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Rishi Sunak as PM

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emmahazel · 14/07/2022 06:50

It's more likely now that Sunak will become our next PM as he has more MPs backing him. Penny is finished in my opinion with her trans comments.

Sunak's promised not to cut tax so this means higher living costs to continue.
Do you think he'll be a good leader?

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Roselilly36 · 14/07/2022 06:53

No I don’t sadly, more of the same.

Notonthestairs · 14/07/2022 06:55

Worth remembering that the choice of Conservative MPs doesn't always reflect the choice of the membership and they will decide out of the last 2.

roses2 · 14/07/2022 06:56

His heart seems in the right place to me and less corrupt and self serving than others. Who knows though, he might be good but get no backing and leave quickly just like Theresa May who was similar in terms of morals and trying to do the right thing.

Ivalueloyaltyaboveallelse · 14/07/2022 06:56

Nope, I don’t think he will be any good either.

WeAreTheHeroes · 14/07/2022 06:58

I wonder how someone as privileged and wealthy can possibly comprehend normal life for the average person, nevermind the poorest of society.

BellaCiao1 · 14/07/2022 06:58

Do you think someone worth £730m who uses dual nationality to dodge tax as someone who has your best interest at heart?

He covered up BJ's lies until it no longer suited him, then he found his 'integrity'.

Wants to rebuild the economy - said without a hint of irony.

The Tories have nothing in common with the ordinary person. Get them all out and give this country back to the people.

SpindleInTheWind · 14/07/2022 07:01

Being honest, and serious, I don’t trust any of them.

Sunak needs to come clean with the public about his actual financial plans for us all. You know, the little people.

If I had to be stuck on a desert island with one of them I’d pick Tom Tughendat.

Penny Mordaunt would probably steal your lunch money and lie about it.

Truss, just christ almighty. Ditto the other right-wingers. It’s The Apprentice on magic mushrooms.

sjxoxo · 14/07/2022 07:02

BellaCiao1 · 14/07/2022 06:58

Do you think someone worth £730m who uses dual nationality to dodge tax as someone who has your best interest at heart?

He covered up BJ's lies until it no longer suited him, then he found his 'integrity'.

Wants to rebuild the economy - said without a hint of irony.

The Tories have nothing in common with the ordinary person. Get them all out and give this country back to the people.

This with bells on. Of course he doesn’t have normal peoples best interests at heart!!! It’s a tragedy for working people that we’ve got these people running OUR government. This winter will be a shit show under any of them.

Shoopitypoop · 14/07/2022 07:03

He is exactly the same as Bojo. Self serving.

allgoodabc · 14/07/2022 07:05

emmahazel · 14/07/2022 06:50

It's more likely now that Sunak will become our next PM as he has more MPs backing him. Penny is finished in my opinion with her trans comments.

Sunak's promised not to cut tax so this means higher living costs to continue.
Do you think he'll be a good leader?

No- after years of Thatcherites, with decades of wage stagnation, extremely low productivity, growing poverty while other countries thrived I think we can safely say more of the same is unlikely to work. I don’t understand why the country seems to have such a blind spot with Thatcher, even people who hate her seem to hate her because she was “cruel”, she wasn’t cruel she was wrong! And they all hark back to her economics, all the chancellors and PMs from Blair onwards it seems. Sunak is already talked about thatcher’s (actually Adam smith’s) concept of the national economy as a household budget. It doesn’t work.

Danikm151 · 14/07/2022 07:05

He wants to run the economy like Thatcher….. isn’t that a time that crumbled the working class?

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basilmint · 14/07/2022 07:08

I feel he is the most competent of the bunch (which is not saying much). I am torn between wanting the most competent candidate to win as they have to actually govern the country for two years at least and wanting the most dreadful one to win so the Conservatives will definitely be voted out at the next election. Although I feel if Rishi wins he might be the new Gordon Brown - ok at doing the job but coming in at the wrong time. That is an insult to Gordon Brown of course who was a much more worthy PM than Sunak would be but I feel the circumstances could be similar.

headstone · 14/07/2022 07:16

The positives fir Sunak, is he is young and energetic, might come up with some good ideas, might be good for the economy as has a good understanding of figures. He has a thick skin. Negatives, there might be a conflict of interests with his wealthy Indian wife. He might be of the belief that taxes are only for the little people.

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emmahazel · 14/07/2022 07:19

headstone · 14/07/2022 07:16

The positives fir Sunak, is he is young and energetic, might come up with some good ideas, might be good for the economy as has a good understanding of figures. He has a thick skin. Negatives, there might be a conflict of interests with his wealthy Indian wife. He might be of the belief that taxes are only for the little people.

He's not young?

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CredibilityProblem · 14/07/2022 07:19

Polling of the Conservative party members who will actually decide who wins suggests that you're wrong, and whoever they are given as an alternative to Rishi will win: probably Truss or Mordaunt.

CredibilityProblem · 14/07/2022 07:20

emmahazel · 14/07/2022 07:19

He's not young?

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He'd be the youngest PM in two centuries (as would Mordaunt).

PiffleWiffleWoozle · 14/07/2022 07:26

Unfortunately it is looking like Penny M will win.

Still could be any of them…

PiffleWiffleWoozle · 14/07/2022 07:26

Would love it to be Tom T

ArcticRoll2 · 14/07/2022 07:33

In my opinion he is the best out of a bad bunch. Can’t trust any of them anyway! And don’t get me started on Labour!

Meklk · 14/07/2022 07:35

He should survive with his wife and two daughters at least a month on minimum wage UK. He has no bloody idea about cost of living these days.
Do you really think billionaire could represent us? NO.

CalistoNoSolo · 14/07/2022 07:37

He's a creepy little liar. He stood by Johnson until it suited him not to, he wasted billions giving loans to non existent companies, his tax affairs are murky and he wants to be an American. They are all bad, but there is something about sunak that sets my teeth on edge.

CalistoNoSolo · 14/07/2022 07:39

ArcticRoll2 · 14/07/2022 07:33

In my opinion he is the best out of a bad bunch. Can’t trust any of them anyway! And don’t get me started on Labour!

What the fuck have Labour got to do with it? It's a Conservative leadership race.

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emmahazel · 14/07/2022 07:40

CredibilityProblem · 14/07/2022 07:20

He'd be the youngest PM in two centuries (as would Mordaunt).

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Looks like he's in 50's

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amusedbush · 14/07/2022 07:41

As someone who frequently adds to the #fuckthetories hashtag on social media, I’m not the person to ask but I agree with the comments above. He is unimaginably wealthy - money that I can’t even comprehend in real terms - and being that removed from reality isn’t what we need during a cost of living crisis.

I don’t trust any of them to represent me but certainly not him and his tax-dodging.