Rishi Sunak

[west didsblue]

Guess we need a Sunak thread now it's odds on he's going to be the next PM.

Can he actually be a success?

Can he shake off his association with the Johnson government that delivered us the worst of all worlds when we exited the EU?

Can he shake off his personal scandals related to non-dom and his wife's tax affairs?

Can he shake off his history of being a toffee nosed twat totally out of touch with working people? (levelling up for Tory rural seats and recordings about the working class from when he was young)

Will the sizeable contingent of overt and latent racists within the ranks of Tory voters swallow their distaste of a brown person being PM and support him? (that comment is mostly aimed at the UKIP and BXP supporters that fell in behind the Tories, although it would appear there is not an insignificant number of them amongst Tory Party members as well)

In my opinion there's not a snowball in hell's chance he can overcome all that and be a force at the next election. The best we can hope for is that he steadies the ship ahead of losing the election whenever it happens.

 

[bobmcfc]

I'd say so considering Penny can't even add up to 100

 

[Ifwecouldjust.......]

The blokes already sorted his escape route to America ......why does anyone think he'll be acting in the interests of the population of the UK?

 

[lust overlord]

Guess we need a Sunak thread now it's odds on he's going to be the next PM.

Can he actually be a success?

Can he shake off his association with the Johnson government that delivered us the worst of all worlds when we exited the EU?

Can he shake off his personal scandals related to non-dom and his wife's tax affairs?

Can he shake off his history of being a toffee nosed twat totally out of touch with working people? (levelling up for Tory rural seats and recordings about the working class from when he was young)

Will the sizeable contingent of overt and latent racists within the ranks of Tory voters swallow their distaste of a brown person being PM and support him? (that comment is mostly aimed at the UKIP and BXP supporters that fell in behind the Tories, although it would appear there is not an insignificant number of them amongst Tory Party members as well)

In my opinion there's not a snowball in hell's chance he can overcome all that and be a force at the next election. The best we can hope for is that he steadies the ship ahead of losing the election whenever it happens.

Nailed it with the last paragraph.

 

[BlueHammer85]

All PM's have skeletons in the closet and all will be hammered by the opposition and press

at present Sunak is really what we need

already forecast interest rates have dropped massively

if he can restore some leadership and sensible policy's then it would be a welcome break not to have the circus that we've had these last few years

Of course, I want him and the Torys to lose the next election but think it's only fair to give the benefit of doubt and give him a chance which he should have had a few months ago

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

I’m still desperate for a general election to kick these twats out but Sunak is by miles the best of a bad bunch.

 

[M18CTID]

All PM's have skeletons in the closet and all will be hammered by the opposition and press

at present Sunak is really what we need

already forecast interest rates have dropped massively

if he can restore some leadership and sensible policy's then it would be a welcome break not to have the circus that we've had these last few years

Of course, I want him and the Torys to lose the next election but think it's only fair to give the benefit of doubt and give him a chance which he should have had a few months ago

Exactly. The Tories ain't calling an election any time soon so we're stuck with whoever gets the gig and for all Sunak's faults, he's probably the best option to try and instil a modicum of stability.

I will be voting Labour at the next GE regardless, but I don't dislike Sunak too much. Sure, he's tainted by being a part of Johnson's government plus all that non-dom stuff that came out but he wasn't just serving Johnson - he was serving the country, and he did come to his senses eventually about Johnson, albeit belatedly.

Plus it will be funny as fuck seeing the piss-boiling amongst all the racist cunts in the Conservative Party if he become PM!

 

[Blackley_Blue]

I posted it in another thread, but now he's got his own:

"I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper class, I have friends who are working class… well.... not working class..."


I'll be surprised if I get any help from him. Me and the wife are in that bracket of both working and earning above minimum wage, but considerably less than the average UK salary. We seem to always end up getting fucked over.

My mortgage rate has doubled, my pension contribution % has increased from this month with a plan for it to further increase, energy prices have rocketed and fuck knows what will happen after April, weekly food shop is getting ridiculous and the fuel prices are on the way back up.


