Tory betting scandal will "lead to disaster" for Rishi Sunak | Election 2024 | The New Statesman
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- The Tory betting scandal and three shock polls leave Rishi Sunak and the Conservative party in disarray.
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Rishi Sunak might lose his seat. The Conservatives could end up with just 53 MPs. Tory candidates and staffers including Laura Saunders and Tony Lee are gambling on Britain's future, placing bets on a July election shortly before Rishi Sunak announced the date.
Hannah Barnes is joined by Rachel Cunliffe and Freddie Hayward to discuss why the Tory betting scandal has rocked the party, and why Rishi Sunak cannot pull up in the polls no matter what he does.
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Reform reform reform.
To save this country🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Good working class people who have gone out to work for their country.
Something you lot would never connect or align with.
Police officer: suspended and arrested.
Tory MPs: no consequences.
Don't vote Tory. Simple
corruption spreading from the core of the party
Yet.
July 4th, consequences
You mean the Tories are crooks? Who'd thought!
Zero seats! Zero seats!
One seat, Sunak needs to stay and be held responsible, maybe he should win by fewer votes than Binface
Vote Green 💚
Tory Wipeout to Help Out
YOUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU 🫵
India is the economic greenhouse FYI
Full marks!
@@Steven-jx7chWhat?
To be replaced by more Tories
We can all agree ANY party but Tory. ANY!
The betting scandal serves to reinforce the impression that the Tories remain pervasively corrupt.
They are pervasively corrupt.
It just goes to show, if some thing serious was to happen to this country, they would look after their own.
@@vanhooler358 And did! Global pandemic you say? QUICK get my chums' made-up PPE companies fast-tracked into that public money trough!
Of course ...
Wait, the tories had a campaign director? Incredible.
Is it Alan Smithee?
I hear Mr Blobby has stepped down 😂
More Tory corrupt behaviour but Sunak takes no action
Says it all
Spineless, is the word for fishy Rishi
How many times have we heard the Tories go to comment "an investigation is ongoing and will wait for the outcome before commenting"
That’s because the law doesn’t apply to Tories remember party gate they don’t deserve a single seat in the next parliament
yeah this campaign really showed what integrity means for Sunak - leaving D day, gambling when you know the outcome - he really understands what regular people are going through
The Tory Party 1834 - 2024 RIP
Gone but never forgiven, they will be gladly missed by so many.
Like a floater the tories will keep coming back around the U bend.
Love a bit if irony
😂😂😂
N|ice one!
The Tory party, snouts in the trough one and all.
Is Labour any different? WEF Puppet, Starmer is being handed power on a plate.. the Mega-Rich know their money is safe with Reeves and Starmer....
What’s more shocking ? They are corrupt or that the Tory’s have a campaign director.
😂😂😂
I'm a communist but I'm pretty sure I could run a better campaign for the Tories 😂
Another day, another Tory sleaze story, business as usual in the Tory camp.
Using the privilege of government to enrich themselves until the very last moment: typical snout-in-the-trough Tories.
We all try to 'enrich ourselves'.
We're all Human.
We're all greedy.
You can't blame them...
@@iracerukOh that makes everything they’ve done ok then…
@@user-lo5kj8im5d Nope.
Just stating a fact.
@@iracerukspeak for yourself
@@nickharvey7233 So you're not trying to earn more money? Good on you 👍
The most shocking news to me is that the Tories have a campaign director, I assumed they were just winging it by how bady it is all going.
It is not gambling when you know the outcome already.
No it's theft.
Basically insider trading
Ah! if it's not gambling. the can't have gambled illegally! The defense rests, M'lud.
Criminals just can’t help themselves
I left the Conservative Party about twenty years ago as it was clear to me that its leadership and up-and-coming ‘stars’ were uniformly incompetent and occasionally unethical. It’s just got worse since then.
Shameless Criminality
Many decades ago I worked on Saturdays in a betting shop while doing an undergraduate degree in Probability. They were called "Turf Accountants" in those days.
The Turf Accountant told me: "Son, never bet on a horse that talks." i.e. don't bet on anything where a human can manage the result or know the result in advance.
Good advice
1min 52sec in - "they're gambling on the future of the country - it's remarkable". Where did Sunak's millions come from? Didn't he make his money from betting on the UK economy to crash?
He did. He shorted the £ and bet against the UK. Treasonous.
Professional Gambler (who bet against the UK at Goldman Sachs) recruits gamblers as close advisors shock.
From the very top, to the bottom. That party is as bent as a suitcase full of £9 notes.
As an American I clearly don't understand this reference 😂
Tim Montgomery said some of his tory mates have already resigned over this betting scandal. He also said he thinks another 6 people are involved. This will cut through and dominate the next couple of weeks. It will be mentioned in same breath as Partygate. This will open a lot of unhealed wounds.
the same mentality as party gate
Which is more shameful and embarrassing - her being investigated by the Gambling Commission with a possibility of future criminal charges, or him being publicly named as the director of campaigning?
This is political endtimes for the conservatives
So people were betting even before Sunak told the Cabinet ! more sleaze.
