Rishi Sunak has admitted defeat and isn't fighting anymore | Alicia Fitzgerald
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- čas přidán 26. 06. 2024
- “The messaging from the Conservatives has gone from 'no, we’re in with a fighting chance' to 'no, admit defeat'”
The Conservative Party had "a lot less to lose" in the last TV debate before the election but the amount of time Rishi Sunak used "surrender" implies "he's admitted defeat" says Times Radio political reporter Alicia Fitzgerald.
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I really will not miss Rishi's constant barefaced lying and shouting over everyone. Bring on July 4th.
He just comes across as an arrogant little runt
@@TheVicaryou have spelt runt wrong
😂🤣😂 @@alanpage3973
@@TheVicar You misspelt runt...
@@jdev1591 The cost of the Tories living crisis means that because the letters have worn out on my keyboard I can't afford to replace it
Many apologies
Yet another shrill and petulant performance by Sunak. I really can't imagine that Sunak's constant tetchy interruptions made a particularly good impression on normal, polite people.
Not the behaviour of a Statesman, a Prime Minister, more like an argument in the common room. Let’s not forget his desertion from the D Day commemoration, in order to make a video defending his lies.
One of those malnourished little kids that everyone in school loathed
I’m just looking forward to having a government that won’t make me wake up in the morning thinking “Oh God, what now?”
Do you remember when a chap drove to Barnard Castle? Around 500 Oh Gods ago, and rather quaint by current standards.
With Labour in power you will wake up in the morning first of all wondering where you are and then after a few minutes wishing you were somewhere else.
@@user-rt1rh9py4v You can see the future?! Do you have this coming Saturday's lottery numbers please? If they were alive, I would imagine that Laurel and Hardy could do a better job than the current corrupt government.
@@user-rt1rh9py4v. When I wake up , i know exactly where I am because the Tory fu…rs took away my freedom of movement.
@@danmayberry1185loL remember it well...😅
He’s got a real fight to keep his own seat, let alone Downing Street
He seems to be fighting himself into a corner
No it’s not better to be SHOUTYand rude. It’s petulant to be cross and talk over everyone
“Starmer really struggled when incompetent Rishi shouted over him like an ill-mannered priveleged fop”
There. Fixed it for you.
"But Labour! But Labour! Small Boats! But Labour! Nooooo I'm not moving Right off to America next month Nooo! Small Boats! But Labour!" Etc.
Probably already got the flight booked Come on Yorkies boot him out
From a man with limited grasp of politics, this is exactly what happens in kindergartens😅
Sunak walked off the job the moment he called the snap election. If he could D-Day his way out of Number 10 today, he would.
its more of dunkirk
It's almost as if these topics are complex and require complex answers rather than childish jibes and soundbites
Well he certainly hasn't stopped lying yet
lieing seems to be endemic in the tory party
He never will that's his full time ocupation...
I am in the US so take this for what it's worth... promoting this as a done deal for Labour is probably not a great idea since it may convince Labour voters to stay home and give the Tories a win.
The Times is normally shamelessly biased in favour of the Tories, so that’s probably what they’re aiming for here.
The only thing the Tories are fighting are their own stupidity, and they keep losing.
LoL wish I had thought of that one👍👍 ...
Wee rishi getting his P45 next Thursday and most of his cabinet ministers and a fair few of his MPs what a corrupt tribe.
I woulden't like to be a Tory M.P after the General Election or Cadboarg Minister...lots of weeping and gnashing of teeth, but hey !! They will have will have more time to do something useful for a change like commity work...there's a whole list of things they can learn to do,a whole new skill set even, maybe even a new career...
@@zemry-mh4sq Making some quite big jumps in logic there! Are you saying that slipping standards in public life is due entirely to immigration?
Would Brits think less of us if we here in California politely declined to accept delivery of the damaged parcel apparently headed our way?
I'm not sure what debate they were watching. Starmer may not have wiped the floor with Sunak but he clearly won. This whole thing about the format of the debate working better for Sunak and Starmer being hesitant is nonsense, just desperate scrapings of the barrel by this centre right broadcaster
Agree 💯🇬🇧💯
Centre right broadcaster? Who is that then? I mist have missed it.
@@paulsawtell3991 Agreed! More like a desperate biased Tory broadcaster!
@@gregorybiestek3431 You obviously dont watch BBC news then
@@paulsawtell3991 Just to make it clear by centre right broadcaster I mean Times Radio not BBC
His lies haven't worked, and he's out of options.
