The Three Crises That Are Sinking the Conservatives in the UK
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The UK's oldest political party, the Conservative Party, is at its lowest ebb. After the chaos sown by Boris Johnson and then Liz Truss, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has found himself in the worst moment in the party's history.
Called to vote this year 2024, the British people are sending a clear message in the polls: they are fed up with the Conservatives. A 20-point gap separates Labour, who already see themselves as winners, from the Conservatives, who have not yet given up hope.
How has Sunak handled his mandate, is the Conservative Party regaining ground with the new premier, and how likely is a new Conservative victory in the next #elections?
#UK #Sunak
He was the chancellor of the UK for a good period. He didn't have all these problems landed on him, he was an architect of this mess.
Fancy. As former chancellor, Sunak inherited economic chaos from himself.
@PORRRIDGE_GUN yeah, it's almost like the tories have never had a clue
All the problems that Sunak faced were caused by the Tories over the last 14 years!! 🙄
And they got in because of the problems caused by Labour before that. We still not found those weapons Blair was ranting about? We get the value of that gold Brown sold off?
Tories and Labour are two cheeks of the same arse and the other parties are the crap in between.
And? It's not like Sunak went public the last 14 years campaigning against those things, nope he was a loyal little toady (hell, he might have spoken up now and then internally, but I haven't heard that he was on TV campaigning/fighting against the last leaders and prime ministers!)
I think you mistyped your number. You clearly meant 50, yeah?
I'd focus on international relations in africa, and probably has even less time to paint cute blood bowl miniatures made in the uk, and embellish them than I do?, and as the mahakam dwarves in gwent say; if you want peace, fight for it.
@@dendostar5436longer than that. Back to 1956 the Tories have been trying to hide the mess of the Suez war.
We could go back further but it's better to start there
Sunak's days are numbered and his party are toast.
The illegal immigration (small boats) are a red herring, they are a fraction of overall immigration numbers. The Tories trebled net legal migration to 745,000, despite promising to reduce it upon leaving the EU.
@@foppo101 Maybe not wanted by some but needed by many.
Almost as if theyre all part of the same elite class and nothing will ever change no matter what party is in power
@@foppo101 Considering that you don't even understand the meaning of "net" it is easy to understand that you will be voting for Labour - a party that fully operates according to the concept of 'the wheel is still spinning but the hamster is dead'.
It's the great dichotomy of Conservatism: They need high immigration to provide cheap labour for their mates and donors, but they also need to look like they're being tough on it to win votes from their xenophobic base. So look what they do, not what they say. In this respect Rwanda was the perfect policy: Not designed to materially affect immigration numbers but rather to generate a lof of heat through performative cruelty.
Hmm, that is uncalled for, not to mention that it is essentially right by the gove's own figures.@@thoroughsoft
The nurses went on strike for a pay rise.
Sunak didn't want to give them any more than 1 or 2 %
The MP’s got their pay rise without having to do anything, not even the jobs they are paid for.
They brought 600K health and care workers from developing countries, no wonder the salaries are tanking and the environment became unbearable.
Nurses have to go in strike because the NHS is a monopoly.
Monopolies take advantage of workers because they know workers won't have another employer to work for.
@@bigbarry8343 Who's ass did you pull this information from? There are currently 265K non british workers in the NHS (20% of the workforce). NHS is still critically understaffed and workers are in high demand. The salaries are definitely not "tanking" if you knew anything about supply and demand. The reason they're asking for pay rises is because they are understaffed and overworked. But ok, lets pretend it's all the scary brown doctors and nurses making the environment "unberable".
@@neveraskedforthis270 Its a number that arrived to UK on the health and social care worker visa between Q4 2020 and Q4 2023, not just the NHS. And don't you think that 20% of the foreign workforce (although I suspevt it is more now), epecially from countries with the lowest life expectancy in the world, a far too much? There may well be a reason why understaffing and general malaise in NHS is proportional to the level of foreign employees.
Sunak was going to fix the problems his party spent the last 13 years and all but 10 of the last 45 years creating. Think about how insane that sounds!
