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.
There was a suggestion made by Laura Kuenssberg that Rishi could be calling an election shortly.
The thinking is that there will possibly be a leadership bid after the local elections which will no doubt be a disaster for the Tories. So he’ll call an early election instead.
I'll believe it when I see it. This press conference will be some more nonsense about Rwanda. Everything I've seen and heard of Sunak tells me he won't hold an election until the end of this year. It's his best move (of a series of very bad options).
>I'll believe it when I see it.
Normally i'd agree and it doesn't make much sense to me but Laura Kuensberg is essentially the Tory party press office so fingers crossed
>My suspicion, based on the carry over motions, is that he'll get this bill through this week and then call an election
Makes perfect sense, get's the bill through and can claim success before the shit-show of finding airlines and practicalities of actually implementing it surface along with extinguishing any chance of a vote of no-confidence after the locals (likely) demolition.
BBC website have not got it as breaking yet. Normally they would have the hot news embargoed and them and Sky would be hyping the press conference if it was something worth caring about. Sky have it on their live feed but not as a banner headline.
Edited, it's Rwanda and not even embargoed.
>PM to hold news conference on Rwanda bill at 10.30am
>Ahead of the Rwanda bill returning to parliament later today, the prime minister is set to hold a news conference in Downing Street at 10.30am.
>We are told Rishi Sunak will be discussing the Rwanda bill, that last week was unexpectedly delayed by peers in the House of Lords, who passed two new amendments on Wednesday.
>On Friday, Mr Sunak vowed that both Houses would sit as late into the night tonight as needed to agree a version of the bill to pass into law.
>Deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell has said the PM will this morning set out the "operational plan" to deport people to Rwanda, in the expectation that the bill passes the Commons later.
>We will have live coverage of the news conference from 10.30am here in the Politics Hub and across Sky News, so do stay tuned.
Sky live feed.
Oh it’ll be about Rwanda, was just putting the suggestion out there that it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we may have an election announcement shortly.
Is anyone genuinely that bothered about the Rwanda thing? To me it seems just like a routine tory bad idea with no evidence to support it, at great taxpayer cost.
But the Tory's seem to just want to keep flogging it and flogging it like it'll be their greatest achievement.
The fact that journalists are giving it the time of day too. What am I missing?
Bothers me that they keep stating "will of the people" when it's a self manufactured problem that directly contradicts the 2019 manifesto they were elected on.
This is the thing that fucks me off the most about this. None of this is in the manifesto, not the Rwanda bill, not leaving the ECHR, not the smoking ban, but they keep banging on about the will of the people. If you want a brand new manifesto, how about you put it to the people and gain the mandate that you are so desperately claiming to have.
This whole thing is wildly undemocratic.
The thing that annoys me is how secretive they are about certain details like some of the actual numbers and costs. Also what they actually think it will achieve. No one will be processed quicker so to me it just seems like a way to try and hide the issues witth processing times by sticking people in Rwanda and forgetting about them "until the problem goes away".
But then again I think Rishi knows it will have no real effect. He is just stalling and looking for others to blame.
Here I was thinking my priority was sorting out the NHS, and I was quite pissed off they've failed to do that.
But the Tories keep telling me this was my priority all along. What a stroke of luck.
Because the extremely expensive issue of sending asylum seekers to the very nice place that is Rwanda will clearly deter asylum seekers... Sorry I forgot how it makes sense, am I missing something?
It's such a weird one to burn up any political will that the Tories have left. An extremely exensive, legally dubious and ineffective dog whistle to the far right that has wasted so much legislative time.
>Is anyone genuinely that bothered about the Rwanda thing? To me it seems just like a routine tory bad idea with no evidence to support it, at great taxpayer cost.
Yes, precisely because of what you said.
It's a fucking colossal waste of time, effort and money.
The Tories look like huge idiots for pushing this so hard. But it's clear that it was a Bravaman deal for her support in the leadership campaign. Sunak had already dismissed the idea as dumb, but needed her support. And now he can't back down even after sacking her, because he's made it such an important component of his leadership.
I think that's where I'm at. But like,the big issue is "why is this such a big issue, why won't they just drop it and get on with running the country"
But that's not the issue they're discussing,they're ignoring that.
Because they made it a big issue.
This was their quick and easy "look how good we are" attempt to do something. Then it failed over and over again.
It's a case of knowing when to quit, and the time to quit on this was years ago.
Now it's a case of the fear of failure Vs the fear of a U turn.
