Rishi Sunak rules out 2 May general election
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- čas přidán 13. 03. 2024
- Rishi Sunak has ended weeks of speculation and said there will not be a general election on 2 May - the day of the local elections.
The election needs to take place in the UK by the end of January 2025, and there had been speculation the prime minister could call it in the spring.
"There won't be a general election on that day," he told ITV.
"But when there is a general election, what matters is the choice."
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Rishi has no right to dismiss it. He wasn’t elected in the first place. General election now!
💯
😂😂😂
I thought he was elected to be Member of Parliament for Richmond (Yorks)? Or am I mistaken?
To be fair, no Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is elected, but I take the point that his own party membership didn't even elect him as their leader.
@@Locutus
Not elected by the people or even his own party. The lettuce won initially and the second time, the potential candidates were not part of the race. 😅😅
"The Tories are literally holding the country to ransom."
Literally?
What is the ransom they are asking then?
😂
Money Junkies will do anything to Get 14 homes and 7 luxury yacht....I'm a winner everyone else is a victim.
@@hannacook859For the country to vote them in for another term
this Pr1c isn't even elected PM and is ruling out General Election? No real British /English man/woman wants rishi poopak as the PM. nobody 99% wouldn't vote for this t urd.
@@hannacook859 Your house - It is their decisions that are driving up interest rates.
He's holding it off to get more money out of us
Yep !!!
The chances of total oblivion just increased. What a fool
As oppose to just oblivion doing it now? 😂 They not got much choice but to try really have they? your right though it could make the loss a lot worse
@honeybadger9425 They are hoping to hold out untill thebpolls turn in their favour
That's exactly what is going to happen...
@@jsd8981
18%
Only a fool would vote for the tories now.
It's time the nation started protesting!
The thumbnail of Sunak laughing is hilarious!
Sunak is just taking the piss, while playing as PM until last minute
Unless he intends to stay forever
His false laughs are embarrassing
It’s official , we know it’s a dictatorship . Plastic politician rishi wishi washi FRS ! ! !
Desperately clinging to power
Can the country last another 8 months
War in europe and or economic collapse before a uk GE
Why don't they just go, so we can get the country back to where it was pre-Conservatives.
Life was so much better 14 years ago, more money in my pocket, no NHS waiting lists, public services were great and there was a lot less sleaze, corruption and lies in parliament
For two reasons.
One - Help keep rich people richer
Two - Tae make it harder for everyone who comes after them tae fix it.
Yeah cos labour will just wave a magic wand right?
It won't get better under labour false promises and made-up statistics
@@Salford_Chapat least it would move in a positive direction rather than backwards at present..
Labour are even worse than the Tories.
Wants to make sure his £10-15million cheque clears…
Why would he need that when he is worth billions?
@@Locutusbecuase he’s not
His wife is part of a billionaire family. He’s not worth even a billion, nor is his wife as of now
@Doidera-rl9kd No thanks. Labour would be no better.
I'm in my 60s and have voted tory all my life. Like many others I talk to I've finally given up on them.
PLEASE VOTE REFORM UK .IF EVERY TORY VOTES FOR REFORM WE MIGHT GET OUR COUNTRY BACK FROM STARMAGEDDON
@@Theforestbanditoh behave yourself
@@Theforestbandit hahaha yeah the same things being promised by a different party will this time surely work
Why is this news? The tories will obviously cling on to power for as long as they can. That way , they can continue giving lucrative contracts to their donors
because even the tories would never sink this low in the past. John major didn't delay beyond what was normal and reasonable, no former PM did.
It's news, for once tbh. But it's pretty important to know whether there is an election in may or not
Yep agreed...that's it they are not finished with the gravy train just yet...
Thank David Cameron for that.
It’s getting to the point and time where we may have to legitimately take our country back. Just go!
no like literally
I bet u will do nothing except typing on YT videos all day. if u spent working, UK economy wouldn't be doing this bad
I dont think the UK can survive another term from either major party.
Whatever happened to respecting the will of the people 🤔
Sarcasm?
Stinks
Vote of no confidence incoming? 🤔
Now there’s an interesting thought post the secret Brady meeting. The country can’t take another eight months of this.
I thought this was a so-called democracy
Yes.
And the elections will go on as planned on October.
Russia has an election it's called dictatorship!😮😮 Zelenskiy and Sunak cancelled elections it called western democracy!😂😂😂🤣🤣
America is becoming a so-called & erstwhile "democracy" right now when we are being told whom to vote for. Very sad
So do most people. Its genius really
Integrity means nothing in today’s politics.
Never has
He wants to continue milking the country for as long as possible of course.
