Tories will struggle to fill seats as further resignations expected | Michael Crick

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Komentáře • 188

  • @casadellangelo
    @casadellangelo Před 22 dny +83

    Zero seats for the Tories... come on, it can be done 😄

    • @oneminutebeerreviews6628
      @oneminutebeerreviews6628 Před 22 dny

      Unfortunately not, i'm a psephologist (someone who studies elections and voting statistics) there are 94 seats that the Tories have held since 1945, the odds are those seats will not change.

    • @julieclonan2427
      @julieclonan2427 Před 22 dny +1

      None for Liebour Either. Bliar is the New Head of the WEF.

    • @gio-oz8gf
      @gio-oz8gf Před 22 dny +10

      @@julieclonan2427 Grow up, child.

    • @JD-Media
      @JD-Media Před 22 dny

      It can't be done. Statistically, it's impossible.

    • @houldenc22
      @houldenc22 Před 22 dny +1

      ​@@oneminutebeerreviews6628and have the Conservatives in that time been anywhere near as low in the polls so close to an election?

  • @derekwhite2929
    @derekwhite2929 Před 22 dny +34

    Fairly insignificant compared to the numbers of people's they've compelled into leaving this life altogether, which is in the hundreds of thousands by now with the 'excess deaths'!

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence Před 21 dnem

      'Excess deaths' runs out of steam eventually as a disproportionate number of the vulnerable have died early already.
      But Boris' tactic of letting the virus wreak havoc amongst the elderly will now come to haunt the Tories. The average 18-25 year old voter who couldn't vote in the Referendum For Self-Harm are FAR less likely to vote Tory than the over 70s that have succumbed.

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 17 dny

      That would be starvation, hypothermia, suicide due to cuts to mental health, and who can forget the thousands of elderly people who were killed bcause of Covid 19? Not to mention all the others who died. Johnson presided over 250,000 deaths while he was destroying the country with his ridiculous Brexit and partying all night.

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 Před 17 dny

      Agreed totally...

  • @BarriePeart
    @BarriePeart Před 22 dny +51

    Laura Kuenssberg should fill a seat , she's a true blue Tory .

    • @Gaza-vu6gl
      @Gaza-vu6gl Před 22 dny +8

      She will announce that during her Sunday at home with the Tories programme 😂

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 22 dny

      No, she's too busy sobbing into her Boris Johnson pillow, under her Boris Johnson duvet cover.

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence Před 21 dnem +2

      Toilet seat would be appropriate.

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence Před 21 dnem +3

      @@Gaza-vu6gl I stopped watching BBC shortly after she replaced Andrew Marr. Sophie Ridge and Beth Rigby are better commentators on SKY even if you think Ch.4 are too 'progressive'.

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 17 dny +1

      No, she's too busy sobbing into her Boris pillow, underneath her Boris duvet, having wrapped herself up in a Union Jack.

  • @jackdubz4247
    @jackdubz4247 Před 21 dnem +10

    Every Tory who resigns before the GE should be automatically enrolled for National Service. Might as well make some use of them.

  • @jhonson7079
    @jhonson7079 Před 22 dny +23

    The rats are leaving the ship

    • @BarriePeart
      @BarriePeart Před 20 dny

      Like the Chinese say ' when the tree falls the monkeys scatter '

  • @KeefsCattys
    @KeefsCattys Před 22 dny +26

    A bunch of cowards !

  • @BN-hk6wf
    @BN-hk6wf Před 21 dnem +7

    Michael Crick: “Advisers tend to be clever people”
    But don’t know how to use an umbrella or look out of a window.

    • @katrinabryce
      @katrinabryce Před 21 dnem

      I'm pretty sure those ones are Lib Dem plants. The only other logical explanation is that they are Labour plants.

    • @jackdubz4247
      @jackdubz4247 Před 21 dnem

      These advisers are all too busy looking at WhatsApp messages on their expensive phones to ever think of looking out of a window.

