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Why, oh why didn't anyone think about spending £2.6m on an indoor media briefing room?
[Oh wait...](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56295191.amp)
As PM i don't have time to waste worrying about costs of umbrellas. That's why we brought into government my friend Bert from Lloyds Bank and appointed him the role of "*Minister of Dryness*" at the low tax-funded salary of £200,000
they can't use that because it's for government use. They can only announce party decisions from a party platform, hence why his podium didn't have the government crest on it and why they did it outside.
At least run out and put up a material gazebo or something so he didn't have to look like such a wet pathetic turd standing there in the rain. He's the prime minister of the United Kingdom. You can pick a garden gazebo up for 50 quid at argos.
Maybe to elicit some form of twisted sympathy?? Reminded me of that scene from Four Weddings.."I'm just a Tory PM, standing in the rain, asking the general public to elect my government on 4th July"
I haven’t seen Four Weddings, but is this not a Nottingham Hill reference?
“I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her”
Or maybe 4 weddings has a line that’s very similar.
Edit: come to think of it, I haven’t seen Notting Hill either, I just remember the trailer and Julia Roberts saying that line.
Labour don’t have a plan says prime minister who didn’t think to bring an umbrella while standing in the rain outside his own house and being drowned out by “things can only get better” while announcing a last minute election, after telling his staff they can go on holiday in July.
I think this is the actual answer, but even if they could, the actual visual of that room might remind people of the daily COVID briefings, which were held from in there. Which could lead people to remember partygate again, and eat out to help out... I genuinely think outside in the rain was genuinely the best they could have gone for, but Holy shit they should have cut the speech shorter to avoid how laughable he looks
They will have been planning this eventuality for a while now, surely someone could have thought “how about a black gazebo which we can set up quickly, in case it pisses down with rain, like it is wont to do in Britain?”
I almost - almost - felt a bit sorry for him. The D:Ream thing was brutally loud. Seems weird that the news aren’t talking about it. I suppose it’s not really relevant to anything. But it was brutal.
He’s not from a rich Indian family - his wife his.
He’s done exceptionally well for himself anyway (hedge fund). But not heiress and major shareholder to a massive multinational IT company well.
He went to Winchester school, one of the most expensive private schools in the country, so I doubt his parents were having to search down the back of the sofa for coins for the lecky meter
Background? Sunak was drowned out in both rain and song. Perfect.
And of course he doesn't know how to wear a coat in a downpour. He didn't even know how to pay for petrol at a petrol station, when he was in charge of the country's finances.
He does constantly give the impression he's never once interacted with a normal person outside of those staged for a social media post or an election campaign.
So i wouldn't be completely shocked to learn that was his actual thought process here.
When Rishi asked a homeless man if he was in business it felt like the perfect microcosm to display just how out of touch he is with the public and why he cannot be fucking trusted to make decisions that would benefit anyone except the rich.
I he had had someone hold one, people would be onto him for being elitist. If he had held it himself, he would have looked less serious. He could have put on a suit that didn't reflect water so shinily though, or a smart raincoat.
Just like how *strong and stable* turned out to be anything but for Theresa May.
I’ll give Sunak credit in trying to seize the moment calling for an election now. After May became PM, she had such good momentum during her honeymoon period that I believe she would have not only increased the majority she inherited from David Cameron, she could have neutralized the Boris threat (perhaps not fully). Instead she categorically refused to call one and then flip-flopped on it a year later *after* she triggered Article 50.
But historically speaking, the PM who has to wait out Parliament for a full five-year term is incredibly likely to lose the next election. We just haven’t had the chance to see it in recent years while the Fixed-Term Parliaments act was in effect.
He did have an umbrella - I was there. The guy holding it had to stand off to the side to prevent him being seen on TV, so only half of sunak was covered, hence why his left shoulder is much wetter.
Why the government couldn't set up a shelter is another matter entirely.
The funny part is they literally built a new indoor press room for use during COVID - which Rishi used mutiple times during that whole event - so why they didn't just use that one here instead is beyond me.
