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- čas přidán 9. 07. 2024
- UK voters are due to deliver a verdict on 14 years of government by the center-right Conservative Party. All polls point to deep dissatisfaction with the current government under Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, and predict a strong win for Keir Starmer’s center-left Labour Party in tomorrow's parliamentary elections.
00:00 Polls: Britain headed for Labour election landslide
05:51 Andrew Blick, King’s College London
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I just haven’t seen anything in Labour that would make them super majority. People just want to punish the Conservatives and that’s it.
There is no such thing as a super majority
@@HinduGirl011 Shouldn't Rishi open the gates for all people from countries the Brits invaded and exploited?
@@gluteusmaximus1657 nope just lndia
Indian immigration to the UK is not popular.
Labour's appeal is being the adult in the room. A lot of people just wouldn't believe flashy promises. They know the country's in the dumps, and they want a steady hand on the wheel to recover.
they offered prosperity and gave them poverty
He gave some prosperity to the immigrants while impoverishing the most in need Brits born citizen
@west5828 what? Sunak is anti-inmigrant
@@joseesteves1309 He is really not.
poverty and bad health with the NHS blood pressure medicine. in order to save money they are poisoning people to death with 3rd grade medicine that causes tremendous pains and side effects
From what I observe it looks as though Labour will destroy Reform and Conservatives in the polls tomorrow.
It's not all his fault, he's just the last in a long line of fools😊
I couldn't agree more.
Bojo completely destroyed the Tory brand.
Show boy?
Liz Truss put the nail in the coffin
Lord Cameron of Greensill helped in the demise
Squishy rishi just hanging around for formalities now
No he didn't the conservative did. Tory parties answer to all problems is "tax cuts". There not enough police, "tax cuts", there not enough jobs "tax cuts", there not enough doctors and nurse at the NHS uh.... I know "tax cuts". The Tory party is "brain dead".
"Why is this election expected to be a landslide for... the Labour Party?"
Because they're not the Tories, my guy
and because hardly any of them advocated Brexit back in 2016.
Red Tories!
There is no difference between Labour and CONServative, they are both left wing, Reform UK are the centre right now..
@@leegould5306 reform are fascists heading further right, tory’s are the far right not center right, long live lib dem, the future of the UK.
@@evie1915 Tories: high tax, high spend, high debt, high immigration.. how is that right wing?
How does high taxes and high immigration not describe a left wing party either now or historically?
You are aware that right wing parties want low tax, low spend and low immigration? Their theory is based around people keeping more of their own money to spend on what they want.
It was Brexit. The conservatives threw the UK economy under a bus over brexit, so we are throwing the conservatives under a bus
Beware of labour
Boris is the main reason, Sunak was the last nail in the ⚰️!!
He is a scapegoat, punching bag for all UK problems, which Keir Stamer is not going to fix either
Yup! It does not matter who wins the elections. The PMship of a crumbling UK is just a thankless job.
The reckless Trump Trade Wars, China retaliations, escalating Biden sanctions and the equally severe Putin counter sanctions have accelerated the permanent deindustrialization of most high income, thus high cost nations. As long as Russia is not defeated in Ukraine, NATO+ nations will lose their *collective* global socio-economic and geo-political hegemony. Even *woke* Franc-Afrique nations in Sahel are kicking the French and the Americans out of Africa. Without exploiting and plundering their neo-colonies, neo-imperialistic nations like England and France will most likely self-implode!
Turf out the toffs
And put in a sir toff lol
Tax cuts means a smaller gov budget, means cuts to social benefits, cuts to NHS and local councils etc,
And tax cuts disproportionately benefit the rich, which allows them to continue to gobble up the country's assets at the expense of the rest of us, making us even poorer.
Specially when said cuts are mostly for companies
Tax cuts disproportionately benefit the rich. You can delete this comment as many times as you like but that's a mathematical fact.
Boris and truss destroyed it . Rishi could've got it to 200 but not more. Party was done by 2022
Sunak, Hunt, Starmer and Reeves are all grown-ups by comparison with Johnson, Corbyn, Farage and Truss.
Sunak has shown positivity, energy and leadership throughout the campaign. It is a pity for the country that Sunak wasn't made leader of the Conservatives instead of Truss. He has been pooper scooping behind her since his appointment.
he was chancellor under boris, when things got much worse. he's been useless as a PM.
@@kanedNunable- not impressed by policymakers trying to cut down immigration numbers by restricting entry of foreign spouses of British born - tearing apart British families but allowing those with no ties to the country free entry in and increasing immigration numbers.
Total BS!
@@kanedNunable,
You are talking about the Corona period when he was the chancellor.
It should be obvious that Sunak is not responsible for fourteen years of Conservative political incompetence. The nonsense began way before Sunak bought his safe seat in parliament.