    • @david1610
      @david1610 Před 21 dnem

      @@jackdubz4247 look out of Windows? They have iPhones mate!!!!

  • @karlclark8625
    @karlclark8625 Před 22 dny +5

    At 6.58, Michael Crick called local councillors dim. He stated that local voters like people from the local area, which would upset "the really bright people who have a job in London". To me, this is deeply offensive, Angela Rainer was a local candidate.

  • @20karisan
    @20karisan Před 22 dny +14

    It is just me that feels disgusted how this man talks "tactically" about sits without an ounce of respect for the office, the constituency or themselves.

    • @glennjanot8128
      @glennjanot8128 Před 22 dny +6

      Yes.
      Because it's political analysis about seats and the election, nothing else

    • @jaexiusnem1267
      @jaexiusnem1267 Před 21 dnem +1

      He’s using purely political analyst talk, anyway the top politicians on both sides already treat these places with contempt and show no respect to many local areas

    • @lafamillecarrington
      @lafamillecarrington Před 20 dny +1

      Until we get some form of proportional representation all we can do is vote tactically.

  • @lafamillecarrington
    @lafamillecarrington Před 22 dny +12

    I'm in SE Cambridgeshire, where Lucy Frazer (who has been campaigning for months already) will be up against a local - and highly effective - Lib-Dem councillor. For the first time, I feel my vote might make a difference!

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 20 dny +1

      I live in South Cambs as well. The tactical vote is definitely Lib Dem.

    • @meenakshiminnis9460
      @meenakshiminnis9460 Před 18 dny

      If it's Pippa, she's lovely and awesome. Met her several times at conference and by-elections campaigning (I'm a Trafford lib dem cllr).

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 17 dny

      @@meenakshiminnis9460 I've met her too, she came across as kind, intelligent, and capable. I would LOVE to have her as my MP.

  • @hydra66
    @hydra66 Před 22 dny +11

    If they didn't feel they could retain their seats, they should have either resigned a while ago or said something to their cabinet about policy decisions

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 Před 17 dny

      Why get off the gravey train early that would be silly...

  • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
    @ArtyFactual_Intelligence Před 21 dnem +6

    New Government must introduce voting for 16 and 17 year olds asap; and then announce a new EU Referendum, within which no member of the governing party must be allowed to campaign
    for either side.

    • @seafood1471
      @seafood1471 Před 18 dny +1

      no need on voting age. The tories have been here a long time. Anyone who was over the age of 4 years old when they got in can now vote them out, and the younger demographic despise them. This is why they're so happy to go after universities and young people in their manifesto, they know that they couldn't get young people to vote Tory for love nor money. We grew up with them in power and saw what they did. For the first time a lot of new younger voters finally get their say

    • @phoenixreborn6065
      @phoenixreborn6065 Před 15 dny

      I think we should raise the voting age to a minimum of 21 and ideally something like 25 or 30.

  • @alanrobinson2559
    @alanrobinson2559 Před 22 dny +40

    Its strange all the leading Brexiteers are leaving and no one has mentioned this
    What do they know that we don't

    • @glennjanot8128
      @glennjanot8128 Před 22 dny

      They know, just like we do, that their almighty Brexit was and is an unmitigated disaster.

    • @marksimons8861
      @marksimons8861 Před 20 dny

      There were very few Labour Brexiteers and they disappeared from politics immediately. It's taken the Tories 8 years to lose their Brexit enthusiasts.

  • @annishilcock4587
    @annishilcock4587 Před 22 dny +7

    Mickey Gove has got that little indulgence to finance

  • @johnrider5701
    @johnrider5701 Před 22 dny +5

    The words rats and sinking ship spring immediately to mind 🐀

  • @mrpocock
    @mrpocock Před 22 dny +11

    One of the telling things is how many tories in the machinery of running the party are stepping down or have already left or been removed. Nearly everyone who actually does stuff is going or gone.