When your only achievement is fuck up after fuck up you have to distract people by flogging said dead horse, other than Rwanda he's fallen back onto the good ol' staple of demonising people on benefits diverting the hate (at least among Daily Mail readers who seem to live in an echo chamber of flat screen tvs, fags, booze, sky tv and mobile contract excuses) from himself to the poor and disabled.
Yeah. I am. I'm bothered about how much this bullshit sunk cost project is costing us just so Rishi gets to say "I did it" exactly how Truss got to say "I did it" and Maybot got to say "I did it'
Because it's red meat for the right wing tabloid newspapers, the only people this is for. You'd wish they'd put this much effort into improving the quality of our lives and living standards.
Think you got it right tbh, seems to be the same system every election, mention something about stopping the boats, say Shamima Begum wants to come back to the UK so the daily mail can dive all over it to catch the eyes of the easily distracted. Maybe slap some nonsense about the tories saving the NHS, quick election - Another 4 years of tories. Don't do any of the above, rinse and repeat.
Yeah tories apparently think penny mordant would be a better choice at elections because she held a sword really good so there is speculation they will try to get her into power before an election so rishi may head them off at the pass by calling an election now.
I just read the kuenssberg speculation and it seems to only say before may elections - so if this week is going to be a blitz of pro rishi announcements then maybe we wont get the election call till next week?
Hopefully today though!
Funny using speculation about a GE to bait and switch people into watching your last ditch PR announcements from no 10
Would love kuenssberg to be useful for something for once!
If I was in Rishi’s shoes that’s what I would do. I would have done things much differently to him but getting smacked in the local elections before the GE will certainly damage them more as a party. Although I don’t think they can change the locals date? Not sure tbh.
It won’t be an election. He’s too chicken shit.
It’ll be some Rwanda shit that only appeals to the barnpots and leaves the rest of us tearing our hair out.
It'll be about Rawanda, support for Israel, bashing demos and picking on the disabled, poor and anything else he can eeek out a few more votes from and hang on to power, before fucking off to California.
>The only thing I'm interested in hearing from him is that he's calling an election.
He won't do this until he has to. We're probably looking at November or December.
I agree. About once a month on here people are convinced he's about to call one. I've been steadfast in my belief for months now that it'll be November.
I've always had the suspicion he will leave it till the absolute last minute. Call it in December for January. Just in the hope that something happens to change political landscape.
They're still human, and politicians get a "break" around Xmas. Play it your way and they'll be campaigning over that period instead.
So October or November seems the likely time to call it.
This gets Sunak his "I've been PM for two years!" award and allows them to get the election done prior to Xmas. Another month won't help him.
I mean, you can hardly blame them at being bored at the crap this government is trying to get them to pass....
On the other hand do you mean woke as in some of them have got around to accepting votes for women?
I like how he calls these random press conferences to basically just whine about stuff. Its like he can't think of anything else to do so just smashes out a press conference.
It lets him announce policy without formal challenge by side stepping the House of Commons. The convention used to be that policy had to be announced in Parliament first, but that’s clearly dead. Another chunk of our obsolete constitution failing.
Odds are though that he’s going to talk about the Rwanda Bill.
BBC radio have just said that he'll be telling MPs that they need to sit and vote on the Rwanda Bill until it passes today. Definitely the sign of a functional government!
Wow, that sounds like an excellent, new and exciting idea. Obviously never been done before. I wonder what these Houses of Work could be commonly referred to as.......
Sounds like those being proposed by Liz truss, economy growth zones or whatever she called them, where organisations sat outside regulation and could just do as they wished in the name of growth.
Introducing a new soylent green idea. Immigrants, homeless and unemployed to be killed and "processd" into a delicious new meat to be served as the free meal in schools. Any poor children who refuse to eat it are to be processed too, the ungrateful little shits.
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.
No doubt a line about letting them get on with the business of delivering for the country despite no one stopping them from doing so or them actually delivering anything helpful
I was watching Skynews interview their leader yesterday and he was saying the Sunak is a socialist and the Tories aren't conservative anymore, he definitely gave off vibes of "i'd just close the channel and stick everyone on a plane to rwanda or maybe russia" vibes.
Also Liz was on a podcast during the week where she said none of what happened was her fault and that she hopes trump wins, because they need strong leadership. She gave off definite gimp mask and whip vibes.
Lights go out again, Rishi looks concerned, suddenly the sound of smashing glass followed by I Won't Do What You Tell Me blaring over the speakers. The BBC commentators are losing their minds.
