Rishi Sunak to hold surprise Downing Street press conference this morning

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1. Seems to be about the Rwanda Bill, so he’s probably just going to call the House of Lords woke again.

2. The only thing I’m interested in hearing from him is that he’s calling an election. Sounds like this isn’t that, so I’ll be giving him my customary zero attention.

3. We have entered the “every brainfart that requires an announcement might be the election being announced” phase of a parliament again.

4. Empty podium, lights go out, 10 seconds pass, lights back on – Rishi is standing at the podium doing jazz hands and shouts with a big grin “SURPRISE”

5. So what eleventh hour tax break does he think will swing an election for him?

6. Hi I’m Rishi Sunak,and I’m here to talk to you about….Houses of work for the poor,it’s a game changer

7. They could replace him with an animatronic he’s so predictable: Widen eyes, big insincere smile, looks down at papers when anyone else is talking, laugh and then say what was on paper no matter if it relates to the question at hand or not.

8. Oh please let him stand for something. Put your money where your mouth is Rishi and call a GE over the Rwanda bill.

9. Is he about to announce that the Tories are finally going to start cutting homeless people in half?

10. Unless hes going to call an election what ever it is will ring awfully hollow.

11. Hopefully it will be either his resignation or calling a general election.

    More likely to be a rant about Labour blocking the Rwanda plan (when he has a working majority in the Commons, and 100+ more peers than Labour), and that his plan is working, and that Labour has no plan.

    More gas lighting, hot air, bluster and pointless talking.

12. He’s probably going to announce legalised hunting of homeless people

13. please call for an election please call for an election please call for an election please call for an election please call for an election please call for an election please call for an election please call for an election please call for an election

14. All he will say is “I dont know where. I dont know when. But someday an election will happen. Thank you no more questions, good bye.”

15. “I’m switching places with Liz Truss again. Surprise!”

16. To everyone who says it’s the Rwanda Bill, didn’t it already get shot down by the House of Lords and effectively become a non-issue until after the next election is due?

    I hope it’s Rishi resigning or calling another election.

17. Will he sing “Surprise, surprise” in his best impression of Cilla Black? I’d tune in for that.

18. Want an election? Sorry the best I can do is : pushing for migrant suffering via ludicrous amounts of taxpayer money.

19. He’s likely going to announce something regarding the Rwanda thing. It’s unpopular, ineffective, expensive, and the only thing they’re focused on, obviously.

    The only way they can claim anything was done is if they pass this (or rather force it through by leaving the ECHR)

    I suspect he’s specifically going to announce that scrapping of the ECHR

20. After the success of their focus on the disabled returning to work the PM will announce they are now going to reduce the drain of Maternity costs to the economy.

    Employers will no longer need to give Maternity pay and Pregnancy will be cut to three months.

21. All journalists there should just ignore Rwanda entirely and every question should be about when the election is going to be.

22. You know when you don’t want to read a news article, but you just want to know ONE THING that’s in it? All I want to know is what time he has called it for. But skimming through it doesn’t seem to give that.

    That’s the thing: they want you to read the article: they tease it-but then deliberately leave out the vital bit-to keep you reading till the end.

23. Maybe he can be the first prime minister to call for a vote of no confidence in himself.

24. Oooo what low hanging fruit is he announcing dystopian measures for today? SEND children? There’s not many groups left to pick on, he’s gotta complete his bingo card before leaving office.

25. This better not be another “state of the country” rambling rant like he did last time. We just want an election Rishi.

26. The fact that he’s putting so much time effort and political focus on the Rwanda bill shows how fucking awful his judgement is and how completely out of touch he is with most of the country.

    He was clearly a lightweight from the start and absolutely nothing he has done has demonstrated he is anything else.

    The only way they don’t go crashing down in flames is a complete overhaul of what they are doing with several big flagship policy changes. Throwing Rwanda bill straight in the bin would be a fantastic start but then the wingnuts he is pandering to would devour him alive. He’s just screwed. They are just screwed. And the sooner we get them out the better for absolutely everyone (including them).

27. Politics seems to be the only thing that never changes, you would think in this day and age we would have a better system of some kind but no, we just keep up the pretences that our votes matter when they dont.

28. He’s probably going to make being trans illegal and award JK Rowling a knighthood because it’s just ‘common sense’. The twot.

29. It will be complaining about how dare the HoL put sensible amendments in the bill like excluding people who have served alongside the armed forces in places like Afghanistan

30. Is he gonna announce he’s tackling a problem the vast majority of us don’t give a shit about again?

31. He’s been practicing useing a bank card, hasn’t he.

32. He’s lost 10p down the back of the sofa, everyone’s got to look for it!

33. Resigning and Bojo takes back over in a deluded and pathetic attempt to improve electoral fortunes……..

34. The only announcement I want from him ends with a self inflicted gunshot.