Rishi Sunak will call general election for July in surprise move – sources

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1. Here we go. It all ends here.

   Sunak v Starmer. Who will win? Grab your popcorn.

2. Any improvements in inflation are due to global factors; the current rabble have nothing to do with it. Our water is still full of shit and the NHS is collapsing.

   And this from the Financial Times: “Government tells Britons to stockpile as part of emergency planning”

3. Political seppuku. He’s had enough. Time to put him out of his misery.

4. Either he’s given up or has lost his mind.

   It isn’t going to go well for you Rishi.

5. Now, remember, he hasn’t said anything yet, and it’s his big moment, so try to look surprised, okay? You’ll hurt his feelings otherwise.

6. Every civil servant in a major policy area waits to see what utter wank policy ideas will come from the mouth of our increasingly desperate pm.

7. Lmao at the Imperial March star wars music being belted out

8. Nice. Let’s get rid of the tories and then make July 4th our Independence Day.

9. Please register to vote:
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   And have ID ready:
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10. I feel so short of breath. It’s finally happening. It’s almost over…

11. July 4th

    Time to declare independence from the Tories

12. Let’s see just how strong ‘shy Tory’ factor really is. Seems like damage control for Sunak at this point. No doubt some are very happy with how things are going and don’t feel that 14 years is enough to truly judge the government.

13. I can’t help but think there’s something really bad he’s worried about getting out and he’s trying to get ahead of it by calling this. I can’t possibly think what it could be that he’s worried enough to pull the trigger, but all the data shows that an autumn election would be much more beneficial to the Tories.

    Or perhaps it’s the opposite and he suspects something damning about starmer/labour is coming out?

14. I can’t see a world in which the Tories win this with all the scandal and chaos since the last election.

15. Surprised about this. I was expecting him to sit it out.

16. i’m on holiday july 3-10th, how can i get a postal vote sorted?

17. Are my standards that low that i want to pop a champaign bottle just to celebrate this being called.

18. Are we going to get the same promises as last time, and the time before that etc…

19. A cynical move hoping for people to fall for the low inflation label with no wider logic, England doing well in the euros so reducing turnout of youth votes, summer reducing youth vote, OAPs more willing to vote in sunshine, avoids predicted poor growth figure announcement and get a flight off to Rwanda.

20. This has to be the most overdue GE, in a long ass time.

21. Honestly I would be shocked if Labour didn’t win. The Tories have systematically self-destructed for the past decade, and people are extremely angry with them over the state of the nation. At this point I expect a lot of people to vote Labour just out of spite.

22. Finally! At last, he’s doing something that the country supports!

23. I was banking on interest rates going down twice before I renewed my mortgage in September

24. This isn’t surprising at all, in fact, it’s a very sly and tactical move from the Tories.

    The Factor 8 inquiry was released just YESTERDAY and was very damning, and very clearly highlighted it was a cross-party failure.

    The Tories will be hoping for two things:

    1. That Labour has to face the brunt of and deal with difficult questions resulting from that inquiry, as well as fund the compensation schemes for the families, potentially taking money away from other promises they have made.

    2. That the Tories can try to argue that *they* were the party to call the inquiry eventually, despite only doing so because they lost their majority in 2017.

25. LOL at things can only get better being blasted in the background

26. why is he bashing HS2 when the tories decided to go with HS2?

27. Why doesn’t Downing Street provide a clean feed of his audio to the main tv channels?

    Plenty of £100 microphones would pick up his voice only, and nothing from further away.

28. Hoping everyone will be distracted by the Euros and forget to vote presumably.

29. Thank fuck!

    However somthin suspicious about this GE announcement. Are the water firms about to go bust requiring a tax payer bailout? And they are just dumpin it on next goverment? “Look see… labour bad”

30. We just need to remember that any version of Labour will be better for the average person than a party funded entirely by billionaires and big businesses.

    Hold your nose if you have to, but vote for whichever party has the best chance of beating your local Tory. Preferably into a pulp.

    I’m old enough to hold the hope that this will be the last Tory government I see in my lifetime. For the hopes of those younger than me, it needs to be.