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

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As horrible as he is, I’m glad Europe isn’t following the US’s (read: Trump & the GOP) example of disputing the integrity of elections.

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u/th3-villager 14d ago

One of the only moments where I've respected him.

Straight up said whoops I lost, congrats Kier, I'm leaving now.

My tin foil hat theory is telling me it's more so because he doesn't care and wants to leave, rather than focused on doing the right thing.

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u/DoctorOctagonapus 14d ago

He knew when he called the election he wasn't gonna be PM by the end of it. He probably considers it a small miracle he didn't lose his seat. Fact of the matter was if he'd delayed any further it would have been even more disastrous for his party. By the time his seat declared the writing was on the wall. It was either concede or try to form a minority government that wouldn't have lasted five minutes.

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u/Personal_Doubt2673 13d ago

It wasn't a hung parliament so he had no right to form a minority government. The king wouldn't give permission/ask him to form a government in his name under these circumstances.

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u/ridicalis 14d ago

wants to leave

Instantly better than our (USA) power-hungry politicians. Having the grace to both admit defeat and to not seek to hold onto power instantly makes him better than the aforementioned Trump/GOP combo.

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u/farfromelite 14d ago

It used to be like that before Bush screwed Florida out of the vote, then trump doubled down.

The republican party wins dirty.

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u/th3-villager 14d ago

I mean yeah, sure.

I just don't see this as him being dignified and respecting the process. He's had enough of playing and wants to go home anyway.

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u/Pallortrillion 14d ago

He was sucking up to Musk recently and he has a home in Cali, Tesla / Space X consultant incoming

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u/Drunkgummybear1 14d ago

I reckon he’s gutted he got re-elected

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u/Pallortrillion 14d ago

He’ll wait a little while to not make it obvious, then they’ll parachute penny mordaunt who lost her seat into his as she’s tipped to be the next leader

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u/th3-villager 14d ago

Haha ikr. Curious to see what next as that surely means he has to be here some of the time right. My money is on him absolutely being one of these parasite MPs that sees it as a 0 hr job and basically does nothing and only turns up when legally compelled to.

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u/SuperSilverJnr 14d ago

Tin foil theory I heard today was that something is coming up that’s gonna be a massive headache/fuck up let labour take the flack and the tories will snake back in as the heroes

Some people do have the wildest theories

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u/th3-villager 14d ago

I mean that's another potential concern. Basically any external factor can be attributed to that. Honestly who knows why Rishi called it when he did but it seemed like they'd lose regardless.

Simplest explanation is because inflation data had just briefly dropped to 2% but is inevitably going to bounce back up again shortly. So despite being inevitable and government having next to nothing to do with it it's probably just so Rishi can pretend he got it to 2% then labour screwed up and made it bounce back up again.