Sunak was a chancellor before he became PM. He isboth symptop and an architect of the problems this country have
Right? The Tories have by their own admission publicly acknowledged they've cut back on public investment for over a decade now. This follows from their adherence to their neoliberal ideology with its magical belief in the panacea of an all-knowing market which they've been unthinkingly wedded to for so long.
"failed to capitalise on Brexit." lol, that's like failing to capitalise on chopping your own leg off.
😂Exactly, like failing to capitalize on punching yourself in the face 👍
Strange how Norway and Switzerland are doing very well outside the EU.
While pretty much every single country in the EU is having the same, or worse, problems as the UK.
But it is always much easier to think that some easy bs will sort out the situation instead of hard work.
Well Brexit *could* have worked out *if* politicians made wise decisions afterwards so in other words it was doomed from the beginning in this particular United Kingdom
@@thoroughsoft but they are still participating in the EU's single market
@@thoroughsoft First of all , you should look why Norway and Switzerland are doing well outside the EU. Here is a hint : lots of oil and tax haven.
"While pretty much every single country in the EU is having the same, or worse, problems as the UK." - lol, right :)
Public private funding has a huge huge effect. It’s captioning off billions into private pockets. As designed. Why leave this out?
The channel has a center right economic bias, they aren't truly neutral in praising efficient systems regardless of political leanings.
VisualPolitik is a right-wing channel. It will not point out that the NHS has been almost destroyed by the conservatives as a well laid-out plan they dreamt of decades ago, with Thatcher at the helm
You know it was Blair who brought that in right?
@@incurableromantic4006 oh yeah. Him and Brown. :(
When discussing the NHS, he didn't mention that NHS workers hve been on strike: Nurses, Junior Doctors and Consultants, to get better pay. Instead he briefly mentioned that nurses got salary increase. That wasn't without a fight. However, it's true that the Tories are finished.
I wonder who funds this channel... hmmm
The strikes are political; trying to undermine the government. Pay rises in the public sector for nurses who bring food and clean sheets to the patient, and Junior doctors who kill patients all the time, and push pills.
@@wheyayeman404 Actually, yes and no. Remember this channel is just the English version of a Spanish channel. To be more precise, a group of neo-liberal Spaniards who believe that most right wing parties in Europe are not right wing enough.
The problem for health workers is that the NHS is a monopoly that takes advantage of its workers because they don't have any other option of employer to work for.
The current situation is NOT similar to 92. For a start, the Tories were ahead on polls. Second, John Major actually had a backbone.
As an American with UK roots, Im disgusted to see what the UK has become. Tighten it up, men.
Same goes here, working on it.
British conservative boomers will keep the tories on top till their graves.
I'm sorry, but in general elections the Torries are always underestimated simply because of how entrenched their voting base is.
Let's hope young voters will show up, but I'm not as confident in young Brits to show up as much as young Americans did in 2020
I think one of the biggest issues facing not just The Tories but democracy in general in the UK is how out of touch our politicians seem. If it seems this way to a 'nice middle-class boy' like myself, one who lives in London reads three newspapers a day and lingered at university far too long. Then Lord knows what it looks like to others.
I have read elsewhere, but from several sources, that London is very different to the rest of England and the rest of the UK: wealthy, cultured, cosmopolitan, wealthy, connected, rich, well-read, educated, wealthy, informed, rich... you get my meaning. Do you agree with the view expressed by some, British and not, that if you remove London from the UK, then the rest of the country is either poor or very close to it? I ask because you are a middle-class Londoner who's well-informed and London does appear, from the outside, to be so dominant as to make an appendage of the rest of England. As for the UK, it does seem (again, from outside) that whatever England wants, it gets, and the other three nations' opinions don't matter much.
@sid1gen yes England gets far more than its far share. As does London. Admittedly, a lot of the investment is from outside of the UK. It is very expensive to live here. And there are areas of great property within the capital. But overall, culturally, economically, politically it's far too dominant. As if New York, DC, LA and San Francisco were all one city.
@@ganrimmonim Thank you very much for your response.
@@ganrimmonim Thank you for your precise response.
