As an American who is absolutely horrified and embarrassed about our own political climate and voter behavior, it’s very good to see a sane and dull transfer of power.
Sunak’s speech after stepping down:
Whilst he has been my political opponent, Keir Starmer, will shortly become our prime minister. In this job, his successes will be all our successes, and I wish him and his family well. Whatever our disagreements in this campaign, He is a decent, public spirited man who I respect.
He and his family deserve the very best of our understanding as they make the huge transition to their new lives behind this door. And as he grapples with this most demanding of jobs in an increasingly unstable world.
He didn’t have to do this. It has nothing to do with the transfer of power. Just tradition to run away when you lose but you’re 100% allowed to stay party leader
Not in UK’s Conservative Party. They don’t mess around, if the leader doesn’t deliver, they’re out, no questions asked.
Except it has nothing to do with vacating Downing St and the transition of power
I mean, they literally already have a king.
Yep our country is screwed in many ways but at least we haven’t so far dabbled in that kind of madness. It is fundamentally a properly functioning democracy.
And, like with the US, you now have progressives inheriting a house that conserves shat in for over a decade. Austerity, Brexit, etc.
I’m curious to see how good Britain’s long term memory is. America forgets about the dangers of conservatism all too quickly.
I wouldn’t really call the Labour party progressive
Obviously not feeling remotely sorry for him, but it makes me laugh when other MPs pile on the prime minister for their losses.
Like… it’s all of you fuckers that have done this over the past 14 years. Rishi was part of that as well, but Conservatives had already lost by the time he became PM.
Yeah don’t get me wrong Rishi was absolute shit, but the man was an upgrade compared to Truss and BoJo
Very true. Just not to the ultra nationalists and racists that ran to reform.
Unless you’re trans, then he was the first prime minister to openly mock and ridicule you and your ilk
Why does Rishi always look like his mum knitted him?
No doubt he’ll be straight off to a private job somewhere, raking in millions, despite being less useful than a chocolate teapot. Despite what he says online.
“Paid speaker”
He earned his stripes fucking the poors so now he will be rewarded by the big club for his services.
Job well done, sucks to suck peasants!
Don’t forget his 115 grand of the taxpayers money that he’ll be getting every year for the rest of his life. Pocket change to him of course, but you know he’s going to claim every single penny of it just for the joy of fucking over regular people, and then probably invest it in arms manufacturing or oil and coal companies or private prisons or something else evil like that, as a treat.
Less usefull than a chocolate teapot… nice.
I feel like the UK is lagging behind and we will see a rubber banding effect. After a decade of cons we will see a weak centrist labour party that will try to right the wrongs of the previous government while also taking all the blame for it. Then come next election cycle, because they were too pussyfoot to change FPTP, a stronger than ever right wing party will undo anything.
But he’s their best leader ever. Labour has not been this strong since I’ve been following uk politics.
Labour were like 1% point better than 2019. The only difference was the collapse of SNP, and the collapse of the Tory nationalist vote that ran to Reform.
Labour just walked the ball into the open net.
At least they managed to do that, unlike the center-left in other European countries.
Not sure it’s centre left.
They campaigned on being hard on immigration and not increasing taxes to increase spending.
Keir has been quite deceptive and dropped all the policies he claimed in the leadership. He could be more right wing than Blair. So probably center right. The right wing of the party took over. Funded by business.
The thing about Labour is they always try and walk it in.
it really was a ludicrous display
Depressing that the UK clearly still wants a conservative government, they’ve just, after 14 years, finally realized the Tories are incompetent perverts.
Don’t you think he looks tired?