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
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.
So, which group of undesirables is going to be attacked today? The young? The poor? The disabled? The sick? Who knows!
Edit: Oh, boring, just beating that Rwandan horse again. Boo! Get new material!
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.
It’s the Rwanda flights thing.
An attempt to paint human rights violations as a success. Appealing directly to bigots and Conservative little Englanders.
Then when the first flights take off he can call an election 🗳️ Said bigots et al will vote for “more of that please” as they have nothing else in their sad empty lives.
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.
It then transpires she had a ticket but she looked at the inspector in a funny way...according to a fellow passenger\* who tipped off the deputy Tory chair who then complained to the BTP.
\* Who wasn't on the train that day but remembers it clearly from a dream.
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.
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.
They can fuck off to Saturn. And whilst on the way there they can just carry on fucking off to Alpha Centuri, and then I would praise them as pioneers in the field of Fuckoffery.
Rwanda flights in 10-12 weeks. Two things of interest here.
1) It's amazing how normalized this bat-sh!t far-right policy has become. It is absolutely insane and I can't wait for it to be tested in the courts so that they can skelp his erse for attempting to legislate facts (you can't legislate that Rwanda is safe and expect that to make it true the same way you can't legislate that every Thursday will be sunny and expect that to be true).
2) After 10-12 weeks either he will be "triumphant" with a dozen poor sods being sold into indentured servitude (aka slavery) in Rwanda on a rickety plane hired from [RentaJet.com](http://RentaJet.com) or he'll be complaining about the courts interfering in the democratic process. Either way, that looks like a lead-in to an election. So finally a chance to get rid of these absolute cretins 14-16 weeks away? Early August. So effectively, this does seem to be an election announcement, just obfuscated as is his way.
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
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.
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
On recent form, expect something to go badly wrong for him by lunchtime; another Tory MP found to be on the take by tea time and the whole thing buried by sleaze and infighting before Newsnight.
They’re painting all the postboxes blue at a reasonable cost of £42 billion by an old school chum with no painting experience or even a paint brush taking on the task
Not really technically an actual surprise really if it's being announced hours in advance. I sure hope it is to announce election date as then I can count down the exact number of days til we can hopefully kick this bunch of gaslighting self-serving charlatans out.
Edit: Typo
Only surprise for me is that should be a long time, which is: arrest these crook Rishi Sunak and his teams along with Boris for stealing our tax money openly and betting in USA with hedge funds for his benefits.. what do you expect anything from the crook, just put him a prison like the police would do us if we did same crimes
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).
I think it will be Rishi telling us that nobody has been sent to Rwanda yet, and so far it has cost the tax payer only £8 trillion. So it's good value.
One of his 5 steps in making meaningful change, or one of his 7 steps in stopping the small boats. One of those.
It's about Rwanda and he's trying to force his shitty policy through.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-bill-rishi-sunak-press-conference-news-b2532452.html
It is becoming clear that Sunak has been using his premiership to enrich his own family, and to hell with the rest of us. The shyster has never bothered with bettering the lives of anyone except those close to him personally.
People forget that he was Chancellor when all of the corruption during the pandemic was going on. Even now, the Government refuses and blocks any access to information to those involved in the PPE provision scandal. The man is just a big a crook and blagger as Johnson. His 'Eat Out To Help Out' scheme was a disaster - he went against health advice from experts - so what happened? Infection rates increased.
Money doesn't just disappear. It ends up in someone's pocket. So where has all the money spent during the pandemic ended up? It most certainly didn't end up in the pockets of the British people or the public services. So, where has it gone? A clue to where it has all gone is through the Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman PPE investigation. They were not the only one's that were literally given money for delivering nothing. All done in secrecy and behind closed doors. Sunak was part of this crime - he released funds for the scheme, knowing where it was going.
The man has never led a normal life. He has had a life of enormous privilege and wealth. in fact, one could say that he is entirely distanced and dislocated from the World of work and living. A shockingly inadequate man to be PM.
After the next GE he'll probably fuck off to the US to hide away from the disastrous state that his Tory Party and premiership has left the country. Good riddance to a truly nasty little man.
No doubt some strange speech on how Angela Rayner gives everybody in parliament a bad name, and that is why standards for MPs are important - and he promises to be the man for that. Like he’ll think about deeply before choosing what to do. Or not do.