Anyone but those Tory bastards!
I have no sympathy with Tories as a rule, but this is not Sunak's fault. After two mediocrities - Cameron and May - the Tories gave us Johnson and Truss, and that's what killed the Tories.
Since the Tories ran UK on a cliff they should get the boot.
Let's have a think about this. Everyone is banging on about the last 14 years. Sunak has been PM for little over 14 months. Is he responsible for the vote swing? No.
Rishi Sunak isn't the biggest clown in the Tories; there are many others more responsible for tarnishing the brand than he is. I suspect his snap election announcement was intended to be a finger to contentious MPs who made functional governance impossible.
No it not that. The last time you reformed your government was under her Majesty Queen Victoria. So here we are in 2024, you got a part-time Victorian government in 2024 that's why they are not doing very well. Even her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II updated the Crown more than you have updated your current government.
Bringing in Cameron and Boris Johnson proves the fella is useless.
what about the lettuce?
@@simulationkoyo
Lettuce made economic mistakes. The other two got involved with wars and were largely involved with a lot of killing.
Last ditch attempts to stem the bleeding and prevent a total wipeout. Boris and Sunak hate each other and it's not a secret of any kind. They are scared of coming third.
@@simulationkoyo manthat lettuce really could have turned things around, what a missed opportunity
Remember austerity under dodgy dave then scraggy May ..truss,and this Tnuc ALL UNELECTED
I remember when the unelected line was used towards Gordon Brown non stop, funny how we didn't hear any of that when we had all these tory unelected PMs
Sunak was the last rotten potato on the Tory Grocery Shelf. There was no other choice. Until, they went back to the waste bin to pick up David Cameron and presented him as "Foreign Minister."
You got the despicable Cameron as Foreign Minister. We got Blinken. You won !
You couldn't have said that better.
The UK desperately needs electoral reform. Our antiquated “first past the post” system results in highly unstable government. Even when one of the two main parties has a decent majority in Parliament the diverse range of opinion that each represents results in endless unaccountable infighting.
Look, the last time your government reformed itself was when it was under her Majesty Queen Victoria. Yea, that how long it been you got a part-time Victorian government in age of high speed internet and Artificial Intelligence.
Hardly centre right
Hahaha yeah, highest taxes since the war, generous benefits policy, and a bleeding heart open for immigration policy.
They are further to the left than Tony Blair's labour party of 97.
Very right wing
Northern Ireland has PR for its Assembly elections and the voters never fail to elect the worst of the options available. The problem lies with the quality of the electorate.
And why not tell us, Mr Smyth, what the solution is to that problem? I’m from NI so please think carefully.
The Scottish Parliament had a PR system that was designed to prevent one party rule. That failed in time. Now we have higher taxation than the high taxes people are complaining about in England and the same if not worse crises in health and education.
@auldfouter8661 Huh? Aren’t your health and education free?
@@auldfouter8661Yes, correct. About 1 percentage point higher so a reduction to rUK levels won’t make a discernible impact on your pocket (though house prices are generally much lower). My point to the original poster remains, are we stooping as low as to blame the electorate?
@@jaybee42880 countries have ‘free’ health care and education
Imagine that. Conservative politics doesn't work. WOW!😂😂
Tories didn't do a single conservative thing compared to any Western conservative parties
Of course it doesn't work and when that happens an average person will turn to fascism for answers like what is happening with Farage, Trump, Le Pen etc. It's too late to stop this because humanity has failed to comprehend overshoot and adequately respond to global warming. The end of civilization is near.
Record high taxes, highest levels of immigration on record, record levels of public spending, the state is bigger and more inefficient than ever. There is nothing conservative about the tory party.
@@charles___yes they did. A lot of things which is the problem
@@veemo8605 I think they mean that the Conservatives didn't do any of the positive things you'd associate with a centre-right party (supporting stability, economy, families, etc). Rather, they just looted the coffers, bloated the number of billionaires that infest the country, and offered half-hearted culture war in lieu of anything inspiring.
I’m an American interested in UK politics (our politics is crazy, I know), but hopefully your country goes into a better direction.
You can see the Good Professor Blick thinking when he's with his Rapid Eyen Blinking :)
Best Wishes & Cheers To You Sir !
sunak will be living in the usa in 6 months
Sunak was resented from the moment he appeared.
You think he replaced some one popular, Lizzie O'Leary ?
@@auldfouter8661she would have done leagues better than that oompy thumpy
He’s Despised
@@khalidjavid3271 yes
I gave him a chance and he turns out worse than Dizzy Lizzy she had least made me laugh.
The game is up for soggy Sunak - you can't trust a Prime Minister who doesn't know when to carry an umbrella.