Vote Labour get the Tories out
Vote tactically and let's see them not even be the official opposition.
Sunak and Mordaunt just shout over people and are rude. It's not a debate its a competition who can be the most borish and shouty. The tories win everytime.
I would bet on Trump
Why don't these people just mute the mic of the one whose turn it is to listen? The tories would hate it, I know for sure.
The way Sunak thrusts his head forward he looks like he wants a fight.
Though of course he would t stand and actually fight. He is a short tempered, petulant little man who has no courage.
It's a childhood reflex from peering through the window of the neighbour with Sky TV.
@@zemry-mh4sq Interesting (although India's pop. just over 1.4 billion). But this has no relevance to my comment or the OP.
Rishi already thinking of his move to perhaps, California!
I bet his ticket has been booked.
California are welcome to him😆
I'd have some genuine respect for Sunak if he got a sick week for the last week and bought a campervan
2:10 - Yes, I am also thrown when someone I am talking to is consistently rude. Reminds me of the Viz line about going to a nightclub with the friend of a friend who is always aggressively friendly.
Well the Tories are trying really hard to become the British version of the American right-wing Republicans!
The counter to Corbyn is Truss. Thanks to her I am paying an extra £300 pcm on my mortgage.
mortgages are going up again. that's why sunak called early election
Sunak went into overdrive with the lies and smears. The moderator helped him and was obviously Tory-biased, but Starmer still won the polls overall, which shows the public is seeing through the Tories. In the end it s academic. Tories are toast with half their vote share going to Reform.
Why have Brits started using the grotesque Americanism "get-go"? The English expression is "from the word go"...
The UK 🇬🇧 is going down fast
Need change of government
Get go? What country am I in?
If hes willing to go today, I'd pay for his one way ticket to California
Total ridiculous Sunak was like an over excited boxer rushing out at the 1st bell shadow boxing punching the air Keir Stamer just jabbed away at Sunak accumulating points
Lower taxes, increase public spending, reduce national debt ... choose any two. National debt was 35% of GDP in 2008. It's now over 100%. That's like earning £50,000 per year and having £50,000 on credit cards. It's unsustainable. The cost of paying the interest on that debt is second only to annual spending on the NHS. As far as I can tell, the Liberal Democrats are the most transparent in their manifesto about their proposed tax increases to reduce national debt and maintain or increase public spending.
So when will we hear they've wound up the Party?
asap
Too many powerful and rich people about for that to happen. And the media will always bat for the Tories, even if it's just a case of trivialising the important issues and amplifying the trivial issues. Gaslight, misinform and make it seem like you're doing unbiased journalism. Even this video goes to prove my point; a sensible media would straight away be taking Sunak to task about the many lies he made during that debate, but instead they prattle on about who looked the best. We're getting more like the Americans with each passing year, and it's horrifying.
@@mup_pet When the brand is as toxic as this, they'll have to rebrand - and not simply relabel. Cummings' search for weirdos and misfits - which may have been inspired by my own delivery - shows the way they've been thinking, were it not that they came up empty because the people in question have been made unusable by systemic cultural failings. Look at Andrew Sabisky.
Simply telling Central Office to look for intellect isn't going to work either - a House full of Moggs won't cut it.
And that is why the Conservative Party has no future. It's been rejected by the electorate with a sense of loathing not seen since the early Renaissance.
Poor little thing. What will he do now? Probably counting his hundreds of millions or something equally deranged
Maybe he'll insist again with a straight face that his children can't wait to do National Service... Which they're unlikely to do in the US once the family moves to the Hamptons within months.
I dislike these debates. They have little to do with a leader’s ability to be a good PM. They show who is the better debater, who is the better liar, who can make the most dubious claims. I would prefer that we didn’t have them going forward. They make for some ratings though, so I guess they will keep happening in future elections.
The Conservative's record in office........lets end it.