    • @jillybe1873
      @jillybe1873 Před 22 dny +3

      Trying to avoid jail time

    • @tezinho81
      @tezinho81 Před 22 dny

      Brexit purges already thinned their ranks of anyone with any actual talent

    • @jaexiusnem1267
      @jaexiusnem1267 Před 21 dnem

      @@jillybe1873it’s naive to think any of these people would ever go to jail, their time on the gravy train is up they’re now leaving to higher paying jobs outside of politics.

  • @david1610
    @david1610 Před 21 dnem +2

    Can I just add to this that postal voting also includes overseas voting, including the new voters such as myself that the Government very recently enfranchised. They will need to get their postal votes in good time.

  • @yuna-1971
    @yuna-1971 Před 22 dny +7

    I want to know what the feeling is in loony-tunes Truss’s constituency.

  • @Arltratlo
    @Arltratlo Před 22 dny +28

    i am sure, the Tories who will lose their seats, will move to the EU, because live there is much better!

    • @zakjuly6721
      @zakjuly6721 Před 22 dny

      Nobody is smart enough to replace Rishi Sunak ....

    • @ExplodingPiggy
      @ExplodingPiggy Před 22 dny +4

      @@zakjuly6721Stick some googly eyes on a boiled egg.

    • @davidbarrett1006
      @davidbarrett1006 Před 22 dny +1

      @@zakjuly6721 Or daft enough!

    • @julieclonan2427
      @julieclonan2427 Před 22 dny +2

      ​@@zakjuly6721Mr Moderna Shares may be running scared, he's gone to Commifornia with his Green Card . His Wife Owes The UK £20 Million.

    • @Arltratlo
      @Arltratlo Před 22 dny +2

      @@zakjuly6721 just try the cat!

  • @blaircorral8158
    @blaircorral8158 Před 21 dnem +3

    Please remember!Vote out to help out 😊

  • @user-js3rg9sj1k
    @user-js3rg9sj1k Před 22 dny +8

    TITANIC SUNK

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 22 dny

      He went there to experience what it's like to be completely sunk.

  • @garemacquarrie6705
    @garemacquarrie6705 Před 21 dnem +2

    Sunaks lot will all be leaving office, and most of em won't have a choice

  • @onenote6619
    @onenote6619 Před 21 dnem +2

    Carefully selecting their candidates from the available Eton old boys club clearly has not worked. There must be a few people among the Tory party who deserve a chance.

  • @christopherodonoghue3858
    @christopherodonoghue3858 Před 21 dnem +2

    Who in gods name wants to read Michael gove diaries.

    • @jsd8981
      @jsd8981 Před 17 dny

      His nights out at the disco at the weekends should thrilling, full of dark corners and red b*ll...

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 16 dny

      Michael Gove.

  • @robertcreighton4635
    @robertcreighton4635 Před 22 dny +32

    This is hilarious. Bye bye tories

    • @snowyowel7961
      @snowyowel7961 Před 22 dny +1

      Hello khan starmer seriously.

    • @julianshepherd2038
      @julianshepherd2038 Před 22 dny

      Khan is mayor London.
      Its not film.
      ​@@snowyowel7961

    • @oitoitoi1
      @oitoitoi1 Před 22 dny

      honestly now they need to be put on trial for the corruption and damage. gove was at the heart of the PPE VIP lane that murdoch shilling vermin.

    • @khar12d8
      @khar12d8 Před 22 dny +2

      They've been in power 14 years, it's hardly stunning that they are losing power.

    • @oitoitoi1
      @oitoitoi1 Před 22 dny +7

      @@khar12d8 not surprising, but the scale of collapse is correlated to their extraordinarily awful record in power. no government in more than 2 centuries has done as much damage to the country.

