Views on Rishi Sunak?

[BradfordGirl]

My view is he seems to be an incredibly weak and passive Prime Minister who is missing in action while the country faces crisis after crisis. We could have a cardboard cut out as Prime Minister and I doubt we would notice much difference.

I think he needs to stop banging on about shot that no one cares about right now (maths for 18 year olds) and do something about the NHS bring on its knees and the strikes.
This country is coming apart at the seams and it feels like all we hear about is Ukraine. I'm as sorry as the next person about how life must be for people out there but the PM should remember what country he's actually Prime Minister of and focus on domestic issues

I think the tension between being one of the richest people in the country and the prime minister will prove too much, given the levels of poverty and inequality we have going on.

The only positive thing is he's not Boris Johnson and seems less incompetent than Liz Truss. That's it. The Tories are out of ideas and, having lived through Thatcher and Major as an adult, this feels even worse.
The NHS has been in crisis for years and now it is actively being flushed down the toilet as a solution to that crisis.

Couldnt agree more bellini.

@longwayoff , I used to say this isn't as bad as Thatcher. But I accept now that it is. In fact, it's worse. I don't say that lightly.

With each new PM I think it can't be worse than the last one. But then it is!
Comes to something when we start remembering Mrs Thatcher as not that bad, considering!

Right again, bellini, we wont be rid of this lot until they've scraped the last of the gold leaf off the wall and stolen the last coin out of the poor box. Proper scorched earth for the welfare state and salting the fields for good measure. We can all fight over what's left.

Twat

The k my nice thing I can say about him is that at least he isn’t Labour.

The only nice thing

He's an absent PM. He's an ineffectual one too. He's very disconnected from most British people and the issues they want him to try and sort out.

I think this is worse than Thatcher too, and that’s something I’d never thought I’d say.

We have no train service in the north. We have no NHS or dentists. Schools are on their knees.

Where’s all that money saved from ‘Austerity’ gone? I just wonder what exactly I’m paying NI and tax for .

I agree he is totally disconnected from the real issues. Who told him looking at maths teaching would be something to focus on? It is not an issue I have heard anyone talk about.

Smartly dressed, talks a good job, does not deliver.

Has appointed a cabinet that still includes some of the worst people ever to hold ministerial office. Was prepared to stand by and watch the Downing Street parties without any intervention or questioning.

Awful. I would say worse than Thatcher but I was only a teen so it’s hard to say. I would say that he is massively out of touch with even middle class voters, let alone the ballyhooed “ordinary working families” which I take to mean 2 working parents with 2 children earning gross around £40-50k. Actual single parent households with one earner on min wage and benefit claimants and the disabled and elderly poor are a different planet.
I think he genuinely doesn’t get that these mumsy type nurses and HCPs - or worse - young nurses with dyed hair- are not going to carry on doing a difficult, high skill job for poor wages in awful conditions just because that is their “place”. He genuinely seems to think it’s something women should just do for free but he doesn’t even think his own colleagues should pay for their own lunches. He has said out loud that now his older dd wanted to walk to school alone then he “gets” VAWG. Not the 3 women getting murdered every week, or the epidemic of sexual violence, or the pay gap or the dire state of childcare. If you want to work in politics at a high level, let alone be the actual prime minister, then you need to “get” that something can be a problem, even if it isn’t personally a problem for you. He doesn’t “get” that. He thinks it’s fine for his family to avoid tax, while I pay more in just VAT through my business than I do in wages. Almost everything is fucked. Education, health, transport, taxation, culture, the arts, housing, our relationship with the rest of the world etc. it’s all massively worse than it was as a direct result of their shitty “let’s transfer all this public money into the pockets of our friends” policies. Even my mother hates them and she is a woman who held her husbands wake in a room dominated by Mrs T’s portrait.

Waiting for the inevitable 'but labour worse' posts.
Weird how folk were quite happy to pull us out of the EU (huge shot in the foot) yet so timid about voting for Labour (or anyone else for that matter). I don't remember life in the late 90s early 2000s being that bad under New Labour.

Weak, pathetic and out of his depth. A triumph of style over substance.

Another ineffectual puppet.

Completely useless and out of touch puppet.
We should really change a system that gives people the top job without actually being elected by the masses. This constant merry go round is ridiculous. At this point I would actually vote Labour even though I am not particular either way and certainly not impressed with some of what they stand for. I'm just fed up with the elite tory party who serves no one but themselves.

About as useful as a chocolate teapot.

The name seems to ring a bell but I can't place him. Who is he again?

Completely agree @FixundFoxi

If this was a labour government the media would be all over how useless he is.

That maths BS this morning sums up he truly out of touch he is.

It's obviously still early days but I think he will be a vast improvement on the last 3 PMs (though I appreciate that that is not saying much).

He has a big mess to sort out and I'm looking forward to hearing what he has to say in his speech this afternoon.

Has and impossible job. We all know he's loaded so every journalist will attempt variations of the pint of milk question and scrutinise the price of his tie. If he tries to empathise with those who are struggling he'll be patronising and if he dodges the question he'll be uninterested. I prefer that we have a prime minister who has been successful in other walks of life than a career politician.

He has a fractured party that he's trying to hold together, plus the fall-out from our monstrous lockdown and Ukraine.

In terms of our situation at present he is the best option. He has an excellent background in economics and seems to sit roughly somewhere in the middle of his party. The Conservatives are hardly going to just say "right, we give up. Labour, you have a go" so we are where we are.

BUT.

Where the hell has he been? Time to deliver. Or at least look like you're trying!

I would rather a PM that works behind the scenes. I don’t care how often we see him out and about as long as he is working closely with his cabinet and making changes that benefit our country and the people who live here. Only time will tell.