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.

That’s not what is being said. You can’t interpret ‘worse than Thatcher’ as ‘Thatcher wasn’t that bad’.

@Everanewbie I suspect you regret patronising Bradfordgirl now …. 😂

@MarshaBradyo Sunak will have no part to play in reducing inflation. That will happen naturally and he will try and take the credit (and a lot of stupid people will let him).

in terms of our ights and Women's Rights to single sex spaces will probably go completely

Reminding me what the poor women in Scotland are dealing with right now and Labour supported there. Hopefully we’ll not find out how far Starmer will go too.

The country is on its knees with the NHS in crisis and strikes galore yet his priority is making maths compulsory till 18. When have I ever used algebra, geometry, trigonometry and all the other shite I was taught at school, in my everyday life - never!
Ridiculous idea.

@Everanewbie if you are sent to some of the best Schools and universities in the UK, you too could get a first. Actual normal non-billionaire people can get them too. Doesn't mean that you have a clue about how to run a country or anything else other than the subject you read.

I don’t care if people think they have brains the size of planets as is often the case on mn (all others are stupid of course) as long as inflation falls to prediction.

Things will improve hugely as a result.

I agree.

Boosting productivity (which seems to be one solution proposed on this thread and in other commentary to resolve current problems) means that we would ALL need to work longer hours and harder. Much longer and harder than would be comfortable for many. That’s the reality. Yet if the current (or indeed any) government were to put that out there so baldly as a policy there are no shortage of people - including mumsnetters- who would immediately and vociferously object that this ruins family life/personal life/freedoms etc and everything is a pointless drudge. So no prime minister can ever win it seems unless they deliver unsustainable sound bites that cause zero offence and are likely never to be realised. Money does not grow on trees. Taxing the top 1% more or even moderating executive pay packages is not the answer to the country’s economic difficulties. In fact if you remove incentives such as the ability to attain a higher standard of living why would any of us bother? Don’t always rush to blame the Sunak’s and Starmers of the world - the truth is unpalatable to many. The ability to change things lies within us all and a change of national mindset.

@dnac

Other countries have much higher productivity without working longer and harder.

I don't really see what Sunak has said at all, airy promises with no substance.

He can't control the small boats issue, thats down to France, waiting lists? by how much?

He needs to solve real world issues and the first one is the strikes affecting us all.

Zero mention of brexit, how times have changed from just a couple of years ago.

He's got a patronising manner as if he's talking to 5 year olds. Also has he actually done anything yet?

@dnac That is not what productivity means. Highly productive economies have higher wages and better workers rights.
Productivity means the rate of output per unit of input.
So low wage and low skilled workers might work long hours to earn enough but their output is low. Highly skilled workers have a higher productivity rate.

An over simplification but imagine the following workers. Rob who picks cauliflowers from the field. He has to work long hours to make enough money and hit targets for how many cauliflowers to pick. But the amount of money the farmer will make is limited as cauliflowers are relatively cheap. So per hour the profit a farmer makes from growing and getting Rob to pick cauliflowers is relatively low.
Andrew works in robotics building robotic lawnmowers with the help of machinery and his own skilled labour. With his labour the machine churns out 3 robotic lawnmowers an hour. Robotic lawnmowers are expensive anyway, so his boss who owns the factory makes a good amount of money from each lawnmower and specifically from each lawnmower that Andrew makes. The productivity is high.

Andrew can demand higher wages as it is a skilled job that not many people can do and so he has to work less hours than Andrew.

Perfectly pleasant. Better than his two predecessors. No ideas, vision, plan or programme. Just a wish list that’s hard to argue with, growth, lower inflation etc. In two years time he’ll be back working at a hedge fund.

Boosting productivity (which seems to be one solution proposed on this thread and in other commentary to resolve current problems) means that we would ALL need to work longer hours and harder. Much longer and harder than would be comfortable for many. That’s the reality

No it’s not. It’s been proved time again that presenteeism or excessive overtime reduces output. If Sunak would maybe invest in industry then we could boost productivity.

But as it is we are practically a third world economy based on services. And that’s the problem.

Maths for under 18yr olds FFS?!

How about sorting out our health & social care & education systems you utter cunt?! 🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️

Nah, I'd enjoy eating a chocolate teapot.

Rishi's wife was the mega rich one. Rishi's own fortune was earned. And good on him. And all the money in the world wouldn't buy me a first from Oxford in Economics. Reckon I could manage a 2-1 in History or something.

Any idea who was the Chancellor during lockdown and so a senior member of the government who decided that the UKs version would be more costly and less effective than in other countries?
Also any guesses as to who was partying whilst the rest of us followed the rules?

Rishi Sunak also doesn't have a first from Oxford in Economics. He has a degree in the rather different subject of PPE.

Not really. Glad to get some ideas out to prove OP isn't a pub bore after all but a thinker. Wasn't obvious from the earlier posts.

Of course he hasn't done anything. He can't find a policy that enough of his parliamentary party agree on to take a bill through parliament.

Maths for under 18yr olds FFS?!
I don't think it's a bad idea, in itself, but I think it was probably some sort of deadcatting.

As to never using maths in everyday life, you probably do, but don't think you are. Trigonometry is useful in many occupations. Algebra is useful for all sorts of everyday calculations. Understanding probability can help you decide if a risk is worth taking, etc. Numeracy is useful in most occupations.

Rishi was too late and not vocal enough in opposing lockdown, although better late than never. His support package was amongst the most generous in the world and saved many businesses that would have collapsed. Personally, I think he should have resigned in November 2020 when the second lockdown was enacted, but the second best choice was to mitigate the financial catastrophe of lockdown. Now we're dealing with the aftermath.

I am not sure what fortune he earned? He seems to have worked for three years in Goldman and then as a portfolio manager. There are loads of people in London who fit that description. They also mostly got firsts from top universities including Oxbridge. I wouldn't say that makes you PM material, just upper middle class.

If you look up his beneficial interests, the only thing he owns is a flat in Kensington which he bought as a first year analyst in Goldman with some help from Daddy. Rishi married well which i am not sure is an achievement. In my estimation, he is kinda like Melania Trump (who was well to do in her own right as a top model in New York).