Are Labour and the Conservatives ready for the election? | LBC panel
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2024
- As Rishi Sunak has started the countdown for the General Election on July 4, here are some of the key policy battlegrounds the Tories and Labour are expected to go head-to-head on.
After months of speculation, Rishi Sunak has called a General Election that many expect Labour to win.
But much can change during a campaign that will be dominated by contentious issues and heated debate across the UK.
So are they ready? Andrew Marr is joined by an expert political panel to analyse this.
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Nobody in the right mind would vote for the Conservatives so do the right thing now
You'd have to either have the memory of a goldfish or have been in a coma for the past 14 years to even consider voting Tory.
Better than labour
@@anonomous8719toddler logic
The right thing is VOTE REFORM!
@@gerardhampson9089and you will get Labour as the tory vote splits. Mind you Labour will win whatever happens. Nothing much will change.
People saying inflation is low now are deliberately ignoring what's happened over the past two years.
The inflation rate for the last 3 years is over 20%, nobody's pay has gone up that much.
@@user-sd3ik9rt6d yep, since 2021 food prices have gone up be about one third.
@@Human_Herbivore Ben and Jerrys is up 110%
@@SimplySketchyGT never been but a pint is about £7 to £7.50 in most places near me. 😱
Don't forget water bills are about to rise by 25 to 95 percent very soon.
If the Labour vote is 'soft', why have they consistently been ahead in the polls for almost 2 years now?
It's complicated, the realignment of politics as we went through brex1t was masked by a single issue. currently People Under 50 are identifying more with left of centre views especially in urban suburban areas.
Older working class especially male are becoming extremely socially Conservative
It's soft in that there will be a new coalition formed, the one Boris gained power with is completely busted and the one that Corbyn failed with is now reforged moving towards the centre.
Because most voters are still undecided.
Not in Scotland. I`m hoping they get a landslide in England and rejected by Scots, again, to dispel the myth that the people of Scotland live in a democracy.
And why do they keep on blowing out the Conservatives in by-elections? Historic swings, like in the lead up to '97 election. And why do they keep crushing it in local elections? Seriously ,that dude was huffing.
Because the Tories have been so bad. No one likes Labour, they just hate the Tories. Kind of like many people who voted for Biden did so because they hate Trump. This will help Starmer in this election, but will hurt them next election if he's still the PM. Turnout will be low after a disappointing term, and low turnouts help the Tories.
Get the tories out
It matters not who we vote for, it really makes no difference. What we really need is not currently on offer. The entire world needs a completely new way, where the earth and all living beings/animals/habitat come first!!! A leader who doesn't subscribe to excessive profit/materialism/greed/hatred/money/manipulation/mind control and general mindless narcissism! The big change is on it's way, one never seen before. Bring it on!!!
@@demelza32 lol
@@demelza32facts.
@@sickly_grape164 one word, elaborate? If you are talking about "scientific "facts" it is open to interpretation. Modern science needs to open it's mind, as it ISN'T always right- we just need to look at the events of the past 5 years. The scientific field is open to corruption and being nobbled by the powers that shouldn't be to suit the agenda. Facts.
If it was RAINING SOUP Sunak would go out with a fork 🍴 😂😂😂😂😂
We want these thieves gone, we will vote!!!
Tory MPs with 10,000 majorities will be very nervous 👏🤣
As a usual Tory voter I can say with confidence this will be Labours biggest ever victory!!! However that really worries me as someone who’s right wing but it’s the Cons own fault
Oh, I really hope so. Macclesfield has been Tory since Time immoral but Rutley sits on just 10,700. It would be a wonderful moment.
Many will jump ship
"Richi" can't even take a brolly out in the rain. How the heck is he going to lead the Tories to an election victory 😂😂
tbh he cant even use a contactless card or fill a car with petrol.
A Tory wet! 2024 version.
Can he do Gene Kelly?
Aaah it burns! Acid rain!
Most working class cabinet in history, that will do me. The Eton crowd have had their go and they've made a proper mess of things. Time for a change.
Eton mess
@@Tinar55 😂
Why bang on about the Labour manifesto when the last 3 Tory manifesto's have been a complete and utter falsehood.
All Tory "manifestos" in my lifetime have been complete falsehoods, and I'm getting old the first one in my lifetime was Ted Heath's when he lost to Labour in the mid 70s.
For the sake of our country Vote Labour 🌹
We will!
Get rid of Starmer, only then.
Not on your nelly !!
Why ? So I’m not a Labour supporter but if I were I’d not vote in Labour as Starmer is not really very left wing. At a push you might say he’s centre left but only at a push! I can’t vote for them as I’m right wing and I can’t vote Conservative because of their recent history and they are not really right wing at the moment either! Labour will definitely win though as you have people like me who can’t vote Conservative at the moment so they will be dead in the water! To me both main parties are two sides of the same coin! It’s Reform for me personally!
