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”
Sunak has a net worth over 800 million. I doubt many can afford him as a clock puncher.
Less usefull than a chocolate teapot… nice.
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.
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.
So does Britain. Something like 75 of the last 100 years have had Conservatives in power. Obviously, what that means has changed over time, but it’s clear that every time Labour gets a shot at governing, Brits yell “Not good enough!” and put the Tories back in office.
I wouldn’t really call the Labour party progressive
I’m old enough to remember when Thatcher first became PM and from what I’ve seen Britain’s long term memory is pretty shit.
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
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.
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.
The FPTP system in the UK is what makes this incredibly likely. Yes labour won huge with their Tory lite platform, but turnout was shit and their huge majority win isn’t even 35 percent of the people who even bothered voting. That’s a very fragile landslide and it will turn around when these milquetoast liberals fail to change anything (because they don’t want to change anything).
Labour got less votes than 2019. What a landslide! I’m not sure their Tory lite platform did them any favours. They were just Not The Tories and reform split the Tory vote because they were also Not The Tories and promised that everything would be perfect if we just hate immigrants a bit more
Unfortunately we won’t get proper socialists after that, we’ll get fascists.
Yeah, FPTP is a shitty system and needs to be changed. But it’s disconcerting to consider how many hard right Reform MPs we’d have now if we had proportional representation.
To be sure, but with actual labour supporters looking at that and thinking “it’s because Tories didn’t actually keep their promises to stop immigration” and “let’s opress trans people too” I honestly don’t think the resulting government with a few more in opposition would’ve been worse than something where an actual left party might’ve succeeded. You know, one that provides a revolutionary vision of hope.
“I do think people need hope, but it needs to be what I call ordinary hope, realistic hope,” Starmer said.
https://inthesetimes.com/article/britain-keir-starmer-corbyn-election-serious
This government is doomed.
Yeah that sounds about right.
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
Unless you’re trans, then he was the first prime minister to openly mock and ridicule you and your ilk
Don’t worry, Starmer’s already onboard as number 2 in that list!
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Very true. Just not to the ultra nationalists and racists that ran to reform.
I enjoyed his leadership pledges. He wanted to fix the economy he screwed up as chansoler
Why does Rishi always look like his mum knitted him?
He’s got a 7 million dollar home in California that he’s gonna hide in.
We really need to be able trigger by-elections for nonperformance, he’s still an MP after all. Fall below minimum attendance at the commons and can’t prove it’s because you’re doing constituency work and a recall petition should be triggered.
That outfit looks like it was purchased by a stylist and the tags were removed just before taking this picture. “Make sure you pull up the sleeves so it looks like you’re hard working!”
…easier to eat his manwich sandwiches…
Pretty standard move in Parliamentary Politics.
I bet Truss, Sunak and their ilk with find lots of work as talking heads on American and British conservative shows.
I haven’t seen an Englishman take that harsh a blow since Hugh Grant!
If only leaders could step down before the inevitable loss for the good of their voters and their party… Cough Biden… Cough Trudeau… Cough
UK doesn’t work like you think it does. The PM is not a publicly elected position like in the USA.
You vote for the party. The winning party tells you who, of their elected members, will have that role. The party can replace the PM on a vote.
it’s like the speaker of the house in the USA. Remember all the voting and stuff the Republicans did earlier? Similar.
This is exactly right - the exact same “Let’s
burn down the systemsell off the system to the highestbriberbidder” sentiment that’s been ruling the Republicans has been eating away at the Tories as well. Now, every time leadership fails to make changes, they toss them out and put someone more extreme in their place (until you hit a Liz Truss)Yeah I’m Canadian, our system works fairly similarly. We vote liberal or conservative, but the leader can be different depending on the party vote.
Our Trudeau could still decide to not run for PM next election though if he decided not to run.
Your party can’t tell you to lead the party if you weren’t voted in as part of that party since you didn’t run at all.
Then you end up with Boris, Truss, Sunaak in a single parliament and then wondering why your party is seen as being incapable of selecting anyone decent and then a crushing electoral defeat.
Depressing that the UK clearly still wants a conservative government, they’ve just, after 14 years, finally realized the Tories are incompetent perverts.
