Tory grandee warns Conservatives of electoral disaster if they get rid of Rishi Sunak
“Any attempt to change the leadership would be absolutely disastrous for the Conservative Party. It would tear us apart even further.”
Former Conservative home secretary Kenneth Baker warns the party needs to "knuckle down" and focus on closing the gap with Labour before the election under Rishi Sunak's premiership.
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Yawn, yet more pro tory propaganda from a tory on a pro tory propaganda station.
@matthewn1805
17 күн бұрын
Yet again we hear a Tory insisting their polling will pick up toward an election, though that has happened in the past it is not a given and some pundits say it probably wont happen this time, too many have learnt that most time Tories open their mouths what comes out is very economical with the truth.
@lion73266
17 күн бұрын
Don't watch it then. Are you being forced to watch? YAWN.
@jmmypaddy
17 күн бұрын
@@lion73266 People can choose to watch something in the hope of balance, as this is a media source after. Maybe it's the media outlet in question that needs to change.
@scottwalkerjnr
17 күн бұрын
@lion73266 I watch it as it's good to not have just an echo chamber when it comes to what I listen and watch. It's good to monitor what a pro tory propaganda station like Times Radio is pumping out. You might be happy with being a Tory serf but I'd rather die than ever accept what a tory says.
@hammer3721
17 күн бұрын
@@lion73266It pops out in everyone's recommendations?
Please, you don't need to sell it to me. I've already told you I want the Conservatives to face electoral disaster.
@Dazzy9468
17 күн бұрын
Vote abolishment
@wellifthemediasaysit
16 күн бұрын
I know, right? The thought of them collapsing gives me a semi!
@JelMain
16 күн бұрын
@@wellifthemediasaysit It gives me hope. In reality, though, I look through the candidates for this week's election and the only message I get is that they're not listening. It's going in one ear and out the other.
@wellifthemediasaysit
16 күн бұрын
@@JelMain The police are too cowardly and scared to do anything about it!
The tories must go. Removing disability payments will be criminal and irresponsible. Sunak is crazy.
@leonbell5141
17 күн бұрын
Don’t think Rishi cares now he’s made his money and can leave 🤷🏽♂️
@fasthracing
17 күн бұрын
Did you know we pay more out in disability and associated payments per head of capita than any other country in Western Europe?
@mjrhitchin
17 күн бұрын
@@fasthracing Will taking money away from them make them better?
@fasthracing
17 күн бұрын
@@mjrhitchin For the genuine cases of course not. However why is do you think that we have so many people claiming? Perhaps its our weather?
@mjrhitchin
17 күн бұрын
@@fasthracing Perhaps it is because we have such high levels of health inequality?
With or without him the Tories are finished.
@sirloin8745
17 күн бұрын
The electorate hasn’t forgotten the millions of taxpayers’ money paid to ‘*Chums*’ of the Tories for Personal Protection Equipment during the COVID scandal.
@Doidera-rl9kd
17 күн бұрын
Sunnak is alright, but we need a Labour governmt..
@pjj177
17 күн бұрын
@@Doidera-rl9kd it's the same wef gov with the same globalist policies pro net zero , pro war , pro big pharma, pro CRT..... But yea you go and vote for more of the same 👌😂
@Dazzy9468
17 күн бұрын
@@Doidera-rl9kdso your choice would be to instead of voting for one corrupt party you'd vote for another corrupt party I'd rather gain a braincell and just abolish the entire government and monachy and when a general election actually happens I plan to vote for abolishment of government I refuse to keep voting for corruption its damaging to this entire country if you vote for either Labour or tory because those will be the only two parties you can choose between and they will cause nothing but more damage.
@sylviabaxter265
17 күн бұрын
Not if you put Penny Mordant in place people don’t want Labour
Doesn't matter what they say or do, they're finished. The public has already made up it's mind.
So out of touch
Zero seats is the least these shy sters deserve.
@andrewinfosec
16 күн бұрын
Surely ‘most’?
@sirbarringtonwomblembe4098
16 күн бұрын
Most!
I'm warning Conservatives of electoral disaster if they DO or they DON'T get rid of Rishi Sunak. 14 years of pathetic uselessness.
People want the NHS fixed
@fasthracing
17 күн бұрын
Impossible. Add world peace to the list too maybe?