  • @user-zc4yd9ss7h
    @user-zc4yd9ss7h Před 22 dny +3

    The Tories are finished. Their ministers know it and so does their base, who don't want any part in this shambolic defeat.

  • @johnswift1736
    @johnswift1736 Před 22 dny +2

    Our prospective tory mp is a extory Islington concillor. Up north in Scarborough he will go down well. Hahaha.

  • @1951timbo
    @1951timbo Před 19 dny +1

    Michael Gove. Devoid of Intelligence and Ideas. Like the rest of this party.

  • @jillybe1873
    @jillybe1873 Před 22 dny +7

    He looks 60 cuz of the alleged substance abuse

  • @gw7514
    @gw7514 Před 20 dny +1

    😂😂😂All those after Johnson that said they had a mandate from the British people!!😂😂😂 Now the crooks are running as they know they got zero chance on clinging on!

  • @annwhiteclassicalballettra8418

    What Michael Gove did for me or others? Nothing! Why are you even talking about him?????

  • @alpinenewtplaysgames4509
    @alpinenewtplaysgames4509 Před 22 dny +2

    Gove is 56? He looks 70!

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence Před 21 dnem

      Nah, he looks like Harry Potter. Him and his twin brother the US House Speaker: Johnson.

    • @alpinenewtplaysgames4509
      @alpinenewtplaysgames4509 Před 21 dnem

      @@ArtyFactual_Intelligence They're all odd-bods who never spent a day outside in the sun and would be virgins if family money hadn't attracted gold diggers. Pathetic excuses for men.

    • @alpinenewtplaysgames4509
      @alpinenewtplaysgames4509 Před 17 dny

      @@ArtyFactual_Intelligence Maybe the offspring of a forbidden union betwixt Potter and a house elf.

  • @stephennoble
    @stephennoble Před 22 dny +2

    The lot should leave

  • @NexPutax
    @NexPutax Před 22 dny +1

    Useful technical insights into the backstory at the local constituency level. Valuable, thanks.

  • @connclissmann6514
    @connclissmann6514 Před 21 dnem +1

    Lemmings are welcome if they wish to apply for a Conservative nomination.

  • @user-us8le6lu4h
    @user-us8le6lu4h Před 22 dny +2

    Fishy has a TITANIC battle on his hands

    • @dj_cakes
      @dj_cakes Před 22 dny +2

      He must surely have the SINKING feeling already

    • @user-us8le6lu4h
      @user-us8le6lu4h Před 22 dny +1

      @@dj_cakes He's trying to act as cool as an ICEBERG

  • @mauricetucker8754
    @mauricetucker8754 Před 20 dny +1

    A pig with a blue Rosetta?

  • @bennyk3799
    @bennyk3799 Před 20 dny

    Always enjoyed Michael's reporting on channel 4 news....

  • @Gaza-vu6gl
    @Gaza-vu6gl Před 22 dny +3

    The Tories have ran our ok Ives for so many years. Locked us down during Covid whilst Boris and his cronies partied. Don’t let them forget it

    • @julieclonan2427
      @julieclonan2427 Před 22 dny

      So did Liebour with Curry, Kareoki and Beer.

    • @Gogo-pp9ek
      @Gogo-pp9ek Před 22 dny

      @@julieclonan2427you really believe that NOT

    • @Gogo-pp9ek
      @Gogo-pp9ek Před 22 dny

      The bns they stole from us , mates contracts , 37 bn !!! Track and trace ….

  • @ryanmcmahon2422
    @ryanmcmahon2422 Před 22 dny +2

    NEVER UNDERESTIMATE THE OTHER MP'S GREED....

  • @midlandgeordie
    @midlandgeordie Před 22 dny +2

    These lot have been an incompetent joke from start to finish!
    It’s the normal folk who have suffered!!!

    • @boota1979
      @boota1979 Před 22 dny

      @midlandgeordie
      In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way. FDR.