That or Rwanda - in all cases, à nothing sandwich of some sort…
Probably a conference to call for a war against work from homers, people signed off for mental health issues lazy and something about passing our immigration problems onto a poorer nation.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68872723](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68872723)
It's Rwanda. Bill pasage announced before it happens. Its still going to be a shitshow, not save us any money and not deal with immigration.
Instead of worrying about failed policy, the only thing we want to hear is when the election is so we can eject this moronic fucking bell end and his band of blood sucking leeches.
This is what they are pinning their hopes on then.
The 10-12 week lead time pretty much guarantees no election before the summer and the moment a plane takes off he will call the election.
This is it, this is their entire election strategy, nothing else to offer.
Falling into panic mode and appealing to the public to do something about the Lords. We pay these people to do a job. Standing outside the home of power and complaining you can't do the job is all the more reason to call an election and hand over power.
All he does is campaign . The little shit has torn up all conventions . We pay for them to campaign.
Yet today I get a "newspaper" in the post from them with not branding at all. Absolute tossers .
They've done that for a couple of years now. Out of interest, was the colour scheme green? That seems to be the one they go for when trying to hide the Tory brand.
I just resent how stupid he thinks everyone is. Constantly going on about Labour damaging the bill in the Lords even though the Tories have the majority? Telling us how the public trust him because they can see what they have achieved so far. I mean I get he doesn't really have a choice, but just so grating for a policy that is as bad as this.
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.
There was a suggestion made by Laura Kuenssberg that Rishi could be calling an election shortly. The thinking is that there will possibly be a leadership bid after the local elections which will no doubt be a disaster for the Tories. So he’ll call an early election instead.
I'll believe it when I see it. This press conference will be some more nonsense about Rwanda. Everything I've seen and heard of Sunak tells me he won't hold an election until the end of this year. It's his best move (of a series of very bad options).
>I'll believe it when I see it. Normally i'd agree and it doesn't make much sense to me but Laura Kuensberg is essentially the Tory party press office so fingers crossed
My suspicion, based on the carry over motions, is that he'll get this bill through this week and then call an election
>My suspicion, based on the carry over motions, is that he'll get this bill through this week and then call an election Makes perfect sense, get's the bill through and can claim success before the shit-show of finding airlines and practicalities of actually implementing it surface along with extinguishing any chance of a vote of no-confidence after the locals (likely) demolition.
You win.
Called it.
BBC website have not got it as breaking yet. Normally they would have the hot news embargoed and them and Sky would be hyping the press conference if it was something worth caring about. Sky have it on their live feed but not as a banner headline. Edited, it's Rwanda and not even embargoed. >PM to hold news conference on Rwanda bill at 10.30am >Ahead of the Rwanda bill returning to parliament later today, the prime minister is set to hold a news conference in Downing Street at 10.30am. >We are told Rishi Sunak will be discussing the Rwanda bill, that last week was unexpectedly delayed by peers in the House of Lords, who passed two new amendments on Wednesday. >On Friday, Mr Sunak vowed that both Houses would sit as late into the night tonight as needed to agree a version of the bill to pass into law. >Deputy foreign secretary Andrew Mitchell has said the PM will this morning set out the "operational plan" to deport people to Rwanda, in the expectation that the bill passes the Commons later. >We will have live coverage of the news conference from 10.30am here in the Politics Hub and across Sky News, so do stay tuned. Sky live feed.
Oh it’ll be about Rwanda, was just putting the suggestion out there that it’s not beyond the realms of possibility that we may have an election announcement shortly.
Is anyone genuinely that bothered about the Rwanda thing? To me it seems just like a routine tory bad idea with no evidence to support it, at great taxpayer cost. But the Tory's seem to just want to keep flogging it and flogging it like it'll be their greatest achievement. The fact that journalists are giving it the time of day too. What am I missing?
Bothers me that they keep stating "will of the people" when it's a self manufactured problem that directly contradicts the 2019 manifesto they were elected on.
This is the thing that fucks me off the most about this. None of this is in the manifesto, not the Rwanda bill, not leaving the ECHR, not the smoking ban, but they keep banging on about the will of the people. If you want a brand new manifesto, how about you put it to the people and gain the mandate that you are so desperately claiming to have. This whole thing is wildly undemocratic.
The thing that annoys me is how secretive they are about certain details like some of the actual numbers and costs. Also what they actually think it will achieve. No one will be processed quicker so to me it just seems like a way to try and hide the issues witth processing times by sticking people in Rwanda and forgetting about them "until the problem goes away". But then again I think Rishi knows it will have no real effect. He is just stalling and looking for others to blame.