The comment that 1-in-10 inpatients did not require a hospital bed is somewhat of an unfair and misleading statement. Even if true, it does not indicate why they continue to remain in hospital despite not needing the bed. Often times, it is due to hospitals being unable to discharge them due to lack of an appropriate place for discharge (due to lack of care homes and nursing homes). It's rarely due to hospitals intentionally delaying discharge to do additional unnecessary tests, as there is a constant bed pressure - i.e. discharging a patient, allows admission of a new patient, increasing their patient volume.
It's also untrue we have a hospital based system. All hospital referrals must come through primary care or A&E. Before the Tories starved it we had one of the most efficient health systems on earth. Maybe not the best, but the most efficient and equitable.
Absolutely. Our Social Care system is on it's knees too. My father had a degenerative brain disease but the hospital couldn't release him until my mother had sold the house and bought a new one which needed building adjustments to accommodate a wheelchair. A classic case of bed-blocker but there was nothing else to do.
The reason is very simple. They remain using a bed that they don't need because they are not being charged the price that they should be charged, basic economy.
If you lower the price of a good, demand increases and goods become scarce. Beds in this case.
@@alfredbarrera9617 Good grief. This isn't a product we're talking about. These are sick people.
@@welshtoro3256 that's why is more important to have beds for the ones who really need them. All resources are limited, that's the real world my friend.
Yes, Tories are saying "Remember 1992 - we made a comeback then" but that's because it's the only ray of hope they have.
And it's a very faint one. The Labour lead in the polls is now about 20 points higher than it was then.
They also gave all the armed forces a massive pay rise on the back of the first gulf war. The only time I voted for them. Major was the only Tory PM with an actual soul in living memory
@@jeffhatcher6585 I'm not a believer in the "soul" so all I can say about that pay rise is it was well calculated. But without his advocacy for safe havens after the war, Saddam would have launched a genocidal campaign against the Kurds. For that he seems a cut above the rest.
Austerity is what got Britain in this mess. Despite cutting funding in almost all social services, the Brits are as broke as ever. Quite an achievement by the UK government. Couldn't be more inept even if they tried. Or could they?
wait for labour, it's about to get a whole lot worse
Correlation isn't causation.
The UK has gone through Brexit, the covid pandemic and the Russian energy crisis - one of these is obviously the Tories fault. But that doesn't make austerity the wrong solution.
Labour will have the following options to fund their ideas:
- tax increase, not going to happen, not popular, and "taxing the rich" isnt realistically going to happen, or solve the problem.
- quantitative easing: basically money printing, and unlime the American dollar, inflation is going to hit the UK pound hard
- borrowing, basically kicking the can down the road, lowering the amount of available money the UK government has to fund social programs in the future, essentially making the problem worse, but what does labour care, they are going to be voted out before this is going to affect them.
@@robaudi20vNot sure it could get worse than the Tories. The debt that has gone up in the past 10 years is diabolical, and I’m not sure if anyone could be so bad with money as the Tories have been. Truss was just the final nail in the coffin.
@@robaudi20vit was a lot better under the last Labour government. NHS waiting lists were down to at worst two weeks of waiting not the months or years it is now. Our economy was growing faster than any other in Europe and we were set to overtake Germany and now we are in danger of slipping out of the G8. Wages were outpacing inflation, standards of living were increasing. Social services were funded and worked. We we’re putting our own citizens through higher education preparing to fuel our economy with highly skilled natives rather than rely on foreigners.
What brought Labour down was the financial crash that wasn’t their fault (and was in fact partially caused by Sunak) and the war in Iraq which we only entered because we believed the US.
If as the conservatives say that Labour will put us back on square one, that would be an improvement.
@leecullen759 thats it, they've cut public spending but still borrowed an obscene amount.
You describe the NHS as being a burden but fail to point out that in the 90s it was the best public healthcare service in the world. The Tories have been massively inflating the cost of running the NHS with colossal private contracts to their mates and cronies, making it appear that it is unsustainable as they move us towards a private model. I've seen the NHS charged £800 for changing a plug socket.
Also, the AI voice over is very jarring and unnecessary. Feels too TikTok for me.
