{"id":2250754,"date":"2024-05-22T19:36:02","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-fall-is-all-there-is-for-rishi-sunak\/"},"modified":"2024-05-22T19:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T23:37:47","slug":"the-fall-is-all-there-is-for-rishi-sunak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-fall-is-all-there-is-for-rishi-sunak\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak&#8217;s future is uncertain after recent events"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fthe-fall-is-all-there-is-for-rishi-sunak%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2250754&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The summary of the\u200b content discusses \u2063a chaotic British\u2062 affair involving Prime Minister \u200bRishi Sunak announcing a general election in the rain.\u2063 It touches \u2064on political disarray, public sentiment,\u2064 and the challenges faced by\u2063 Sunak due to his party&#8217;s declining popularity and public perception. The narrative reflects on the upcoming election&#8217;s\u200c uncertainties and \u2064the\u200c complexities of \u2064political dynamics in the UK.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It was a thoroughly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/united-kingdom\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>British<\/a> affair: damp, badly staged, and half-arsed. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uk-govt-lockdown-to-last-12-months-expect-repeated-vaccinations\/\" title=\"UK Govt: Lockdown to Last 12+ Months, Expect Repeated Vaccinations\">prime minister<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/Rishi-Sunak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Rishi Sunak<\/a>, took advantage of what looked like a break in the rain to emerge from No. 10 and announce that there would be a general election on July 4.<\/p>\n<p>As he spoke, the downpour began again in earnest, soaking his suit. Then some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/labour-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Labour<\/a> activists started blasting out the theme song from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/tony-blair\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title>Tony Blair<\/a>\u2019s victorious 1997 campaign, \u201cThings Can Only Get Better\u201d by D:Ream.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London on Wednesday, May 22, 2024, as heavy rain falls. (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWho do you trust?\u201d the bedraggled PM asked, looking earnest as the drops formed on his immaculate hair. \u201cThi-i-ings can only get beddah!\u201d boomed the loudspeakers.<\/p>\n<p>Ever since British people started watching <em>The West Wing<\/em> 25 years ago, we have had a sense that American politicians are not just slicker than our own but somehow more elevated. Wednesday\u2019s weather, as in some literary pathetic fallacy, summarized our national mood. After 14 years, people blame every blemish in their lives on the Conservatives. But there is no enthusiasm for the alternative.<\/p>\n<p>We won\u2019t be torn on the fourth of July. But we\u2019ll be worn on the fourth of July, pessimistic, irritable and resigned. We will almost certainly give Sir Keir Starmer, Labour\u2019s dullsville leader, a large majority. But, on some level, we already know we will immediately start regretting it. Ah, well. Things can only get wetter.<\/p>\n<p>It is hard not to feel sorry for Rishi Sunak. He is a clever, charming man, in politics for all the right reasons. But he took over just as the public was giving up on his party.<\/p>\n<p>When Boris Johnson was ousted in 2022, the Conservatives were 7 points behind in the polls, not a bad position for a governing party two years into a parliament. Now that deficit has grown to 20. It turns out that voters really don\u2019t like having new prime ministers handed down to them by parliamentary cliques. Sadly, by the time Sunak took over, it had happened twice in three months, all without a general election. People want to take it out on someone, and now they have their chance.<\/p>\n<figure><figcaption>Heavy rain falls on the jacket of Britain\u2019s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak as he speaks to the media outside 10 Downing Street in London Wednesday, May 22, 2024, he announced that he has called a General Election for July 4. (AP Photo\/Kin Cheung)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the same time, voters have repressed the memory of the lockdowns that they themselves demanded throughout 2020 and 2021. Instead of seeing the subsequent tax rises and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stunning-reddit-shuts-down-wallstreetbets-subgroup-blames-racism-and-hate-speech-after-rookie-investors-in-general-public-make-money-causing-hedge-funds-to-go-bust\/\" title=\"STUNNING: Reddit Shuts Down WallStreetBets Subgroup \u2014 Blames Racism and Hate Speech \u2014 After Rookie Investors in General Public Make Money Causing Hedge Funds to Go Bust\">price rises<\/a> as the consequence of paying people to stay home, they imagine they are somehow the product of Tory incompetence. They don\u2019t expect things to be any better under Starmer, but they still want a scapegoat, a sin-eater. Ironically, Sunak was more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/californians-revolt-anti-lock-down-protesters-storm-the-streets-gather-outside-gavin-newsoms-house-in-defiance-of-curfew-order-video\/\" title=\"Californians Revolt: Anti-Lock Down Protesters Storm the Streets, Gather Outside Gavin Newsom's House in Defiance of Curfew Order (VIDEO)\">anti-lockdown<\/a> than 90% of the country, but, in a neat symbol of the entire election, no one cares.<\/p>\n<p>And so, with an irony that will blow the collective mind of the <em>New York Times<\/em>, just as the European Union turns to parties of the authoritarian Right, Brexit Britain will be almost alone in electing a party of the traditional Left. As European countries pursue various schemes to send illegal immigrants to safe third countries in Africa, Britain\u2019s incoming Labour government will scrap the first such scheme. Funny how things work out.<\/p>\n<p>Why pick this moment? After all, the election could legally have come as late as January 2025, and there were all sorts of reasons for waiting. The post-lockdown spasm of inflation has finally subsided, leaving room for tax cuts before the end of the year. Tories tend to do better in winter (possibly because, according to behavioral psychologists, being cold, or having a cold, makes people more worried about crime and immigration and so more right-wing). In any case, you never know \u2014 something might turn up.<\/p>\n<p>I think the explanation lies in <em>The West Wing<\/em>, specifically the episode where an adviser reminds the apparently doomed President Bartlett of a line from the 1968 movie <em>The Lion in Winter<\/em> (though the movie is not named). As the princes wait to be murdered in a closet, Richard, played by Anthony Hopkins, stands up straight. \u201cMy, you chivalric fool,\u201d his cynical brother says, \u201cas if the way one fell down mattered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the fall is all there is,\u201d Richard replies, \u201cit matters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the moment he became prime minister, Sunak has been in the shadow of events: the feuding in his party, the lockdown hangover, the spike in energy prices. By going early, he has at last seized the initiative. He has evidently made up his mind that if he is going down, he will go down on his own terms, a patriot trying to the last to serve his country. When the fall is all there is, it matters.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The British event was a typical mix of dampness and chaos. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak seized a brief rain pause outside No. 10 to declare a snap election on July 4. 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