1. Highest energy bills in Europe.
2. Highest taxes in 70 years.
3. Highest interest rates since 2008 when the rich bankers ruined the world economy.
4. Highest train fares in Europe.
5. Longest waiting lists in NHS history.
6. Raw Tory sewage pumped into rivers.
7. Lowest corporate taxes in 50 years.
8. Lowest State Pension in Europe.
9. Highest Immigration both legal and illegal ever.
10. Destroyed the NHS dentist service.
11. Brexit.
12. One failed Prime Minister after another.
13. Worlds shortest in post Prime Minister which created a financial disaster.
14. More corrupt MP's than any other party in parliament.
15. Europe's longest Austerity for the lower paid.
16. Highest Council Tax rates in the World.
17. Reduced our Armed Forces more than any other G8 country.
18. Highest number of MP's that have been arrested for sexual offences.
19. Highest number of MP's that have been sacked for corruption and Fraudulent acts.
20. Voted to allow Bankers to have unlimited bonus's even though the bankers caused the crash of 2008.
21. More libraries closed due to council cuts than any other modern country.
22. Ruined and destroyed the Train services by giving private companies tax payers money as subsidies.
23. Voted against Labours creation of the minimum wage. Then lie to voters stating they are responsible for it.
24. Wasted billions of Tax payers money on crony PPE contracts for their friends and other Tory donors.
25. Sold off 600 Police Stations.
26. Sold off our Courthouses.
27. Closed then sold our Fire Stations.
28, Failed to fix - repair our schools.
29. Cut spending on youth services.
30. Court backlog is at record levels
31. Threw 40,000 pensioners to the wolves during the first wave of the pandemic. Deliberate policy of getting and spreading covid in OAP homes.
32. Sold off our electrical grid to foreign companies.
33. Failed to build new affordable homes.
34. Wasted billions on HS2 only to then chop it.
35. Failed to close Tax Loopholes for their rich friends and donors.
36. Failed to build 40 new hospitals. They built one.
37. Failed to repair our crumbling roads.
38. Forced many councils into bankruptcy.
39. Failed to address the 4 million children living in poverty.
40. Cut spending on mental health services.
41. Privatised and sold off the nations Post Office - Gas - Water and Electricity Companies
42. Allowed BP and Shell to steal our Oil and Gas reserves whilst paying little to no taxes. (Norway has a Sovereign Wealth fund of over $1.6 trillion).
43. Sunaks failed RWANDA policy has cost approx 500m.
44. Increased the pension age.
45. Failed promise to end rough sleeping.
46. Failed promise to end Leaseholds.
47. Failed to Ban No Fault Evictions.
48. Failed to ban so-called conversion therapy.
49. Failed in their Levelling up promise.
50. Introduced Voter ID excluding thousands from voting.
51. Introduced the bedroom tax.
52. Forced disabled people to jump through hoops to claim benefits.
53. Britain now has more foodbanks than McDonalds.
54. Tried to implement fracking.
55. Failed to invest in green energy and electric vehicle recharging infrastructure.
56. Stripped the unions of their power over years making it extremely hard for the working class to start industrial action when greedy employers refuse to negotiate cost of living wage increases.
57. Failed to prepare or have sufficient PPE for a Pandemic even when it was No1 on the risk register...
58. Given free reign in Non-Dom billionaires and Media owners to cause societal division and fuel racism.
59. Promoted lunatics like Cruella, Mogg and Patel to high office.
60. Blocked the Russia report.
61. Gave us the highest diesel prices in Europe.
62. Closed and then sold off our onshore gas storage tanks to high end developers making the impact of the invasion of Ukraine worse by increasing the cost of gas.
63. Tripled the cost of University fees for students and locked them in their digs during the pandemic.
64. Grenfell.
65. Windrush.
66. Increased our National Debt to 3 Trillion.
67. Partygate.
68. G4S Prisons.
69. We are giving 8 million quid a day to landlords for migrant accommodation due to the Home Office go slow policy.
70. Little to no Border checks on goods and foods.
71. Sold the Farmers and Fishermen down the river.
72. Disgracefully breaking the law making bets on the general election date even though they already had insider information. They have no morals.
73. Sunaks disgraceful D-Day debacle. No respect for the fallen.
74. And they brag that they have increased Foodbanks 1000% since 2010 when they took over.
The Tories have damaged the UK enough over the years, lets get rid of them once and for all. The government should be for the people, by the people and not for the rich 1%.
Underlying all of this is the huge increase in inequality they've facilitated. That's where most of our problems start and why billionaires have been having such a field day under the tories.
Well summed up .thank you.
But they aren't 'debates' in reality just shouting matches which are playground debates you had at school!
This is a hilarious take, that Starmer kept referring back to the Tories previous 14 years. “But Labour” has been the Tory go to line for the last three years
Agree.
