'Everybody thinks something is going on' | Election rumours analysed | LBC 

The Tories time is finally up, but the damage they've caused is irreparable.

The whole country will breathe a collective sign of relief when the election is called. After that, we need to revert back to the Fixed Term Parliament Act, we can never again be held hostage by a Prime Minister like this.

Will anyone else be breathing a big sigh of relief when the GE is announced. Can’t come soon enough.

Call it and put this country out of its Tory misery

Go on, make our dreams come true!!

Oh wow, this could actually be happening. Dare we dream?

Don't believe the Tories until it's announced.

Prolonging the inevitable so they can line their seedy pockets as long as possible.

Who could have guessed that Sunak would announce it to the tune of "things can only get Better" in the pouring rain.

Loving this dream team chatting. Wish they had a show/podcast all together.

This aged well in 5 hours.

we've just been through the biggest fall in living standards in UK history at -4.2% down and our trade is down and we have a spiralling debt crisis month on month it will get worse UK trade volumes suffer record five-year decline Financial Times Mar 2024 The volume of UK goods imports and exports was 7.4 per cent smaller in 2023 than in 2018, the largest five-year decline in goods trade since comparable records began in 1997, according to FT calculations of data published by the Office for National Statistics on Friday.

No chance whatsoever. "Richi" will delay until the last possible second.

Or they'll waiting until after the US November Trump coup and then declare martial law! 🤣

*There is a large international conference we are hosting on 18th July where Rishi can wear platform heels and cosplay as a world leader to a gullible electorate. My bet is the Thursday after that.*

'Lurking', is the best word, skuling in the shadows witing to pounce ,,,

Im so happy at that absolute chaos to sum up 4 years of it. Now finally there is light at the end of the rainbow.

Pick a Summer election so that you get maximum OAP turn out, generally those with more of a Conservative leaning, whilst younger people, who are more likely fed up with this government, are on holiday!

Hope Sunk grows a pair and calls it for July.

I cant imagine that they would call an election before the autumn statement. When is that going to be???

have to say. PMQs did indeed seem weirdly tame and drawn out

After David Cameron legged it out of office, there was this rumour mill about Johnson becoming Tory leader. He even held a press conference. Then during the press conference he said the time wasn't right for him to become Tory leader (Nadine Dorries was on the verge of tears). This feels like that. I'll believe there will be an election when it's announced, not when there are rumours or there's a lot of stuff going on in the Tory part Hopefully soon though, then the Tory party can rename itself the Teeny Tiny Tory party.

The sound of silence means only one thing in my opinion a calling of an election is imminent

I think Count Binface might win this one.

I suspect Sunak is trying to stay on until at least the 31st of July, as otherwise his term as PM would be shorter than that of Anthony Eden.

Don't forget you promised to carry that lad shoulder high through the studio.

I always get a sick feeling in the pit of my stomach when this happens, like when Americans with Trump. Please all Labour turn out & put this government into history.

He is moving to some other contry After the mess they created

Say its true 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

They rinsed as much as they could, time for them to get jobs in defense/pharma i guess.

Andrew was spot-on yet again.

14 years of this nightmare soon to be over.

Well I haven’t stayed up to watch election results come in for over 40 years but I’ll be staying up for this. Even if I have to drink a gallon of black coffee and tape my eyelids open, I want a ringside seat so I don’t miss any of the carnage😂

Sunak is the pilot of Singapore Airlines, and I feel we all are the passengers going through the turbulent weather.

Well, we know now!

I've heard but never seen from an independent source that the debt belongs to parent companies based in places like the cayman Islands who charge higher than commercial interest that then has to be repaid by the customer. Has anyone else heard of this?

Called it 😂

Well this aged well

This aged well.....

5 MORE YEARS TEAM RISHI!!!

July 4th then.

Natasha Clark is so spectacularly wrong so many times, it's impressive.

WE DID IT LADS, THEY'RE OUT!!!

Today was the best economic news the Tories were going to have for a while? Well then they should have called a GE a couple of months ago for it to happen today then!

James is up Andrews derrière a little here. How dare the lady interrupt 😵‍💫

Not till they've grifted EVERY LAST PENNY THEY CAN GET THEIR HANDS ON!!

Genuinely thought that said analised 😂😂😂

Outside chance the King wants to abdicate because of his illness and this is about the succession.

Clandestine

They’ll carry on rigging the poll, calling it for September/ October- before new students have registered at their new addresses. Look out for new ID-related vote rigging too. Edit: I was wrong. Can’t wait tbh…

Love what RU-vid did with your thumbnail on those listed on the right during playback of another. After overlaying the duration of the video you are left with "RUMOURS : ANALY". Really? Whose policy is this exactly?

