Tory peer slams own party: 'They didn’t deserve to win the election’
“I’ve been embarrassed for the last five years.”
Times Radio presenter and Conservative peer Ed Vaizey was “impressed” by Labour over the weekend and says the party’s announcements since gaining power are “good for the country.”
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Proud of u U.K. and France 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 Pray for us in the USA
@tawektawek3838
19 күн бұрын
Jamie, I am doing just that. I don't know who will be best to beat Trump, but if there's a new democrat candidate, I hope they will consider choosing a moderate Republican as their running mate. The USA really needs a team to bring the country back together.
"We've been strick by how smooth this all is" - you mean we've all forgotten what actual basic competence looks like.
@alantheinquirer7658
22 күн бұрын
They spent more time infighting and jockeying for self-interest that they actually forgot that they were meant to be running a country.
@clydno
22 күн бұрын
😊😢😮😊😮
@johndo7742
19 күн бұрын
More like first day at school. Everyone on best behaviour
I hope they never come back
@esseker6320
22 күн бұрын
Me too.
I love the way that Ed acts like it has nothing to do with him. He voted for every single Rwanda motion that went through the Lords earlier this year.
@spacechannelfiver
22 күн бұрын
I'd expect a Cabinet member to either vote with the government on policy or resign the position, that's collective responsibility. He's in the Lords and not even subject to whipping, so should have voted with his conscience. Rwanda was just a red meat boondoggle that nobody beleieved in that cost the country 100s of millions to shore up the Tory base.
I must admit I woke up on Friday with a SKIP & a JUMP- My High Street looked and felt very ALIVE!!! THANK GOD THE NIGHTMARE OF THE LAST 14 years are OVER. Good RIDDANCE Tory Farty
I smile to myself every time I think about the fact that the Tories cannot even fill all the seats on a small airbus. Watching them fight over the leadership is going to be as edifying as taking a holiday flight to Benidorm with a bunch of ill behaved passengers.
@joepublic8473
22 күн бұрын
I smile to myself every time I think about the fact the labour party can't fill a modest sized car ferry. About as relevant as an analogy.
@scottbarrie1303
22 күн бұрын
@@joepublic8473 Nah. You cry about it. You're doing that now. :)
@clairduffy60
22 күн бұрын
@@joepublic8473 This is how real politics works. Accept it.
@PassiveAgressive319
22 күн бұрын
@@joepublic8473I smile to myself when someone tries to write poor satire
@swanvictor887
22 күн бұрын
@@joepublic8473 sadly...no mate, Your analogy doesn't work: even a small Ferry could hold ALL Parliament. Its all about scales and ratios....awww, never mind, go back to weeping for your loss, bless....
I’d have more respect for him if he’d said this before polli😢day not after ..,
Sunak needs to be criminally investigated for changing government policy to suit his family business interests.
They need to look back over 14 years, at least. Not 3 or 4 years. No matter if they could have done a bit better, with fewer scandals, they just don’t understand what the nation needs. All they do is flail in the anti-foreigner wind.
@stephfoxwell4620
22 күн бұрын
Gay marriage was the tipping point.
@patrikfloding7985
19 күн бұрын
@@stephfoxwell4620 Lol! No it wasn't. For you perhaps. You worry about things that matter somewhat to very few, not at all to almost everyone. and a lot to a vanishingly small minority.
Asking a Tory politician to put a tenner bet on a political outcome? Tsk.
Very impressed with the chancellor were not used to politicians trying the tories did sweet fa all day
calling tories "centre left" is delulu AF
@thetragicyouth
22 күн бұрын
Calling Labour 'centre left' is equally delusional. Labour is centre-right now, no different to Cameron's 'huh a hoodie' era.
@TheBigGoonerAJ
22 күн бұрын
@@thetragicyouth Owen Jones tell you that? 🤣 you clearly dont remember the Cameron years if you think that
Time to establish new anti corruption laws
They should take a look at what the right party is doing in the United States right now. Social conservatism is off the rails.
Are they capable of self examination?
@CaptainFearless1
22 күн бұрын
no they are still party survival first and Country second or third
@redlightmax
22 күн бұрын
About as capable as Narcissus was.
@tomcooper-hayes6579
17 күн бұрын
Depends which bit of themselves they are examining……..
Tories already started releasing prisoners early - why would right wing rags criticise it when Labour does it? 🤔
@andrewwrench1959
22 күн бұрын
The prisons being literally full, that's a literal literal, not a media literal, is one of several reasons Sunak had to call the election before the summer. Every few weeks over the summer and longer something will collapse, we'll be reminded of Tory incompetence and corruption, and their defeat would have got worse and worse the later the election was.
What we need is at least a decade of boring, competent and predictable Government! Stability is change!
This dog made sure Dissabled children's benefits were cut during the coalition government all because he despised Ivan Cameron poor Ivan just for being Dissabled 😢
Kier is surrounding himself with good competent people and experts. We have seen what the opposite does - The Tories drove it home to the UK people. They are a bunch of self-serving grifters. Didn't they do well? The corporate media don't quite know what to do. Spend time sympathizing with the fallen, or attacking the aspiring.
@archvaldor
22 күн бұрын
"Kier is surrounding himself with good competent people and experts" He's surrounding himself with the same bankers and technocrats the tories did. I think people like you love the idea that tory policies only didn't work because they were poorly executed: the truth is they don't work because they are fundamentally bad ideas., Labour is promising more of the same and will fail just as hard.