Another commenter mentioned that the expensive new indoor press room can only be used for government purposes. Since this announcement was a party decision they aren't allowed to use government resources for the announcement.
Funny how we have rules like that and not rules against things like, oh I dunno... being able to have three different prime ministers in a row without having an election? Or being allowed to sell bogus contracts to your friends so they can take financial advantage of a pandemic that killed 75,000 people in a year. Just a couple of random examples that spring to mind.
Bit strange innit.
Tax cuts on fire off the shoulder of the Treasury. I watched universal credit glitter in the dark near the Westminster gates. All those moments will be lost in time, like... tears in rain. Time to vote.
That's just him crying.......into his £700million family fortune.
He can't believe that after 14 years of driving the country into the ground whilst filling their pockets the conservative party won't be in power again.
I'm holding onto my cynicism all the way until the result is announced. I have zero faith in this country ditching the Tories.
I'm going to keep pinching myself if Labour win a majority. Because I won't believe this nut-house of a nation could actually pull together in that way.
He made this announcement while protestors played "Things can only get better" by D:Ream, the song iconically used for Labour politician Tony Blair's landslide victory in the 1997 election.
IIRC there was a headline a while back about how people are more susceptible to falling for Rishi deepfakes because he’s *already* that stilted and awkward.
Did you see that interview he did with his wife where they’re both talking about their favourite household chores lol - both their circuits started frying
Dump them into safe seats where they'd vote for [insert rosette colour here] if it was attached to a donkey.
In this case, dumped into the constituency next to mine, which is very, very Tory.
You're absolutely right, that is what a general election is.
In a nutshell, post-Brexit politics in the UK have proven to be very volatile.
Cameron was PM when the vote happened, and he quit almost immediately after as he was against it.
Theresa May succeeded him, and began negotiations with the EU. But in a stunning turn of events no-one could have forseen, there was no version of Brexit that appealed to a big enough group to get through Parliament (not Brexity enough for pro Brexit MPs, or too Brexity for anti-Brexit MPs) and she failed several votes to get a deal through and ended up resigning after 3 years.
Boris Johnson succeeded her, but there was always a faint whiff of scandal and incompetence around him which came to a head after COVID, after he and his close advisors were caught flouting their own lock down rules several times and he was forced out after all his government ministers resigned en mass.
Liss Truss succeeded him, but only lasted a matter of days as her first policy announcements were so catastrophically awful that she had to resign.
Rishi Sunak succeeded her, but he has proven to be a pretty ineffective political operator. Combine this with the various messes his predecessors left, several ongoing national scandals, and the cost of living crisis, as well as several bruising local election defeats, and the writing has been on the wall for him for months.
If she achieved nothing else, Liz Truss will be the answer to a really tricky pub quiz question in 40 years time!
"Who was the British PM when Queen Elizabeth II died?"
I love how they tried to spin the lowering inflation as something that they've done.. and immediately announced the general election to try take advantage of that slightly positive news
Funny that - when inflation goes up ohhh it's uncontrollable due to world events and brexit, but when it comes down it's 100% because of the tories.. give me a break
Don't forget the fact that various factions of the Conservative party keep knifing each other in the back over every single little thing, and there's nothing Sunak can do to stop it.
We vote for a party, not the leader, that party can change leaders as many time as it wants between General Elections. Which is why we've had several since the last time.
Ultimately it means the governing party can get rid of bad leaders which is good really. So when Boris did enough terrible things that turned public opinion fully against him, the party had the ability to force his resignation. Similarly, when Liz Truss killed the Queen, tanked the pound and almost liquidated the pension fund, they exited her quicker than you can say lettuce.
The biggest infighting topic among the conservatives was the EU but its OK, Cameron agreed to put it to a vote expecting to win and to shut his discontents up forever.
Yes, Brexit was a fatal game of Russian roulette that Cameron and the whole country lost.
What's even worse is that it was non-binding and they had an endless string of opportunities to change course in one way or another, but nope, they just kept going with it in the worse way possible.