Starmer struggled because he was having to contend with an adult toddler having a tantrum the whole time. Have you ever tried to make a clear conversation while there's someone acting like a clown? It's not easy. Praising Sunak is just sad
Where are the Government ministers defending the Governement record? They appear to know there is nothing to defend
I thought the Morningside accent had died out...
The current batch of journalists look like they would have been in primary school when the last Labour government was in power. How can they have any perspective to offer?
About as tenacious as a dishcloth.
No spine, no effort and no sense of reality.
It would be delicious if the police decided to speak to Sunak about the betting scandal on the eve of polling day.lets face it hes already had a couple of run ins with them
Kier showed up for the boys Rishi left. That tells you everything!
We’re not looking for 6th form school debates & who shouts the loudest! We need Sunak to have the time & humility to explain the past & try assure voters how would be different if elected. For Starmer, journos have to accept his character & style are different - he’s not rowdy & aggressive; not natural for him to interrupt & close down another’s view. He is deep & considered & would have been good to allow him some space to answer Qs calmly. By nature, I think he’ll have a good head for policy & will achieve a lot more than we think & carry people with him.
What was it Thatcher said again about policies and attacking the person? Answers on a postcard with a blue rosette please
Roger waters recent interview has expressed the utter lies Starmer is mouthing out. Roger also highlighted that if Starmers constituency does not vote for Starmer , Starmer himself will not become leader
You might want to let your journalists know that for this context in British English, "any more" is two words
Apparently 100 constituencies had not selected an prospective MP, the launch in the rain looks like Mr Bean had scripted that. The betting, D-Day. Sunak will be famous for evermore as how not to launch an election campaign. Sadly Rishi is a couple of sandwiches short of a picnic. Very sad. I am sure Rishi is decent chap and would be welcome at any golf club, but he is not cut out to run a political party, or the UK.
Rishi Sunak is not a decent chap.He repeats lies and gaslights us.He is rude,arrogant,and desperate.
@@zemry-mh4sq I have read this a couple of times and I cannot understand it. Firstly the population of India 1.417 billion (2022). Therefore I would have thought in 2024 is a lot less than 2 billion. Accuracy is important to me.
I wonder if Sunak deliberately campaigned badly to get as many Conservative MPs thrown out as possible after they tried to give him a vote of no confidence?
KIER STARMER, RETURN MY CHILD IMMEDIATELY. This is not your child!
Steve Baker. Tufton Street's new favourite?
He hasn't been fighting really for a long while...
Ha says it all he not fighting anymore u never did 🤦♀️ u donot deserve a seat goodbuy
I’d put a bet on Sunak resigning on July 5th………
Thanks will cancel evening call.
Steve Baker? God help us
It will keep them in opposition.
Isn't Steve Baker on holiday over the GE period?
Sunak goes berserk because he can’t actually debate properly. Starmer is forced to shout to be heard - and is talked over by the host and shouted over by Sunak. There should be rules for debate, it’s not a bare knuckle fight. And the public would learn more than this ridiculous tantrum effect of Sunak. Also `Sunak lies deliberately. Knowing the less than intelligent listening will take it as said.
This isn’t debate. Please stop saying it is a form of debate which suits Sunak., it is not a debate.
Sunak is certainly not PM material, but Starmer is the classic example of dead wood atop a rising tide.
Mmm nope. He got elected.
Starmer baiters are just bores
Glad it wasn't Rishi during the Falklands Conflict.
The tories trashed the forces
Thatcher only got a another term because of the Falklands.
Thatcher wouldn't have had another term if it wasnt for the Falklands.
@@nicks4934 Baseless comment.
Thank god for that dont slam the door on theway out theres a good boy
There are two things that make the impending Tory defeat so delicious.
First, its extent. Theirs will be a historic defeat without parallel in modern UK politics.
Second, Rishi Sunak's personal culpability in this defeat. He is the person who called an election when he didn't have to, and when his party was 20 points behind in the polls, blindsiding his Cabinet and CCHQ in the process.
He did not blindside the gamblers, did he. They obtained inside information to make money.
@@mauritiusnoah. Exactly , and that sums up the way in which we have been governed.
The Tories are so 💩 i can only assume they are doing everything possible to lose at this point.
its hard to take you guys seriously ! remember all those months of telling us how Ukraine was winning the war. what do you drink at Times Radio ? i need a bottle of that to unwind
It’s goodbye to Roland Rat and Hello to more of the same, but a different name,They all Fleece us.
