Rishi Sunak

Try and picture Sunak in a War Room...or operations room during 9/11...or ANY major incident...as the person leading and making the important decisions

:-|
Why can’t you?

Blair wasn’t exactly a strong man type but he caused more conflicts than Ghengis Khan.

You don’t need to look like a bulldog to be tough as a political leader.

Hopefully he’ll never have to step foot in a war room anyway.

He was in our Cabinet making huge economic decisions during the biggest crisis we’ve faced in my life time (and I’m an old man).
 
Considering his own party voters were likening to Al Qaeda the other day, whose war room are you talking about.
Who was doing that? A single caller on a single radio station that purposefully lets loons call in for clicks?
 
Why can’t you?

Blair wasn’t exactly a strong man type but he caused more conflicts than Ghengis Khan.

You don’t need to look like a bulldog to be tough as a political leader.

Hopefully he’ll never have to step foot in a war room anyway.

He was in our Cabinet making huge economic decisions during the biggest crisis we’ve faced in my life time (and I’m an old man).
And look how those decisions panned out....he is the wet lettuce that lasted longer than Truss
 
Well he’s just been Chancellor for the last 2 years in the middle of the most difficult time in the modern era and overall saved millions of businesses and jobs, he predicted Truss’s “fairy tale” economics disaster and he’s polished and young.

Other than that there’s not much else.

But I’d rather we talked about his policies and what he’s going to do/done already than the fact he’s brown.

It doesn’t matter what is skin colour is.

Give it a few weeks, he’s not as polished as some think. I’d also bear in mind why he was given the chancellor role in the first place.
 
And look how those decisions panned out....he is the wet lettuce that lasted longer than Truss
Well several of them were executed perfectly and saved lives around the world - Sierra Leone and Kosovo being examples - the big one was a total disaster.

I don’t think he’s a wet lettuce at all, being Chancellor during Covid and actually being respected throughought it all, despite being in Johnson’s government, takes strength.
 
So he's the only finance minister in the world to have saved jobs and businesses during covid?
Don't think so.
In fact our economic performance post pandemic is much lower than eurozone and USA.
He predicted Truss's fairytale economics? Christ,anyone with half a brain could have!
And you're right there isn't much else.
Oh sorry I forgot Rishi's dishes!
Can you please point out to where I said he was the only finance minister in the world to save jobs and/or businesses during Covid?

If you cannot do so please come back and retract that statement.

I await your response.
 
The Tufton St brigade are powerful but they're no more establishment than Trump is. The establishment allows the fringes to indulge in high octane madness, lunatic politics, populists, fantasists, useful idiots and zealots, but over time the establishment always returns to mean, the excitable put back in their box or out to grass if they over reach themselves.

With the establishment the truth lies in the name.

To me, the people who are in the Tufton St mafia could not be more 'establishment', in background, contempt for the lower classes and lack of any interest in social mobility.

If the 'real' establishment act as a counter balance to these morons, as you suggest, then they would seem to be a more benign force against the extremist element, than I give then credit for.

To me, the establishment (as much as uou can say such an abstract concept exists) is less about maintaining relatively centrist politics and more about ensuring that social mobility is limited to a superficial level that doesn't upset the position of the richest 1%. Whilst making sure that the other 99% is exploited to a ridiculous level.

And that's what Tufton St /etc is all about

Of course, you might think that maintaining centrist politics and ensuring restricted social mobility are the same thing. I wouldn't - well certainly nowhere near compared to the wet dream that the 'establishment' at Tufton St would like to implement.
 

Because number 10 wanted someone that would do what they wanted at the time as they wanted greater control of the finances, it’s why Cummings sung his praises for so long (pretty much until Sunak started talking publicly about being an anti lockdown voice in cabinet).
 
Might not go down well on here but as a British Asian man I feel ashamed and betrayed that a man like rishi can claim to represent me, other immigrants and working class people through his vicious and calculated right wing politics that keeps us all fighting for scraps and fighting against each other. The only way his race is at all relevant is so the Tories can use him as a token to say look at us were not racist which is a laughable concept in reality as their politics are inherently racist.

There's a term for it on the other side of the pond..

"Uncle Tom"
 
Well several of them were executed perfectly and saved lives around the world - Sierra Leone and Kosovo being examples - the big one was a total disaster.

I don’t think he’s a wet lettuce at all, being Chancellor during Covid and actually being respected throughought it all, despite being in Johnson’s government, takes strength.

Hmmm.Not sure "Strength" is the correct description.

Having the wherewithal to capitalise on his ex bosses many mistakes,despite being relatively inexperienced as a cabinet minister.
I'd say he's been quite adroit at dissasociating himself from all the poor stuff the Johnson led cabinet did,that he was a member of.

An upgrade of the two previous incumbents probably,but I'd be wary of being too fulsome with the praise just yet.
 
Mordaunt and Johnson had no choice but to back down as they didn't have the numbers so giving credit to them is misplaced.

I thought Johnson had +100 people supporting him and when I wrote that earlier posting I didn't know that Mordaunt had stalled at around 90. I do now, so yes I gave her credit erroneously.
 
I thought Johnson had +100 people supporting him and when I wrote that earlier posting I didn't know that Mordaunt had stalled at around 90. I do now, so yes I gave her credit erroneously.
No, Johnson said he had over 100. No one believed him because he tells lies. If he did he wouldn’t have withdrawn.
 

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