No 10 ‘shelves plan for summer general election’

26 comments

1. The political equivalent of thinking a card and some petrol station flowers can fix a failing marriage.

2. All this talk about the general election is just smoke screen. In a few months the whole of the tory party are just not going to turn up to work one day, and by time we have realised none of us have any of the keys and we get the locksmith in, they would have plundered everything of value and vanished to go and exploit some other people somewhere else. It’s how these people do this stuff….

3. How the *bloody hell* did we end up with an even geekier and more sinister version of Will McKenzie for Prime Minister?

   Hint: All the *decent-people* candidates were forced out of the running for leadership (either sides), in favour of puppets that simply execute orders given to them by the real powers hidden in plain sight.

4. Pull the plaster off and just call it. Then forget all this shit and go back to your mansion and pile of money

5. I never thought there would be one. Everyone knows they are out. These grifters will leave the election till the very last moment.

6. Hes got a month to put a date in, tick tock you torie cunt

7. They still have a massive majority in parliament but not even bothering to do anything productive.

8. If I was a betting man I’d put money on a January election. Cling on to the bitter end.

   Of course, on current trends they’ll be polling behind Reform by then.

9. I genuinely believe he will cling on until January just to have 2022-2025 on his Wikipedia page.

10. I always thought September is his only real chance. Hope England do well in the euros, hope a nice summer of calm, maybe a flight to Rwanda or a fall in interest rates or boat arrivals, then go just as the students are heading off the uni and don’t have time to enrol.

    This is why we need fixed terms. It’s OUR choice who leads us, not carefully manipulated by a team of advisors preventing us from having our say

11. On a side note, who is the worst of the last 3 prime ministers?

12. Part of me admires the chap for sheer tenacity and unwillingness to look the blatant reality of his unpleasant situation in the face.

    He has zero chance of winning the upcoming GE, whether it’s scheduled for tomorrow or January.

13. He just holding on to his job, because he needs the money, but he is wealthier than Elton John.

14. Why drag it out? Surely they all have their cushy follow on jobs sorted by now and they must know that literally nothing can lead to them winning.

15. You really do have to wonder if this hobbit has been sent from the WEF to destroy the economy. Trust had her shot, and both of them are on the WEF website long before either came anywhere near power.

    Something doesn’t add up.

16. Better title: “Unelected leader refuses to hold elections”

17. Won’t be any elections at all if they keep holding off.

18. “The people don’t want us! What shall we do? Stay in power as long as we can!”

    So undemocratic.

19. They really are dug in deeper than a tick. And getting them out is going to be hard. They have stopped thinking or caring about whats good for the country. Arguably they NEVER have. So they are just going to cling on for the sake of power or until they think people might like them a bit more so they stand a chance. Maybe they are hoping WW3 kicks off, or aliens land. The sooner they are gone the sooner we can start the recovery process. Which is going to take a long time. Stop holding us to random.

20. Understandable and expected, got to rinse and make as much money as possible.

    Corrupt criminal buggers.

21. Everything north of banbury could sink into the ocean, and he’d still be on tv saying that his “plan is working, and delivering on a brighter future for britain”.

    Just give the public what we actually want, and call an election you deluded aardman villain.

22. Look, Sunac is going to hold on til the very last minute and will be dragged out of No.10 by his hair. OK?

23. What fallacy are they under here?

    It’s kinda like a sunk cost fallacy where they are going to be beat bad but the longer they leave it the worse they’re gonna do.

24. Excellent!

    “There is nothing so bad that it couldn’t be worse.”

25. It was always an idle threat in order to keep the parliamentary party in line.

    Rish want his 2 years for his CV. Then he’s off to Cali once he’s lined a tech job up.

    I doubt he gives a rats when the election is after then. I wouldn’t be surprised if he steps aside and Lord Boris reappears to “save the day”.

26. The only way we’d get it faster is if we all hit the streets and fucking demand it!