Why the Tories are Running out of MPs
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Published 2024-05-14
In this video, we’ll have a look at how government majorities actually work, why the Tories majority has been reduced by so much, and ultimately why such a reduction in the working majority is just not normal for an incumbent government.
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All Comments (21)
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The Tories are discovering a thing called the consequences of their actions
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Sunak losing his seat the next election would be poetic justice.
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Why does appearing on I'm a Celebrity lose you the whip but violating COVID restrictions while having an office affair doesn't?
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This just sounds like a skill issue on their part. Literally, a lot of the new Tory mp’s have no skill or proper experience
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I think you are very brave making a video about how big the Conservative majority is, it could have easily changed while you were uploading this.
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Its getting harder and harder to find politicians that can combine party doners interests and voters interests... The chasm is huge today
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5:53 you've miscaptioned Jill Mortimer as Christian Wakeford
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The tories are so finished
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Actions have consequences, especially for the two former PMs. I can even bet ten quid that the Tories might stall the general election date all the way to late Jan. 2025.
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The Conservative Party is possibly the most successful party in the democratic world as it has remained in existence for centuries and has been in power for most of that time. The fact that their obliteration - the likes of which we saw in '92 Canada - is very much on the cards at the next election is a damning indictment to just how purely evil they are seen by the general public, especially the young who have bucked the trend that 'the older you get the more Conservative you become'.
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The thing is, Brexit was never going to “get done” because the government couldn’t afford to implement it fully and things were always going to get worse and worse for the government because of its self-inflicted gut wound. If anything Covid just covered for the disastrous effects of Brexit and slowed the public’s recognition of what was really going on.
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Love a good recap episode before the season finale.
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"Back then no one predicted things would end up as they have" - erm wrong - many people, myself included knew Johnson wouldn't last. He's been fired for lying twice and barely kept any job for more than a year or two. I gave him a year but he outlasted my prediction
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The thing about the Speaker of The House (and deputies) really should be scrapped, how can they properly serve their constituents?
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Correction: @6:42 it wasn’t 2017; it was 2019. Boris did it, not May!
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The current Tory party seems to have one answer to every problem - which is to move further to the right. Keep doing that and you start leaving people behind. And a lot of them can see the writing on the wall, better to quit on your own terms than be booted.
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We can have a labour government before GE at the current rate.
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This is the slowest general election in British history.
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First past the post can never be considered a mandate
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Chaucer once said something about 'pigeons coming home to roost..'?