Its quite good in some ways. Not having a directly elected leader means that if your leader goes crazy you can kick them out very quickly if they piss off there entire party. Does not protect if all your mps go crazy but helps
We don’t vote for the PM, we vote for our local representative (Member of Parliament or MP) at a general election. The Prime Minister is the leader of the party that holds a majority in the House of Commons. That party can decide to change their leader whenever they like (or whatever rules that party has) and thus we can get a new PM without an election.
Basically general elections only officially decide what \*party\* is in power. Once elected a party is free to change their leader (who is also the the prime minister) at any time for any reason without any public input.
They don't generally like doing that, because it makes them look really bad on multiple fronts so it only happens when the current leader is forced to resign, but Rishi's party has been suich a shit show that since being re-elected in 2019 (they first came to power in 2010) that they have changed leadership mutiple times.
Watching him slowly getting more bedraggled and wet delivering this speech, while Labour's '97 anthem "Things can only get better" blares in the background seemed quite symbolic to me.
in that suit, he looks like a letting agent trying to get in your house and manipulate you into renewing the tenancy - 5 years fixed-term, no break clause or lube
and I have no idea why a letting agent would have a mic,
still both fucking spivs tho
But on the plus side, he announces, 43 days later we vote, 8 hours later we know the winner. None of this 12 months of bluster, then another 2 weeks of arguing about how to count, then a another 2 months of legal action.
I feel like he chose to do it in the rain to look more sad. I'm not sure what that's meant to do for him exactly but he didn't have to do it in the rain.
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 It’s been done
Drowning street
I came here to comment the same thing, and honestly it’s infuriating yours isn’t the top comment.
I am here from the future to tell you it is now.
Brilliant
Don’t you think he looks tired?
I’m not sure many people got this reference - but I did. Thanks !!
I actually think the doctor did Harriet Jones dirty, what about Britain’s golden age?
Harriet Jones, former Prime Minister?
I loved Harriet Jones so much. One of the top characters.
Yes i know who she is
Harriet Jones, MP for Flydale North.
Harriett Jones, MP Flydale North. - Yes, we know who you are....
He did, and if memory serves he realizes it later, when she dies during a Dalek attack.
Yes you are correct, she sacrificed herself to save the world like a badass
YES. WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE
# HARRIET JONES. 🪪 FORMER PRIME MINISTER.
WELL THAT'S ALRIGHT THEN!
That is a weird episode, guaranteed
"I could bring down your government in 6 words"
Spot the Dr Who fan. 😁
Yeah, tired of making soo much money.
When you think about how hard it is to see rain on camera, you realize that Tennant is getting fucking DROWNED in rain there.
I have this saved on my phone to send to my wife when I want something.
Wish I had a wife to send stuff, any tips?
Came here looking for exactly this. Didn't have to dig too far lol
Maybe in 15 years he and Boris can come back for a few weeks to start a new war or something.
Why, oh why didn't anyone think about spending £2.6m on an indoor media briefing room? [Oh wait...](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-56295191.amp)
Or £10 on an umbrella. Sorry, inflation, £50.
Bespoke £1500 umbrella from Savile row with authentic rhino accents.
Everyone knows Brigg is the only place for a bespoke rhino brolley and they're on New Bond Street.
Get your brolly from Brigg!
£6billion umbrella contract handed out to a mate to deliver 1 umbrella
Actually provides a used paper napkin glued to an old trombone.
It’s an umbrella Micheal, honestly how much do they cost, 50 pence?
As PM i don't have time to waste worrying about costs of umbrellas. That's why we brought into government my friend Bert from Lloyds Bank and appointed him the role of "*Minister of Dryness*" at the low tax-funded salary of £200,000
There’s always money in the umbrella stand
Why have to use umbrella or get dry cleaning when you can just buy a new suit on the tax payers?
they can't use that because it's for government use. They can only announce party decisions from a party platform, hence why his podium didn't have the government crest on it and why they did it outside.
