‘Sunak’s torpedoing insurance policies present he does not stand for rules however energy’

On May 24, 2024

Sinking Sunak visiting the site where the cursed Titanic was built is a doomed captain hitting an iceberg early.

The Prime Minister who sprung an election on the nation is drowning with a campaign launched in a downpour. Tory MPs and election navigator Isaac Levido are a revolting crew, mutinying over rash Rishi’s recklessness when Labour’s steaming miles ahead.

Chucking overboard the likes of bionic MP Craig Mackinlay, too ill to fight so soon after his hands and feet were amputated, is fueling anger. Torpedoing policies such as a smoking ban launched with great fanfare emphasises Sunak stands not for principles but power.

Sunak issues a statement outside 10 Downing Street, London, after calling a General Election for July 4

Rishi Sunak called a General Election for July 4
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Then there are the gaffes, a listing PM incapable of organising a knees-up in a Barry brewery where he didn’t know or forgot that Wales hadn’t qualified for Euro 2024. And uncovered fakery, dressing Tory councillors as workers in hi-vis questions to ask planted patsy questions.

Things aren’t getting better for the Conservatives after the week started with a drenching outside No 10 and got worse. Admitting there will be no Rwanda flights before July 4 then refusing to pay a lost £1,000 bet with Piers Morgan is pathetic. We’re only in, remember, the phony war before the campaign intensifies with manifesto launches and two TV debates.

Sunak is admittedly pugnacious in head-to-heads, jabbing away noisily and happy to punch below the belt. The risk for him and a Conservative Party trailing badly in the polls is many voters will have already made up their minds by then and the others may shut their ears to squeaking Sunak.

Starmer can’t believe his luck, handed a General Election without the agony of another four months waiting. He has a few problems for sure, Labour policies strained under forensic examination and Jeremy Corbyn launching a guerrilla campaign in Islington North.

But only one of the two men battling for Downing Street looks a Prime Minister and it isn’t the soggy hapless figure going down with the Tory ship.