Today I saw for the first time a election tactical voting placard in a garden, in a current Tory-held seat. It said something like - I'm a Labour supporter but I'm lending my vote to the Lib-Dems. It would be great to see lots more people do this so that it's widely advertised who to tactically vote for in each seat, to people who would never look at the website of Best for Britain.
If you had a PR STV system you wouldn’t have to resort to this. You could vote all the way down the ticket #1 Labour, #2 Lib Dem, #3 Green etc. That’s how it works in Ireland.
@@gavindoyle692 The Lib Dems abandoned PR more than a decade ago when they sold out to the Tories.
That’s probably a fake Tory website. The proper tactical voting website is stop the Tories.vote don’t use best for Britain it’s a fake one use the one I’ve previously suggested.
@@gavindoyle692we have something similar in Scotland for Holyrood elections, but with the 'list candidates' guaranteed to ensure there are Britnats in our plastic parliament.
@@gavindoyle692 It's called the Single Transferrable Vote and is the simplest and fairest way to move forward with democracy.
Sunak broke the law twice how can he make a statement on law breaking.
Vote the Tories OUT.
Let’s not Forget Sunak Broke the Law at Party Gate.
It transpires ( Friday news) that there are many more, the graph showing business in gambling outlets shows an astonishingly high spike the day before the date was announced.
Oh dear what can the matter be?
🌹Vote Labour🌹
🌹Postal vote ASAP🌹
🌹Polling station 4th July🌹
Vote Green, not Tory lite
In Canada the Tory’s ended up with just 2 seats
2 too many-lets go for zero in the UK!
Insider betting, insider trading, and lobbying money.
This morning Ian Dale on GMTV reckoned he'd heard a rumour that there was a cabinet member involved...
You could not, right it the conservatives have not a clue. Vote Labour 😅😅😅
Stealing the sink on the way out... absolutely and completely Tory.
LETS MAKE THE 4TH JULY BINDEPENDENCE DAY!
Love binface but sad that he actually risks splitting the anti Sunak vote even further
All corrupt.
Just completely out of touch with how normal people behave. This is the same entitlement that brought us partygate
What about the MPs in the pocket of the betting companies so many are corrupt
Including Sunak who gave our tax money to a new gambling company in the form of a very big juicy contract.
Who cares.. Tories.. nuff said.
All we need to know now is whether Riahi Sunak has placed a bet on who will be Tory leader by Christmas.
It's not a bet when dealing with certainties 😋
That's easy though. It will be Farage and it will happen by the end of the summer, let alone Christmas. Farage being the opportunist he is, will approach what's left of the Tory party and will absorb them into Reform, keeping the Tory name. Effectively, making him the leader of the opposition, assuming of course, he isn't beaten at the ballot box by a dolphin.
Any thoughts on the news that the Tories have a Campaign Director??
Not of any surprise really. To be so bad at electioneering and to have so many gaffes, mishaps and scandals in such a short space of time, it surely must have been planned and the Campaign Director was so enthusiastic, he decided to set an example himself. The trouble is, the brief he received on the goals of the campaign had erroneously had 'lose the election' instead of 'win the election' written on it. Being a numbskull Tory, he took what was written as gospel and planned accordingly. Thus far, his plan is a roaring success!
At least we know now why Rishi picked July that was the month with the best price at Ladbrooks 😂
If corruption is proven, I will be suprised. However, the incomprehensible incompetence is the gift that keeps on giving.
Was thinking exact same, give give give when it's trash, sleaze and scandals 😮
NOTHING CHANGES - PPP Contracts, House of LORDS it makes sick in the stomach. Don’t tell me ED DAVEY insists they must resign
Tory gamble, a last roll of the dice... I'll bet they're sick of this. Odds are they wanted their last grift.
The Tory roulette ad is now been withdrawn, another clanger.
well put - 'their last grift'! great
One scandal after another what happened to honesty integrity and accoutability im still waiting spive the lot of them totally corrupt
These politician have so much money , they don't care about the general public. Being an PM is just another boost to ones ego and status. Get ride of them all and let the public elect the members of Parliment. After all we pay them from our taxes.
Of course you're not naive, Rachel. BTW, I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine. He's a Nigerian prince, and he's got an intriguing business offer to put to you.
3 Tories have resigned thank god 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The Tories just do not care. Sleaze? Normal in that party. Integrity, you pint-sized liar? None in the Tory party.
I assumed the Tory campaign director was Armando Iannucci. It has certainly felt like his work.
going....gone.....but not forgiven
YIPPEEEEEEE!
I hope they’re extending the investigation of this insider fraud to into the circle of gamblers to all their relations. It is beyond offensive! Sleaze, sleaze, sleaze!!
At least they gamble with their own money and not just ours 😂
It was probably expensed 😂
They've already lost all ours.
Remember when they gave millions to their buddies for not supplying PPE? Pure duncery.
People got 80% of their wage. Not 100%? Why not?
We pay their expenses
Ffs scandals are the norm
This is a replay of the Covid era parties in number 10. One rule for us and one rule for the proletariat
One day there will be a revolution
Tell us when
We`ll get our money on
Queue Matt Green - priceless material.