@Doidera-rl9kd
17 күн бұрын
we want to go back to the EU and gets our rights back.
@user-rt1rh9py4v
17 күн бұрын
Unfixable, broken beyond repair. Throwing more money at it will not cure the problem.
@fasthracing
17 күн бұрын
@@Doidera-rl9kd What rights would they be then?
@fasthracing
17 күн бұрын
@@user-rt1rh9py4v 100% my thoughts too
I won't vote for tory
Baker is doing what he always did in the past. Spinning.
Ken Baker: deluded when he was in government, deluded now he's retired. Ken: I wish you well, but please shut up. Byee
Pretending your small boats/Rwanda policy means you are tough on immigration is a joke, Tory legal migration is massive, 745k 2022, 672k in 2023. The Tories don't want low immigration as they can use the cheap labour to prop up GDP. Even with those numbers we are in recession
@matthewn1805
17 күн бұрын
And Rwanda £250 million so far, just proves the Tories love spending public money like water whilst taking it away from those that actually need it.
@fasthracing
17 күн бұрын
100%
@davidk7262
17 күн бұрын
I have said this so many times and people tell me I am an idiot. So glad to see your comment with a good few likes, perhaps people are starting to realise!
@stuwhite2337
17 күн бұрын
Yes, he has a bit of brass neck to even dare say it
@timonsolus
16 күн бұрын
Which is why the Tories only talk about illegal immigrants (boat people), never legal migrants.
Zero Tory seats please. Tory voters stay home, dont vote, protect the NHS.
Zero Seats!
If the Tories had any shred of decency and integrity they would call a general election now.
@eternallight7
17 күн бұрын
They don’t
@barnaclefelching4079
17 күн бұрын
Big if, massive if
@dixie3058
17 күн бұрын
They won't they know they will lose
@nigelhardy7218
17 күн бұрын
@@dixie3058 So instead they dig an even deeper electoral hole for themselves. 🙂
@JelMain
16 күн бұрын
@@nigelhardy7218 5 years magically becomes seven.
I forsee serious civil unrest if the tories aren't ousted soon?!
@wulfhere83
17 күн бұрын
Ooh I do hope so! We need the spark.
@simonwood1402
17 күн бұрын
There is nothing wrong with your eyesight 👁 🗳
@GG-hu9dn
17 күн бұрын
@wulfhere83 It will be defiance at first, then little enclaves of disobedience, which then will tip over the edge to disorder and violence! It is absolutely going to happen?! It will tumble like a house of cards!
@user-iw2bn3gz1n
17 күн бұрын
Oh trust me there are so many ppl who want to rise up but they are waiting for someone to make the firsr moves
@jsd8981
17 күн бұрын
Agreed...
It doesn’t matter we are now seeing the last Tory prime minister,because they have not done what the electorate want.
Keep taking the tablets, Ken.
They all need to go. We need something different not the same old party politics.
@backgroundknowledgeisevery3089
16 күн бұрын
There are currently 517 registered political parties in the UK. What are you waiting for?
Makes no difference if they get rid of him or not, they're done.
Two words, broken promises
Deluded. I was waiting for him to say ' You've never had it so good '
I dropped off my postal vote yesterday, sorry sTories
They are done whatever they do. 14 years of complete and utter incompetence, scandal and broken promises will see to that.
Nope.. be shocking if they even get one seat
As a conservative, in the traditional sense of the word, the Tories are finished. Thanks, you've handed the government to Labour. Proving the point that's there's no difference between you, because frankly, if you were worried Labour governing the country you'd act differently. But you aren't worried, you're happy to let Labour take the reins bevuaee funadamentally your party wouldn't do any different.
@farmerned6
15 күн бұрын
exactly the Tories seem to be doing everything to ensure a Labour landslide Which, given the total dross Labour are, should be impossible
Every day he clings on he's hemorrhaging support
Why does times radio always come from the position that saving the Tory party is a moral and nessesary cause, how can you still support these negligent irresponsible clowns
@nigelhardy7218
17 күн бұрын
Coz it's the likes of RM who run the ruddy country, not the government. Though he'd always rather the self-serving Tories. Famous for saying that when he goes to Brussels they ignore him, and when he goes to Downing Street he tells them what to do!
It will be a disaster for them if they don't.
