Reminder that the Tories have had 2 Prime Ministers in power without holding an election.
Edited to clarify: yes there have been 3 PMs since 2019, but 2 of them were not elected.
this post was submitted on 05 May 2024
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Isn't Sunak the third since the 2019 election?
He must have forgotten the lady who didn't last as long as a head of lettuce.
Liz Truss. I meant PMs who were elected.
In hindsight I could have phrased it better, but I meant PMs who were elected.
Boris Johnson was elected in 2019.
Liz Truss replaced him but was not elected. Rishi Sunak replaced her and was also not elected.
They were all elected by the voters in their constituencies, the same as every MP, and chosen as the leader of their party by the party members, the same as every PM.
Playing musical chairs is not a typical move.
Wow, apparently in some places there are consequences for completing tanking your country's economy and global standing. Which that was true everywhere
Too bad it wasn't literally
Hear hear
We need to make sure whenever the General Election is we keep up this momentum. I want them to have a wipe out that makes Canada 1993 look like a good result for conservatives. Leave the fuckers with 2 MP's.
When the time comes remember to vote tactically. In our system you often don't get the luxury of voting for who you want, you vote against who you don't want.
I know he's from Alaska, but can we pretend for this thread that Riker is from Milton Keynes?
Isn't this also the swing back from the previous sweeping wins they had last time around. People where angry then blaming labor.. only to find that it just got worse.
A depressing number also decided, I voted labour, and nothing changed (when they didn't win). I'm going to try conservative now.
Own goal!
I hope this trend continues internationally.
Me: Haha get fucked Tories, this is what you deserve for the absolute dereliction of leadership and results
Also me: I hope this translates to the general and isn’t just the usual protest vote for local elections
This is the best summary I could come up with:
The party is expected to lose up to 500 seats when all votes are counted, with Labour advancing in areas of both the “red wall” north won by the Tories under Boris Johnson and the traditional southern Conservative heartlands.
Labour also ousted a number of Tory police and crime commissioners, and took control of at least seven new councils, including in Buckinghamshire, Essex, Hampshire and Sussex in the south of England.
Despite heavy losses for the government, the Conservatives pointed to pockets of success such as the Tory mayor Ben Houchen holding on in Tees Valley, and Andy Street likely to keep his mayoralty in the West Midlands on Saturday.
He accused Labour of trying to “stroll back in” to Tees Valley and said he was sure that the region’s voters would stick with the Tories at a general election – despite a swing in the mayoralty suggesting the opposition would have won all parliamentary seats in the area.
Kwasi Kwarteng, the Conservative MP and former chancellor, told LBC that there was “no such thing really as a safe Tory seat any more” but he also said it was not the right time to change leader as “stability and consolidation” were needed.
Andrea Jenkyns, the only Conservative MP who has publicly acknowledged sending a letter of no confidence in Sunak, instead called for a “war reshuffle” to bring back former ministers Suella Braverman, Robert Jenrick, Priti Patel and Jacob Rees-Mogg.
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They shouldn’t be crowing their successes, that’s like spotlighting where the stupid people live.
Good.
Gamer moment