To wonder how a failed Investment Banker (Sajid Javid) is now running the country's finances

[Noextremes2017]

Sajid Javid was reputedly earning £3m a year at Deutche Bank at the time of the financial crash in 2008. Like most of the City Bankers he was above all the damage he did to ordinary people in the UK. Don't know if he was sacked or jumped but he walked into the only other career where bullshit rules (politics).
And now he has decided the country can spend billions of £ more using money it does not have. (the Magic Money Tree Thatcher used to chide Labour about)!
Should we not all be a little worried - given the track record this bloke has?

He was working in Singapore during the Western economic crash.

I’d much rather someone who has worked for a living have control, than a career politician.

“he walked into the only other career where bullshit rules (politics). ”

Also baffled by this statement. Most industries, if not all, are full of bullshit.

Coming back at any point @Noextremes2017?

Or just planning to sleep it off?

Sorry but please get your facts right. I like him actually, I would infinitely have preferred him to be our PM over Boris and think he'd do a pretty decent job actually.

A son of Pakistani immigrants gets himself a good degree, goes on to have a massively successful career in finance and earns himself a fortune. He then gives up the money or the early retirement he could have had to earn about 3% of what he was earning before, gives himself more stress than he has probably had before and becomes the first chancellor from a non white immigrant family. I think he’s bloody brilliant and should be seen as a really positive role model to young people who think they have no opportunities

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A son of Pakistani immigrants gets himself a good degree, goes on to have a massively successful career in finance and earns himself a fortune. He then gives up the money or the early retirement he could have had to earn about 3% of what he was earning before, gives himself more stress than he has probably had before and becomes the first chancellor from a non white immigrant family. I think he’s bloody brilliant and should be seen as a really positive role model to young people who think they have no opportunities

Absolutely but we mustn't let the facts get in the way of the Labour Party's desire to churn out garbage and lies. Hope the OP was paid well enough for spouting such nonsense.

OP we can't all be as successful as you ( I'm assuming you earn in excess of £3m and have never changed jobs... Congratulations)

A son of Pakistani immigrants gets himself a good degree, goes on to have a massively successful career in finance and earns himself a fortune. He then gives up the money or the early retirement he could have had to earn about 3% of what he was earning before, gives himself more stress than he has probably had before and becomes the first chancellor from a non white immigrant family. I think he’s bloody brilliant and should be seen as a really positive role model to young people who think they have no opportunities

Yes, this. I know it’s a bit of a satirical joke to say he never misses a chance to reference his family background but it is fabulous that he has had the jobs he has had through the opportunities offered.
Whether his being a Conservative means he’s pulled up the ladder behind him so others from similar backgrounds will find it more difficult to follow him is a matter for debate, but credit where it’s due.

Whether he's right for the job or not makes no difference.

MPs don't get these positions thanks to knowledge of the subject. Look at the track record of some of the ministers for Welfare or foreign affairs or education. They just get these positions due to their relation with leader.

We should be grateful that this guy has some experience of what he's minister of.

EG The Education Minister:
"Mr Williamson has no previous experience of working within education and entered into politics after working in the corporate sector."

So he bloody well should reference his background. Invisible bias means he has over achieved again and again and again. I can’t stand up for more senior women at work if I don’t also stand up for other minorities who have less opportunity than many women from privileged backgrounds.

It’s good that OP posted this because now I know more about him and I’m impressed. I’ve been paying so little attention to politics, but this guy is an achiever and from what a PP said, a good local MP.

I love that he has a beer named after him