😂
Goodbye Roland rat hello Agnes brown. Or if you like max headroom.
It is all about him? His party has destroyed the UK and there is still no remorse. Brexit, greed-flation, government corruption and arrogance and HE has given up? You want me to cry for him? Ask him what he thinks when he packs up and leaves the country he claims to love
Rishi Sunak clearly demonstrates that he has not got the skills to be a Leader. He is severely lacking
I'm impressed by the diversity of viewpoints expressed in this thread. It's like exploring a rich tapestry of ideas.😚
Knickers!
@@sarahperks8226😂😂😂... damn bots; they get everywhere.
@@taykitrleevitt4314 it's so cheeky 😂🤣💗
You know where to shove it!
Sunak is nakered.
Sunakered
It's like American politics: a choice between two incompetents!
Er no
The people who spout this “BoTh sIDes!” nonsense usually voted Tory in 2019 and can’t admit that they made a mistake.
No
Keir Starmer dragged Labour from the election-losing far-left to the election-winning centre-left - he seems competent to me.
Last day's of the Tories 😂😂😂😂😂
Ok
Bye, Bye Tories!
I still think it is not over. Labour has not got a mega majority .the conservatives could still get in. It's not a done deal. You need to get out and vote them out
Are you high?
I'll support that, if only to get an honest measure of how the UK truly feels. It's the one time you can't be ignored.
I would have agreed with you if Reform UK didn’t exist. But they do, and they’ll be taking a lot of Tory votes off them. The Tories have no chance of winning with Farage going around gathering up the Tory rednecks to his cause.
And I agree with you - it’s not definite that Labour will completely destroy the Tories. EVERYONE who hates the Tories MUST go out and vote them out next Thursday. It’s not their losing the election that’s the goal next week, it’s the total destruction of their vile party that needs to happen.
@@danmayberry1185Possibly true if we had some form of PR.
Under the current electoral system a large proportion of the electorate is systematically ignored…
@@xanthias2001 Yes, there certainly is that.
Sunak seemed full of it last night, and I say that as someone who despises him.
Bye bye😂
He did what he could, before the other idiots take over.
Reform won’t be taking over.
What he "could" do was nothing, which he's done very extensively.
I'm sure the millions relying on food banks thanks to their Tory masters' reign thank him for his service.
He kept his Faustian deal with the 100 MPs who saved him from a party vote. End of.
It is all the pledges he has made and could not fulfil has worn him out
When the Conservatives got rid of a massively popular PM in Boris Johnson, it was game over for the Conservatives. Say what you want, that's a fact on the ground.
😂nope
Boris is about as popular as measles in my house - a lying, two-faced, disorganised charlatan.
Rishi causes issue in debates because he is a petulent bully who doesnt like people who disagree with him
He's Head Boy of Winchester School remember, or still thinks he is, and he expects to be the unquestioned top (attack) dog. He still wears short trousers too.
When Labour get in we will have about a month to finish our holidays and then it will be time get provisions in, prepare for a very long winter of discontent and think back about inflation being 2 %.
The first industrial action will be the Junior DR s
Next Teachers, then Ambulance Service workers, Lecturers and .. Judiciary, the civil service ..everyone will sympathise.
No housing development, no social support, not enough care workers...
Ferage will be on a plane to see Donald.
This is not going to end welll.
juniors doctors are on strike now . everything you mentioned us happening now under sunak. tell me one thing sunak has done right?
Goodbye capitalism evil capitalism as defined by Einstein in his 1949 paper Why Socialism
I have never heard of anyone who risked their life escaping from a western democratic capitalist country to a 'socialist' one. But plenty the other way round.
The Law and the Prophets of God...
Tories have been a disaster Labour will be worse.
The Tories allowed the Boats and Labour wants the Boats. July 4 needs to be our independence date. Lets entirely reset our broken country. Vote Reform.
And get back door Tories..
I think you need some education. Don’t take what Farage says at face value. He does what he does because he knows that fools like you will swallow his misinformation hook, line and sinker.
wibble
@@TheVicar wobble
Reform have done nothing to suggest they'll be competent. A load of iffy candidates and a liz budget. They are all talk.
Well TBH I've watched quite a few of these ' Times radio' and I have to say I'm very unimpressed. Poor interviews, not a great deal of insight so I won't be watching again.