Sunak isn't a very good politician

He absolutely isn’t thinking sensibly on his feet you are right. If you need an adviser to tell you it’s pissing down outside and to to call an election indoors or use an umbrella, then there is a real problem with common sense and imagination . Again, if you didn’t think to respectfully mark such a significant occasion as a D-Day anniversary stuffed full of veterans, world leaders and royalty, then there’s an issue with prioritising, as well as genuine care about the sacrifice people were asked to make and the patriotism and sense of duty they displayed. Calling for National Service and then pissing off early from France, is beyond hypocritical and stupid. If he couldn’t see that a visiting to a Titanic Museum during electioneering also displays a remarkable lack of sense awareness and irony. Dear Lord he is utterly dense.

Doffing caps and bowing and scraping for our betters are behaviours taught to the British from a young age. I’m sure if Sunak was white and had a double barrelled name, the figure in his favour would be even higher.

Him shouting over those who he deemed beneath him would have impressed quite a few viewers, who see that behaviour as a sign of leadership.

Also the Tories worked out that shouting simple data points sticks in heads e.g £350m for NHS during Brexit campaign.

By the time Sunak has screamed £2000 tax for a third time, I realised it was an attack line provided by his campaign team to stick in the heads of the electorate. He’s incapable of thinking on his feet, and he screamed it that many times, that it was clearly rehearsed.

He’s one of the least shit Tories, and head and shoulders above Boris or Truss.

That said, and even acknowledging that he never really had a hope and is in a difficult place not entirely of his own making…he’s making a right mess of his campaign.

Irony surely...

Neither is Starmer. Our country is fucked if that's all we have to choose from

He's also a much more principled human being.

While Starmer had the wit to stay, be seen to show some respect and get photographed next to Zelenskyy. Because he's a better politician than Sunak.

They needed to move fast to knock Paula Vennells off the News.
I'm still unsure that he should have the power to remove the option of smoking. I know MN hates smoking but it's a massive civil liberty issue.

And he told a lie that might have influenced people.

I'm getting a deja vu moment.

He's toast. He knows it. Let him lose with some dignity fgs

That poll was 51% 49% to Sunak so he was hardly miles in front.

The Yougov snap poll put Sunak ahead of Starmer after the first tv debate the other day, so plenty of people think he is a good politician.

You're so funny

How convenient 🙄

What????? He wasn't intelligent enough to use an umbrella or the multi-million pound specially build media suite to announce the GE when it was raining.

I do sometimes wonder if Sunak has, throughout his term mistakenly thought that you’re not meant to take the role of PM seriously and it’s all a bit of a laugh.

Yep.

One doesn't have to approve of Starmer, or any of his policies, to see that this is true. Granted, the Tories have given him a loooooot of help at various points. But he has been tactically very astute throughout. Very adept politicianing.

Think this might be the end for Sunak.
Who the fuck advises these people?

Actually yes- at purely being good at politics (not looking at policies etc) Starmer is a good politician.

He has barely made any mistakes over the last few years. He’s understood what turned off voters to the Labour Party and has made significant progress in changing perceptions. The Tories have laid trap after trap for him to fall in, and other, less aware politicians would have fallen in them - but he hasn’t.

He’s worked out when to play party politics and when to just quietly go along with the Tories so any drama is just Sunaks problem.

Starmer has faults, but he’s good at politics in a way Labour hasn’t had for a while. (And Sunak is consistently making it easy for Starmer to look good with minimal effort.)

You raise a valid point 😁

To be fair, I think the Tory Party have been on a downward spiral since the party (and country) fell out of love with Boris.

The Tories have been on a downward spiral since they fell in love with Boris Johnson.

"Ooh, let's put in the joke candidate, because he's popular with punters who like a laugh."
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"Johnson's a lazy dolt I'll find easy to manipulate." (paraphrase of Dominic Cummings in this interview, IIRC)

I'm sure it felt like a clever idea for the first five minutes; then reality hit.

I don't think he could bring himself to do any homework, thinking about, it researching it would feel too much like kowtowing to the peasants.
Because of his arrogance he wont bend to or make accommodations for the common people, he will feel that they ought to bend to him.

He could avoided making a tit of himself with most of those things if he'd done his homework and employed a modicum of common sense.