Sunak isn't a very good politician

Above response was to @SerendipityJane re Gerald Ratner

Good comparison. The Tories are currently worth about the same as a prawn sandwich. But less likeable.

So nothing but you’ve said it and you’re doubling down on it.

I lost both of my parents during Covid, same experience as you.

Like most politicians he’s in it for what he can get during and after being PM.
Apparently he’s keen to move to USA, they’re welcome to him as far as I’m concerned!

Yes Sunak comes across as very entitled and arrogant. You can see it in the way he just shouts over people. I bet he was treated like a little prince by his parents. I find it highly believable he ignored good advice.

He’s a disgrace . Bring back national service ?!

I think Gerald Ratner is a much better comparison, for those that remember.

Not when politics is your actual job.

It could possibly be a compliment if he was failing politically because he wasn't ruthless enough, if he was too honest and too principled to play the game. But he's a proven liar who puts his own self-interest ahead of the country and it's people every time and his campaign is still a complete joke.

I'll be glad when he fucks off to California.

Starmer seems to have the luck of Thatcher when it comes to his enemies/opponents. Johnson, Truss and Sunak are dreadful leaders and Prime Ministers.

Starmer is never going to make the massive series of gaffes that Johnson did, so I can't seriously see it arising.

He still sounds grumpy even while apologising. And he somehow thinks it's an excuse that this was planned some time ago. Surely that makes it worse?

Some at least advised him properly. Cameron is reported in The Times as saying he tried to get through to him but being unable to change his mind. There is really no hope for a PM hasn't got the sense to listen to his Foreign Secretary who is a former PM who was at the 70th anniversary D Day celebrations.

Don't know why he even became a politician. He's got no political skills or awareness.

He was in the right place at the right time to move up quick in the Tories after the brain drain post-2016 - Sunak was a Brexit supporter and all the remainers were chucked out the party. That's how you got no marks like Hancock as Health Sec and Sunak as chancellor in a pandemic because there was nobody competent left. But furlough (which any chancellor would have had to bring in) got him enough popularity to be able to run for leader. Although eat out to help out was a disaster and another one of his dozy ideas.

Johnson was terrible, and always going to be terrible, but for whatever reason a lot of people liked him. Truss and Sunak have nothing going for them at all.

This with bells on. Terrible politician who hasn’t a clue. Being prime minister is all about checking the box and feeding his (small man) ego.

Is Sunak’s exit being stage managed, by his friends or enemies? The repeated gaffes are now giving that impression. It’s becoming so cartoon-like, it’s looking scripted. The Lib Dem’s boat was not a coincidence. And I can’t believe that none of Sunak’s handlers anticipated the D-day backlash. It’s as if somebody (possibly Sunak himself) is trying to make damn sure he’s not back in.

He's just useless. Morally repugnant, arrogant, self-serving, and an absolute fool on top of it all.

@ilovesooty

He could avoided making a tit of himself with most of those things if he'd done his homework and employed a modicum of common sense.

Can't say I disagree with this. From the very beginning, making PR stunts when first MP to now leaving D day commemorations early. What was he thinking? 🌹

Showed his true self- not bothered about the veterans feelings or the other leaders who had the decency to stay. Also, the way he spoke over Liz Truss in the leadership contest and over Keir Starmer earlier this week showed the real person. I think the more we see of him the more the mask is slipping and those very elderly gentleman have more decency than he can ever have. It was a stupid decision politically but not surprising given he didn't have the moral courage to act when those endless parties were happening in number 10 during lockdowns and he was in number 11. My dad died from covid - 15 people at his funeral, not able to be with him, I see this lot and hope,finally, they will be voted out.

He could have held the umbrella himself.

Then again he can't pay for his own fuel....

I think this is rather strategic of the Tories tbh. They know they don't have a hope in hell of winning with Rishi at the helm - he'd not win a general election full stop so they needed to get him out one way or another. That he wasn't suitably advised he shouldn't leave Normandy is really no accident. Everyone knows that's something of a giant faux pas where the electorate or the type of people who you need on your side to get a win are concerned. I don't particularly think one way or another about his leaving early but I can see how this has been blown into such fanfare because it was just such a huge misstep.

He'd have been the very last one to leave. Probably still be there now working the photo opps with the locals!

I'm actually starting to feel (very very slightly) sorry for some of the conservative MPs that will lose their jobs due to Sunak's stupidity.
Our Conservative MP is an OK-person. I wasn't originally convinced when they were parachuted in by Tory HQ, but they have turned out OK.
However, Sunak said about 18 months ago (I paraphrase) "I want everybody who isn't standing at the next election to tell me now." Surprisingly a load of MPs said they were going to jump ship. They knew that the Tories were in trouble and therefore lined up other jobs to go to. Our MP (sensible, gets things done) is one of them: the Private Sector's gain is Politics' loss.
Why on earth did Sunak think that it was a good idea to force the issue like that? He should be promising plum positions, not encouraging capable MPs to leave! He has no political nous.

I don't understand the decision to leave the D Day event. It's beyond stupid.

I get they might not be even trying to win against Labour at this point but I would have thought they'd be focused on not haemorrhaging votes to Reform as some sort of damage limitation.

Their own base voting Reform potentially will change this election from merely a disastrous loss to an extinction event. It's this base that are likely to find his D Day snub offensive.

I can only think it's a set up of some sort because how was there nobody who pointed out leaving was dreadful optics from so many angles?

It's getting so bad I can no longer tell who is being serious & who is being sarcastic!!

Yes. He's a terrible human being and he was a terrible PM, but he had great political skills.