else you might feel sorry for him.
I have social anxiety, and I don't feel sorry for him at all.
He has the money to have had treatment without a waiting list.
The country England does not include Scotland a separate country so Sunak should stop saying the Country .
Almost but not quite a Federal collection of small Countries. Why?
The country the United Kingdom includes Scotland
Let me try again. Scotland is not independent although many of us wish it were. What we have is a pretend federal set up. It cost many millions but solves no problems. It is indicative of the state of the United Kingdom, a land of pretence always kicking the can down the road until there is no more road. It really doesn't matter who wins the election.
@@DS9TREK Negative 4 Countries get with the programme
Labour and Reform have absolutely nothing to offer
Both have something to offer,
Reform offers more lies and fascist policy making the cons have been up to.
Labour will start to move the country kicking and screaming back to reality, I think you could use a dose of that.
They offer not being tories.
Reform offer the Thatcherism that made us better off in the 80s and 90s
I'd take anything over this conservative party. I'm very happy to give labour a chance. I can't be sure of them but I've seem what I'll get from more of this government. No thanks.
Labour will be the same but more of it. I dread them getting power
@@DS9TREK I disagree but there is are.
You mean like thise nhs invoices which still get paid in the full sum which could be thousands times the unit cost of the implement supplied theirin
He wants to lose
Sunak! is he really applying for American citizenship,?
You have to live there for years before you can apply. Hasn't Sunak been living in London?
I am not voting for Mr Bean
Better to vote for Mr Bean than Sunak. I was thinking of voting for Humpty Dumpty.
Come on stop the jibes we know the best thing for the country right now is vote him back in 💙
Tee hee. Thanks for the laugh!
Well you guys dont have a Trump so your good..unless he wins. Lol
we do but he's not running.
Definitely voting conservative.
every one of sunaks policies makes him n his farther in law richer handing him government contracts
This is what happens when you knife a successful campaigner, who won a good election, in the back. We had it happen in Australia to both Labour and the Liberal Party. Ambitious people want the job without actually winning it and without the ability to campaign and connect with voters.