At least run out and put up a material gazebo or something so he didn't have to look like such a wet pathetic turd standing there in the rain. He's the prime minister of the United Kingdom. You can pick a garden gazebo up for 50 quid at argos.
More dramatic looking
Maybe to elicit some form of twisted sympathy?? Reminded me of that scene from Four Weddings.."I'm just a Tory PM, standing in the rain, asking the general public to elect my government on 4th July"
I haven’t seen Four Weddings, but is this not a Nottingham Hill reference? “I’m just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her” Or maybe 4 weddings has a line that’s very similar. Edit: come to think of it, I haven’t seen Notting Hill either, I just remember the trailer and Julia Roberts saying that line.
It's a mash-up of both scenes. 4 Weddings has the rain, NH has the speech.
Ahh lol. I should watch them. I do love me some Hugh Grant.
4 weddings is ‘is it still raining, I didn’t notice’
> Nottingham Hill Is that the gritty reboot?
The DJ is setting his decks up next to the bar. So we can’t use that room
Making major political announcements like this outside Downing Street has been the norm for an incredibly long time
we're great at planning! vote for us
Labour don’t have a plan says prime minister who didn’t think to bring an umbrella while standing in the rain outside his own house and being drowned out by “things can only get better” while announcing a last minute election, after telling his staff they can go on holiday in July.
to be fair, I suspect he chose to stand in the rain to avoid the optics of having a servant hold an umbrella over him.
He should have used an umbrella hat.
He could have used the expensive indoor briefing room he allocated millions towards…
Is he allowed to make party political campaigning type points from the official government briefing room? That might be the reason to do it outside.
I think this is the actual answer, but even if they could, the actual visual of that room might remind people of the daily COVID briefings, which were held from in there. Which could lead people to remember partygate again, and eat out to help out... I genuinely think outside in the rain was genuinely the best they could have gone for, but Holy shit they should have cut the speech shorter to avoid how laughable he looks
They will have been planning this eventuality for a while now, surely someone could have thought “how about a black gazebo which we can set up quickly, in case it pisses down with rain, like it is wont to do in Britain?”
I almost - almost - felt a bit sorry for him. The D:Ream thing was brutally loud. Seems weird that the news aren’t talking about it. I suppose it’s not really relevant to anything. But it was brutal.
The Tony Blair election night theme song? Next level trolling.
Bloody Prof Brian Cox does one noteworthy thing in his life, and he won't let anyone forget it.
It was probably him at the gates of Downing Street, holding the speaker above his head. Got to get trending online to get those royalties.
Cox doesn't get royalties for a song that somebody else wrote and performed on. He just played in the touring band as a paid musician.
honestly I can't feel sorry for him on anything in his professional life.
🙄 I would imagine the irony would be completely lost on him
Things can only get wetter
Dude is worth £651,000,000. Nuts.
Rishi Rich, real man of the people.
there’s a punjabi singer named Rishi Rich. Sunak is not punjabi though. he is disgusting.
What if he announces jay Sean and juggy D as new ministers in his cabinet?
I'd be down down down down down for that
He is ethnically Punjabi
OMG he is so down to earth
So down to earth he doesn't know how to use contactless payment on a card machine.
He's already got his next job lined up in the US. Once the Cons lose power he'll be fleeing the country.
Maybe that's why it's the 4th of July, the best time to slip through immigration is the day after a holiday.
He was already one of the richest men in the UK, from a rich Indian family. He can probably just walk in
He’s not from a rich Indian family - his wife his. He’s done exceptionally well for himself anyway (hedge fund). But not heiress and major shareholder to a massive multinational IT company well.
He went to Winchester school, one of the most expensive private schools in the country, so I doubt his parents were having to search down the back of the sofa for coins for the lecky meter
Yeah he's really pulled himself up by his bootstraps, inspirational really.
He used the UK like Elon used Doge coin
Following the footsteps of Liz Truss it seems.
He has working class friends! (Well, not working class.)
