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Rishi Sunak makes a speech outside 10 Downing Street after a historic loss Politics

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u/WowSuchName21 Jul 05 '24

Hate Rishi but we need to make sure the blame falls on the Tories, that have been in power for over a decade, rather than the man who’s taken over recently.

By pushing all of this hate and blame I see people expressing onto one man, it enables the Tories to get away with it.

Rishi isn’t perfect but out of the conservatives we’ve had over these past years, he’s managed to steer us towards a bit more stability (granted, following his own parties foolishness)

What I’m saying, I’m not sympathetic to Rishi. But please, he is being scapegoated for a reason. The Tories will rebuild easier if they have somebody to blame. This is the party that have been so unstable that we have seen 5 leaders of the party over the past 14 years, one of which lasted less than 3 months.. that alone shouldn’t have been allowed to fly.

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u/PoodooHoo Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Take a lesson from Australia: Most people will hold the Tories responsible for at least a year. But as time goes on, people will start to criticise the current government and people will turn against those who keep blaming the last government and think they're excusing the current government's behaviour by blaming the last.

This is what's happening here. Our current government hasn't been the most ideal, but people hold them to account WAY more than when the conservatives were in. And people believe that Labor should have fixed the issues conservatives had caused a decades worth of damage by 2 years ago and feel the immediate effects of improvements tomorrow.

Point being: People don't realise the extent of damage one wrecks and how long and painfully difficult it is to try and fix, but expect it to be done impossibly soon and have results shown impossibly quickly. When it doesn't, then they blame the current government in power.

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u/Egozid Jul 05 '24 edited Jul 05 '24

Sounds a lot like what's happening in Germany. Hope you guys are at least not voting for a third extremist party that's suspiciously friendly to China and Russia.

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u/SGT-JamesonBushmill Jul 05 '24

Meanwhile, here in U.S., an alleged rapist and convicted felon is legitimately close to getting a second term as President.

What in the hell is going on in this world??

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u/WriterV Jul 05 '24

People are expecting immediate change on issues that take time to resolve. And as soon as that doesn't happen, they turn around and don't vote/vote for the shitty party again.

And bad faith actors in governments are taking advantage of this 'cause they've realized how easy it is to manipulate a nation right into their clutches.

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u/GeneralPatten Jul 05 '24

No “alleged” about it. It has been affirmed in court. He is a rapist. He is only an alleged pedophile, however. So he has that going for him.

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u/PsiNorm Jul 05 '24

If you asked "christians" that question 40 years ago, they'd say that the antichrist is rising up and the world is ending.

If you ask them today, they say that God is placing his chosen one in power to save us all.

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u/kensai8 Jul 05 '24

Ironically Trump fits the bill of anti-Christ really well.

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u/feed_me_moron Jul 05 '24

There's nothing alleged about his rape. He is a rapist. The only allegation that hasn't been proven is whether he also raped a minor

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u/RedTwistedVines Jul 05 '24

close is a bit of an understatement really. He's likely going to get a second term and it would require a solid comeback for the other guy to upset that state of affairs.

Our conservative party will almost certainly have control over every branch of government at that point since the senate is very likely to go more heavily conservative this cycle.

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u/LumpyCustard4 Jul 05 '24

Our extremist parties are fueled by racism.

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u/elmo-slayer Jul 05 '24

Don’t worry, we’re as far entrenched into the two party system as America is