@@moonshine9902anytime I see the hate for Starmer, I’m always curious…
even if you have the policy of “they are all the same” “ he’s no better” at least he’s from a working class family , mother worked in the NHS and he worked his way to head of public prosecutions.
No nepotism, no cronyism.
Even IF you say he has changed his pledges and changes his mind…
but looking at the current government we have had more politicians in this Tory government than we had in over 30 years prior…
Talk about changing your mind… how about stick with a leader…
When Sunk said he wanted his announcement to be seen as a well oiled machine he didn’t mean to pour a whole barrel of it over him! What a wet. Sunk, drowned in a chorus of disapproval, rain and drowned out by D’ream! TORIES OUT, the party without the sense to use a f**king brolly. Womp womp!
did he really use that, or was it a heckle? as to the brolly, his suit might be worth £5k but he has more. it can go in the bin now
Things can only get wetter
"Things Can Only Get Wetter"?
Rishi says Starmer has no plan when he didn’t have a plan to stay dry for his speech.
TORIES OUT 14 years of devastation
@@JT-es8twwhat? 😂
Labour will make it much much worse
@johnj4860 based on what information? The last Labour government was 15 years ago and this new Labour party is completely different.
They cant get much worse than what the Tories have managed to do to us in 14 years. Not a single year under Tory leadership has been pleasant. Just constant corner cutting, wage stagnation, stripped down infrastructure and a completely butchered housing market.
Really, do tell us how it can get any worse? Because at this point I don't think anyone who says that actually has a point to make
@@bluegoose7832 "Completely different" are they? With the likes of Diane Abbot and a whole hoard of crusty old Corbynite sympathisers, waiting in the wings for their time to shine...... and "stripped down infrastructure"? Clearly, you've forgotten about the hospital building programme, and the several new ships for the Royal Navy, cancelled by smiling Tony, the last time he was in office......
@@JT-es8tw Haha
The light at the end of the tunnel has just been switched back on.
It's the train.
The Labour Express
But fear not. Once the unions begin their crusade for ever higher pay increases, the lights will soon dim......
@@user-ol6rd7pl5tthere's nothing express about Labour.
And it casts no shadows 😢
I can see only positive now for the first time since Boris was thrown out. I just spoke to a young labour m.p whom told me how proud his family our about him sticking to his guns through his short time in Parliament I particularly know this person always puts people first before self intrest. Gulis you could learn alot from this young labour mp when you put people first you win unlike you the jobcentre is your future
"Labour hasn't got a plan" says the man without an umbrella
Is that the best you can do, he was showing the Country that getting wet does not get in the way of making an important announcement take a look at Starmer he thinks while visiting Northern England that making a speech without his tie and jacket with rolled sleeves will win him votes up there with the working class.
@@pipins3616 clearly getting wet DOES get in the way of an announcement because the announcement was like 15 minutes late 🤣🤣🤣
@@pipins3616 10/10 on the mental gymnastics.
It just looked disorganised. They spent millions on a conference room and it really wouldn't have taken much to organise an umbrella. Instead he stood there getting wet.
Starmer's announcement was world's apart. In a Number 10-like setting with British flags and a simple 1-word message: change.
This morning? Sunak surrounded by bored looking and unenthusiastic people.
Starmer surrounded by enthusiastic people all with Labour Party branding - and that single 1-word message: change.
It could not be clearer that Sunak was unprepared.
@@pipins3616 🤣
since when is 30 points a "soft" lead?
Looking forward to july 5th
But what about the americans😂😂😂😂
I'm not, I'm terrified
@@theminisimmer why?
Whilst I want Tories out I dont think Labour are going to do a lot better in running things but they will win because the present government is so despised. Equals = The people lose again. Its the people of the UK that matter, not the politicians or parties....
Quite. Many seem to have long forgotten Tony Blair cancelled a hospital building programme, along with several new ships for the Royal Navy when he was last in office......
@Brian-om2hh at Least they were actually cancelled.rather than just brushed under the carpet like all of Johnson promises
All of them are bad and this past 14 years hasn't helped in that bc ppl are hoping for something that they think Labour will change it, which based on the past neither labor or tory or any of the others have
Sad thing is all of them aren't gonna fully fix the current situation, because none of them aren't corrupt, but hey that's just politics
Well things can only get better... its a terrible start to a campaign for the Tories. From what I've heard so far most of the party are furious
"...most of the party are furious"
To them I say, Welcome to our world.
Bring it on! Lets have serious grown up adults back at the helm! 🌹🌹🌹
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I think there’s a lot more enthusiasm for labor than what people think. I’m not even a labor supporter and I want them to win Big, but I do want them to introduce proportional representation.
your spelling calls you a foreign agent. ill let you figure which word you spelled wrong yourself.
