“I take my responsibilities seriously. I did not lie” - UK politics June 23 on

can they still oust him as pm now that he's called the election, how does that work

strange to think we’re living in the last days before ed davey is swept to great and terrible power by the people of these united kingdoms

Sunak says voters don't know what they're getting with Starmer because he doesn't keep promises
Sunak says he is guided by what is right, not by what is easy.

He goes on:

I can’t say the same thing for the Labour party because I don’t know what they offer.
And in truth I don’t think you know either.

And that’s because they have no plan. There is no bold action. And as a result the future can only be uncertain with them.

On the 5th of July, either Keir Starmer or I will be prime minister. He has shown time and time again that he will take the easy way out and do anything to get power.

If he was happy to abandon all the promises he made to become leader leader once he got the job, how can you know that he won’t do exactly the same thing if he were to become prime minister?

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just got home and popped the radio on, i'm done with the asinine level of political commentary in the UK now

lol some idiot playing "Things Can Only Get Better" at enormous volume while Rishi flails about at the lectern

― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 22 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Everything is going to get unimaginably stupider from now. No escape.

Rishi: ok many of you may have said that I’m a prick but
Rishi: have you considered that Keir Starmer is an insincere prick

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is that Sunak's or Starmer's election slogan?

Starmer is gonna choke like fuck as soon as he gets any pushback

Lol these ppl

I'm not cancelling that June holiday. I'm not fucking doing it.

— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) May 22, 2024

can they still oust him as pm now that he's called the election, how does that work

Requesting permission to dissolve parliament

The prime minister has already requested permission from the King to hold a general election, as the power to dissolve parliament - end the session - legally lies with him.

Parliament must be "dissolved" for an election to officially take place. Polling day then takes place 25 working days after that date.

Mr Sunak said in a speech outside Downing Street on Wednesday that the King had granted his request to dissolve parliament.

As a result, parliament will be prorogued on Friday, 24 May, while dissolution will take place on Thursday, 30 May.

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is that Sunak's or Starmer's election slogan?

― rob, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Do you know about this terrible song?

lol like anybody will notice if Dunty takes a year off

Very much not stoked for the madness.

thanks a lot Kieth. I dreamt about a Tory wipeout for the best part of a decade and now that it's probably imminent I don't even fucking care anymore.

is that Sunak's or Starmer's election slogan?

― rob, Wednesday, 22 May 2024 bookmarkflaglink

Do you know about this terrible song?

― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, May 22, 2024 12:52 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I do not know that song, but fwiw I was joking that your post "Everything is going to get unimaginably stupider from now. No escape." was the slogan

No Ian, don’t go on holidays, what will we do without your milquetoast takes dipped in smugness?!

Ah ok lol xp

Anyway this is what we have to look forward to.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/22/labour-mp-rightwing-figurehead-enabled-anti-protest-clampdown

LOL @ Sunak's speech. What a shambles.

classic Graun still implying that Woodcock was at some point "centre Left"

He went to a March as a kid

i don't know whether we should pitch for new thread titles or whether apathetically letting this one drag on would be more apposite

New thread imo for election madness & then new one for whatever government forms after that

Election called for the day before the Euros quarters, what a lift for Our Boys if Ed Davey ascends his rightful throne as is just and true

Our long national nightmare is finally over. Our next long national nightmare is about to start.

— Gavin Jackson (@GavinHJackson) May 22, 2024

propose election thread title: "Everything changes but UK"

mind you i've just seen Kieth say "Stability is Change" which will take some beating

by the way

https://x.com/FromSteveHowell/status/1793327619716350248

I seem to remember another party leader who went into an election boring everybody to tears by droning on about stability.

hung parliament because labour didn’t field enough dead-eyed childkiller cunts as candidates let’s fucking goooooo xp

NV suggestion the best so far

stability is change huh

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Forced to work in the rain unnecessarily?

Join a union. pic.twitter.com/yiq1jamHIT

— Trades Union Congress (@The_TUC) May 22, 2024

Absolutely baffled he did it in that rain.

Checking the new boundaries again and I guess it's been made even easier for me to not vote Labour now I see we're apparently losing Bell Riberio-Addy and getting Steve effing Reed.

(Ribeiro-Addy)

Tory ministers genuinely struggling to explain why an election has been called for July.

as ever it will be a pleasure not to vote for Diana Johnson

(xp) This guy actually using the example of Corbyn performing better than expected in 2017!

"Things can only get wetter", but obv NV's suggestion is a thing which is better.

Starmer is gonna choke like fuck as soon as he gets any pushback

this is absolutely locked in. it will be epic.

wonder how long it’ll be before we find out what really happened with the deliveroo driver

i’m sure cctv footage of starmer enjoying a delicious beverage in the pub beforehand will mysteriously surface eventually

"..we've returned Labour to the party in service of working people..."

thanks for saving us from the anti-union, pro-zero hours poverty policies of the evil jam man.

Asking the question.

Its 4th July, you live in rainy fash island..

Just amazed that no umbrella was to be found when Sunak announced it...

Not a serious country

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Wow! Extraordinary but true - some furious Conservative MPs are tonight working on a plot to CALL OFF the general election by replacing Rishi Sunak as leader before Parliament is dissolved next Thursday.
One rebel Tory MP tells me he believes “several” more letters of no…

— Christopher Hope📝 (@christopherhope) May 22, 2024

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Ok ....