General Election

[gulliver1]

Sunak poised to call an early GE. this year ,amid mounting concern over interest rates
and the many other problems with the Con party and the Country.And could call a snap election . Bring it on Mr Sunak ASAP.

[bednobs]

isnt your first sentence and second sentence saying exactly the same thing?

[bazwillrun]

just about everything he posts is a wash rinse repeat exercise...one day he'll learn how to post links...wouldnt hold your breath though, he just waits for others to do the work for him

[naomi24]

Gulliver, are you sure you're not getting carried away again? Kier Starmer, as always, wants a snap election, as does the Lib Dem man (never can remember his name) but as far as I can see Sunak hasn't said anything. Jacob Rees Mogg, however, appears to think the next election will take place next year - when it's due - so please enlighten us. Where are you getting your information from?


https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/keir-starmer-rishi-sunak-snap-election-b2355733.html

[Llanfair]

What would Sunak have to gain by calling an early election, Gulliver?

[Atheist]

Another link-
https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-call-early-general-election-this-year-mortgage-rate-crisis-mps-2410604

[Llanfair]

Ok, I'll ask you the very same question, Atheist - what would Sunak gain by calling an early general election?

[Atheist]

Llanfair. I dunno. Why ask me?

[Hymie]

If he waits a year, there will be a years’ worth of damning evidence of Tory corruption/incompetence coming out of the Covid enquiry – so calling an election now might be a smart move.

[Electrochem]

Welcome to Gulliver's World.

[youngmafbog]

Both links clearly show it is speculation by others. Hardly surprising we will get this at least weekly until he finally calls the election.

There is no reason he would call an election. Sir Kier is digging his own hole and has now twice u-turned on policy in the last week. Sunak is not Johnson. He is a clever patient man but must have an edge or he wouldnt be that rich or in that position. Sir Kier on the other hand....

[Zacs-Master]

Still, keeps the site going, eh!

[Old_Geezer]

Were he that political clever he'd be working to unite the party, not be part of what's dividing it.

[youngmafbog]

Well we can make the most of the questions asksed ZM.

Perhaps the best way to deal with this is to debate amongst ourselves ignoring the daft posts put up? I see this has pretty much happened on other threads and they can be quite good. To my knowledge Gulliver is not precious of his posts as some are and takes as well as gives.

[Zacs-Master]

Think I’m going to try to pre-empt Gulliver’s posts by scouring the news for possible ‘Gulliposts’ and posting questions of my own WITH a link. Hopefully his will then be removed under the duplicate questions rule.

[Untitled]

rishi sunak does not have a mandate to be prime minister and everybody knows it. the party did not allow the membership to vote on his becoming leader because they knew he would lose, they did not allow a vote among tory MPs because he would have lost, and they did not take it to the public because he would have lost…

some tories may also believe that an early general election would be the best way of minimizing the party’s losses… i.e. take the hit and lose power now in order to fight by 2028 or risk being wiped out in 2024… i cannot say i agree that they will be wiped out next year but some people obviously do think so

gulliver is quite entitled to draw attention to this as some newspapers have speculated about it… he is not obliged to post a link either.

[Ellipsis]

> Ok, I'll ask you the very same question, Atheist - what would Sunak gain by calling an early general election?

It'd be the current government's version of Dignitas ...

[naomi24]

But Sunak isn't, as far as we know, 'poised to call an early general election this year' as gulliver claims, untitled. There's no substance in his OP.

[Untitled]

well yes he’s paraphrasing rumours as many people on this site do

bit odd to see a moderator join in the dogpile against a member who is not breaking any rules i must say

[naomi24]

untitled, I haven't joined in anything. The OP is inaccurate.

[mushroom25]

// they did not take it to the public because he would have lost… //

in the UK, the prime minister is not chosen by presidential election. choosing a party leader/prime minister is not put to the public.