Our PM lives in a different world

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Article on BBC News today reporting Rishi Sunak reassuring people to hold their nerve and get through high interest rates.

This is the man who paid £325,826 in capital gains tax and £120,604 in UK income tax on a total of £1.9m in the last tax year.

Of that £1.9m, £156,163 came from his parliamentary salary, £173,398 come from investment and savings income and about £1.641m from capital gains - profit made on the sale of assets.

How can a man with an income of £1.9m a year possibly understand what the average person is feeling right now?? Holding our nerve won't pay the mortgage this month.

BBC News - Rishi Sunak urges people to hold their nerve on interest rates
www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66012301

If you think a Labour government will change things round you will be in for a surprise - they will just blame the tories for their shortcomings.

a change may well be needed - but it won’t necessarily be for the better

You shouldn't believe everything that Liar Johnson tells you.

www.politics.co.uk/reference/keir-starmer-jimmy-savile/

I don't know who came up with 'Prime Miniature ' but it's genius.

Yet another reason why I would never vote Tory! They just haven't got a clue.

It is going to be very difficult for anybody to turn around the UK since the Tories have cut every possible public service, but someone how still manage to employ companies at great expense to fail to deliver - see for example the railways. The next government will have to deal with, high taxes, but poor services, so it will take a very long time to sort out.

At least there was some indication today that the start of the necessary changes are going to be made. Two pieces of related news. Firstly that the UK is not going to introduce checks on import food products from the EU and secondly that we are just going to stick with EU standards rather than British standards.

Laurence Fox did that, it didn't get him very far.

"We've had choice of Truss, Sunak or now, Starmer."

No. Conservative members have had a choice.

I’m not trying to sell him to you. There are still 163 grammar schools attended by 5% of state educated pupils. They’re hardly confined to elite areas unless you think Lincolnshire is “leafy”.

The only politician doing a worse job than Sinai I’d Starmer.

Labour have had years to pull together an effective opposition and are continuing to fail at this.

Yup Labour are failing spectacularly.

https://www.electoralcalculus.co.uk/prediction_main.html

I guess you didn't notice that Uxbridge by-election where the swing was large enough if it was replicated in a GE nationally for Labour to be the largest party and probably have a majority.

Hmm polls seems to suggest that labour would win a General election. Hard to see how they can be doing a wore job than those actually in power.

I think you are being unfair on the polls. They don't suggest that Labour would win a General Election if held this month, but rather than they would have a majority of perhaps over 200.

grammar schools have been retained by conservative councils, which tend to be in more middle class areas. So the effect of labour’s war on them was to remove them from areas of deprivation, where they had been important in promoting social mobility.
Keir and his kind don’t like that, of course. Keir benefits from the grammar school but is happy to see the ladder kicked away for others.

Starmer has only been in politics/an MP for about 8.5 years, I think? Not sure he can be blamed for demise of grammar school system !!

I don't resent Sunak for being rich. His wealth is irrelevant to me, to be honest. At least we know he has no temptation to enrich himself on govt coffers. I'm pissed off at Sunak for encouraging rat runs and traffic snarl ups and bad air quality, though.

that just goes to underline the vast hierarchy of modern society and how little of it is under any control whatsoever of ordinary people. It is not something to be proud of. The only good thing about this situation is that all such societies collapse, most within a short time. Arguably the only good thing anyway - the fallout from any collapse, with our unprecedented population levels, and in a country which cannot support its current native population never mind the daily importations, will not be in any way pretty.

At least we know he has no temptation to enrich himself on govt coffers

You think? How naive and trusting of you. Whose interests is he representing, if not those of ordinary Working people in Britain? What does he care about Britain’s traditions or people? And bugger off with the current iteration of ‘rich leader has humble origins’ - more than any other of whom this lying myth has been told of recent times, he really really doesn’t.

Odd. Slough appears to be Labour. 🤷‍♀️

Telford likewise is Labour
Whereas neighbouring Shropshire which doesn't have any grammar schools in Conservative.

How do you think multi millionaires like Sunak get that seriously rich?

Why is a man who is currently worth £844 million working as PM? Hint: it's not because he has some great ideas for sorting out the mess this country is in.

I'd trust a poor politician before I trust a rich one.

Our PM Is confused, holding your nerve is what you do when your investments tank, not what you do when you don't have enough money to pay your bills.

I still think that anyone who wants to be an MP should have to spend a year working in a school or hospital and living in social housing. Too many of them go from University to Parliament without ever having a 'proper' job.

Sunak, I despise the thin skinned arrogant little prick