Will Sunak go before the GE?

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Or are we looking at going into a GE where we know the PM will be out of a job next day?

They've lost Kingswood.

Sunak will ff of to California, you know that....

he's got the millions

Yep. The only question is when? Spring or Autumn?

Yes but he's got a plan and he thinks it's working... 🤣

Just imagine the excitement on here if he goes and the sainted Kemi replaces him.

Seriously? He's got a plan?

Is it a very secret and cunning plan?🤣🤣🤣

Well he says he has. It's probably just a plan to make him and his mates richer though.

They've lost Wellingborough too.

Tories have now lost 10 by-elections over the course of this parliament, and this week we've been officially told we're in Rishi's Recession. Anyone with an ounce of integrity would stand down for the good of the country.

Oh, wait

I had thought he would go as I didn't think he was particularly interested in being PM and was just using it as a way to make contacts for future business. But his ego seems to have taken over, so I reckon he'll stay and call an autumn election.

I do very much wish he'd call an election now and fuck off.

They said Wellingborough was the second biggest swing ever from Conservative to Labour. 😁

Oof, not a great Friday for the Tories.

No doubt they'll be scrambling for excuses to why they lost.
I see JRM has already started with his excuses about Kingswood- something about Tory voters stayed at home, or something.

Will Rishi go before the GE? I have no idea. Normally I'm quite good at guessing what will happen, but since BJ, the Tory government completely mystifies me.

I don't think it actually would be in the interest of the country for Sunak to stand down right now, because it would give us our fourth Prime Minister of this parliamentary term, and the third completely unelected one.

It might be in the interest of the Conservative party, although I think no matter who they appointed they will suffer an absolute thumping at the G.E., but it wouldn't be in the interests of the public. IF he had any decency, he would have called a G.E. as soon as he was elected Conservative Leader, but this is yet another aspect of the farce that is a country that proclaims itself a leading light of democracy, yet has no formal constitution. Everything functions on the assumption of a basic level of honesty and integrity on the behalf of the individuals involved, and if the public are stupid enough to elect venal, corrupt, self-serving arseholes the likes of which have completely taken over the Tory party in the past 10 years, then this is the inevitable outcome - government that serves nobody other than the people in it, and the few with a vested interest in putting them there.

Best we can hope for is that he decides to rip the plaster off and call a May election rather than squeezing every last drop of blood out of the economy and hanging on until November, but the sooner we are rid of this disgrace of a government the better. I suspect though, that the loons on the right of the Tory party will look at Reform party numbers and conclude that they lost the 2024 G.E. by not being right-wing enough, and in the aftermath we'll see some horror like Braverman or Badenoch lead the opposition.

Dh and I, like 62% of the Wellingborough constituency didn't vote, The Tory woman was the partner of Peter Bone, what was that all about, and the Labour woman doesn't appear to live anywhere near the local area, so it wasn't really worth turning out for. Labour Party were banging our door at 6pm while we were eating dinner which also annoyed me somewhat, they must have a list of people that hadn't voted yet to harass.

I think we will need to have an uprising if Sunak dares to go/is pushed out, and we get yet another PM. They really cannot do that again.

As a pp said, he should call a GE now, they really are ruling without consent of the public. But these Tory’s won’t put the country first and haven’t for a very long time. They won’t ever do the decent thing.

I hope you never complain about what’s going on in your constituency if you can’t be arsed to vote.

@BobnLen the utter arsehole that is Peter Bone only agreed to stand down if his partner got the seat - presumably so he could be the MP in all but name 🙄.

But well done for not voting - you really stuck it to the man. 🙄

@BobnLen
Labour Party were banging our door at 6pm while we were eating dinner which also annoyed me somewhat, they must have a list of people that hadn't voted yet to harass

All parties do this.

They do it in the evening for obvious reasons.
Do you really think they knew you were eating dinner?

Democracy is wasted on some people

That would really be the last straw yet another new leader.

It makes me so angry when people don’t vote. Spoil your vote if you like, but use the hard won right to take part in democracy.

On a happier note, the Tories got humiliated and trounced! Hurrah!!

However, the absolute arrogance of not calling a GE when they know the country wants one is another thing that makes me so fucking angry. I do appreciate they are not legally obliged to but still… it’s like the CEO of a failing company hanging on despite shedding millions of the shareholders cash😡

62% of people didn't vote, 63% didn't vote in the other by election, so be angry. No doubt we will all be out for the GE, I will probably not vote for Labour or Tory though.

👏👏👏

I hope not!

Or we'll have yet another ex-PM at the Cenotaph, in addition to the person who replaces him and then loses the soon to be election. Getting ridiculous!

JRM is worried himself, as his constituency is nearby and he hasn't exactly endeared himself to his constituents.

No, Sunak will hang on to the bitter end. As Brown did, and Major before him. He will only get one chance to be Prime Minister, and won’t give the job up voluntarily.

After he loses the election, there is no way he will want to do the hard yards of 5 years as leader of the opposition. He will get out as quickly as possible & bugger off to California to make even more millions.

Does this mean you actually voted for Peter Bone previously 😱. And yet you are worried about someone knock on your door at 6pm 😂.