Rishi Sunak

I can’t claim to know much about his policies but as a figurehead I think he’ll be a level headed, calming influence over the political shit show and market instability we’ve seen over the last few weeks/months/years, and I for one welcome him for that.

* Just seen he’s been confirmed as PM while typing

I also think Penny Mordaunt was a respectable option too for the same reason.
 
Octavian said:
Have to you read the full articles?

It states that Sunak was against lockdowns for Omicron late 2021 and he was a lone voice saying the scientists were overdoing their predictions.

And guess what?

He was fucking right wasn’t.

We didn’t lockdown and it proved beyond doubt to be the right decision.

This was over a year after the original lockdown, which he wasn’t against, he was brand new in the job and his first big announcement was the furlough scheme.

If it wasn’t his baby, who’s was it?

The reason your Trump comparison was silly is because it was Sunak’s specific job to decide on a financial package, with the Premier then signing it off. Trump wasn’t the equivalent of Sunak was he?
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His opposition to the later lockdowns was common knowledge, I said that was 'added details'. In the second article, and in interviews he's done this Summer, he's talking about meetings in Spring 2020.

It was nobody's "baby". To suggest that a policy that was in place in every western country, many before the UK, and that not one member of the cabinet or opposition cabinet actively opposed, was an individual's "baby" is ridiculous. He was simply the man in place at the time.

Remember, that furlough came in just one month after Sajid Javid had quit as chancellor because he wanted to have some independence. Are we really to believe that Sunak, after accepting the post on the basis that he'd defer to Boris & Cummings, was just weeks later truly responsible for one of the biggest spending commitments in UK govt history?
 
R U Ready for Rishi?
Not me.
He's just a throwback far right wing neo liberal thatcherite.

PS Also while he might be good at accountancy he's very naive politically.
 
bluenova said:
His opposition to the later lockdowns was common knowledge, I said that was 'added details'. In the second article, and in interviews he's done this Summer, he's talking about meetings in Spring 2020.

It was nobody's "baby". To suggest that a policy that was in place in every western country, many before the UK, and that not one member of the cabinet or opposition cabinet actively opposed, was an individual's "baby" is ridiculous. He was simply the man in place at the time.

Remember, that furlough came in just one month after Sajid Javid had quit as chancellor because he wanted to have some independence. Are we really to believe that Sunak, after accepting the post on the basis that he'd defer to Boris & Cummings, was just weeks later truly responsible for one of the biggest spending commitments in UK govt history?
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Germany already had a furlough scheme in place that was used following the financial crash of 2008, they just slightly amended it and it was good to go.

The UK was announced in March 2020 when we went into lockdown, Sunak couldn’t have done it any sooner.

The UK one covered 80% of wages, rather than the 70% in the likes of France and Italy.

You’re speculating. He was the Chancellor and the furlough scheme came out of his office.
 
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