Isn't that what they did with the rail too? Engineered things so that it would appear utterly useless unless privatised? Honestly, the level of scheming and deceit among the Tories is disgusting.
i agree with that , these stupid contracts with massive costs and yes for there mates is a massive burden on the NHS and they been cutting and cutting for 14 years and all there tinkering with so say increasing Doctors and nurses have not worked like most thing they touch
Rishin Sunak - A prime minister that his MPs didn't vote for, his party didnt vote for, and most importantly, the country didn't vote for. Rishi Sunak has one job. To increase the size of his £770 million portfolio by pumping as much tax payers money into his wifes company. Sound's like just the man to rectify all the problems you highlight
Couldn't have put that better myself. Spot on.
@@glennbloke1965clearly you much like that of the original comment, don't know anything about British politics. Firstly he was voted in by his own party because that's how party elections have always worked. Saying he wasn't voted in by the people is not understanding in British politics, the people vote for a party and local MP, not the leader of that party or the country and that's why the party leader is never on the ballot like in America.
Finally can you provide one piece of evidence he has put taxoayers money into his wives company? No of course not because it's a baseless conspiracy theory.
When telling lies is your only way of living!
And telling this blatant lie that he is going to put money in his wife's father's company is even more absurd. Just proves you are shooting BS & NS from your Arse!
Sunak is so rich he doesn’t need a job. This PM job is to steal tax payers money for his personal wealth.
13:16 Correction: the Conservatives did not win a "landslide" in 1992, they won a small majority. Also, the similarity to 1992 is only superficial: before the 1992 election, polls between Labour and the Tories were very close. Right now, Labour is way ahead.
You should hav pointed that the Conservative govern has since 2010 almost destroyed social service (hence the lack of available hospital beds) and forces NHS to deal with these ppl instead. Cronic under investment and salaries that has not keept pace since 2010 does not help either.
Rubbish - NHS is creaking because of the staggering explosion in population due to immigration.
The Tories deserve plenty of stick for that without inventing myths about cuts in numbers of beds.
Absolute nonsense about the NHS.
Why does this channel continue to post content like this. Just read the comments! The amount of misleading statements are abundant!
Because under the veneer of impartiality and equanimity, this channel hides (badly) a strong right-wing bias, perhaps like The Economist does in the print news milieu. Therefore some dictators will be frowned upon in the unwashed parts of the world; but capitalist endeavors will be upheld as wholesome "a priori," by definition. It really matters not what capitalist venture they cover, if the government steps aside and lets "the market" do its magic, then it's good. Thus, visualpolitik will carry water for the Tories in the UK, ignoring the struggles of common people who did not go to public schools in Britain, nor graduated from Oxbridge.
Time for Brits to look at parties other than the Tories & Labour.
Sunak came in on a ticket of being a sensible technocrat but immediately blew it by appeasing the extremists in his party and being shrill, weak and ineffective
Your implication that a large proportion of beds are taken by diabetes patients for diabetes alone is very misleading. And why no mention of "bed blocking" due to cuts in social care, a much more real and everyday occurance in the NHS. Also, where is your evidence that the incentive structure leads to longer stays? The people in charge of discharge (the doctors) have no such incentive. Extremely sloppy journalism, shocked at the poor quality of your research.
As someone who has worked in the NHS and social services for 22 years it is appalling, to see how the NHS and the councils have been poorly funded and then Sunak has the cheek to accuse those councils (many of which are Conservative) of poor management. The fact that councils are going bust with more in danger of insolvency, tells me how bad the crisis is!
The deliberate and persistent impoverishment of the general public, is truly awful and still getting worse. We are going back to Victorian times where rickets and scurvy have made a comeback. And people in some numbers, are fearful of becoming homeless because rents have skyrocketed!
Please, please, do not vote Conservative - unless you want even more of this horror story!!
Comments about the NHS hospital beds and incentives is just plain misleading. The NHS is also one of the best designed in terms of prevention. what you said it nonsense
Halving inflation. If something did cost £100, but now this year it increases by £100 to £200, this is inflation of 100%. If next year it also rises by £100, the inflation is now halved to 50%.
They'll need a miracle to win
No, just enough Daily Mail, Sun or Express readers.
not really. Most of the british electorate is over 60+ and suffer from dementia so they will have all forgotten the last 14 years when we get to the ballot box. Then you add on top the apathy from younger voters/low turnout and well they will survive like they have for many decades.