Excellent analysis, the professor Blick was really informative at the end.
Thanks for posting
Tories can never forgiven for being the party that delivered Brexit.
Why? The ppl voted for it…
They also delivered raw sewage in rivers, mass proliferation of food banks, shorter 5-year old children than in 2010 and a reduction in life expectancy. What a disastrous 14 years.
@@therealbettyswollocks what do you mean by shorter 5 yo.s?
They are a classic example of what happens when you don't do what you promised, time after time, thank God for Brexit, although they ignored that too.
I'll vote before I go to the food bank.
Well let’s see in 5 years time if you’re still using that food bank.
Sunak being of Indian descent appears to be what karma has bestowed upon Britain for their centuries of colonisation and exploitation of India. Sunak poor leadership is the big final nail on the country's decline. Ironic indeed.
Thank you Rishi for warning me not to be complacent and remember to go out and vote Labour
No. Rishi is not responsible... He has integrity, skills. It's others that have ruined it
Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality 😅
Sunak is not the reason for the low polling but he certainly hasn't helped.
The fact that somebody can be in power without the people electing them and still be considered a democratic government is just baffling.
Best among a bad bunch is on point.
Never heard this 'centre left' label before when referring to the Labour party.
I don't even understand what those terms mean...yet another new one 😅
The global south has real hard-right and hard-left parties. Tories and Labour are centrist parties
Labour isnt at all left wing anymore
Starmer is very very close to the center
@@nurex9029how is Center left new? Corbyn is hard left starmer is on his right
Brexit was the beginning. It had just taken a pause. If anything, with the current tides of the EU, Britain is going to flounder before she gets back afloat. But Britain always sails on.
Brexit was the grenade that revealed the even greater damage beneath the surface - years of ruinous right-wing economic policies that have hugely enriched millionaires and billionaires and impoverished ordinary people - with obvious results for the economy, i.e. if the majority of people don't have money to spend, there is a very limited market for businesses to sell to, therefore a stagnant or shrinking economy.
What happens when a Major political party dies?
A similar one with a new name just replaces it. US, UK and Canada has first past the post elections with single member districts/constituencies so it will never be a multi party system
Looking forward to finding out!
Dancing in the streets, cholera
One of the main reasons Farage has had such a huge influence on British politics despite never having been a Westminster MP is because he has been platformed by the media way in excess of his actual popularity. If he ever has to face any real scrutiny he may well fold.
There's all the same!
Great interview!! Spot on analysis.
A bit late to put your all in to win over voters with lies too late sunak you couldn’t beat the boats and your own boat is sinking me ol shipmate 😂
I'm an American. Have an honest question... why are some in Britain considering voting Reform if Farage was the face of Brexit? Didn't that have a lot to do with your current problems?
that is a good honest question
Its the same unthinking people that are manipulated by those playing on their fear & insecurity.
@@2thelimit he did indeed, one of his many lies.
A lot of people who voted for Brexit still insist it was a good idea in principle but it "hasn't been implemented properly". Similar mindset to marxists.
Farage is still selling snake oil and apparently there are still many gullible buyers. His excuse for the failure of Brexit is that the Tories did it wrong.
Usual crop of "joke" UK Politicians, but Vote Dalek !! Only honest Politicians in UK, with kinder policies than Conservative Party ...
That's what you get when you have a two-party system: you end up with two parties almost nobody really likes.
I think Sunak tried his best. To solve UK's problems, they need a miracle worker. Starmer will also fail after some time.
I like their debates at the parliament, which were quite entertaining, and more pleasing than the TV debate which was drily uninteresting.
Britain and some small countries like Fiji Islands can build a massive economic zone there they trade watermelon and zucchini to forget their day to day problem.
Conservative has a Concept known as "Broad Church" where ethnic members could become Leader of the Party but what went wrong was Conservative Parliamentary Party MP were Egocentric Fascists attitudes towards its Grassroots Supporters by denying a Vote on Sunak becoming Prime Minister. Many Grassroots some were 50+ years resigned on day 24th October 2022 Sunak CPP MP push Sunak as PM, first Maliciously attacked PM Johnson and PM Truss. After Sunak became PM some 25% of us resigned from Conservative Party. We Grassroots took our revenge against Conservatives Parliamentary Party Egocentric Fascists MP at this 4th July Election.
Ah I see. So the grassroots movement are now reformers ? This is very interesting thanks for insight lad
It’s also ironic that some of the most hard-right elements of the Conservative Party are from ethnic minorities (Patel, Braverman, Badenoch etc.)
It was bad when he took the role but problem is he didn’t do anything but kept it down.
The torys turned into a left wing party when they were voted into be center right. The people have then voted more right wing from tory which has split the vote allowing labour to win the seats in our first past post system.
sunak, liz truss and boris johnson should be transported to Rwanda.
