Whilst most of the world seems to be leaning bizarrely rightwards politically, in the UK itâs a different story. Looks like the conservatives are on-track for a (well deserved) landslide loss come 2025.
Only 5 years too late after Bozo Bojo got elected back in 2020. No idea what the poms see in the Tories when theyâve been nothing but a wrecking ball and an absolute shocker since the start of the Brexit ordeal back in the mid-2010s. Only theyâve survived each time because of their stupidly long 5-year terms and the fact that in that time Labour always finds themselves having a balls-up when they canât afford to.
Margaret Thatcher would be rolling in her grave at the state of the Tories today.
I see Keir Starmerâs polling is still diabolical for someone who in all likelihood will be the next Prime Minister of the UK.
Politicoâs Poll of Polls seems to suggest there has been little change in support over the last 12 months, especially for Labour:
Looking like the election will be the choice between a douche and a turd sandwich.
Looks like Stamer is ready to pull an Albo/Bradbury and just wing it over the line. I mean the incumbent is that terrible that they could just pull it off but it will turn off the masses when they realise these small-target, no nothing approaches are nothing but filbuster.
The Lib Dems are absolutely screwed if they donât get rid of Ed Davey. Heâs permanently tainted by the Post Office scandal and his response at the time.
Starmer comes across as rather smug and unlikeable. Donât think his previous career as director of the Crown Prosecution Service does him any favours when the country is reeling from one of the worst miscarriages of justice in modern Western history (with some cases occurring under his tenure).
Sunakâs slightly better than some of his predecessors but that really is not saying much at all. The Tories are still surely absolutely screwed.
I think the rightward swing is a combination of factors- a backlash against some of the more extreme and overzealous forms of political correctness that occurs these days, a feeling that major parties are not adequately representing people anymore, and unease about things like high immigration (sometimes an unfair but easy target for the populists)
In the UK I can see the wild card being Reform UK- theyâre the closest to the sort of right wing âanti-establishmentâ populist party that has been gaining traction in a lot of countries.
If the British are smart no one would vote for Nigel Farage and his little fantasy bubble, but then againâŚ
Rightly or wrongly, I think this is a very short-sighted view taken by a lot of simplistically-minded simpletons who seems to be caring more about their own ambitions than the long-term aspirations. Will come back to bite them hard I reckon.
Back on topic, the Tories have been nothing short of embarrassing on all fronts the last 5 years and they deserve to be sent packing. Sunak, Truss, Cleverly, Morduant etc all needs to go.
Lawrence Wong will be sworn in on May 15.
Why did he hold this in the rain? Surely he would know it is a bad look.
Sunak cut an almost comical figure as he stood, drenched, in pouring rain outside 10 Downing Street on Wednesday and struggled to be heard as protesters blared Things Can Only Get Better by D:Ream, a song famously used by Tony Blair in 1997, from nearby.
Just when you think it couldnât get any worse for the Tories, they sure know how to make themselves look like fools physically as well as politically.
That landslide defeat for the Tories just canât come soon enough.
Why wasnât there an umbrella or marquee over the top? 
If only they had a press briefing roomâŚ
This is brilliant
My understanding is he could have made the election announcement from there, but would not have been able to make party political statements as it is a government briefing room. Same reason why the government crest was removed from the front of the podium.
But surely it would have been better to have waited to set up a marquee or had a couple of people stand beside him holding up umbrellas so he didnât end up looking drenched.
Itâs rarely wise to make Titanic jokes, one wag once observed, but sometimes itâs needed to break the ice.
As Rishi Sunakâs stuttering and stumbling election campaign entered just its second day, he stood in a Belfast shipyard where the doomed liner was built more than 110 years ago as his colleagues â acting as if it were every man, woman and child for themselves â jumped overboard en masse.
Are the Tories being advised by the Labour Party? 
You know that the Tories are getting desperate when they resort to ancient policies of National Service as their headline policy for their campaign. This is like throwing mud on the wall in the hope that it sticks kind of stuff.
Yet Iâm sure many Poms will keep voting for them for some weird reason. Theyâre an absolute disaster.
the tories are hoping some form of crisis comes up - but i canât imagine anything short of Kier dropping his strides and asking Holly Willoughby to suck it on live TV would save them - and they know it with the likes of Evennett & Gove not running really smells of rats leaving a sinking ship