The sooner he calls for one, the sooner they’re out - so hurry up Rishi!

I feel sorry for the optimistic people in the comments. If you genuinely think Starmer is going to be much better, you're insane. Things are still going to be bad. The issues in this country aren't just about the last fourteen years. It's much deeper than that.

To dream the impossible dream

Sunak stated ' there will be an election in the second half of this year' Well unless it was in the next few weeks (before 30 June) , or in January next year than that's a given! 😊

Imagine England win the Euros and the Tories get a kickin. Ok too much, Tories get a kicking.

Waffling away at the lectern....getting soaked...

unless it's something meaningless to do with the royal family.

the longer he leaves it the worse it will be for the tories

I bet he had a smile on his face. Look at the mess he's left.

I have a dream and it doesn't involve any of the Cons!

Whoopy do😅😅😅😅 reform now

Turning a GE announcement into a Party Political Broadcast was a disgusting and disgraceful!!

I think they’re covering something else up

Rishi can take comfort in outlasting a lettuce. Nothing else achieved.

PQ looked as though Rishi had told Keith and they decided to be nice with each other on the last date.

I think you'll find the name is pronounced "Kid Starver".

Bread and circus… pantomime of clowns… distraction from the real issues 😊

Inflation will go down, and interest rates will also.

Maybe they’re all going to defect together!

So the country of leaseholds and rotten tooth goes to the polls. Lol... What for?

Andrew Feinstein has put himself forward in Starmers constituency Hallelujah …praying Starmer and Lammy will be kicked out .

6 WEEKS TMRW!!!??? Its clear the Tories are hatching a plan to cancel out the Reform threat to them, and hope to outspend Labour on campaigning

Vote for starmer 👇

Pity the only viable alternative is Starmer, another Tory.

Baseless speculation! Just gives these journos a few more minutes desperately needed 'content'

aged well in 4 hours lol

All the signs are there more than any previous time. Just this morning if you said "oh there's a rumour of an election" my reply would have been "oh like the last 20 plus rumours in recent months that fizzled out?" But this time around there are several factors that Marr highlighted as well as a bit of a 'tease' in response to Flynn at PMQ's where Sunak said 'spoiler alert: second half of the year' which isn't the way to rule it out as we come to the final days where a July election can still be called. Quashing it then and there would have made sense on the same day where an election being called IS actually the best possible time the Tories might actually have with the economic news. But instead people are talking about an election and forgetting about the news already. And he's visiting the King... why? Why today? Why so suddenly?

I predict he will call an election by tonight by 5

The Conservative government know reform party are gaining movement. Probably why they may call an earlier election. I am voting for the reform party

Nothing happened

Starmer honeymoon will be the shortest in history.

Sending soldiers to Ukraine, perhaps?

Like a lurker

Andrew Marr must be looking forward to that compulsory maths 😜

Low turnouts always suit the Tories, so my guess is Christmas Day.

honestly, I think Labour should sit this election out and let Tories sort their own mess.

Sunak fears the rise of reformUK, who have taken 1 in 3 of Tory GE24 voters & indirectly assist Labour. As per people polling the best pollsters.

The British Prime Minister appeared in the middle of the rain wet, apparently there was no umbrella there to shelter him and announced the new elections for Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, called for July 4, 2024. In the middle of the embers, it may make sense to hold on to a burning nail. Rishi Sunak has taken advantage of the drop in inflation in the United Kingdom last April to 2.3% to clear up the great political doubt of recent months. The British Prime Minister announced this Wednesday an advance of the general elections - until now scheduled for the autumn - for July 4, 2024. While the polls give a comfortable victory to the Labor opposition, there is a general consensus in the country in around the increasingly real possibility that Keir Starmer will be the next tenant of Downing Street. Sunak's movement, sheltered by economic data that predicts a meager improvement in the country, is rather interpreted as the way to put an end to the final agony of more than 14 years of Tory governments, as the Conservative Party is commonly called.

A story about nothing.

Whats the point in a GE, Labour will be just as hopeless as the Torys.

Without deep reforms there is not much to be exited about 🤷‍♂️😑 Reintroduction of rent controls Preservation of green belts Food and energy prices needs to be addressed 🤷‍♂️ we have money for aircraft carriers

What's going to change under Labour for young people? Their wages will continue to fall against inflation. Their taxes will go up to keep paying for pensioner's triple lock. The services young people use will continue to be slashed in favour of those which serve the elderly.

if you think your vote matters you are living in a dream world

Won't be voting I will be celebrating independence day 🍺

James is such a weasel!

Interest rates will come down before the next election. Not exactly brain science.

with all the people being called in even the king its either general election or something to do with ukraine

3 journalists talking nonsense.

When there is no news……make some up…..a journalist in action.