I'm over 60 haven't got dementia yet can still remember Harold Wilson and Heath. My brain more sharp than these politicians we got. The problem is apathy neither side is inspiring they are all caught in a down slide rut just letting things go. Concerning income it's only the very poor that are suffering the most as usual. There's a lot of people out there with spending power as I witness daily in the retail trade and having regular holidays.
Agreed that productivity and health care are two of the important issues facing Britain today. And the reason behind both can be summed up in one word: austerity. Public investment in key drivers behind innovation and growth like infrastructure and R&D has been down since the financial crisis of 2008, as publicly proclaimed by the Tories themselves.
And as the video itself points out, the health care system has been starved of funding since at least that time as well. And yes, although there's been some movement away from austerity by Sunak, insufficient time and, more importantly, an insufficiently level of investment means his moves have had little appreciable effect.
Dude, Major didn't win a landslide in 1992.
YES.
NO.
Failed to capitalize on brexit? that is like saying someone can fail to capitalize on cutting off one of their legs. Crazy isn't it, cutting off a leg was such an opportunity, just think of all that weight you no longer have to carry around.
Is Labour a viable alternative?
Yes
James Cleverley 'moderate', what a chump.
Muito bom. Obrigado
Rediculous propaganda. Truss's problem wasn't that she "didn't explain her plan well enough" it's that it was a crap plan. Tax cuts for the wealthy, will not lead to economic growth, increased investment or anything of the like. To fund it, the rest of us will be squeezed even more, or more public services will degrade even further. This isn't funny. These services have to stay public, or people will die. I would rather die, than have a private dentist, or private healthcare. Tell that to your evil paymasters, visualpolitik.
She didn’t plan tax cuts, she was cancelling tax rises she wasn’t cutting anything, just staying the same, it would have stoped many companies going bankrupt and so saving money in the long run. Liza truss was right.
@@HaiLsKuNkY they also wanted to reverse IR35, which would have cancelled gains of Indian consulting companies like Infosys and Tata Consulting (his mother in law worked there).
I wonder if he works at 55 Tufton street.
There is no way he is coming back after the election. He hasn’t done enough to correct all the issues that Tories created.
I have live in Hong Kong for 15 years and I just returned from UK after spending 2 months there dealing with some family issues. I have also spent about 21 days in China last summer touring different provinces.
I am absolutely certain that if the Brits, beyond all the clickbait headlines, knew how well the people are living in China there would be an open revolt in UK.
Nothing works in UK anymore. 50 mins delay on the train from Edinburgh to Liverpool. Bone-rattling potholes. Backed up traffic everywhere. Road closures while no work is being done. Waited 19 hours in the AED with my father before been seen to. Filthy city centres with boarded up high-streets. Everything is expensive. Gun crimes, knife crimes and homeless everywhere. Eye-watering level of tax. I have had a look at the salary for my profession and I will need to take a 10% cut if I move back to UK.
I am not being funny but what the point of being able to vote when all the idiots vote for incompetent clowns who can't organise a piss-up in a brewery? What's the point of being able to criticise your government when no good comes out of it? What's the point of freedom when you can't even PHYSICAL move from one place to another without being impeded by delays on the road or in the public transports?!?
"Oh but this or that could happen to you in China if you are this or that!"... Well, this IS happening to British people unless you are not rich and well connected and I don't feel the burning desire to vandalise a portrait of Mao or Churchill so I know where I want to be given the choice.
pretty cool
The problems he faced were fashioned by his own hand. Link by link he forged that chain
Worst government ever.
Why is there no British Milei?
That was enlightening. Why make videos about UK politics if you haven’t got the first clue about the subject?
@13:34 "a labor presidency"!?!?! You guys are better than that!
Much of this video feels like a statement that the Tories arent all that bad, and Sunak has been given a bad rap by inheriting all these issues.
It feels either badly researched, attempting to stay neutral to the point of detrimenting the quality of information or low-key pro-Tory and trying to spin the shopping list of Tory negatives into something less negative.
