[Andy McDandy]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source= ... yf4irkAr7Q

Good piece by Andrew Rawnsley in the Observer, arguing that while the speech on Friday was one of Sunak's better moments, it's meaningless in the context of his management of the Tories and their track record, right up to this week.

[Bones McCoy]

I love this country, my family and I owe it so much.

Says Ricky.

Rest assured that's one debt that will never be repaid.

[Crabcakes]

Mmm. I can see how “My family and I have extracted so much wealth from it” could be smoothed and edited down to “My family and I owe it so much”.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Sunak on -19 in the Blue Wall.

[davidjay]

His colour has nothing to do with it.

[mattomac]

I love how the puff piece with him and his wife just made him look even creepier.

[Youngian]

I love how the puff piece with him and his wife just made him look even creepier.

[Crabcakes]

Sunak apparently refused to rule out a May election in a radio interview today.

I reckon he might do it - he knows he’ll lose, so might as well get it over with before he’s embarrassingly ousted.

[Abernathy]

Can’t see how he can possibly believe that there is even a remote chance of the Tories winning the election.

Even the silver medal of a hung parliament isn’t worth a bucket of shite.

So yes, I’ve thought for a while now that he’ll call it for May. The “plan is working” “Britain has turned the corner”, “Don’t go back to square one” narrative is continuing to be plugged, desperately shit as it is, and of course, “Labour has no plan”. Well, yes, now that Hunt has nicked a huge part of it (!).

Re : “No going back to square one” reminds me of this desperation, from 1997 :

[Andy McDandy]

Even the silver medal of a hung parliament isn’t worth a bucket of shite

They've stiffed the LDs, and the DUP. Who is there left who'd want to work with them, knowing you'd just be enabling all manner of cuntery and then carrying the can?

[davidjay]

Even the silver medal of a hung parliament isn’t worth a bucket of shite

They've stiffed the LDs, and the DUP. Who is there left who'd want to work with them, knowing you'd just be enabling all manner of cuntery and then carrying the can?

Corbyn's mob, who are apparently incredibly popular, seem to like them.

[Youngian]

Hard at work to turn the tide

[Andy McDandy]

Serious Lieutenant Wolfe in Platoon trying to buddy up to Sergeant Barnes energy there.

[kreuzberger]

Given his predicament, is he blaming his satnav?

[satnav]

He keeps doing these meet the people events particularly in the North and they always look cringey to say the least. The one is the picture took place in a Wetherspoon's near Rotherham at 10 o'clock in the morning. How many ordinary voters would go out of their way to meet the PM in a pub at 10 o'clock in the morning?

Why do his minders keep letting him take part in these events? They are not winning him any votes or improving his poll ratings. They just prove that he is totally out of touch with ordinary voters.

[Youngian]

Why do his minders keep letting him take part in these events? They are not winning him any votes or improving his poll ratings. They just prove that he is totally out of touch with ordinary voters.

The party’s harking back to John Major who in Tory mythology managed to turn the election around and win in 1992 by going out on the stump. Didn’t do him any harm but he was up against Kinnock not Starmer.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Major also weant heavily against devolution in the campaign, and misinterpreted doing better than Mrs Thatcher in Scotland as a sign this was a winning card for the future. He duly got no seats in Scotland at all in 1997. Rishi is likely to beat that, if not Major's performance in England.

[davidjay]

Why do his minders keep letting him take part in these events? They are not winning him any votes or improving his poll ratings. They just prove that he is totally out of touch with ordinary voters.

The party’s harking back to John Major who in Tory mythology managed to turn the election around and win in 1992 by going out on the stump. Didn’t do him any harm but he was up against Kinnock not Starmer.

They forget his 1997 soapbox.

[satnav]

I think Major got away with the meet the people stuff because he came from a fairly humble background but it really doesn't work for a multi-millionaire who hasn't got a clue about poverty and struggling to put food on the table.

[Oboogie]

Major's ace card was surely "I'm not Thatcher"?