Rishi Sunak

He's up before the Contaminated Blood Inquiry.
He's treating it like a Commons meeting and wittering away at length when there's no need to and resorting to blethering his numberwang thing about what had been done.
Main strand at the moment is that Penny Mordaunt (then Paymaster General) wrote to say they should get on with a compensation scheme to save money and because people were still alive - absolutely crystal clear that Mordaunt thought this was important - with a second letter being even more blunt.
Upshot so far seems to be that he didn't see it (seems reasonable to those surrounding this), and it may have been Chief Sec to the Treasury's job.
 
"Looking at it now, was the Govt response good enoough?"
"Waffle, utter refusal to answer the question given."

Certain amount of unrest from the gallery audible at the evasiveness.
 
MillionMilesAway said:
"Looking at it now, was the Govt response good enoough?"
"Waffle, utter refusal to answer the question given."

Certain amount of unrest from the gallery audible at the evasiveness.
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Just strange when you think it is a payout for something he had no involvement on.

Just get it done and stop fucking about, seems bizarre it's not just settled rather than dragged out into an issue.
 
After more gallery response at "is the answer yes or no" being avoided (at length), the judge felt obliged to request that the witness be respected!

All it needs now is someone to say "Don't play the slippery eel with me!"

Given he's not personally responsible for much of what he's being asked about, it comes across as astonishing that he won't commit to providing an opinion on pretty much anything.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
Just strange when you think it is a payout for something he had no involvement on.

Just get it done and stop fucking about, seems bizarre it's not just settled rather than dragged out into an issue.
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When the quoted Mordaunt letter was so direct, it is indeed odd.

He's now saying that it's normal to wait until the inquiry was over before doing anything. When more of them have died.
 
MillionMilesAway said:
When the quoted Mordaunt letter was so direct, it is indeed odd.

He's now saying that it's normal to wait until the inquiry was over before doing anything. When more of them have died.
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He's weak, lacking in empathy and barely competent.

Truss was far weaker and obviously less competent but had empathy.

This man is so unsuitable to PM that he is Boris Johnson's Anthony Eden.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
He's weak, lacking in empathy and barely competent.

Truss was far weaker and obviously less competent but had empathy.

This man is so unsuitable to PM that he is Boris Johnson's Anthony Eden.
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Not sure I'd say Truss had empathy, she'd occasionally answer a question directly.
Sunak is certainly weak - maybe that's why he resorts to reciting numbers with no real context so often.
 
After the way the chairman made some 'suggestions' at the end (to a round of applause from the gallery), I predict an announcement of action by Friday, if not tomorrow.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
He's weak, lacking in empathy and barely competent.

Truss was far weaker and obviously less competent but had empathy.

This man is so unsuitable to PM that he is Boris Johnson's Anthony Eden.
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He cannot speak live and off the cuff in front of real people which is why thus far his stint as PM has been done in a series of glossy promotional videos where he can do as many takes as he needs to get enough content to edit together to make him look human. In front of actual humans the empathy vacuum comes across as a nothing - a gas thats floating away - if it was Randall and Hopkirk he's Marty Hopkirk - the ghost who only one man can hear and who cannot have physical contact with anything on earth

 
bluethrunthru said:
He cannot speak live and off the cuff in front of real people which is why thus far his stint as PM has been done in a series of glossy promotional videos where he can do as many takes as he needs to get enough content to edit together to make him look human. In front of actual humans the empathy vacuum comes across as a nothing - a gas thats floating away - if it was Randall and Hopkirk he's Marty Hopkirk - the ghost who only one man can hear and who cannot have physical contact with anything on earth

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Grenfell, war widows, post office, windrush, asylum claims, massive PPE related fraud, foreign backed donations to the party, ex PM’s taking huge severance payments, putting their relatives into the House of Lords, lying to parliament and the public every single day along with a myriad of other things, just ignored in the forlorn hope they’ll go away.
Former nationalised industry chiefs stealing profits and filling our seas and rivers with shit whilst paying dividends and fortunes for their CEO’s are nothing to do with government. A bloke who’s in the public eye far too much gets offered a Nat West Bank account and the full machinery of government along with coordinated attacks by backbench MP’s and the British Press are on it non stop for days. A CEO has gone and they’re now trying to out the board.
Not that we should be surprised where there priorities lie but they’re so brazen I wonder how much more damage they’ll do before they’re hopefully slatted out.
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Grenfell, war widows, post office, windrush, asylum claims, massive PPE related fraud, foreign backed donations to the party, ex PM’s taking huge severance payments, putting their relatives into the House of Lords, lying to parliament and the public every single day along with a myriad of other things, just ignored in the forlorn hope they’ll go away.
Former nationalised industry chiefs stealing profits and filling our seas and rivers with shit whilst paying dividends and fortunes for their CEO’s are nothing to do with government. A bloke who’s in the public eye far too much gets offered a Nat West Bank account and the full machinery of government along with coordinated attacks by backbench MP’s and the British Press are on it non stop for days. A CEO has gone and they’re now trying to out the board.
Not that we should be surprised where there priorities lie but they’re so brazen I wonder how much more damage they’ll do before they’re hopefully slatted out.
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yeah but Corbyn - Starmer - flip flops on the beach - oh sorry I was suddenly Greg hands then lol
 
The Light Was Yellow Sir said:
Grenfell, war widows, post office, windrush, asylum claims, massive PPE related fraud, foreign backed donations to the party, ex PM’s taking huge severance payments, putting their relatives into the House of Lords, lying to parliament and the public every single day along with a myriad of other things, just ignored in the forlorn hope they’ll go away.
Former nationalised industry chiefs stealing profits and filling our seas and rivers with shit whilst paying dividends and fortunes for their CEO’s are nothing to do with government. A bloke who’s in the public eye far too much gets offered a Nat West Bank account and the full machinery of government along with coordinated attacks by backbench MP’s and the British Press are on it non stop for days. A CEO has gone and they’re now trying to out the board.
Not that we should be surprised where there priorities lie but they’re so brazen I wonder how much more damage they’ll do before they’re hopefully slatted out.
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as a serious reply I hope they are filleted at the GE and left as a squabbling group of ungovernable factions. I mean worse than they are now. A real leader would read the riot act - remove whips with such a big majority and bollock dissenters but its been a long time since they had that and deserve to be gutted
 
MillionMilesAway said:
Not sure I'd say Truss had empathy, she'd occasionally answer a question directly.
Sunak is certainly weak - maybe that's why he resorts to reciting numbers with no real context so often.
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I'm talking in relative terms here.

Compare their reactions when the journalist collapsed in the studio. She can actually talk to kids like a normal person not a supply teacher about to be put on a register.

And she had enough sense to call Graham Brady and throw in the towel herself.
 
Mr Kobayashi said:
I'm talking in relative terms here.

Compare their reactions when the journalist collapsed in the studio. She can actually talk to kids like a normal person not a supply teacher about to be put on a register.

And she had enough sense to call Graham Brady and throw in the towel herself.
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She resigned just after serving the time required to be awarded a large annual allowance.
 
BrianW said:
Sunak strikes me as a back-office guy in a public-facing role.

Like a full-back at centre-forward. A full-back in such a position will do his best (if he's got anything about him) but he'll never be as good as a proper centre-forward at the same level of the game.
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Phil Neville?
 
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