When you make a video about Meloni in Italy
The Tories did not win in 1992 “by a landslide”, they had quite a small majority
As an Aussie this video was hard to follow.
As a Brit it’s hard to stomach 😂
Why?
@@bharath2508 these idiots in parliament have destroyed our country 😪
Also because a lot of it was incorrect.
Let's no forget Sunak was Chancellor of the Exchequer and signed off Billions for PPE contracts to tory cronies and Donor's who had set up companies just weeks before.....
Have a General Election NOW?...Lets get out of this mess.
Same as in hungary🎉
The real problem is the Welfare System, we have 9.3 million people between 18 and 65 economically inactive, we also have millions trying to get to the UK to enjoy these free benefits, us Taxpayers are paying for all this and that is where the money goes
Many of those classified as "inactive" are due to hidden unemployment.
STOP!!!! I got to 3.48 and forgot, who was chancellor before Liz Truss, in charge of finances and everything and who's economy really failed before Liz Truss was barely able to close number 10's door. Because not one policy of Liz Truss was enacted. Having noted all of that I think I have heard enough.
"Orange man bad", this summarises your video, not so strange before the elections. Better than addressing the armed forces real problems
Didn't solve inflation, the money supply grew by about 20% due to the Covid policies, and this was then absorbed through price rises.
Which is worse, American healthcare or British?
funny how some still hold a good image of the NHS and believe the inflation is under control
The UK is buggered. I moved abroad to Bulgaria. And....relax!
I was hoping for insights into the mystery that is my country. But naturally we aren't allowed to receive them. Maybe in another video?
Great Britain 😅 ,
Great indeed
Elections are usually won in the centre, so by tacking right to placate internal critics within the party and prevent losing votes to Reform UK he's shedding votes to Labour (and to a lesser extent the Lib Dems).
Capitalising on Brexit is an oxymoron, unless you short sold the pound like some of the cheerleaders for it did.
Wow that nursing salary is paltry compared to most other places. Nurses in the US clear 6 figures easily
Tell me you're an American who is jealous of a free healthcare system without telling me...
Lord Sunak, will become LORD Kanus
Only 3 I don't think you can count;-) hahahahaha
Only Three?
Sunak needs to sink money into infrastructure, it sends money into the communities and comes back as tax dollars.
Only if that infrastructure increases productivity by a sufficient amount. Otherwise running up debt to pay for infrastructure will just end up devaluing the pound and hurting the purchasing power of the middle class. Infrastructure investment should be quite selective.
Fyi UK conservatives dont consider the Tories as conservatives...
Were not spending because gas and electricity prices are far too high its crippling
Move over Richi, the UK wants to come through! GE now.
ahh yes my fav tv show, britains selfdestruct, greetings from germany
german speaking about selfdestruction 😅 you lost all world wars you could lol
At least the uk govt didnt create a war in ukraine. Your precious Germany has NOTHING to brag about when it comes to self destruction.
glad you're enjoying the show, best regards from britain
@@ahmedmeshkin4599Yeah it only took all the worlds great powers ganging up on us to eventually take us down. Germany has always been superior when it’s 1 on 1.
He can’t turn it around
It's strange that the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, and China are all staring down economic problems at the same time. If these economies fall, what rises?
1) Why UK has the highest energy cost ?
2)Why so many migrants come to UK if the economy is so bad ?
Im not sure how Labour will be able to improve things. The tax revenue is what it is. If they raise taxes too much, the wealthy will leave and will discourage investment. I cant imagine them reducing immigration. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Getting back into to the European single market would be a huge economic improvement for the UK.
Why are people complaining? Brits kept voting tory despite what was happening right in front of everyone's face......
From a Conservative, surprisingly this was quite a fair and honest take. Except from discribing the most Conservative people in the party as "extreme". They are not extreme they are just true Conservatives and not sellouts. Plus this languave is never used on the left.
Leaving the EU the way Tories did was outright extremism. The economy will suffer from that for a long time.
It should have not been so nice. It was too nice. The Tories are terrible.
You Tory voter finally gets called out for the donkey party that throws it voters under the bus and the country for their own making and greed
@@ioeuropaganymedkallisto7204 Most of the Tories including Sunak was against it.
