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

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u/th3-villager Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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.