Good to see another fan 😀 Surprising/disappointing he has not broken throught yet, love his skits and the standup clips I've seen are good
Or even cue
Clueless
The campaign director must have known the day and the hour, or he wasn’t directing squat, so I think it would be equally ridiculous either way. But the fact that Sunak is not firing people for their patent corruption, using the excuse that the law must determine whether a, “crime,” was committed or not, is utterly appalling! We can see corruption that need not be designated a, “crime.” This just shows that Sunak cannot.
Tories not suspending losing candidates, maybe because some winnable candidates that we don't know about are also involved in it?
Just LOOK at the number of scandals ascribed to them over the last couple of years alone… abysmal conduct, and this is just the stuff that has come to public attention. Makes you wonder, how much have they managed to get away with…
Chuck these shysters in the bin.
Funny how the Gambling Commission only intervenes when the gambling companies lose money.
The MP who placed a bet is liable for being charged with the same offence as the police officer 'misconduct in public office'. And it's immaterial whether he had prior knowledge of the date.
And for the first time in history thank you, the new statesman. For this Brazilian series. That's so interesting who is married to whom in the background of the elections. Personal life of all the MP are gossips but tell so much about your channel, the new statesman (that isn't new though).
Yes its the betting scandal whats going to decimate the tories not the 14 years of failure and betrayal.
Vile as the tories are and I literally loathe them, more vile still and incredibly concerning are people being drawn away from them, to an even more evil ideology…
Politicians and former politicians are above the law in the UK. Democracy indeed
Redrawing constituency boundaries was intended to scupper Labour hopes.
Question: are the inflation figures as good as the hradline rates. What does the detail show when you drill down into the inflation numbers
It's perfect. I love it. If someone asks you to sum up this grotesque government, you can just point to this simple example of corruption.
Has Sunak put a bet on being wiped out?
If you consider how he runs his election campaign, it's most likely that he made a bet he will lose.
Let him win ... his bet... and charge him for manipulating a bet... after the election. 🙂
Yes, it is akin to insider trading. Trading rules apply to all employees, not just the senior execs. 'Trading windows', e.g. in the run up to an earnings call, apply whether an employee as knowledge of the earnings or not. It is the same principle here.
This is an ultimate low point for Rishi...
He's already gone.. this just happens to be ANOTHER nail in the coffin... Even the corrupt politicians that placed the bets know what is coming and this is just another chance to get some money before they are all unemployed
Another day, just another scandal. They have a death wish
5/4 !! No one gets nicked ?🤔. 😂😂😂
They should have done an each way bet on sunak leaving for America
Tories need to pay for their sin. ?
You misspelled 'countless sins'
Who wants to take a bet more tories are going to jump ship?
😂Ishi rishi is angry that he's been found out 😂
The real problem is us poor people, why can’t we just be happy with the scraps they leave? We are very ungrateful really- all they do for us
Narcissists going down down down.
This reflects a dark part of the British economy, namely the part played by gambling in the so-called leisure industry.
With all of us carrying mobile phones with applets for all manner of useful things, gambling is now considered part of the fabric of British society. The lottery and a myriad of gambling companies vie to squeeze, what amounts to a heavy rate of tax, mostly from people who can ill afford it.
Denise Coates earns a £250k+ salary plus a £250k+ bonus on the back of people gambling. She has earned billions from what many would consider a vice.
It is therefore ironic that the government of the day that presides over this for the sake of taxation, who know its impact on the poorest in society, should ultimately be struck down by its own members trying to make a few ‘easy’ quids.
I'm running out of popcorn, been great watching faulty tories.
Evidently, he knew about this, two weeks ago, and didnt do anything about it. What a truly pathetic leader, he is.
£100 bet? lmao.
It’s not a disaster for them already??
i'm not convinced this has any political traction. The element of surprise at corruption is simply absent.
Can’t lead to disaster as they are already in the middle of one. Whatever is beyond disaster is now where Sunak and the Party of sleaze are at.
There are about 20 involved, including cabinet ministers...
I would not agree with the later comment that the UK has avoided the lurch to the right, possibly thanks to brexit. Quite the opposite, the UK already had their lurch to the right exactly around the time of the brexit referendum and has moved ever further right since then. If anything, the rest of Europe is simply playing catch-up. The move now back toward the centre in the UK is a good lesson for those in Europe that only failure waits in the direction they are heading. Let's hope they also realise that quickly and revert back to the centre ground before it is too late.
Conservative party in has been disarray for years.
Binhead needs to sweep Sunak's constituency and Labour need to stand down now to assure it
" Small number" maybe it's the members of the conservative party!?
Breaking News: Conservative MP manages to tie shoe laces. Unfortunately we have learned that they were from different shoes. The Conservative party has released a statement that they will conduct an investigation into how this happened.
My Good Evrething Is Sooo Toxic
'Small number' compared with what? Sure, a much larger one! But as the number should not exceed zero, any is too many. 'He is dead, but only slightly', is not a convincing defense against murder.