Rishi Billionaire Sunak can put off the inevitable as long as he likes he's going to lose. Fact.
we need a general election now!
the longer he keeps leaving it the worse things keep getting for him and the country
For the country more like. I'm British pakistani and I cannot stand him. Hes ruining our country.
Vote of no confidence! Hurry up and get him out so we can have a general election!
Well the longer they leave it the worse it will be.
good ZERO seats
definitely will and it will not stop till us are broken like the nhs
OUT NOW
He has to stay in power to get through the contracts for his father-in-law and wife as well as push the CBDC onto us! This man is evil and needs to go asap!
So those Indian trade deals still not signed
How is this a democracy? 😂
Relax, the term doesn't end until december. Nobody is complaining that Biden didn't announce an early election today.
What else needs to happen, for this guy to finally realise “Ah! The plebs don’t like me or want me!!”?
Are his business partners waiting on some more favourable laws to get through?
Probably.
😅 for god sakes get him out.fishy Rishy
never trust tory
Only trust communists lol
Tory politics are as red as the red Square in moscow
The longer he stays the deeper down into the mire we go. Please Mr Snake
go very soon
I am waiting to see what legislation they push through as fast as they can, I would guess it will not be in the British public's interest.
Why do we have a system where the prime minister decides when to have an election. Should the law stipulate the month to host an election?
14 years ago, we had the 2010 Fixed Term Parliament Act, which fixed the date permanently, but this turned out to be disliked by Parliament during Brexit negotiations. Parliament could only call new elections if 2/3 of the House of Commons voted for it. However, the FTPA was repealed last year, allowing the PM to return to how it was was 13 years ago, where the PM could just call an election at their discretion.
People, not laws, should enforce this. We get what we tolerate
There is a law. It says that there has to be an election called by December 17. By the way, the Fixed term Parliaments act would not have changed this, it would have guaranteed that the election would be called in December, and eliminated the possibility of an earlier one anyways. Personally I think that the previous act limited the flexibility of Parliament in its ability to adapt to changing circumstances and so the current law is better.
@@TheDsgfdssd exactly - change the law and stipulate a date. Remove any discretion of the PM when to call it.
Dictatorship 😢
he can "rule out" whatever he wants...the choice will be made for him
What a Hunt.
Get rid of the puppet.his a joke.
Saw that coming.
Just another dictator get the Indian out
Based on present polling, the Tories will be lucky to have 100+ seats at the next GE - and that's being optimistic.
Talk about holding on to the last and postponing the inevitable!
The arrogance of him. For sure he's deluded but also a chop! He needs a reality check & fast!
A chop? What on earth does that mean? Never ever heard that term
@@MrCaterhamr500it's a South African term we use... Use yr imagination 😂
@@GUNSTONbuiltonagraveyard007 I’m from SA, although moved to UK when young and and never heard it before that’s all
@@MrCaterhamr500 I moved to the UK in '98 but ja, old saying 🤣🤣👍
Rest in Peace Conservatives.
Saturday June 22nd, World Peace day, lets all March in solidarity with each, no more wars, no more greed & put 🌎 1st.
He doesn’t get to decide what the public want we do
And since when has it EVER been up to parliament to do such a thing? The people are sovereign, not parliament.
It's a matter of law. Parliament has to be dissolved by December 17th.
The people should decide!
Not them tyrants. 😅😂
Kick rishi out of Dawning Street
They should be on performance based pay
Delaying sending out the SOS on the titanic because he's embarrassed his trousers aren't ironed.
I think Rishi Sunak will delay general election much he can and call on general election on 28th january 2025.
he needs out now
As bad at politics as Sunak is, I think even he realises a winter general election is a bad move for him. The core voters that he's relying on to avoid utter decimation at the ballot box are far less inclined to risk going out in the cold, whereas most of the rest of us who want the Conservatives out will go out to vote no matter what the weather is without having to think "will I get pneumonia and die if I go out today?"
Not only that, but at the height of winter, just after Christmas, people are going to be much more acutely aware of how much they're spending on fuel/how little money they generally have.
Having the election soon after the summer would be a bad move because the small boats crossing the channel and that will be back in the headlines, and therefore bad publicity about how he has failed right around the time of an election.
Having an election during the summer would be a bad move because parliament would be in recess for a few weeks, so that'd be a bit of a mess to manage an election campaign around.
Having an election in early summer will be a bad move because it's too soon after people have been asked to vote in local elections. It won't garner good-will to get people to vote more than once in the space of a couple of months.
Realistically, the 2nd of May or some time in late October or early November are the least-worst options for him. Around that time of year, it's still relatively OK weather and late enough in the year that most of the small boats will have stopped coming over/the headlines have died down a fair bit and moved on to the next thing, whatever that will be. And people won't be yet feeling the pinch from heating bills too badly.
