Tory election prospects are unsalvageable | Hugo Rifkind 

sadly it will lead to labour..... which is more of the same.

@@nickvanachthoven7252 Nonsense. The Rwanda scam will be binned on the first day. The water companies will be forced to clean up their business. And improving our relationship with the EU will help the economy and the country in general.

Yeah, it’s a world wide issue when going up 🙄🙄🙄

Precisely

Why u vote tory and brexit then?!??!?

​@@TheSurrealWolfNever knew they were the same party .

@@markmanc-zw3td I never knew you were dumb

Absolutely right, they are too thick, arrogant and greedy to work this out!

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There again he did do the furlough thing and save the economy. So Rishi does have some idea. The Tories will be returned.

@@t1n4444 don't you think that the furlough concept might have been the obvious one? he was also the author of eat out to help the virus get about

@@stewartellinson8846 Nobody's perfect. You might have heard Labour's Rachel Reeves going on about her plans for raising cash this morning on R4s Today. Unconvincing, And that's being kind.

@@t1n4444 the tories have been the polar opposite of perfect; if there's a wrong call they've made it and after 45 years of their nonsense, the country is on it's knees

@@stewartellinson8846 Yet some people pin their hopes on the Labour Party waving a magic wand and all will become right again in a land overflowing with honey and ambrosia. You might ask yourself why this wonderful Labour Party you mention lost to the Tories. You just don't understand politics or people. "Understanding" comes with age. As you will discover. Allow me ... most people have short, selective memories. (See above.) And, their views change over time. Consider, if the Labour Party, after being in power for their five years slot, say, decided to improve on the triple lock thing and introduced a much better deal for pensioners ... once they reached 70, then Labour would get a second term, especially if they introduced a wealth tax on the seriously minted. With that in mind who's to say Hunt, or his Tory successor, won't, as if by accident, wave their own magic wand and introduce a huge increase to the personal allowance? In time for the upcoming general election. All carefully wrapped in a "surprise" Autumn Budget because, even more surprise, the economy is doing better than expected. He's got to get the pensioners back onside somehow, and, what better way than to simply buy them? Not just cash but with carers, in a nice retirement home ... which doubles as a hospice when the need arises ... and is tacked on to a nice new hospital with an excellent geriatrics department. There again who's to say the seriously minted come out with "fffk that" and vote in their own interests. We've all got our price, and don't expect principles to get in the way. Anyway, most people will live long enough to be pensioners, and, if they see "free money" ahead which party do you suppose they'll vote for? Do you see how fickle we are when there's money involved?

It's too late. Time to get out

This radio programme is truly funny. How about the state of the country? In the context of that, who cares whether a political party survives?

@@tansyhawksley9988 it's a tory rag, like 90% of the media.

Well said.

The Tories don’t care about the country. They care only about their party.

Or the latest season of the walking dead.

The blue mile!

I read that as the Dead Parrot Party, which, I think, also works.

@kinglearisdead in this case its the party that has ceased to be. Love the python sketch.

@stephengrice1678 It's total lack of self awareness.

@@boota1979 as with all investment bankers

And keeps on promising! He needs to learn when to shut up as he now sounds foolish deluded and weak.

@stephengric… yes but we’ve still got the honesty, integrity, and accountability at all levels to 😂😂😂

The Profumo affair was enough to bring down Harold Macmillan’s government. Apparently a foolish minister shipping his todger along with 2 other MPs’ to what is likely a foreign spy just results in a hand wringing apology and a cover up. This government is sick and corrupt

More like 5 months. 17 th December election must be called, 90 days Summer recess +bank holidays ,say 3 months. We're in April now so that leaves roughly 5 months.

The discussion as I understood it was using the Media's coverage and the pointless social media interest in the little turd's shoes and how all this fails to help the Tories in any electoral way and the impending defeat of the most corrupt and inept PM and party there has been in these Islands.

You forgot to mention the time and it will get dark this evening

Haha😂

What improvements are you expecting from New Labour?

@@maccagrabme people thinking that labour will change anything, not realising that the tories were just the continuation of 1997 blairite labour.

@@nickvanachthoven7252 Yes, you cant get any sense into these Labour voters. They will have to find out the hard way.

If you are looking at Parties Politicians of any stripe for "Morality" you will be sorely disappointed.

@@mwnciboo Nope, it's the tories - they have infected people like you with that belief but the reality is that it's them (and their chums in the far right)

Even more important though are the party donors and cronies.

Or his pedal pushers 😂

I would. I'd call a GE and then F off to somewhere warm with my billions.

Most adults couldn't even fit in his tiny shoes.

An interesting comment regarding the shadow comment - re “they’re there to … increase their own personal wealth”, would you care to support that assessment with any evidence about particular members of the shadow cabinet, or is it a blanket generalisation along the lines of “all politicians are the same” ? I’d be willing to grant that most members of the shadow cabinet are anxious to further their careers by actually getting into government, but I’m not prepared to concede that that’s a despicable ambition per se for any politician… But I’m open to listen to any evidence you can adduce to support your position…

Remove the A and he is sunk

They took these voters for granted in the past.

Tories are desperate so they'll use inflation slowing as soke sort of success but as you rightly pointed out it means very little to the average voter.

Still 50 too many.

The Tories are thinking “Well, yes… but that worked for us in the last 3 elections, I don’t understand why it’s not working now?”

The compromise of neoliberalism has always been the richer get super-rich, but at least everyone else's lives improve too. This government has overseen the rich get richer whilst everyone else gets poorer. And somehow they thought people would put up with that.

As if being chosen by the people is a sign of quality

To be fair-Sunak, Truss, Johnson.

Just like many small men it's all about his ego, he will do anything to try to stay in power.

Rather not thanks!

Why? The Tories still look likely to gain more votes than the Lib Dems and more seats than Reform UK ltd. Neither of those things would be true under Thick Lizzy and KamiKwasi. The truly awful news for the Tories is that Dr Death the Destroyer of Climates is the best hope they have despite that being somewhere between Bob and None.