@@covfefe1787You lack punctuation and capitalisation at the beginning of sentences. People living in glass houses should not throw stones.
@@theminisimmernot really the point. No one in the U.K. would spell labour labor.
@@covfefe1787 I think you lot are brilliant all you do is find fault with peoples spelling instead of looking and reading what there actually saying...a few mistakes means absolutely nothing people know what there saying...you just look daft!!! Instead of picking flys read what there saying....
Get the beers and curry in
This is 1997 election night on steroids
It’s even worse than that, think Canada 1993. Tories were reduced to 2 seats and even the prime minister lost her own seat. There isn’t a single safe Tory seat.
Tories are toast
Yes l agree and under Labour , we become The Land Time Forgot , hold on to your HATS fFolks , if you think we are bad now you have seen nothing yet UNDER LABOUR
Forget policies right now - the Tories lied, deceived, took the British People for fools, not just once, but time and time again. For me Starmer's "change" message, means changing the way Government and Party operate, to serve the people, not themselves, not take the public for idiots. Even if Starmer can't change much in terms of other policy, at least this is a start that will have an immediate positive effect..!
@andyh3873 If you think starmer is telling the truth and will carry out every thing that leaves is mouth if he gets in power. I am 70 they never ever do what they say in an election and labour as always let everyone down with strikes and power cuts years ago and last time they left the UK on the verge of bankruptcy. Labour like the Tories make policy up as they go along. I wouldnt vote Tory either but there are other parties.
"Not the same in six weeks" is an understatement . We will be deeper in the doo-doo and the life line covered in grease.
Poverty, austerity,nhs crisis, transport crisis , energy crisis ,housing crisis ….
Why would you not go out and vote , after 14 years of pure misery. Get out and vote we need change.
Soft lead??? Almost Every age bracket and by every metric they are ahead, their lead hasnt been soft for over 8 months.
I think it’s more thus far the Labour vote is a retaliation from conservative voters…. A warning shot if you like. When push comes to shove they will go back to conservative
That was the Gov pole, I never voted in that pole neither did 1000s or even millions of other people.
Smh
Das gute am Brexit ist, dass der Whisky an der Grenze nicht vergammeln kann...
Rishi, caught his own party by surprise. Genius.😂
And signed his own suicide note in the process not so Genius.
He jumped before he was pushed.
Yipp,he's thrown the lot of them under the bus. I can't see them all getting a job on GB news or publishing books. Well their is plenty of work in the care sector or hospitality!
Surely "the most working class cabinet" is an oxymoron... If you're in cabinet, you're not working class
Saor Alba!
One thing this is not is an early election. I’ve been desperately awaiting this election since 2019
How come the only part of Sunak that didn't get soaked was his hair ???😢
LEGO hair.
Full of oil slick grease.
Didn't you love Richis resignation speech yesterday?
Backbenchers letters!
If Keir Starmer and Labour run a spot on campaign without silly mistakes. They should win between 375 to 400 seats. If they have some slip ups, that number would likely drop. As for the Tories, the chances of them winning Government (Majority or Minority) is probably 1%. And I think Keir Starmer's message of "Change" after 14 years of Tory rule will resonate with the British Public.
I think nearly every human being best go look up the definition of ‘insanity’ 🤫
Parting is such sweet Karma.
I have been a lifelong Tory voter (now 60) but I don’t think so this time- did they not realise that the constant in-fighting and backstabbing would make everyone think they cannot possible govern properly until they sort themselves out? The inevitable spell they will now have in opposition MAY just give them time to do that, let’s see. But I seriously doubt Starmer will leave us any better off!
The fact that they've decimated this country is much more of an issue
That sidey-ways cheek motion should stand for election.
“Something journalists rarely comment on” except Laura kuenssberg
Rish! In the ☔ Rain. What a drip. 😅😅
I thought for a minute that Starmer was stepping down, to let someone on the left be next prime minister!
I’ve had CZcams adverts for Labour already. They’re ready.
I never thought I'd see the day when a Gosling would say Labour are ready.
My birth name was Gosling and I'd never trust in a man who got Jimmy Saville off.
The strategy appears to be about which party can create the largest mess for the next party to address.
We need PR, Blue Tory, Red Tory. Same garbage.
The weather may be cool and unsettled.
Best not be complacent if you want the Tories out they still have those willing to vote for them. If enough people don't bother to vote we might have Rishi again by morning.
Kelly stopped by on her way to the Opera?
I guess we'll find out, but everyone else certainly is
Rishi Sunak has had plenty of time to call the GE rather soon. Why did he decide so late to do that? We didn't even take the time for suitable weather conditions. Why the hurry all of a sudden? Did he expect to be ousted before? There is something odd about his hurry.
So which party will reduce London rent?
Labour Party forever
It is probably going yo take that long to sort out the mess the Tories have made of the country.
