Thread 48 - Sunak - Capsized on the Ship of Lies

[DuncinToffee]

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He's just so bad at politics. Any idiot could see that leaving the D-Day commemorations would go down badly, not to mention the opportunity for Starmer to be shown in all the pictures. Who is advising him? Is he being advised by people who want to lose Tory votes to reform?

Labour have always been held to a higher standard of behaviour.

Always.

It's genuinely baffling.

More to the point, campaigning was halted yesterday which cleared all their diaries to stay for as long as it took.

My paternal gf was on the beaches. Well, on a transport.
In his own words..."I never even got my bloody feet wet!".
The shrapnel eventually killed him some years later.

I don’t think any of us were excusing him, and I certainly don’t think he is neuro diverse. I have a son with autism who would never have done what Sunak did yesterday. My son is kind and empathetic and although he sometimes finds social situations tricky and doesn’t always say the right thing he is always trying his best and that shines through.

Sunak for whatever reason showed no understanding of the importance of yesterday’s commemoration and an apology today doesn’t alter his unforgivably offensive behaviour. I think that this will prove to be a turning point.

He has Kuenssberg on Newscast defending him

"With prime ministers duty calls all the time and sometimes the duty isn't world leader stuff..."

"Prime ministers are trying to run the country as well as an election campaign, that's a challenge [Starmer] doesn't have"

He could eat a kitten and she would defend him.

At this point I can only assume he's doing it on purpose to make sure he doesn't get accidentally re-elected. I mean, it's just not possible to be this stupid, surely.

Fucking hell Laura. What are Biden, Macron and Scholz? Chopped liver?
I mean honestly.

Like user8800 (and countless other MNers) I had a grandparent at D-day.

If Sunak didn't want the chance to be there, I would have gone and treated it as the privilege it is.

Right. i'll get off my soap box.

Which will alert the people who weren't aware it happened, that it happened.

And really, saying sorry in a case like this which is genuinely unrepeatable (and I hear sadly one veteran died on the way) just can't ever be enough.

This act alone should be something that he get battered with at the start of every interview. He should be from nowonin be introduced as "the Prime Minister who left the D-Day remembrance to do an ITV interview".

Thsi really annoyed me as he literally isn't running the country. He is campaigning. Parliament isn't sitting. Barring emergencies, there is no business to attend to.

I presume she said this before she knew he came home to film something for ITV??

And now it turns out that, until a week ago, he wasn't expected to attend AT ALL!

Which will alert the people who weren't aware it happened, that it happened.

These were my thoughts exactly! Most news channels studiously avoided pointing out he wasn't there for much of yesterday!

I'm a pacifist (as is Stephen Flynn who was there) and even I think a PM should attend every last second of this solemn occasion.

What??!

What? Is this true?

Indeed. It's bonkers. How could he have even not considered this to be non negotiable.

Adam Bienkov tweets
"So it turns out Rishi Sunak originally refused to go to the D-Day commemorations at all and only agreed to go for part of it, in a "compromise" with the French."

No direct experience, but I've often read that the "spoiled" slip do get reviewed by all candidates in case one can be considered a vote.

There was the issue a few election back where a cock'n'balls drawn in the box was accepted as a valid vote when the candidates agent appealed it.

https://reaction.life/d-day-tory-fury-sunak-leaves-early-french-told-he-would-not-attend/

French were told he would not attend last week due to campaigning.

FML. That's just staggering.

Adam Bienkov tweets
"So it turns out Rishi Sunak originally refused to go to the D-Day commemorations at all and only agreed to go for part of it, in a "compromise" with the French."

The second bit of that tweet says, "The message to Paris from his team was that he would be too busy campaigning in the general election to make the trip."

WTAF??!

I refer people back to my snippet of Kipling previously.

The French government had to twist his arm to attend AT ALL.

What the fuck am I reading.

Imagine if it had been But Jeremy Corbyn...

I find it really hard to believe that someone who has been through Winchester College would be unaware of the significance of commemorating those who sacrificed their lives so we could be free.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College_War_Cloister

I've counted before nothing really happens to the spoiled papers. You just think 'ugh, a spoiled paper' and chuck it in the spoiled paper pile.

The candidates/agents can review them if they want to, and if any mark is just in one box next to a candidate they can argue that it's a vote for that person. So don't put your protest just in one box or it could end up as a vote.

To be honest though, it's a waste of time, nobody really pays much attention to them.