Out With Rishi, out with Suella ❤
[2:08] Who voted for all of this bad service ??
Did any prime minister balance the budget, zero out the debt, make thing affordable?
Sunak has got his name on the history books, but not as a great reference. The Brits are on the way down for lack of independent thought.
I suggest you should only be able to vote if you've been a citizen for 18 years.
If the UK of today were a novel, it would sordidly be: The Bleak House!
This just shows it's no the far right that's rising, people are just tired and with highly increased cost of living is making people looking for change. Something has to happen
Sunak is unbelievably lousy at politics. He should have resigned as PM & party leader, instead he called an unnecessary early snap election and is taking the whole Conservative Party down with him.
He's good at what he set out to do--enrich himself and family. Now he's punching out, and he'll be off to California before the end of the year for a seven-figure "consultancy" job.
Labour aren't centre left!
What are they then?
@@TheNiall1992 about as right wing as Cameron now. Red Tories!
@@chriswatson3464 bit of a stretch that, they are centre at the very worst
They are centre but closer to red tories than corbyn
No they are far left, most of them including Starmer were or are Communists, look into some of their histories
VOTE REFORM Party and make Britain great again. Thanks.
Keir Starmer is a CENTRAL RIGHT character
Did you mean to show the same clips of people you talked to in London twice?
Maybe at last people have finally realized that the Conservative party is for the rich, by the rich , of the rich Doubt it
A lot of that credit is due to Liz Truss & Kawasi Kwarteng!!!!
"to blame problems on the previous government" 12:12
Of course he’s responsible, he’s the worst ever
ZERO SEATS!!!
Me reading the header... like duh, do you guys want a list?
Difficult as it may be for Anglo-Saxons to undestand, there are right-wing governments in the world that invest in infrstrastructure and public services, get the trains running on time, etc. The Tories treat city centres and public transport with contempt, and it goes back to the industrial revolution. As long as they can drive around in the countryside and send their kids to private school, there's no such thing as society, and everything else can rot.
Another one with the tax cuts. How in the planet are you going to finance what needs to be financed if you lower taxes? Where is the money coming from?
Radical idea: cut taxes for smaller earners and raise the taxes for the high earners.
@@aceyagewow genius move! I wonder why they won’t 🤔
Now Starmer and co got to Investigate the Ex PM for some of his policies
We are where we are and have had the leaders we have had at the behest of the banks, investors and financial markets so nothing will change in this country for the better, in fact it's going to continue to get worse.
Sunak and Starmer, if Starmer wins nothing will change infact it will be much worse, I hope for the best especially when this kind of times were the world is in chaos and instability.
The newsreader looks so familiar.
Why is this even a question❓ where you sleeping man
Farage “the architect of Brexit”. What!?!?!
Can anyone tell why conservative party called as tory
Nothing changes. 10 plus years of Tories followed by 10 plus years of Labour, followed by 10 plus years of Tories, and so on and so on……….
"conservative" yet no politics for the British. what does that say about the party.
Those voters, who now "speak a verdict", are the same voters, who voted over and again for the Tories. They got what they asked for,
“If you want your border secure, vote conservatives”! 😂😂😂
Good joke! Haha
It’s a your island border 🇬🇧 but our border is open and corruption 🇺🇸 😢
Why? They've had 14yrs and haven't managed to do it
@@SandraKindreich oh well the wall it’s not even finished yet only Texas can secure border
Right out of Trump's playbook.
The only party in my area (Brighton, Kemptown) that had a delegate whom actually lives anywhere close to my area was the Lib Dems. All others live in other counties. Just crazy.
In an article for Winchester College in 1996, as 16 year old student RISHI SUNAK bitterly opposes Labor Party,s proposed minimum wage of 3,5 pound an hour.Billionaire opposing minimal wage of 3,5 pound an hour necessary to keep millions of poor working class surviving capitalist exploitaitation, should have never been British PM. Normal person can stant the sight of this "politician"
I suspect you might be a Green or Labour voter 😂
But issues important to left wing voters are often not important to right wing voters
@@kristijangrgic9841 but he aleeady was from wealthy familly and future gold digger
@@eriktopolsky8531what is your point ?
I don't even care about UK politics but Mr. Sunak only has the dollar symbols in his eyes, they can be easily seen.
Whos to blame.....
14 years of tory rule.
Or 14 months of sunak.
No. The new guy from Labor. Starmer.
Freedom and democracy, enjoy.
next we just need to bring euro cup home :D
Anyone else following the series? What do you think so far?
Enough is enough
Need to change
I’m looking forward to boring but effective. I expect an improvement for us, not overnight but hopefully within two years we will start to notice our lives get better.