Worst choice for the country
Reform UK take that title hands down, even the can't do that badly & they've had a lot of practice.
Freddie! Love that guy! No need to break out the suit for LBC though. Just be yourself man
Yes for labours🌹, yes for better uk, no to the WEF boys.
The pressure won't change regardless who wins. The problems will still remain. Just vote and hope for a better future...🥴
when you are invoolved with children killings,the prisoners still see them as NONSES
Tough
What is more important, is the population ready for an election
We've been ready for a long time, change is well overdue.
Yep this is the end of the road for the Tories what's better now than when they took office ?
They gave us blue passports didn't they.
Oh yeah the blue passports ..give em another term in office.
20% ahead for 2 years and the Labour vote is "soft".
I think not.
I agree with Marr, at least 100 majority
Hopefully a majority of Scottish seats too.
You didn't mention there would be no change on Gaza.
Street parties on the 5th BYOB.
Britain hasnt been the same since 1997 its like Mogadishu.
So Michael spells his surname with a silent 'P'
60, 70? No way. The question is will the tories go over/under 100.
Nonsense, it will be exactly the same
It cannot get any worse.
It wasn't like this when Labour left. On every political topic the Tories have failed - except for feathering their own and their mates' nests.
I want to see my doctor when I'm ill - not when I'm dead.
Something niggles me about Sunak calling for the election and setting a date!!
feel we might have a Jo Biden type election here in the UK similar to Sad-iq Khan-t being reelected to London mayor...
Starmer could get an enthusiastic support base if he promised proportional representation, effective at the end of labour's first term. It's the only thing that will guarantee the left can trust him not to compromise.
I suspect they will hold electoral reform as a carrot for re-election along with closer ties to Europe. The idea behind the first term is to get into power, establish themselves as trustworthy by not over-promising and then with the public trusting them more add these sort of policies to seal the deal for a second term.
the country needs to move on from this rabble - vote for the party most likely to beat the party in your area
Tories out. The two Tories on the panel are deluded, or plain propagandists.
And Labour are not the same or worse LOL
The problem with modern democracy you need lots of money to stand a chance
Please learn how to use the apostrophe correctly.
Did you know that the name Rishi is an anagram for Irish. But we still don’t want him.
Six weeks' time*
the comments around both parties having similar missions is irksome as the "change agent" aspect is all about "how" they tackle the issues and in most cases there is a marked difference in approach...also somewhat damning to suggest that voters are easily influenced by better weather or sporting events, if that's the case we are all doomed
Vote out to help out. Vote Labour give them a chance we can always vote them out 😅😅😅😅
Labour seem to have most of their ducks in a row, but it’s always a bit of a rush. How would you know if the Tories are ready?
The Tories have had 14 years to show the nation they're capable of running the country , I've heard of teething problems but 14 years & still can't get anything right is a bit much.
Pittyful end just as they have governed for 14 f. Long years
Stay away from Bacon sandwiches, Starmer.
NO 🇬🇧
Labour haven’t been promising the same thing, what an absolutely ridiculous claim to make.
It's to undermine Labour, I don't like Stamers lack of new agendas, but he is being clever as he's trying to appeal to the Tory voters to switch in order to get nearly 500 seats.
Is this the 1930s? Nobody is modifying their vote based on the weather.
Please vote reform and vote for for people who care about the country
NO 🇬🇧
Nothing will change, real powerbrokers run the show behind the scenes, elections just a smokecreen
Rock and a hard place, neither Cons and Labour can take the country forward, need a fresh party with fresh thinking post brexit
Obviously
He says in his defence of the Tories why are you voting labour to get the Tories out. I'm pretty sure you can flip that arguement without much memory. So what's the point in saying it?.
A majority over a 100 a complete tory destruction
The country flip flops between Tory and Labour after every 3-4 general elections and has done with clockwork precision since the 1950s (aside from one blip in 1970). The conservatives have been in for the last 4 general elections - so i'd say a Labour win was pretty much inevitable this time round no matter what the track record of either party has been.
Vote labour 🎉🎉🎉
A political manifesto is absolutely worthless and meaningless unless and or until it becomes legally binding.
The reason tgere is little enthusiasm has. Lot to do with being worn out
Crick is thick.
I don’t care if they are! I know I and the rest of the country are!
We welcome Labour party on power on elections.
I will never vote for Tories and
Labour has lost my vote for life . I will vote for individuals who possess integrity and will defend our democratic values. Not those who have sold our country to Terrorists states such as Israel
No it'll be worse
I have concerns about voting for Labour, as I don’t think they’re offering a significant alternative to the Tories. I’m strongly considering voting green or independent.
Conservatives will lose anyway, so I think it’s safe to try voting for someone other than the 2 major parties.
Vote for the policies!
"Working class cabinet" Andrew please! I love you man, but you have to open your eyes.