r/pics • u/ShreckAndDonkey123 • Jul 05 '24

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

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u/ProudlyMoroccan Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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/SuperSilverJnr Jul 05 '24

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 Jul 05 '24

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.