Sunak leaving D Day ceremony for a TV Interview

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Not a good look, was it?

Is there a sweepstakes on when Rish! will stop attending the Cenotaph ?

I gonna say he wont be there this year -2024. A bit like ripping a plaster off it's best to do it in one quick go and not tease the pain out.

If anyone gives a shit, it will probably be something about him needing to stay in the US to help himself the UK deal with the change in administration.

I don’t think he’ll ever make another appearance at the Cenotaph. And I predict nobody will miss him either.

😂

'politics of envy' apparently

Lovely interview with Margaret Beckett about D-Day commemorations.

Have been thinking all day about this interview I did with Margaret Beckett (nearly 10yrs ago) when she talked about going to the D-Day 50th anniversary as Leader of the Opposition. Have never forgotten it, because the memory quite suddenly and unexpectedly, reduced her to tears.

x.com/lewis_goodall/status/1799131456851288339?s=46&t=Uw4lJNwxFZFnX0Xs3doHYg

Sunak is a robotic geek who should never have left the trading floor in the city. He's not a politician. How did he become one? Cummings making him chancellor so he could do as he was told and then the pandemic happens.

Whatever you think of the two main parties, or the two leaders personally, Starmer is a shrewd political operator, Sunak is not a politician.

It is appalling and I’m not at all surprised. It shows an utter lack of respect to leave such an important commemorative event for an tv interview.

All show no substance.

What makes it a hundred times worse is it has given racists a free reign to say "Look ! See what we mean about immigrants not getting British values."

And given the sacrifices made by Indians for Britain in both world wars, that is simply unforgiveable.

Sunak just saying it was a 'mistake' is annoying me. He should be saying it was disrespectful and he is very sorry.

But it was deliberately disrespectful. It was planned - presumably against all advice to the contrary.

Usually, Tories are lightening quick to throw their advisors under the bus. But - as with the timing of the election - this seems to be something Rish! planned on his own.

From Robert Peston

https://x.com/Peston/status/1799140917841965541

Here is Ian Acheson’s devastating letter resigning from the Tory Party in fury at the PM’s failure to attend the international section of the D Day commemoration. Mr Acheson is a former prison governor and advisor to the government on countering extremism

Dear sir,

I am writing to resign my membership of the Conservative Party with immediate effect.

If you are at all interested in knowing why, you might want to watch yesterday's news coverage again to understand the depth of feeling around this country's Prime Minister shunning his duty to our few remaining veterans in Normandy to scuttle back to London to do a news piece defending an indefensible tax claim. Electioneering ahead of a solemn commemoration of those who gave so much for the freedoms we enjoy today is simply unforgivable. And, I might add, alien to the core values of the party I joined.

It was an act of either colossal stupidity or cynical calculation. Either way, it revealed to me that while I still embrace a conservative philosophy, I am no longer willing to have it outsourced to a bunch of mendacious, incompetent and disreputable clowns. Country before party. Always.

Yours sincerely

Ian Acheson

Blimey don't hold back Ian!

Thank you for that.

In my 63 years I don't think I have EVER seen such a spectacular own goal during and election campaign. It's off the scale of believable, war gameable political calculations. He has done the impossible made Liz Truss look vaguely competent. Now that's what I call a truly dead parrott.

I agree.

He's dead in the water. I just can't understand why he would do it. The photo of the world leaders and David Cameron is beyond belief.

As the beautiful Karen Carpenter might have said, "It's only just begun"

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They all agree that the Tories are done

One clap for Penny

In my rage about this I'm committing the MN crime of not rtft before commenting but...

He is of Indian heritage. I have no idea about the role of Indians in d day ( please tell interested), but my Irish grandfather spent wwII in India as a pilot in the RAF working alongside Indian pilots and ground crew. He had nothing but the utmost respect for the men he called his brothers and their bravery.

He, and the Indian men he kept in touch with to his dying day, would have been ashamed of this Indian man showing such disrespect.

@daliesque Rishi Sunak is British.

He's British.

This is appalling. It’s not a mistake because the significance and history of d day is documented. The veterans who travelled there stayed there as best they could with age and health issues. They were there 80 years ago as well. It’s truly a disgrace that the UK prime minister left during the commemoration.

Listen to the whole interview. Sorry is just one bit, Mr Sunak says how many things he did attend almost in defence.

No one with an ounce of respect for the armed forces present or past would ever have appointed Grant Shapps as Defence Secretary.

Even his apology sounded bad-tempered.

Mind you, Farage patronisingly saying (in effect) you can't expect any better from a non-white man was pretty disgusting too.