For the first time in my adult life, I'm feeling the squeeze and if it carries on, I genuinely don't know how long I'll manage.

 

[BobKowalski]

Not barking mad. Other than that plus point, he is very entitled, too immersed in US culture, has little understanding of Britain and even less of Europe, is way too sensitive to be an effective politician and is an actual Brexiteer as opposed to the fake ones we’ve had recently. This, alas, makes him a moron.

I give it six months and then a General Election.

 

[bluenova]

I'd say so considering Penny can't even add up to 100

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They would have been separate questions, like "Do you trust x candidate to provide a fresh start for the Conservatives?"

Still - I wonder how many random questions she had to poll before she got one that put her ahead?

 

[bluethrunthru]

The blokes already sorted his escape route to America ......why does anyone think he'll be acting in the interests of the population of the UK?

By handing back his Green Card? I am pretty sure he will act in the interests of his Party, its donors, its voters in that order which is the job of any Tory PM. If he quits/leaves I am pretty sure he, his wife and family have enough cash, business interests and opportunities to flit to wherever he would want to.

 

[SWP's back]

I'd say so considering Penny can't even add up to 100

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56.5% and 44.5% would give those figures but someone should have checked it didn’t then look silly

 

[Johnny Mars Bar]

It’s funny how the bar has been set so low that “not certifiably insane and likely to completely nose dive our economy into the third world” is all we now ask of our prime minister.

Having said that I thought Sunak did his best during covid, which can’t be said for a lot of them - Johnson, Hancock and the like.

 

[SWP's back]

He’s the only one that gives me any hope that the good ship U.K. can be steered away from the iceberg Boris and Liz were desperate to ram at full speed.

The markets like him as well so that’s usually a decent barometer of how business believes he may do.

 

[bluenova]

All PM's have skeletons in the closet and all will be hammered by the opposition and press

at present Sunak is really what we need

already forecast interest rates have dropped massively

if he can restore some leadership and sensible policy's then it would be a welcome break not to have the circus that we've had these last few years

Of course, I want him and the Torys to lose the next election but think it's only fair to give the benefit of doubt and give him a chance which he should have had a few months ago

Why? The Tories have been in power for 12 years. He's been Chancellor for the majority of Boris Johnson's time in office, and only turned on Johnson because he thought he'd be able to take over.

Giving a new Tory leader the benefit of the doubt is the reason why we're now onto our fifth PM in under four years.

 

[SWP's back]

Also worth mentioning:



For a party that is so often described as being run by racist old white men, having 3 female PM’s and an Asian heritage PM before Labour has ever managed a non middle aged white male leader is some going.

 

[journolud]

Not a fan of him or Hint by any means but we do appear to have grown ups in charge at last. I suspect that Sunak might be better at reading the mood of the nation than Truss and Johnson although it would be hard to be worse

 

[SWP's back]

Why? The Tories have been in power for 12 years. He's been Chancellor for the majority of Boris Johnson's time in office, and only turned on Johnson because he thought he'd be able to take over.

Giving a new Tory leader the benefit of the doubt is the reason why we're now onto our fifth PM in under four years.

He was a good chancellor and made the most sweeping moves to ensure people didn’t go without during covid of any western leader with the furlough programme. He wasn’t exactly dealt an easy hand.

I’m just enormously glad the Tories seem to be going for someone that isn’t mental to take the reins. (Low bar as someone said)

 

[bluenova]

It’s funny how the bar has been set so low that “not certifiably insane and likely to completely nose dive our economy into the third world” is all we now ask of our prime minister.

Having said that I thought Sunak did his best during covid, which can’t be said for a lot of them - Johnson, Hancock and the link.

A lot of people seem to say this because he was the one paying out furlough money?

Yet we now hear that he wanted to pay less for less time, but that the rest of the cabinet overruled him.

 

[bobmcfc]

Not a fan of him or Hint by any means but we do appear to have grown ups in charge at last. I suspect that Sunak might be better at reading the mood of the nation than Truss and Johnson although it would be hard to be worse

Agreed, Sunak is best for now but we still want a GE because I'm sure some MPs in that party will try to fuck it all up with the infighting