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Aly Rustom
No surprise there. Sunak is a clown that needs to go.
Simon Foston
Clearly they would rather jump than be pushed.
WoodyLee
4th of July is a good date to have an election!!? it's also Independence Day in the Good Old USA
wallace
More than 100 MPs are standing down.
OssanAmerica
Also known as Revolution Day in the UK.
I only wish we had 100 Republican MAGA lawmakers willing to step down.
Jimizo
There are reportedly a lot of Tory MPs furious with Sunak for how he’s handled the timing and announcement of this election.
He’s just not good at politics.
Moonraker
Rats and ship come to mind.
Moonraker
Nobody will miss that swivel-eyed, arrogant ignoramus. Except others like him.
I can never forget this, when the Tories thought they could insolently make him Wales Secretary:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFP5MjUuzsg
But, shame has rarely moved Tory blood in the past 40 years.
Jimizo
Quite a few of the old guard stepping down plus a few high-profile Tories under threat from tactical voting.
If this goes the way the polls and recent by elections indicate, you wonder who’ll be left as a serious candidate to lead what’s left. Penny Mordaunt on the tactical voting hit list.
Still some Tories wanting Boris Johnson back. Insanity.
itsonlyrocknroll
The past has realised the future could exile the conservative party from mainstream front line politically credible high office for a decade plus.
My concern is that the UK electorate will withdraw from the democratic process. Apathy, yes will ca capital A
The exodus of the current conservative parliamentary party MP's (80/115) is a devastating blow, so early on in 2024 general election campaign.
Rishi Sunak is or will soon to be, "appointed" PM, in the wrong place at the wrong time, a pretender from day one.
Jimizo
I think it’ll be a below-average turnout.
Some pointing out that we haven’t had an election/referendum for a while ( 2014-2019 was insane ) and so maybe people are itching to vote.
I don’t see it.
Labour hardly inspiring. Maybe just punishing the Tories could motivate some.
itsonlyrocknroll
Jimizo, unless a complete tsunami of political infighting within the Labour grass roots over current wars etc ignites.
No scenario can genuinely condone the political status quo, another four/five years of conservative government, that is unfit to govern. Rishi is a pollical blown out windsock.
Labour, well, under the present electoral system is the only alternative on offer
If it can convince the public to vote.
A hung parliament a nightmare
The unforeseen element is a electorate that stays at home engrossed in Britain's Got Talent reruns on YouTube.
Jimizo
To be fair to him, he inherited an absolute mess. He’s not a good political operator but picking up the pieces after Johnson and Truss would’ve tested the best we’ve ever seen.
It takes some going to get lower personal favourability ratings than Liz Truss though.
itsonlyrocknroll
Sunak is politicly down and out, even the with a overly generous, unrealistic margin of error the political polling's are read them and weep.
Hence an exodus on the conservative parliamentary party.
God the shallowness, the fake pretence that parliament is a tool for achieving the common good.
My only worry is my family in the UK, what the future holds for more than 50 years of a farming business.
First time, this 2024 election, the very definition of voter apathy, not matter how much I beg them to vote they are likely to stay at home.
This pandemic sowed the seeds.
Moonraker
I don't necessarily see it that way. The whole tenor of British discourse, social relations, labour relations and politics is very adversarial. It has, over my lifetime, helped to destroy almost everything of worth. The British are even pretty defensive in conversation because they often expect someone to be attacking or ribbing them, though that can lead to fun times with banter, with people who can always see the funny side (of themselves too. The famed sense of humour is often not turned on oneself). But the British have a sense of compromise in few spheres, unless forced into it somehow. Meanwhile, in other, more successful societies, notably northern Europe, compromise and consensus can be achieved, and often have to be achieved due to the outcomes of proportional representation. Perhaps a hung parliament might have some benefit in the long run to knock their heads together. Hell, there was even a long coalition government in the 1930s
itsonlyrocknroll
Moonraker,
I am wary of the electorates expectations under the current plurality voting system.
Previous hung parliaments have brought intransigence, indecision, a reluctance to commit to a clear agreed policy agenda, ideological pollical posturing, open party political conflict in government preventing progress to pass fundamental legislation for health, welfare, education, employment priorities.
I agree implicitly, EU, northern European member states through open flexible government, a complementary electoral system to select how government functions is forced to compromise through consensus.
That could be one reason that UK was never going to be a fit within EU pollical union
Moonraker
Then I guess the UK will continue its inexorable slide into oblivion if compromise is beyond them. I don't necessarily see healthy majorities producing great legislation. Look at the majorities the venal Tories have had and they either produce extremist market fundamentalism (ie funnelling wealth upwards to their donors) or complete incompetence because they quarrel among themselves. But, personally, I don't want anybody to have too much power to do as they like. Blair's poodle to ridiculous US foreign policy is another example of how too much power allows stupidity to prevail.
itsonlyrocknroll
I doubt if I would even recognise the country I left if I booked JAL tomorrow.