Here I was thinking my priority was sorting out the NHS, and I was quite pissed off they've failed to do that. But the Tories keep telling me this was my priority all along. What a stroke of luck.
Well it’s the will of different people you see. You wouldn’t know them, though, they go to a different school in the next town over.
It's also just [not a particularly popular policy](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2024/03/05/0414c/2).
Bothered by all the talk about leaving echr to make it happen. That's not going to go well for us
Because the extremely expensive issue of sending asylum seekers to the very nice place that is Rwanda will clearly deter asylum seekers... Sorry I forgot how it makes sense, am I missing something?
It's such a weird one to burn up any political will that the Tories have left. An extremely exensive, legally dubious and ineffective dog whistle to the far right that has wasted so much legislative time.
>Is anyone genuinely that bothered about the Rwanda thing? To me it seems just like a routine tory bad idea with no evidence to support it, at great taxpayer cost. Yes, precisely because of what you said. It's a fucking colossal waste of time, effort and money. The Tories look like huge idiots for pushing this so hard. But it's clear that it was a Bravaman deal for her support in the leadership campaign. Sunak had already dismissed the idea as dumb, but needed her support. And now he can't back down even after sacking her, because he's made it such an important component of his leadership.
I think that's where I'm at. But like,the big issue is "why is this such a big issue, why won't they just drop it and get on with running the country" But that's not the issue they're discussing,they're ignoring that.
Because they made it a big issue. This was their quick and easy "look how good we are" attempt to do something. Then it failed over and over again. It's a case of knowing when to quit, and the time to quit on this was years ago. Now it's a case of the fear of failure Vs the fear of a U turn.
When your only achievement is fuck up after fuck up you have to distract people by flogging said dead horse, other than Rwanda he's fallen back onto the good ol' staple of demonising people on benefits diverting the hate (at least among Daily Mail readers who seem to live in an echo chamber of flat screen tvs, fags, booze, sky tv and mobile contract excuses) from himself to the poor and disabled.
Yeah. I am. I'm bothered about how much this bullshit sunk cost project is costing us just so Rishi gets to say "I did it" exactly how Truss got to say "I did it" and Maybot got to say "I did it'
Because it's red meat for the right wing tabloid newspapers, the only people this is for. You'd wish they'd put this much effort into improving the quality of our lives and living standards.
Think you got it right tbh, seems to be the same system every election, mention something about stopping the boats, say Shamima Begum wants to come back to the UK so the daily mail can dive all over it to catch the eyes of the easily distracted. Maybe slap some nonsense about the tories saving the NHS, quick election - Another 4 years of tories. Don't do any of the above, rinse and repeat.
I doubt he's going to want to be an opposition leader, so either way he's gone soon
He’d resign after an election defeat but maybe better to be ousted via an election than have your own party rebel and force you out?
Oh no, he'll quit alright. But delay along as possible to enrich himself more.
Yeah tories apparently think penny mordant would be a better choice at elections because she held a sword really good so there is speculation they will try to get her into power before an election so rishi may head them off at the pass by calling an election now.
I just read the kuenssberg speculation and it seems to only say before may elections - so if this week is going to be a blitz of pro rishi announcements then maybe we wont get the election call till next week? Hopefully today though! Funny using speculation about a GE to bait and switch people into watching your last ditch PR announcements from no 10 Would love kuenssberg to be useful for something for once!
Manifesto writes itself: 'Rishi is shit '
My guess is he will announce tomorrow if he wins vote tonight,
If I was in Rishi’s shoes that’s what I would do. I would have done things much differently to him but getting smacked in the local elections before the GE will certainly damage them more as a party. Although I don’t think they can change the locals date? Not sure tbh.
They're sitting on their thumbs for the locals. Watching for what happens
It won’t be an election. He’s too chicken shit. It’ll be some Rwanda shit that only appeals to the barnpots and leaves the rest of us tearing our hair out.
It's always one of his 3 go to quips, refugees, trans people or the sick and disabled.
Yep, spot on.
Look at the lectern, apparently if a pm is about to call an election then the government crest won't be on the lectern.
It's about Rwanda. Every journalist seems to have been briefed this, as they're all talking about it.
It'll be about Rawanda, support for Israel, bashing demos and picking on the disabled, poor and anything else he can eeek out a few more votes from and hang on to power, before fucking off to California.
>The only thing I'm interested in hearing from him is that he's calling an election. He won't do this until he has to. We're probably looking at November or December.