Given that Andy Street has been doing his best in the campaign to pretend that he's not connected to the Conservative Party, I'm not sure his re-election would be much of an endorsement of Sunak's leadership.
We need the unelected billionaire to fully represent the electorate. *We’re all in this together*, don’t you know?
@GG-hu9dn
17 күн бұрын
His not going to is he?? Get real.
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
We need a Donald Trump
"we" faced tougher times in 1954 [or so, without wanting to rewatch this to be certain]" - we're in the here and now and right now the Tories need to go.
Needs putting on trial for treason #BeingSaneInInsanePlaces
@farmerned6
15 күн бұрын
yeah , well past time Blair & Corbyn were, being actual traitors
Net Zero = Zero seats. we can do it. 0 seats
"Your young lady"? That's The Times political editor! Who said Tories were out of touch? SIlly old sod.
No they cannot survive. They are finished after such a pathetic performance over a 14 year period. We certainly don't deserve several years HARD LABOUR. REFORM UK are the only party to have a very clear and positive strategy as to how they would address all the major issues now facing our once great country (mainly created by the 2 traditional parties over the last few decades).
Sunak thinks if he holds us hostage long enough by not calling a general election we will all develop Stockholm syndrome
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
Yes 😅😅
With or without him, they are unlikely to taste success again without a complete overhaul of their attitude towards normal people. Self reflection is difficult though, so very sadly the tory party will be come irrelevant, likely not even in majority opposition. Most of us could not be more delighted
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
But we said that about labour and they will be 'next man in'
Middlesbrough isn't on the Tyne, it's on the Tees, 30 mile difference. Middlesbrough and the surrounding areas are NOT northeast. These minor mistakes indicate a wider dismissal of ther northeast as a region, as it becomes 'that place up there', where every place not fancied gets lumped together.
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
Until they want votes then suddenly the North of the country exists again
ONLY IF WE ARE DUMB ENOUGHT TO VOTE FOR A FOREIGNER IN POWER , WHO IS ACTUALLY IN A JOB HE WASNT VOTED IN FOR, MONARCHY, not voted for, PRIME MINISTER not voted for, HOUSE OF LORDS not voted for ....REMEMBER FOLKS, YOUR VOTE COUNTS 😂
Jeez what a load of bull….
Umm the tories are a disaster with or without sunak. Zero seats
SUNAK HAS A US, GREEN CARD. HE IS NOT BRITISH. HOW, WAS THIS ALLOWED TO HAPPEN.?
@judithdavidson2356
17 күн бұрын
He also has a British passport not that many of us are proud of them
Call a general election then and see what happens
Where is Sunak's sense of integrity? The morally correct thing to do is to acknowledge most of the electorate do not want you; votes for your party are evaporating; most of the policies that are being plucked out of the mist are not viable, you cannot do politics on tour own admission. Then why are you involved in politics and ruining the tory party in the process?
@tompearce3610
17 күн бұрын
Holding out for an Indian trade deal?
Wow! This comes as a surprise to me! This guy must have a crystal ball or something. No one saw this coming.
The government needs to realise that that work for the people not the other way round. They make mistake after mistake and never learn the lesson. The PM while seeming like a nice guy is too weak he doesng havd a strong charactor
@user-iw2bn3gz1n
17 күн бұрын
A nice guy? He is an out of touch evil spineless near billionaire
VOTE REFORM UK ~~~~~~ THE ONLY WAY ~~~~~ TO PUT ~~~''THE GREAT'' ~~~ BACK IN UK
Tories don’t have a chance . Complicit in war crimes such as Gaza genocide
@farmerned6
15 күн бұрын
Nah Iraq was Labour supporting Hamas is Labour Too
GET RISHI SUNAK OUT HE IS VERY DANGEROUS PREYING ON THE MENTALLY ILL
Number one problem the Tories have is you have to be a Tory first not a Neo Liberal or a Socialist. I've been asking this same question for many years Conservative what is it any off these politicians Conserve it certainly isn't Britain or its values or culture.
I’m really glad that someone’s optimistic because it’s certainly not a view that’s generally felt. What success?
Sunak will call an election after Thursdays election. Even he's expecting a Tory wipe out. I've got my popcorn ready..
Just a pity we'll have someone even worse - Starmer. I say 'none of the above'.