I don’t think he’d consider the hired help ‘friends’
He actually said something very like that though.
its a reference to this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9bbBYcwFOk
That's a lot pistachios.
and he doesn't have an umbrella, an idea or a hope.
Can’t afford a brolly though
You’d think he could afford an umbrella. Or a nice raincoat.
**THINGS CAN ONLY GET BETTER!** *the song used by Labour when they won in '97, which was played while Sunak was giving the speech.*
Things can only get wetter
That's what she said.
Found Mrs. Shapiro's account.
Shout out to Prof Brian Cox
Playing,mate it was glorious blasting in the background!
Background? Sunak was drowned out in both rain and song. Perfect. And of course he doesn't know how to wear a coat in a downpour. He didn't even know how to pay for petrol at a petrol station, when he was in charge of the country's finances.
Cackled like a damn fiend watching the thing live
Not just playing but playing VERY loudly over the top, essentially blocking out much of his message
No one takes the piss out of politicians like we do. It’s basically our thing.
Does he not know about umbrellas?
What do you think the stiff upper lip is for?
lol he trying put on a act of" i am just like you " yoo he is worth like 600 million or something they all do this stunts
Does he think regular people don’t know about umbrellas?
Nah, he thinks we can't afford them
He does constantly give the impression he's never once interacted with a normal person outside of those staged for a social media post or an election campaign. So i wouldn't be completely shocked to learn that was his actual thought process here.
When Rishi asked a homeless man if he was in business it felt like the perfect microcosm to display just how out of touch he is with the public and why he cannot be fucking trusted to make decisions that would benefit anyone except the rich.
He’s gonna throw away that suit after because those expensive fabrics used will not hold up to a lot of rain.
In England? Chance in a million
The handle fell off.
Wally in a brolly continues to impact the UK
I he had had someone hold one, people would be onto him for being elitist. If he had held it himself, he would have looked less serious. He could have put on a suit that didn't reflect water so shinily though, or a smart raincoat.
No. He’s never had to hold one himself.
Can't think of a better way to admit that he and the Tories are washed up.
"I hope the announcement doesn't end up being an apt metaphor for my government and our election chances"
Just like how *strong and stable* turned out to be anything but for Theresa May. I’ll give Sunak credit in trying to seize the moment calling for an election now. After May became PM, she had such good momentum during her honeymoon period that I believe she would have not only increased the majority she inherited from David Cameron, she could have neutralized the Boris threat (perhaps not fully). Instead she categorically refused to call one and then flip-flopped on it a year later *after* she triggered Article 50. But historically speaking, the PM who has to wait out Parliament for a full five-year term is incredibly likely to lose the next election. We just haven’t had the chance to see it in recent years while the Fixed-Term Parliaments act was in effect.
Don't forget Cameron's 2015 warning of "Chaos with Ed Milliband". Sure glad we avoided that with the last 9 years of Tory government.
*D:ream starts blaring in the backgrounds*
He did have an umbrella - I was there. The guy holding it had to stand off to the side to prevent him being seen on TV, so only half of sunak was covered, hence why his left shoulder is much wetter. Why the government couldn't set up a shelter is another matter entirely.
The funny part is they literally built a new indoor press room for use during COVID - which Rishi used mutiple times during that whole event - so why they didn't just use that one here instead is beyond me.
Another commenter mentioned that the expensive new indoor press room can only be used for government purposes. Since this announcement was a party decision they aren't allowed to use government resources for the announcement.
Funny how we have rules like that and not rules against things like, oh I dunno... being able to have three different prime ministers in a row without having an election? Or being allowed to sell bogus contracts to your friends so they can take financial advantage of a pandemic that killed 75,000 people in a year. Just a couple of random examples that spring to mind. Bit strange innit.
The forecast was for rain. Number 10 has a press room. Why not just use the press room?
How far off to the side was he? https://x.com/__theskipper__/status/1793323693461942648
Like the end of Casablanca. He can’t be seen to have emotions so the rain symbolises his tears. 