  • @khar12d8
    @khar12d8 Před 22 dny +3

    This is the first general election since 2010 in which I am not very invested at all. Labour will win but then I think they're in for a pretty tough 5 years. They're gonna have to put up taxes on ordinary people more if they want to seriously spend more on public services... It's going to be interesting to watch. New Labour governed during the boom times mostly, the next Labour govt will govern in very different times.

  • @jsd8981
    @jsd8981 Před 17 dny

    People really woulden't notice you think !!! If you need to parachute a candidate in, then your are in for a world of pain, as an example it's the same when you parachute a P.M in...Sunak as a perfect example...LoL 😅😅

  • @pip1723
    @pip1723 Před 21 dnem +1

    Oh dear how sad never mind.

  • @davidpeacock4132
    @davidpeacock4132 Před 22 dny +7

    Goves grift will continue, good Colombian marching power doesnt come cheap.

  • @markstephen9044
    @markstephen9044 Před 22 dny

    Rishi’s campaign slogan ‘Vote for me and my friends….. please! 😂😂😂

  • @graememckay9972
    @graememckay9972 Před 22 dny

    What do they know? What do they have planned? Something terrible and they're running scared.

  • @Mondfischli
    @Mondfischli Před 22 dny +2

    ...too late to call for some more British Sportsmanship I guess 🤔

  • @JohnShaw-zm2pc
    @JohnShaw-zm2pc Před 21 dnem +1

    Vote out to help out.😅😅😅😅

  • @PlanofBattle
    @PlanofBattle Před 21 dnem

    Gove never left journalism.

  • @zigatone2022
    @zigatone2022 Před 22 dny +1

    Roy Orbison song titles come to mind for the Tory deserters, ‘Running Scared’, ‘Crying’, ‘It’s Over’.

  • @peterbalchin9077
    @peterbalchin9077 Před 22 dny

    There is always the index linked 40/60ths pension.

  • @degaulle30
    @degaulle30 Před 20 dny

    On candidate selection
    'And you can sort of see where things are being fixed as it falls into place, its a fascinating process'
    I sometimes feel Im the only person in the country other than Michael who is fascinated by this stuff 😂

  • @markhayward7400
    @markhayward7400 Před 22 dny +1

    I don't think the Tories will struggle to find candidates for seats even with many late announcements by sitting MPs that they are not standing again. The cry will go up "All aboard the gravy train."

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 17 dny +1

      Tory candidates won't last 2 seconds. Who is going to vote for some numpty that has been in their constituency for less than a month?

  • @markstephen9044
    @markstephen9044 Před 22 dny +3

    If you want something different you have to vote for something different!

  • @lindsaybaker9480
    @lindsaybaker9480 Před 22 dny +1

    Tories bowled out for 36.

  • @EppingBlogger
    @EppingBlogger Před 21 dnem

    I wonder how Labour think they can enforce the "contract" which Crick described. In my UKIP days we tried to find a way of controlling candidates but our advice was that such agreements would be unenforceable.

    • @ArtyFactual_Intelligence
      @ArtyFactual_Intelligence Před 21 dnem

      Did you grow out of it, (?) or did you go along with the rebranding of the Party as EDL, or Britain First, or whatever they now call themselves nowadays in Xenophobia.

    • @EppingBlogger
      @EppingBlogger Před 21 dnem

      @@ArtyFactual_Intelligence I resigned soon after Gerard Batten became party leader. He changed the party and focussed on issues which were not what the party was intended for.

    • @jackdubz4247
      @jackdubz4247 Před 21 dnem

      @@EppingBlogger What was UKIP intended for? Other than turning the UK into the next North Korea.

  • @davidkeeling5726
    @davidkeeling5726 Před 19 dny

    All the rats leaving the sinking ship ,sorry tory mps, a list should be compiled at the end of the year to say what cushy lucrative jobs they have fallen into and the connection of having been an ex mp or minister.

