Rishi Sunak resigns as Conservative leader following Labour's election victory

[xdecadentx]

BREAKING: Rishi Sunak resigns as Conservative Party leader after Labour landslidehttps://t.co/vMek534sFQ
- Sky News (@SkyNews) July 5, 2024
- He apologised and said "I have heard your anger, your disappointment and I take responsibility for this loss

Comments

[cricket]

I know it only converts to 4 seats but I am very concerned about the number of votes for Reform, and very annoyed by the twitter lefties telling us to ignore it.

Shame I couldn't truly enjoy the Tories finally being eviscerated because I don't have any hope for Starmer et al. At least my chosen MP got in.

[xdecadentx]

Yeah that Reform vote share is an ugly stain on the UK.

I did see someone say that they got the same number of seats with constant press coverage and billionaire funding and backing when Green got the same off a fraction of it, but it's still too many people voting for Reform.

[phililen3]

I don't know why people still think that the radical crazies of the world have little to no impact on political affairs.

[pyroyale]

I'm very worried that over 4 million voted for Reform.

I'm even more worried that the fact that Farage will be a piss-poor MP (like he was a piss-poor MEP) won't make a difference.

[insomniachobs]

I saw someone online saying that Farage's hatred of actually doing the local work and lack of time/attention in the Commons may well put paid to him... I think it's overoptimistic, but I'd love to see it happen

[spankmypirate]

I know people (fortunately just acquaintances) who voted for them out of "protest". Or because of their stance on university fees

Like congrats on voting for a fascist. Just say you're braindead/racist/both and go

[tilney]

I am always so enraged by protest votes, and by people not voting as a form of ~~~~making a statement. 99% of the time that just helps out the largest bastards going.

[sashwizzled]

The number of people voting reform is depressing. But like xdecadentx said, we have a media class very invested in pushing them as hard as possible, overplaying their victories and making sure they're at the front of public consciousness every step of the way. And they literally couldn't beat any other political party in England/Wales/Scotland!! And that's hilarious.