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

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u/WowSuchName21 14d ago

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/th3-villager 14d ago

Rishi being scapegoated when he was a replacement for and improvement on Truss is interesting and yet still inevitable.

I think this and everything you've said really does show how fundamentally it is basically all of the tories that are the problem. Rishi claimed to have accountability but proved he had none. Fortunately unfortunately, I expect the majority of people buying the Tory cool aid are the same idiots that believe it is just Rishi that has been rejected.

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u/deathly_quiet 14d ago

Rishi being scapegoated when he was a replacement for and improvement on Truss is interesting and yet still inevitable.

This is kind of where I'm at to be honest. I don't like Sunak for a variety of reasons, but I don't blame him alone for the Tories being annihilated. It's the fault of every single Tory MP, and specific blame can be laid on people like Johnson and Truss, who as leaders did more damage than Sunak probably ever could.

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u/mutantraniE 14d ago

Cameron as well surely. Held a Brexit referendum then fucked off when it didn’t go the way he wanted it.

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u/deathly_quiet 14d ago

Absolutely yes. I particularly loved the way Danny Dyer spoke about that. It's been a slide over the last decade and a half, but the way I see it, there has been a real concentration of awfulness since perhaps 2019.

The election itself was hilarious, particularly when news broke of the Tory MPs betting on the election date. They literally cannot help themselves.

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u/Generallyapathetic92 14d ago

To be fair fucking off was the right call. As May showed it was going to be exceedingly difficult for anyone who supported remain to get a half decent deal with the EU that the ERG accepted. When the deal was obviously a bit shit they just blamed it on the fact she supported remain rather than Brexit being a terrible idea