  • @jerrywood4508
    @jerrywood4508 Před 22 dny

    I wonder, is it possible to look at the way the postal votes are cast? It would be interesting to contrast the postal vote results with the election day results. We do that all the time in the US.

  • @duncanbradshaw8993
    @duncanbradshaw8993 Před 22 dny

    Leave or sacked. What a waste of a fantastic majority?
    🙂

    • @bonariablackie4047
      @bonariablackie4047 Před 17 dny

      The Tories got an 80 seat majority on 39% of the vote. It's why everybody in all constituencies MUST vote tactically. And remember your ID.

  • @davidbyster9249
    @davidbyster9249 Před 19 dny

    The Tories are in utter chaos. Not only are the rats, leaving a sinking ship, you have some of them, telling voters, not to vote for them, but, to vote for another Party.

  • @fyfm714
    @fyfm714 Před 22 dny

    Michael should be on all the political tv and radio shows, he cuts theough all the Horse manure, to the important facts.

  • @patrickmccutcheon9361
    @patrickmccutcheon9361 Před 18 dny

    And to think the Tories had in 2019 buried Labour for a generation. Now it looks like they could be heading for oblivion. Thanks to Boris Johnson for this disaster.

  • @michaelbrooke1385
    @michaelbrooke1385 Před 22 dny

    0:25 what a blessing.

  • @johnshaw359
    @johnshaw359 Před 21 dnem

    That's why he called the election, before further defections and resignations.

  • @JoanaJeff-yt1js
    @JoanaJeff-yt1js Před 21 dnem

    Let old one go off n new team come in hhhhhhh

  • @pygmalion1963
    @pygmalion1963 Před 22 dny

    Will Sunak stand down he`s going to loose, he doesn't want to be in the UK. It will be humiliating to loose so badly

  • @markstephen9044
    @markstephen9044 Před 22 dny

    Labour’s policies;
    Education - change
    NHS - change
    Immigration - change
    Etc.

  • @jellybean8167
    @jellybean8167 Před 22 dny +4

    Times Radio.... Fascism for the simple minded.

  • @alanc7778
    @alanc7778 Před 21 dnem

    SUNAK HAS FLIPFLOPPED AGAIN - his comments on National Service in January 2024:Downing Street has dismissed a warning from the head of the British army that the UK public must be prepared to take up arms in a war against Vladimir Putin’s Russia because today’s professional military is too small.
    Rishi Sunak’s spokesperson said the prime minister did not agree with comments made by Gen Sir Patrick Sanders in a speech on Wednesday, and was forced to insist there would be no return to national service, which was abolished in 1960.

  • @michaeltschuertz
    @michaeltschuertz Před 22 dny

    Portillo is a about a Future leader losing his safe seat. So no gove isnt it.

  • @KevanRCraft
    @KevanRCraft Před 22 dny

    Get the sychophant privileged out!

  • @andydudley1775
    @andydudley1775 Před 22 dny

    soon only the unelected will be left .

  • @VaucluseVanguard
    @VaucluseVanguard Před 22 dny +2

    So most of the Pakistani community will have voted by 29 June.

  • @julianshepherd2038
    @julianshepherd2038 Před 22 dny

    😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @veronicaboyce6962
    @veronicaboyce6962 Před 18 dny

    😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

  • @ngoziinyama2985
    @ngoziinyama2985 Před 21 dnem

    È

  • @FishingFan2
    @FishingFan2 Před 22 dny +2

    Like rats leaving a sinking ship. Nigel Farage was right the Conservative party is finished... VOTE REFORM!

    • @stuplant6693
      @stuplant6693 Před 22 dny

      Really, because Farage the man of his word is not even standing himself. Wonder why!

  • @ImSTELStanding
    @ImSTELStanding Před 22 dny +1

    Vote REFORM and our country 1st! End this woke movement and PC culture.

  •  Před 22 dny +1

    They are probably filling a lot of lavatories?