Love how Sunak has tried to conduct this with dignity, with Steve Bray blasting 'Things Can Only Get Better' over him.

Looks like Liz Truss is going to go from ten years to save the West, to six weeks to save her seat.

Blood hell. It takes a long time for the penny to drop for this guy.

And make sure people have checked that their Voter ID is good.

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Prediction:

After the election is called, expect a significant Tory bounce in the polls among those pollsters who have them at ~20-21% (YouGov most notably).

I can see them rebounding swiftly from ~23% to ~26% in the polling average.

Question is how far they go *beyond* that.

Tory MPs presenting on GB News when the election is announced

The letters can't stop the election being called, by the way. Only make the Tories look even more clownish by holding a leadership contest at the same time as a general election.

Please remember that when inflation goes up it is caused by global events and when it comes down it is because I made some shit videos and talked bollocks about a 'plan'.

'I've told the Prime Minister that if he doesn't call an election today then I will.'

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This is one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

Imagine landing in Albania, seeing this, then being told after an hour or so: 'yeh mate, sorry. It's over. Come home.'

A government calling an election when 21-points behind in the polls signals that they believe things are more likely to get worse later in the year. Not exactly a vote of confidence...

Oh right, because there isn't enough drama right now. Why not.

As rumours grow that Rishi Sunak could call a general election, the government grinds to a halt and Ministers dodge interviews, so business as usual for now

More to the point, because everyone is expecting an election announcement, if it's something else, it will just infuriate the public who are already sick of the delays.

Following the modern Tory defence of incompetence looking better than collusion.

Tory MP Johnny Mercer has criticised Rishi Sunak for self-promotion at the expense of serious politics, a stinging rebuke from the only sitting MP to star in a shampoo advert

There was me thinking that prisons being so full that the police are now told *not to arrest people* might be due to the government defunding the prisons. Or the govt increasing sentences when prisons were already overcrowded.

But no. It’s [CHECKS NOTES] the barristers’ fault.