I'll have what this guy is smoking 😁
If by madnes the Tories get back into power again the first thing they will do is get rid Sunac and same if they loose. At the moment I cant help think of a dead fish floating on the top of tank waiting to be scooped out. This lot wont go easily. They will also need Help to leave. I see the election happening early next year.
Nice chap talking utter nonsense
how outta touch is he then if he thinks sunak is the last great hope, delusional the lot of them
ressign sunak and take your friend cameron with you
Poor Britania!
NO / tories corrupt party out
Bless him. He was always a jolly chap. Mad but very likeable.
What a dreamer, meanwhile the rest of us live in the real world
Promising us a good time. 😊
We have a saying "Zero Seats!" The Conservatives have let us down and need to be punished.
Starmer doesn't have any coherent policies. Ouch! At least Labour have some policies (and a manifesto) neither of which this bunch have.
Get a white English person not the thing we have now.
Hamza gone khan and Sunak next
This is NOT just about immigration. There’s been too much failure to focus on one.
If you're in choppy waters, the last thing you want to do is change who's in charge as he charts a path towards the Niagara Falls. Knuckle down people!
Good analogy. Doesn't apply when the captain is actively trying to scupper the ship because he works for the enemy
There is detached from reality, and then there is Kenneth Baker.
All this focus on the boats is bizarre. If anyone wants to enter the UK, the far easier route is in a car or lorry, because the Tories ceased checking any incoming vehicles, after the EU exit. They stopped those checks, which are supposed to be compulsory, because they'd made no preparations, and attempting to carry them out woukd expose our lack of staff and facilities. The lack of checks also means we have zero leverage in renegotiating our deal with the EU. We can't ask for reduced checks on our exports, in exchange for similar reduction in theirs, if we aren't carrying out checks on EU goods.
@user-ti3to3do1m
17 күн бұрын
Yeah but tbh if they want drugs and guns in the country boats are less liable to stop and check it's not just migrants in those vehicles
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
Lorry drivers get a hefty fine ,boat loads dont
Damage done by Johnson and Truss . Partygate , Johson's behaviour in general and Truss crashing the economy
No that it makes any difference since they all work for the same people, but no. It'll be a landslide whether he stays, whether he leaves or whether he invents a cure for all cancers.
And then he woke up.
I hope they will not
Ken Baker, the political sage who thought that the Dangerous Dogs act was a good piece of legislation. Courts savaged that more than any dog could have done.
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
Agreed
The Tories never "bad losely", they bad bigly and cruelly and corruptly ...
"the economy is picking up" says Kenneth Baker, a wealthy Tory.
Either way, they will get annihilated and then fracture. Expect a more extreme right-wing faction that basically joins with Reform and a moderate faction. What that will mean in terms of the political landscape for 2025 onwards, who knows? One things for certain, it’s going to look very different.
@user-qd2hl9lu3h
17 күн бұрын
Yes but the further to the right they lurch the less electable they will become.
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
About time
Lol, how out of touch can one man be?
Remember when my grandmother was clearly losing it, we put her in a home. I think he’s on his way.
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
You sound like a nice person
In a word......no.
07:26 oh they will bad losely, bad losely indeed .
Hope not.
The Tories don't deserve to retain power but I'd still prefer a Tory government than let the Labour Party in. The big turn off to voting Conservative is Rishi Sunak. If he is still leader at the time of the election my vote will go to the Reform Party.
Baker obviously wants what Cameron wants. What a plonker.
Rishi, please call an election and put the country out of its misery. Even Liz Truss had more integrity than you could ever dream of.
It would be naive to imagine electoral defeat will be avoided by them retaining Sunak & Co. Nothing will now prevent the Tories from being voted out of power within months where what they say is all but irrelevant and the only thing of importance are announcements from the incoming Labour Gov.
They are vile
Dammed if you do, dammed if you don't!
A local election and The general election are completely different gap.
Ha ha The Suez crisis ….Jeeze.
It's not good for Britain,as general election just ariund the corner, and if that happens well new P.M with his/her cowany group with new policy on certain issues, by the time policy comes on paper its a general election ,its a waste of parliament's time and taxpayers wealth
Bloody hope not
They are going to achieve Net Zero which they love so much…seats.
@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
Excellent
Kenneth Baker is still a good spin doctor. I admire him!
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@lynnbarsby7356
16 күн бұрын
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