Rishi Sunak is preparing for a political comeback as he seeks to convince Tory MPs that the economy is poised to “bounce back” under his leadership. The Mail has more.
The Prime Minister will use a speech in the Midlands to try to shift the political debate on to the economy after a bruising week which triggered speculation he could be deposed before the election.
Allies of the Prime Minister are furious with Commons leader Penny Mordaunt after she failed to publicly distance herself from weekend reports that she is being lined up as a potential unity candidate to replace Mr. Sunak. …
Rebel MPs are targeting the May bank holiday for a potential push against the Prime Minister if the Conservatives take a drubbing in the local elections on May 2nd. One source said it would be the “May Day from Hell” for Mr. Sunak.
Senior Conservatives acknowledge there is widespread dismay at the party’s standing in the polls, but insist that active plotting is confined to a “small minority”. Mr. Sunak will attempt to fight back today by saying the U.K. economy is “turning a corner”. …
The Mail revealed at the weekend that Tory MPs on the Right of the party held secret talks with moderates last week about the possibility of burying their differences to unite behind Ms. Mordaunt.
In a further blow to No. 10, the Mail on Sunday yesterday revealed dire private polling suggesting that the Conservatives are on course for their worst election defeat in history and could be reduced to fewer than 150 seats.
In this scenario, Ms. Mordaunt’s Portsmouth North seat would be among the casualties, prompting one rebel source to observe: “She’s got nothing to lose.” …
Former Cabinet minister Sir David Davis, who backed Ms. Mordaunt’s leadership bid in 2022, warned that installing a fourth leader in two years would be “completely bonkers” and make Labour calls for an immediate election “irresistible”.
But another former minister on the moderate wing of the party said the “balance of opinion is starting to shift” over whether to stick with Mr. Sunak or gamble on a new leader.
Allies of the PM believe Ms. Mordaunt is being used as a ‘stalking horse’ to persuade Tory moderates to submit letters of no-confidence in the PM.
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“Unity candidate” Lol.
I suppose there are one or two plausible candidates who talk a slightly better fight, Truss actually cut taxes, but they were all rubbish on “covid” and if they seriously think anyone who is actually conservative is bothered which of them leads this utter shambles and travesty of a party then they are truly deluded.
The Conservative Party have been in power since 2010, so almost 15 years.
Let’s see what they’ve accomplished in that time.
They’ve held a referendum on the EU and then proceeded to sabotage the result and make a total balls up of leaving the EU. So there’s that.
They presided over the biggest violation of individual rights in the history of the country. Never, ever in history was an entire population put under long-term house arrest, nor forced to wear certain clothing, nor aggressively coerced into medical treatment. So there’s that too.
GDP was 1.9 trillion in 2010 and 2.3 trillion in 2023 (if you believe those sort of statistics), so GDP has increased by 0.4 trillion, but the debt has grown by 1 trillion, to 2.3 trillion. So, the party of economic prudence has almost doubled our national debt to achieve very little economic growth. Well done them.
And of course, the Conservatives are the party of immigration control and so you’d think they’d have stopped illegal immigration – particularly after Brexit, because that was a big part of it – and let in only the very top, high quality immigration they told us about. But no, immigration is at the highest it’s ever been and illegals continue to stream in in record numbers.
Yes, I think we can say the last 15 years have been a resounding success for the Conservatives and all they need now is a unifying figure to properly communicate their successes to the public and to convince them that the economy is about to “turn the corner”.
Twats.
They’ve held a referendum on the EU and then proceeded to sabotage the result and make a total balls up of leaving the EU. So there’s that.
The idea that Britain could just weigh anchor and attach itself more directly to the USA as another semi-important bit of US foreland was never going to work, because – while islands are certainly islands – they’re quite immovable by human powers. So, you have your custom borders now, have put all EU citizens who carelessly moved to the UK trusting on British promises through a harrowing process of theoretical reimmigration which still doesn’t give them any security as their re-established status again just rests on an international treaty the powers who are again itching to declare nil and void. What more do you want? Northern Ireland can’t be physically detached from Ireland, either, hence, there’s always going to be a circle here which simply cannot be squared. You also got all the global majority heritage immigration you voted for.
Smile and be happy. You brexed it.
What we have achieved is that politicians can no longer use the EU as a ready made excuse for whatever cockup/evil they are currently implementing. It’s an important first step. I doubt many here ever thought it was a solution to anything.
That was mostly a serious question: What which could realistically be expected from Brexit is missing? NI keeps getting mentioned but that’s just a problem situation without a solution: A customs border between the UK and the EU was to be re-established. Hence, this border can either be between GB and NI or between NI and Ireland.
Let me be cruel and blunt – this is Brexit ignorance on steroids.
No offence intended.
It actually is. At least complete ignorance about what people mean by that. Above is an enumeration of the more important real-world results which could be expected from this process and which actually occurred.
GDP is a very poor measure because it includes Government spending. Print more money, pay more out for immigrants, splash the cash on subsidising failure to meet green targets
A better measure is GDP per capita which would show a significant downturn as Government ‘jobs’ increase and the population size is increased by a large number of people who create no wealth in the economy.
“they were all rubbish on “covid”
That is a matter of perspective tof. From the point of view of the Davos Deviants all previous PM’s probably attained Grade C’ O’Level equivalent in this subject.
Morbid Mordaunt. A woker version of T. Rex May. A Corona Fascism supporter. A vaxx -tard. A fake member of the military. The only difference with Fishy Knickknack is skin color and bank account balance.
