General British politics discussion thread

76% of seats on 45% of the vote.... How anyone can stand up and with a straight face and call that a democracy is beyond me.

If it were to be that bad just maybe it would finally open the general publics eyes to how broken FPtP is.

Sunak left the D day commemorations early to do a TV interview!

If the likes of Trump, or Corbyn did that there would be howls of protest and claims of unpatriotic and not caring.

But hardly a word when Sunak does it.

Yet another insight into the character of the man.

A lot of right wing commentators are fuming with him though, saying it was the 'height of disrespect'. They take their WW2 commemorations very seriously in Britain.

Part of the upset is because the interview he recorded for ITV is part of a series with the various party leaders that ITV will be broadcasting in a couple of days time.

In other words, this wasn't a urgent do-it-now-or-miss-out interview. ITV asked his office to suggest a time to record the interview; they suggested this time; so it was their choice to miss out on the Omaha Beach commemmoration, rather than something else, in order to do the interview — it wasn't something forced on them by a unavoidable diary clash.

As others have pointed out, lots of demographics wouldn't mind very much about this, but the demographic he is focussing all his attention, and all his appeals, on is largely made up people who will care about this. Other issues aside, it does point to monstrous ineptitude and tone-deafness on the part of him and his advisers.

They probably are when you think of the amount of culls that party has had and how far down the pecking order Sunak was to be PM.

All the smart advisors are long gone or working with smarter MPs who are packing it in.

This will benefit Lib Dems if anyone. Them kind of old School D Day celebrants would rather burn in hell than vote Labour.

Yo know the type, stiff upper lip, remember when Britain was Great. The Empire.

All that bollox.

Just saw a video of the memorial stuff that rishi missed, literally ever other countries leaders are present, he hasn't a clue how to do politics whatsoever.

Seems like Sunak's handlers knew well in advance of the schedule. That's to be expected. So, he had planned to leave early and did. Why apologize, amiright? Last commemoration for so many D-day veterans, and the UK is mad for their vets, and he leaves early. Amazing.

LBC's guy suggested it was a "Brewster's millions" type of game, where Sunak's wants to lose in order to accumulate massive wealth at the end, by betting against the Conservatives. Even Sunak wouldn't be that thick…I don't think.

I think we have to consider, if this continues, that he will lose his own seat at the election. The interview he gave to explain this has made it worse. He just kept repeating meaningless statements and showed no contrition. He is cooked.