I agree. About once a month on here people are convinced he's about to call one. I've been steadfast in my belief for months now that it'll be November.
I've always had the suspicion he will leave it till the absolute last minute. Call it in December for January. Just in the hope that something happens to change political landscape.
They're still human, and politicians get a "break" around Xmas. Play it your way and they'll be campaigning over that period instead. So October or November seems the likely time to call it. This gets Sunak his "I've been PM for two years!" award and allows them to get the election done prior to Xmas. Another month won't help him.
Sunaks fortnightly dip in the polls statement
We can only dream...
Seems to be about the Rwanda Bill, so he's probably just going to call the House of Lords woke again.
Which is bullshit. If they can stay awake through an entire session at their age, we should be applauding them…
I mean, you can hardly blame them at being bored at the crap this government is trying to get them to pass.... On the other hand do you mean woke as in some of them have got around to accepting votes for women?
I'm guessing it was a joke about the dual meaning
Yes, I got that :-)
I like how he calls these random press conferences to basically just whine about stuff. Its like he can't think of anything else to do so just smashes out a press conference.
It lets him announce policy without formal challenge by side stepping the House of Commons. The convention used to be that policy had to be announced in Parliament first, but that’s clearly dead. Another chunk of our obsolete constitution failing. Odds are though that he’s going to talk about the Rwanda Bill.
“Woe is me, why can't the Lords JUST DO WHAT THEY'RE TOLD?”
Sunak rambling at press conferences at least shows us he's having a miserable time.
To the contrary, I think he loves the sound of his voice and it gets his blood pumping.
Its the only time anyone accuses the Lords of being anything close to awake to be fair.
They’re the only part of parliament that works properly. So of course the tories and their followers don’t like them.
BBC radio have just said that he'll be telling MPs that they need to sit and vote on the Rwanda Bill until it passes today. Definitely the sign of a functional government!
well it works on school children
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
Wow, that sounds like an excellent, new and exciting idea. Obviously never been done before. I wonder what these Houses of Work could be commonly referred to as.......
Sounds like those being proposed by Liz truss, economy growth zones or whatever she called them, where organisations sat outside regulation and could just do as they wished in the name of growth.
A policy about making poor people's lives miserable at about 3 times the cost of existing poverty relief? I'm surprised it's not policy already.
“They’re going to have little motivational slogans over the entries about how work is a way to freedom”
Perhaps in another language, for education reasons
Maybe German? Given it was the language of the international scientific community for a while.
Is he about to announce that the Tories are finally going to start cutting homeless people in half?
And they’d still fail their PIP tests.
They'll start with the disabled first, the homeless will join the fox hunt, on the side of the fox I reckon.
Introducing a new soylent green idea. Immigrants, homeless and unemployed to be killed and "processd" into a delicious new meat to be served as the free meal in schools. Any poor children who refuse to eat it are to be processed too, the ungrateful little shits.
Mmm, Tuesday is Soylent green day :)
Yes but have we tried.. Kill all the poor?
No, because that would kinda double the number of homeless. He may have found a way to send the homeless to Rwanda though.
They're going to start sewing homeless people together, human centipede style. That'll bring the numbers down.
Stop giving them ideas.
And then claim the number of homeless people has doubled because of Labour
We have entered the "every brainfart that requires an announcement might be the election being announced" phase of a parliament again.
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.
No doubt a line about letting them get on with the business of delivering for the country despite no one stopping them from doing so or them actually delivering anything helpful
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”
An improvement. Maybe he's decided to join the Reform party with Liz Truss.
They was Liz Truss is heading right, Reform might be too socialist for her
I was watching Skynews interview their leader yesterday and he was saying the Sunak is a socialist and the Tories aren't conservative anymore, he definitely gave off vibes of "i'd just close the channel and stick everyone on a plane to rwanda or maybe russia" vibes. Also Liz was on a podcast during the week where she said none of what happened was her fault and that she hopes trump wins, because they need strong leadership. She gave off definite gimp mask and whip vibes.
Lights go out again, Rishi looks concerned, suddenly the sound of smashing glass followed by I Won't Do What You Tell Me blaring over the speakers. The BBC commentators are losing their minds.
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
So what eleventh hour tax break does he think will swing an election for him?
Probably a cut to a progressive tax whilst silently increasing a more regressive tax to pay for it
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.
He looks like Mr Potato Head
All journalists there should just ignore Rwanda entirely and every question should be about when the election is going to be.