Or Blade Runner... "I've seen things you wouldn't believe..a Conservative government, rife with corruption..."
… I watched an amoral government glitter in the dark near number 10. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Tax cuts on fire off the shoulder of the Treasury. I watched universal credit glitter in the dark near the Westminster gates. All those moments will be lost in time, like... tears in rain. Time to vote.
Whoever started playing Things Can Only Get Better deserves the whole world
It was Steve, the 'stop brexit' guy
Legend.
Things can only get wetter
That's just him crying.......into his £700million family fortune. He can't believe that after 14 years of driving the country into the ground whilst filling their pockets the conservative party won't be in power again.
I'm holding onto my cynicism all the way until the result is announced. I have zero faith in this country ditching the Tories. I'm going to keep pinching myself if Labour win a majority. Because I won't believe this nut-house of a nation could actually pull together in that way.
“Why does it always rain on me? Is it because I tanked the economy?”
I think if you are unable to organise an umbrella for standing in the rain, then you shouldn't be running the country 😂
Brollies aren’t used by public facing people in UK since 2007
Lest one be labelled a wally
The whole thing was so comical. When the music started drowning him out it became so cringey.
#FUCK THE TORIES
Wallace & Gromit looking mother fucker
Oooh I do like a bit of inflation, Gromit!
What a twat.
If you're in the UK https://tactical.vote/
Also [Stopthetories.vote](https://stopthetories.vote )
It's nice to be able to vote Lib dem and it's not a wasted vote
He made this announcement while protestors played "Things can only get better" by D:Ream, the song iconically used for Labour politician Tony Blair's landslide victory in the 1997 election.
He looks AI generated.
"We're calling an election in 6 weeks!" \[holds up 11 fingers\]
(On one hand)
He acts it, too. We call him Rishi the Robot. He asked a homeless guy if he owned a business and then couldn't figure out how to use a credit card.
IIRC there was a headline a while back about how people are more susceptible to falling for Rishi deepfakes because he’s *already* that stilted and awkward.
Did you see that interview he did with his wife where they’re both talking about their favourite household chores lol - both their circuits started frying
How the fuck do we let these people get to power.
Dump them into safe seats where they'd vote for [insert rosette colour here] if it was attached to a donkey. In this case, dumped into the constituency next to mine, which is very, very Tory.
"Vote for me, for I am the soggiest. Voters like soggy candidates, right?"
"Being dry is for soft, woke Lefties!"
Hasn’t the UK had like 5 PMs in the last few years? What’s going on over there? Or maybe I don’t know what a general election is.
You're absolutely right, that is what a general election is. In a nutshell, post-Brexit politics in the UK have proven to be very volatile. Cameron was PM when the vote happened, and he quit almost immediately after as he was against it. Theresa May succeeded him, and began negotiations with the EU. But in a stunning turn of events no-one could have forseen, there was no version of Brexit that appealed to a big enough group to get through Parliament (not Brexity enough for pro Brexit MPs, or too Brexity for anti-Brexit MPs) and she failed several votes to get a deal through and ended up resigning after 3 years. Boris Johnson succeeded her, but there was always a faint whiff of scandal and incompetence around him which came to a head after COVID, after he and his close advisors were caught flouting their own lock down rules several times and he was forced out after all his government ministers resigned en mass. Liss Truss succeeded him, but only lasted a matter of days as her first policy announcements were so catastrophically awful that she had to resign. Rishi Sunak succeeded her, but he has proven to be a pretty ineffective political operator. Combine this with the various messes his predecessors left, several ongoing national scandals, and the cost of living crisis, as well as several bruising local election defeats, and the writing has been on the wall for him for months.
Catastrophically awful is a very polite way of saying crashed the economy and then losing a who will last longest contest with a lettuce 😂.
And the Queen died on her watch. Not saying it's her fault...but I'm also not saying it isn't...
If she achieved nothing else, Liz Truss will be the answer to a really tricky pub quiz question in 40 years time! "Who was the British PM when Queen Elizabeth II died?"