The Convict party should be imprisoned en masse bar a few. Nothing is going to save them in the next election. By all rights they should have 0 seats.
They just do what the hell they want don’t they? The public elect a specific person who promises to enact specific policy. That person gets in, sticks two fingers up to us, and force-feeds us with socialist sh*t. The disdain and disgust these people feel for us is plain to see. How anyone can still believe the ballot box is the answer is beyond me.
Remember that the only members of the public that were in the constituency of whoever actually voted – perhaps less than 50% of the total. That person is then their MP. Anything beyond that is an illusion. However, many potential voters take a pseudo-presidential view of the system, but in reality almost no-one actually votes for the PM.
The vast majority of people do not think in terms of electing the local party representative, they think in terms of electing a future PM who has pledged to fulfil a manifesto that contains a set of beliefs which align with their own. The local representative is exactly that – a representative of the constituency he has been chosen to serve. If that representative is a member of the party that gains power then he/she is duty bound to ensure the beliefs held within the manifesto are fulfilled, and they must do this regardless of their own personal views as their role is to serve the people – as is the role of all those in politics, including the PM, to serve. The problem is exactly that: they no longer see themselves as servants, but as masters. Perhaps it’s naive of me to think that it has ever been any different.
That many people have been conned into believing this doesn’t cause it to become true. The UK is divided into constituencies and people living in these (some of them at least) elect a represenative which then becomes a member of the house of commons. And that’s it. Anything beyond this is party subterfuge for electioneering purposes. MPs have also since ever¹ been free to act in parliament in whichever way they want, ie, without taking opinions or wishes of their constituents into account.
¹ The historic example would be Edmund Burke voting in opposition to what the majority of his constituents desired (protectionism, IIRC) because he was convinced to know better.
Norman Wisdom, oops sorry I mean Rishi Sunak. —-The game is up mate. You are toast. I see you in Prime Ministers questions and you stand your ground well against Starmer and you say a lot of good stuff. But saying things is one thing, it is doing things that is important. ——So what have you done exactly? You are still hitting us with Net Zero and thought if you knocked the phase out of petrol and diesel back from 2030 to 2035 that we would all see you as some kind of eco realist. —–Sorry nobody is buying that. —-Rishi the illegal aliens are still arriving day and night, but you said you would “stop the boats”. You got rid of Braverman and Anderson because they are not pretend conservatives like you. ——Sorry mate I want to vote for a conservative not a progressive wearing blue.
RS only tells us the dates would change from 2030 to 2035 but the regulations still remain in place.
Never forget that Labour have aided and abetted all the T policies and they are just one Uniparty hell bent on destroying Britain.
Net Zero had virtually no debate and no vote. It was foisted on us by the political class and simply waved through. ——How can you wave through something that is going to cost trillions and never even question the cost or even if it is possible? . They hate GB news and would shut it down if they could because they dare to question the eco socialism masquerading as science on that channel. Yet they have the audacity to say GB news and other places like here on DS threatens democracy. They want us all to accept their “official science” and they are forcing us in law to comply with that. —–So we now live in a scientific dictatorship where government in conjunction with their bought and paid for scientists have this cosy little symbiotic relationship that bludgeons us into submission so they can pretend to save the planet and get a little gold star on their lapel from the UN
Exactly it is 2016 & 2019 all over again with Bercow being replaced by Hoyle.
However we are the many and they are the few.
We also have a new potential player in the game, GG, who could easily take 20 seats from L with his Workers Party.
I do not agree with his policies but I defend the right for him to speak and stand candidates for the GE. He and his followers are not going to be so easy to intimidate. So bring it on.
Mr Grimsdale!
Oh right. I had to look that up. —-funny
Starter for 10 …
https://youtu.be/NbZxw7vaQKU?si=Lus43wboRl3Ox0zH
How can you have a political comeback, when you’ve never had a political endorsement in the first place?
No-one voted for Sunak to become PM. He’s leading a Junta, not a democratically-elected Government.
Dreadful woman.
Pro Trans, humiliated Bridgen when he called for review of excess deaths, absolutely exudes the arrogance that typifies modern conservatism.
We don’t want a new ‘face’.
We want the end of the Carbonocracy, wokism, immigration, ECHR.
We want to keep our money and not see it spaffed on HS2, the workshy, lazy civil servants.
And on interest payments. 2 trillion at 5% p.a. is 100 billion.
They already have in the party the best option for PM: The Moggster.
Best out of the plausible candidates? Possibly. Weak on covid, and part of the Tory mainstream in many of the years in which they were utterly unconservative. Better they get defeated by a landslide and disappear.
To quote Trump, it’s going to be a bloodbath.
Rivers of the stuff
Haven’t the Tories already done this vote?
Didn’t she come 3rd or 4th?
Liz truss won I think and was unceremoniously f@!ked off within a month or so!
Penny was an also ran along with Kemi Badanoch.
Rishi Sunak, who won nothing, became prime minister!
Do they really think the public takes them seriously anymore?
We don’t need “moderates”——Moderate just means compliance. It means going along with all the Net Zero, all the wokery, all the race nonsense, the gender nonsense, the immigration free for all etc etc. —–I want a Braverman not a wimp. I want an Anderson not a handwringer.
They don’t give a sh*t what the public thinks of them, they’re just an irritant that gets in the way of their self promoting self interests
Penny’s first act as PM would be to allow people who aren’t Tories to be able to self identify as Tories