Or maybe not?

Apparently the Tories are so angry at Rishi Sunak for calling this election July instead of October or something that they’re trying to have him fired so that it can be called off. Which should WORK BRILLIANTLY, cos even if it did they would still have to actually hold an election no later than January 2025, which would give any putative next PM (like that Rees-Mogg cunt) a bit over six months to completely turn the Tories around. And I don’t think that’s going to be anywhere near enough for such a thing to happen. I fear they’d just be delaying the inevitable, and I think that’s why Sunak’s calling the election now: he knows they’re going to get smashed and he wants it to be over and done with… or maybe:

Which, if the speculation up top is correct, may not work anyway. And there was this:

To be honest when I first read this I thought the bit about them not having enough time to get jobs in the corporate sector once they get trounced was meant a joke, but I am now realising it wasn’t. Sunak not caring about them? Why, that’s even worse than the rest of them not caring about the people of the country!

Of course, the image of Sunak getting drenched while delivering his speech in the pouring rain outside No. 10 because no one thought to offer him an umbrella is what everyone’s getting worked up about, and with good cause. Whatever Sunak’s weak attempt at justifying it—i.e., that it’s tradition for the PM to deliver this sort of news out front of No. 10—may be worth, I’m fairly sure there’s no tradition saying the PM can’t do it without protection from the weather…

…Especially not when THAT room evidently exists and no one needed to get wet at all.

And much as I do expect the Tories to get completely wiped out, I know we still shouldn’t rule out the alternative. I made that mistake in 2010—I know, because it comes back in Facebook Memories to bite me in the arse every year—when the Liberals adopted Tony Abbott and I thought they’d basically handed Labor the next election on a platter… cos his constituents might’ve been stupid enough to vote for him but the country as a whole would surely be smarter than that. Surely. I was not expecting Labor to shit the bed in the way that it then proceeded to do and actually make Abbott look like a viable alternative. Keir Starmer still has to catastrophically fuck up… which, to be honest, I don’t imagine he will, but even so.