😂
Englands is finished all is left is junk food shops and people delivering it on motor bikes that hasn’t got a clue about the Highway Code it’s so unrealistic
We need to start making things more. When someone gets a wage they buy things made abroad, thereby sending money out the country
The Tories are the architects of this mess. There has been too much emphasis on services and white collar jobs. Many Tory MPs have no engineering or technical background. The country was the workshop of the world in the Industrial Revolution. We have some of the best engjneers and innovators in the world but where is all the investment to make it happen? White collar doesn't want to get it's hand dirty with blue collsr. Sunak has a chance of breaking this barrier because he spans tech and finance with his background. But does he have enough time? Can he build a vision for the future that will pull the party together? Can he provide the leadership that inspires everyone to pull together. Incidentally, I believe Reform UK is a red herring. Although we have high immigration, we need people who are willing to work!
There's a whole slew of information in here that's just plain wrong. For a start, the NHS doesn't go out of its way to force pointless procedures on anyone.
Sunak is not John Major, what's the point of even bringing that up, he's going to lose regardless, the question is how large of a majority will labour have
Why does it have to be a two party system when each time an election comes along, it is a full reset
Hang on there he was chancellor before becoming pm.. a lot of the high taxes he imposed as chancellor
The idea that this is the same as 1992 is laughable. The gap is 15 points wider than it ever was in the 1992 election, Major was a far better pm than sunak, the Conservative party were no way near as right wing as they are now, their current policies are hurting all but the richest in society making their heartlands in middle england suffer as well as their normal victims, the poor and the North. There are 3 factions of the party all wrestling for control making it impossible to govern, 50 mps are stepping down meaning no track record for new candidates, polling methods are a lot more accurate than in 1992, and tactical voting will play a part too. They've lost 7 out of 8 by-elections, living standards are the worst since WW2 and everyone is fed up to the back teeth with sunak saying his plan is working. Its a case of how badly they will lose rather than if
Free Occupied Downing Street. 00:01:47
He must give back freedom of speach and only then he will win
The last three years reached me how main stream media are face
Sunak sorting out the mess he made really is not going to work is it , first he has to admit what he did as chancellor was wrong , and we had interest rates at 0.5% and they did not borrow to invest in the country is madness , they just cut and cut and the debt has grown but what on i have no idea , and don't tell me Covid as they wasted so much on PPE contracts for their mates and never got it back because its their mates , everyone is fed up to the back teeth with them and their weekly Drama's
Economy’s can’t grow when taxes are high,banks are increasing rates and utility company’s are raking in huge profits.
Couldn't come quick enough P R then they never come back
Coolies like Sunak grandparents represented the back bone of the British army that invade Palestine.
Most people are fed up at the moment with pretty much everything.Paying more for less everywhere you look,with nothing improving anytime soon.The Tories have been in government for 14 years.People will rightly blame them for the mess,and vote them out.Its not rocket science.
Rishi is good enough to be a PM he is smart and not too much of a trouble maker. I think that he should reduce the taxes of the UK to 5% ,40% and 60% is TOO HIGH!
In both UK an US it seems whoever you vote for it doesn't matter. Things slowly go worse ans worse.
Americaad some really strong growth under Biden. The UK is in recession. It does in fact matter who you vote for and only people who have no clue about politics pretend it doesn't matter.
What about Canada?
They are called conservative but they don't conserve money.
Totally agree mate. No matter the party you choose, the EU will always govern the outcome because we need them more than they need us (and i voted out). Nothings changed. Every pm bullshits their pledges and goes back on it. The eu have their way. Voting seems totally pointless until we somehow gain leverage that actually makes us powerful.
That's because both countries are basically living off past glories. The problem is that the political class in both countries won't admit this - the people in both countries know this full well.
America will never be what it was between the 1950's and late 1980's. Those days are over, and likely gone forever.
The biggest problem with the conservative party is there are too many Cinos & Tinos. Cino, Conservative in name only, & Tino, Tory in name only. In addition the WEF is too active there.
If we get Starmer, we get Tony Blair.
We need a election ASAP. Get the tories out