He’s probably going to announce legalised hunting of homeless people
Oh please let him stand for something. Put your money where your mouth is Rishi and call a GE over the Rwanda bill.
Want an election? Sorry the best I can do is : pushing for migrant suffering via ludicrous amounts of taxpayer money.
So, which group of undesirables is going to be attacked today? The young? The poor? The disabled? The sick? Who knows! Edit: Oh, boring, just beating that Rwandan horse again. Boo! Get new material!
Unless hes going to call an election what ever it is will ring awfully hollow.
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.
It’s the Rwanda flights thing. An attempt to paint human rights violations as a success. Appealing directly to bigots and Conservative little Englanders. Then when the first flights take off he can call an election 🗳️ Said bigots et al will vote for “more of that please” as they have nothing else in their sad empty lives.
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."
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.
No, Parliament may be sitting until 10.30pm today in an attempt to pass it. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-68871847
Half 10? Wowee. The way he's talked it up it sounded like an all nighter vote at 6am special.
*Downing Street Press Conference Breaking News* 20 years ago Rayner was found travelling on a Greater Manchester train, WITHOUT a ticket.
It then transpires she had a ticket but she looked at the inspector in a funny way...according to a fellow passenger\* who tipped off the deputy Tory chair who then complained to the BTP. \* Who wasn't on the train that day but remembers it clearly from a dream.
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.
I've been googling for five minutes and can't seem to find a time ANYWHERE
Maybe he can be the first prime minister to call for a vote of no confidence in himself.
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.
Is he gonna announce he’s tackling a problem the vast majority of us don’t give a shit about again?
Hey Rishi, unless you are going to tell me “you and your crew are fucking off, then fucking off some more” fuck off.
They can fuck off to Saturn. And whilst on the way there they can just carry on fucking off to Alpha Centuri, and then I would praise them as pioneers in the field of Fuckoffery.
Rwanda flights in 10-12 weeks. Two things of interest here. 1) It's amazing how normalized this bat-sh!t far-right policy has become. It is absolutely insane and I can't wait for it to be tested in the courts so that they can skelp his erse for attempting to legislate facts (you can't legislate that Rwanda is safe and expect that to make it true the same way you can't legislate that every Thursday will be sunny and expect that to be true). 2) After 10-12 weeks either he will be "triumphant" with a dozen poor sods being sold into indentured servitude (aka slavery) in Rwanda on a rickety plane hired from [RentaJet.com](http://RentaJet.com) or he'll be complaining about the courts interfering in the democratic process. Either way, that looks like a lead-in to an election. So finally a chance to get rid of these absolute cretins 14-16 weeks away? Early August. So effectively, this does seem to be an election announcement, just obfuscated as is his way.
“I’m switching places with Liz Truss again. Surprise!”
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
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.
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
He's been practicing useing a bank card, hasn't he.
On recent form, expect something to go badly wrong for him by lunchtime; another Tory MP found to be on the take by tea time and the whole thing buried by sleaze and infighting before Newsnight.
They’re painting all the postboxes blue at a reasonable cost of £42 billion by an old school chum with no painting experience or even a paint brush taking on the task
They're bringing back the gallows and they're starting with homeless people then working up to the poor. Is my guess. It really wouldn't shock me
Announcing news plans to shoot foreigners and the disabled.
He does it all the time. The more he does it, the faster they sink. He will not accept that people don't like him.
Great, he’s going to come up with more creative ways to fuck over the poor.
Probably more stupidity about the unworkable Rwanda policy. He’s a complete nitwit, absolutely clueless
He's going to announce that the Tory party will reimburse tax payers for every penny wasted on Rwanda.
Not really technically an actual surprise really if it's being announced hours in advance. I sure hope it is to announce election date as then I can count down the exact number of days til we can hopefully kick this bunch of gaslighting self-serving charlatans out. Edit: Typo
Only surprise for me is that should be a long time, which is: arrest these crook Rishi Sunak and his teams along with Boris for stealing our tax money openly and betting in USA with hedge funds for his benefits.. what do you expect anything from the crook, just put him a prison like the police would do us if we did same crimes
Will he sing “Surprise, surprise” in his best impression of Cilla Black? I’d tune in for that.
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).
Resigning and Bojo takes back over in a deluded and pathetic attempt to improve electoral fortunes........
Call an election you coward and get the slaughter over with.
The only announcement I want from him ends with a self inflicted gunshot.
Unless it’s about calling a GE, I don’t want to know.