"Plastic politicians"
Their clinging on for as long as possible..
He needs to go..ASAP..
Significant breaking development my a&&. No one ever expected any different
Meanwhile Russia they have elections.
Pre-determined, elections none the less right?
Perhaps Downing St. needs Novy-Tol'chok!!
That's because the term is over. Sunak's term runs out in December.
Weak.
Weak.
Weak.
There will be no further details.
Sunak’s Fear.
Funny how on this one topic he doesn't want to go with "the will of the people"....and given how often tories tell porkies I'm sharpening my pencil for May
Why are they doing this to us 😩😩 we want them out! Everyday is Groundhog Day with the Tories
Imagine he says this then it's held on 3rd of may
That all depends on whether he can think that far and who is using the one Tory brain cell this week, cos it ain’t him.
What happened to honesty and integrity...
I'm from the States! When is the UK election? Do y'all have a certain date? Like us in the USA it Nov 6
Up to a maximum of 5 years it can be any day the Prime Minister chooses
That's crazy 🤣 no way!
@@tyronenelson3298They msu not call another election full stop
@@tyronenelson3298 , in Westminster style parliamentary system, the mandate is limited to 4-5 years term. a Prime Minister can dissolve the parliament for a new election within that term.
But your Primister has only been in office for 2 years right? Or is it because his party is in charge of the government right now?
Scared
Tories out
Labour in
Lets make uk the poorest nation on earth 2024 ❤❤❤❤
What does he know? He’s not going to win anyway and GOOD RIDDANCE!! 😂😂
It seems that the Tories will hang on for as long as possible.
Or forever
“Turd that won’t flush” comes to mind.
Clinging on
Which means we have an election on the 2nd May.... wait for tomorrow 😂
Well, well now that’s a surprise isn’t it
People of great (bankrupt) Britain! 📢📣 Accept Rishi as your new Maharaja and bow down to him 🐘👑
Desperate to cling on.
We need Proportional Representation. Vote Reform UK
Sounds like he just wants a bit more tax payers money for his swimming pool a bit longer!
Fishy rishi at it again at the back post, this knob will wait till Jan 2025.
This country need a strong PM that loves this country.
What we’ve got is one that loves money.
If he cares about money so much he wouldn't be pm. He can find something else with his capabilities. He dosent care about money he's already a multi millionaire, he is set for life and could be retired now - but he's not because he is ambitious to lead the country
If the Tories do not oust him now they will never be forgiven, this man is milking our Nation for every penny he can and this is nothing but spite for the voter, shame on them all for putting our nation through this.
Well i for one am shocked 😂
Sunak, no mandate, no control, no idea, his stupid grin, Tories need to sack him now and we need a General Election now
“…no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory party that inflicted those bitter experiences on me. So far as I am concerned, they are lower than vermin.”
Aneurin (Nye) Bevan,
Pitchforks
Well imagine my shock.
When ever he calls an election......we will be waiting
He can see the grim reaper just over his shoulder
In other words it's May 2nd as he's been told by his bosses 😂😂
No wonder ..they no they will lose ..don't care when they call it they will still lose ..just waiting for the day when they have gone ....
Oh, look.
Capitalism in decay as Tories loss of power is met with increasing hostility as the oppressor has never given up their power willingly. In extreme cases, they would off their own before capital is ever redistributed and the wealthy class is dismantled.
Its all tactical
May 3rd then? No?
They’ve still got more grifting to do…
He should have called one while he's still on 20% in the polls. Bet he regrets it if the Tories are polling 15% in November.
When and who was the last elected PM in the democratic UK?
Tony Blair
@@Contextualiser16-tn8nd wow, that sounds ages ago. I’m not an expert in politics science but it does not feel like democracy anymore, does it?
Rishi Sunak. He was elected in 2015.
At this rate, British democracy will be an attraction in a museum.
The lack of Christian leaders in the UK is frightening.
We got Muslims leaders ,Indian leaders ,but none one pro European leader in a country that is supposed to be better without EU mass immigration policies 😕😕😕😕😕
the fact the we need other people to explain to us what is happening behind closed doors says it all. We all the elephant but no one wants to address it
Sam Coates is the boy in school who always got booted at break time.
Title should read Rishi doesn't want his election to be the 2nd (Theresa) May.
Sir, Election in November. Election in November.
It has to be called by mid december. But personally I wouldn't be surprised by a November election.
July then.
Or never have an election again.
Entirely possible. 🤷🏼♂️
@@ascgazz7347 deadline for announcement is Dec 17.
@@TheWhitePine5 and what?
He should be made to leave he wasn’t even voted in