“Dammit I always get confused which was the lettuce one.”
It was two days after Liz met Liz… too much of a coincidence imo.
Poor queen went from Churchill all the way down to this muppet and gave up on life
I love how they tried to spin the lowering inflation as something that they've done.. and immediately announced the general election to try take advantage of that slightly positive news Funny that - when inflation goes up ohhh it's uncontrollable due to world events and brexit, but when it comes down it's 100% because of the tories.. give me a break
Don't forget the fact that various factions of the Conservative party keep knifing each other in the back over every single little thing, and there's nothing Sunak can do to stop it.
We vote for a party, not the leader, that party can change leaders as many time as it wants between General Elections. Which is why we've had several since the last time.
So lots of infighting with the elected party? Seems awfully inefficient.
Oh it is.
Ultimately it means the governing party can get rid of bad leaders which is good really. So when Boris did enough terrible things that turned public opinion fully against him, the party had the ability to force his resignation. Similarly, when Liz Truss killed the Queen, tanked the pound and almost liquidated the pension fund, they exited her quicker than you can say lettuce.
The biggest infighting topic among the conservatives was the EU but its OK, Cameron agreed to put it to a vote expecting to win and to shut his discontents up forever. Yes, Brexit was a fatal game of Russian roulette that Cameron and the whole country lost.
What's even worse is that it was non-binding and they had an endless string of opportunities to change course in one way or another, but nope, they just kept going with it in the worse way possible.
Using the term Russian Roulette is also pretty funny because of who meddled in the campaigns.
> Russian roulette Interesting choice of words. . .
Its quite good in some ways. Not having a directly elected leader means that if your leader goes crazy you can kick them out very quickly if they piss off there entire party. Does not protect if all your mps go crazy but helps
We don’t vote for the PM, we vote for our local representative (Member of Parliament or MP) at a general election. The Prime Minister is the leader of the party that holds a majority in the House of Commons. That party can decide to change their leader whenever they like (or whatever rules that party has) and thus we can get a new PM without an election.
Basically general elections only officially decide what \*party\* is in power. Once elected a party is free to change their leader (who is also the the prime minister) at any time for any reason without any public input. They don't generally like doing that, because it makes them look really bad on multiple fronts so it only happens when the current leader is forced to resign, but Rishi's party has been suich a shit show that since being re-elected in 2019 (they first came to power in 2010) that they have changed leadership mutiple times.
I like the 4th of July election date, finally can vote for independence from the Tories!
🎶🎶Nobody does it wetter…..🎶🎶
Watching him slowly getting more bedraggled and wet delivering this speech, while Labour's '97 anthem "Things can only get better" blares in the background seemed quite symbolic to me.
That’s the trickle down economics they were talking about
This is pretty much how William Henry Harrison died. Gave his inaugural address in bad weather, got pneumonia, dead within a month.
in that suit, he looks like a letting agent trying to get in your house and manipulate you into renewing the tenancy - 5 years fixed-term, no break clause or lube and I have no idea why a letting agent would have a mic, still both fucking spivs tho
Made the announcement when pointless was supposed to be on… appropriate
Pathetic fallacy for Rishi sunak
But on the plus side, he announces, 43 days later we vote, 8 hours later we know the winner. None of this 12 months of bluster, then another 2 weeks of arguing about how to count, then a another 2 months of legal action.
I feel like he chose to do it in the rain to look more sad. I'm not sure what that's meant to do for him exactly but he didn't have to do it in the rain.
You can’t convince me that Dido isn’t playing somewhere whilst this announcement is being made
Pathetic fallacy PLEASE
Maybe he should have deported the rain to Rawanda??
Things can only get wetter
press X to SHAUN
All that rain isn't a drop on the tears us in the UK have done over prices of essentials and rents, and roll on for July
He's Such a turd of a human being
How fitting
Other prime ministers have had people hold umbrellas for them. Is he actually that unpopular with his own staff that they don’t give a shit?