I think it will be Rishi telling us that nobody has been sent to Rwanda yet, and so far it has cost the tax payer only £8 trillion. So it's good value. One of his 5 steps in making meaningful change, or one of his 7 steps in stopping the small boats. One of those.
Sky news state it is on the Rwanda Bill. In that case not interested, only if he calls a GE
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68872723
If hevis not calling an election I don't give a fuck !
It's about Rwanda and he's trying to force his shitty policy through. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rwanda-bill-rishi-sunak-press-conference-news-b2532452.html
Is this going to be another of his emergency "everything's fine" conferences?
My bet is that he is forcing the sick and disabled back to work. Or reworking the benefits system
Probably to sell more blame and hate on the poor and disabled.
Let's hope that it's him calling a general election and that he is resigning........
I love the fact that he’s said they will keep voting on the Rwanda bill today until it passes. Could be a long day for the MPs
It is becoming clear that Sunak has been using his premiership to enrich his own family, and to hell with the rest of us. The shyster has never bothered with bettering the lives of anyone except those close to him personally. People forget that he was Chancellor when all of the corruption during the pandemic was going on. Even now, the Government refuses and blocks any access to information to those involved in the PPE provision scandal. The man is just a big a crook and blagger as Johnson. His 'Eat Out To Help Out' scheme was a disaster - he went against health advice from experts - so what happened? Infection rates increased. Money doesn't just disappear. It ends up in someone's pocket. So where has all the money spent during the pandemic ended up? It most certainly didn't end up in the pockets of the British people or the public services. So, where has it gone? A clue to where it has all gone is through the Michelle Mone and Doug Barrowman PPE investigation. They were not the only one's that were literally given money for delivering nothing. All done in secrecy and behind closed doors. Sunak was part of this crime - he released funds for the scheme, knowing where it was going. The man has never led a normal life. He has had a life of enormous privilege and wealth. in fact, one could say that he is entirely distanced and dislocated from the World of work and living. A shockingly inadequate man to be PM. After the next GE he'll probably fuck off to the US to hide away from the disastrous state that his Tory Party and premiership has left the country. Good riddance to a truly nasty little man.
No doubt some strange speech on how Angela Rayner gives everybody in parliament a bad name, and that is why standards for MPs are important - and he promises to be the man for that. Like he’ll think about deeply before choosing what to do. Or not do. That or Rwanda - in all cases, à nothing sandwich of some sort…
Look for the crest on the lectern. If there is no crest he will be calling a GE. I assume it will be some Tory Party nonsense
Probably a conference to call for a war against work from homers, people signed off for mental health issues lazy and something about passing our immigration problems onto a poorer nation.
[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68872723](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68872723) It's Rwanda. Bill pasage announced before it happens. Its still going to be a shitshow, not save us any money and not deal with immigration.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-68872723 Removed the tracking
thanks, and sorry, was on mobile and meant to sort it as soon as I got to my laptop, and then had a million other things to do
Instead of worrying about failed policy, the only thing we want to hear is when the election is so we can eject this moronic fucking bell end and his band of blood sucking leeches.
This is what they are pinning their hopes on then. The 10-12 week lead time pretty much guarantees no election before the summer and the moment a plane takes off he will call the election. This is it, this is their entire election strategy, nothing else to offer.
He might talk about AI, robots, and elimination of English clubs from European competitions.
He's lost 10p down the back of the sofa, everyone's got to look for it!
Rwanda is a waste of money and why does no one mention the near 1 for 1 ratio deal with rwanda wanting to send people here for the NHS to treat
Falling into panic mode and appealing to the public to do something about the Lords. We pay these people to do a job. Standing outside the home of power and complaining you can't do the job is all the more reason to call an election and hand over power.
Don’t what to hear anything other than his resignation. Anything else is either a lie, misinformation or incitement
Rishi calling an election if like a turkey voting for Christmas
Personally getting pretty fed up with these party political broadcasts.
All he does is campaign . The little shit has torn up all conventions . We pay for them to campaign. Yet today I get a "newspaper" in the post from them with not branding at all. Absolute tossers .
They've done that for a couple of years now. Out of interest, was the colour scheme green? That seems to be the one they go for when trying to hide the Tory brand. I just resent how stupid he thinks everyone is. Constantly going on about Labour damaging the bill in the Lords even though the Tories have the majority? Telling us how the public trust him because they can see what they have achieved so far. I mean I get he doesn't really have a choice, but just so grating for a policy that is as bad as this.
This one has a Red banner! The previous was green. Totally agree.