@ajw9533
22 күн бұрын
@archvaldor Hi. Can you name these bankers and technocrats you refer to? Thank you.
Angling for a job? get out of town!
The biggest problem that the Tories had was that they'd been in power for so long, all the MPs rode in on Brexit/Johnson popularity and hadn't experienced any real opposition in elections. Cameron gambled with Brexit to attract hard right elements in his party ... and lost. May tried hard but needed the support of the ERG and DUP to govern. Johnson got in only for his bluster and 'Brexit'; his sense of entitlement in his job meant that he only recruited cronies and those who didn't make him look bad. Truss was, well, Truss. Sunak came in then decided that the party wasn't hard right enough. The further to the extreme he announced, the more he lost in the polls. He ended up as scared of Reform UK poaching members as Cameron was scared of UKIP.
Sunak deserves no praise for apologising. He only did so because he had been battered.
Good start
Victoria Atkins? Charismatic? She has embarrassed herself in public countless times on Question Time and comes across as insincere and dismissive.
@Clive-js8ej
22 күн бұрын
Thick as mince but that's what they go for.
@johntthomson7538
22 күн бұрын
She is a shocker
Yes bringing in Vallance and Timpson is a brilliant move. It's exactly the way I would have started.
Anyone who thinks Jacqui Smith is a good politician for today is delusional. She was a very poor thinker and spent most of her time fiddling her expenses ifI recall correctly.
"3 - 4 yrs?" - See! If they'd had another 10yrs on top of that, it would (achievements)have been terrific?
Probably best to move on from “snakes in the grass”…
Housing targets - did we move to the USSR? Reeve's spouting on about it's up to local people where they will be built but they must be built - er, no. It has to stop - live within the available land resources.
I wonder what Heseltine says about this...
Smart, slick clowns walking in the same direction.
I hope Starmer delivers. So far impressed with his actions. Now we need results
The tories lost since they promised conservatism but delivered leftism.
@simonfernandes6809
21 күн бұрын
Hahaha. Delusional thinking.
It's about competence and humility. Does anybody think Cruella or Badenoch have either of those things?
This time Labour have not inherited a full treasury; so watch your pockets folks.
@simonfernandes6809
21 күн бұрын
The Torys are to blame for any spending problems.
Hopefully they're gone for good ...they are just rotten to the clore..the way they've treated the British people especially the vulnerable...is just criminal...I'm not very optimistic about the prospect of criminal proceedings against some of the ministers who have transgressed...too many to mention tbh...
The true villains are Boris Johnston and Liz Truss - Rishi picked up a bag of spanners .
I walk on water every day when it is raining. I should get British Premier.
They need to go back further than 3 or 4 years.
I really hope that the tories are out of power for a long time hopefully for ever
Ed is just one tory sniping at other tories. He is part of the problem, not the solution.
Fair play to Ed Vaizey, speaking honestly like an adult about the opposing party. We don't see that from many of the rabble thats infested the Tories this past 8 years or so.... Despite living in a VERY multicultural town/city that has received vast numbers of migrants be it Eastern Europeans almost ten years back, Syrians, Iraqis, Kurds and Afghans seemingly continually, when discussing the election and now the results with colleagues and friends, Immigration simply DIDN'T / DOESN'T arise.... (other than one work colleague who is a bit DIM and just spews Daily Mail headlines all day, every day) the overwhelming majority want HOUSING, NHS, POLICE and COST OF LIVING addressed ASAP.... The immigration thing is for my mind largely a media led thing.
Take your coat off, you'll not feel the benefit when you step outside.
3:23 This guy was great in "The IT Crowd."🥁 [crickets] Is this thing on?
That’s a nice Harrington jacket.
@listentotimesradio will you do some reflection and penance on your own support for Tory rule and bringing on non-sensical extremists on your programme?
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Political prisoners guilty of thought crimes like Sam Melia won't be released
EMBARRASSING er cant get health care.. dentist .. broken country to the psychopaths enough
Starmer’s majority has halved and the party’s vote went down……this tells you everything you need to know……it will be a shambles by Christmas. The vote was “anyone but Labour or Conservative” which in my case was Reform!
@MrFilimn
20 күн бұрын
This will tell you everything you need to know, Reform are a destructive racist fantasy party……..
Beautify choreographed change over for the uniparty.
Ed Vaizey looks like he is working a night club door
LOL they should be in prison after bankrupted the country!
Labour supporter..but Lammy shud be nowhere near the cabinet!!!!
Why are you still a tory peer? How dumb can anyone be, that you are embarrassed of the party but you stayed with them.
Vaisey or Mr. Wetter than Wet....
"he always wanted to be prime minister" -ReAlLy?!?!?!?? It's almost like he took the job as leader of the Labour party for the pension 😂
@Monkeh99
22 күн бұрын
why does a millionaire need a pension?
@patrikfloding7985
22 күн бұрын
Well, she probably guessed a bit? But to change things you do have to get in charge.
Immigration , tax. Repeat ad nausea
We're all Starmeroids now.
Sunak was conciliatory, it is true. I think he's probably pretty decent.
The "trans issue" matters to a great many "everyday people in their everyday lives", mostly women, but Ed is not terribly worried for them.
@zivkovicable
22 күн бұрын
Women are more likely than men to support greater transgender rights across all issues.
@patrikfloding7985
22 күн бұрын
It really doesn’t. No more than ghosts in your wardrobe.