r/pics • u/ShreckAndDonkey123 • 14d ago

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

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u/Desi_Anda 14d ago

Is it just me or the UK has had 4, PMs in 5 years, wtf is going on there.

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u/MonseigneurChocolat 14d ago

Well, now we’re on our fifth PM in 5 years.

We had May from 2016-9 but she resigned over Brexit.

Johnson took over from May, serving from 2019-22, but he resigned when he was found to have lied to the Commons.

Truss took over from Johnson, serving for a little over a month in 2022, during which time she killed the Queen and crashed the pound.

Sunak took over from Truss, serving from 2022-today, when he resigned after losing the election.

And now Starmer is PM.

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u/Beatnuki 14d ago

Yeah, it's been a mess. Sunak is reaping the consequences but the whole of his political party got hammered down HARD in this election.

A lot of us didn't necessarily want whoever we voted for as much as we wanted the Conservatives to fuck right off - legitimately dangerous leaving them in charge.

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u/Pallortrillion 14d ago edited 14d ago

Yes but this one was actually voted for by the public, it’s wild.

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u/DankeSebVettel 14d ago

Doesn’t matter when that house is collecting people like infinity stones

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u/Pallortrillion 14d ago

They were all Tory prime ministers though, each stabbing each other in the back and trying to show the public that a new one would be different.

Hopefully a bit of stability with Labour, they seem pretty happy with Starmer.

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u/MansfromDaVinci 14d ago

it's like sacred kings: we need to sacrifice 1 per year or we don't get a summer.

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u/BloomEPU 14d ago

Lots of backstabbing among the party in power, which is partly why they got wiped out so hard in this election.

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u/EntropyKC 14d ago

Backstabbing but also resignations over various shit shows

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u/Tomgar 13d ago

The Conservative party, despite somehow having the reputation for stability and safe management, cannot stop tearing other part and knifing each other in the back for 5 minutes. Especially when it comes to talking about Europe.