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To wish Rishi Sunak was Prime Minister

110 replies

TheMustressMhor · 08/04/2020 17:19

He just seems more in touch.

I am sick of the hard right in politics. Out of all the remaining members of the Cabinet, while BJ is in hospital, Rishi Sunak seems to be the most admirable MP.

AIBU?

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Kazzyhoward · 08/04/2020 20:13

He reminds me of Tony Blair - all fur coat and no knickers. Excellent in front of the camera which seems to be all people care about these days - look at Clegg. We need politicians with a bit more gravitas. He'd probably win a GE as Tory leader, but whether he'd be any good or not is a different matter - back to Blair!

boli · 08/04/2020 20:17

Boris will be Pm for a long time. But the one after him will be whoever the Tory party want it to be as Labour will be in the shadows for years.

Potterspotter · 08/04/2020 20:23

He’s got to be pretty intelligent with that resume, reckon he’ll have a go for leader at some point, it does depend how much he ends up carrying the can for the cost of the coronavirus bail out I expect - Gordon Brown garnered only electoral opprobrium for the banking bailout to avoid a depression and here we are again.

dementedma · 08/04/2020 20:25

He has potential. Time will tell if he makes the grade

feellikeanalien · 08/04/2020 20:28

He's a public school, Oxford educated ex-banker who married into a wealthy family.

Sounds like a typical Tory to me except that most Tories don't usually find themselves in the situation where they are giving government support to people who, through no fault of their own, are (temporarily hopefully) unemployed.

As other pps have said he comes across well but he is in the Conservative party so presumably supports their policies.

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TheMustressMhor · 08/04/2020 21:31

@notangelinajolie

Our Prime Minister is in intensive care fighting for his life FFS
Disgusting thread. YABVVU

I didn't say I wished BJ was dead, nor that I hoped he would be.

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Mummyshark2019 · 08/04/2020 21:47

I have to say I think this is inappropriate given that our Prime Minister is in ICU.

But do I think Rishi would make a good PM? No I don't. He's way too junior. Yes he is talking the talk and chucking money at solutions to help people get by. But let's just see how this all pans out when Corona is over and how he deals with the aftermath as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Personally, I think Starmer would be a much better leader under Labour government.

But hey ho. Let's just wish Boris better and hope he pulls out of this asap.

Mittens030869 · 08/04/2020 21:56

Personally, I think Starmer would be a much better leader under Labour government.

I agree with this. I've been very impressed so far. In the meantime, we really needed a good opposition leader, and we now have one.

LinManWellWellWell · 08/04/2020 22:14

I like the way he said to every journalist ‘does that answer your question?’ He just seemed like he genuinely wanted to give a satisfactory response.

SugarSugarShimmy · 08/04/2020 22:21

Head boy at Winchester college and married to a billionaire. Standard Tory

LellyMcKelly · 08/04/2020 22:30

Couldn’t be any worse than Boris or Raab, and before you start shouting at me, no, of course I don’t want Johnson dead, though I do think he has been a very disappointing prime minister.

MikeFromSpaced · 08/04/2020 22:47

Meh. He’s proper cheesy and over rehearsed, like he’s playing the prime minister on Doctor Who.

MikeFromSpaced · 08/04/2020 22:47

.... and he’s still a Tory.

Sceptre86 · 08/04/2020 23:29

Check his voting history. It is bloody dire.

flirtygirl · 09/04/2020 00:25

GCAcademic
I find that scary, tbh. It's one thing (and quite reasonable) to have a problem with our electoral system. But to say that a mainstream party shouldn't exist is indicative of totalitarian tendencies. And I say that as someone who has never voted Tory.

I say that after looking at the history and the early days of the tory party. It would have been a better thing historically had a party with these ideologies never have existed. If this ideologies themselves had not existed.

I do not think that is totalitarian. To me it like saying I wish slavery and the holocaust had never happened.

I. e just a better world without certain things.

lyralalala · 09/04/2020 01:02

Check his voting history. It is bloody dire.

This.

I don't understand people going on about how more 'in touch' he is and how much 'nicer' he seems.

His voting record speaks volumes. He only seems nicer because he's the only one that gets to offer money to people in bad circumstances.

He's a better orator than a lot of them, but that doesn't mean he'd be a better PM, he'd just give better speeches.

FunkyKingston · 09/04/2020 01:12

Our Prime Minister

He might be your prime minister, he isn't fucking mine.

FazakAli · 09/04/2020 01:12

People seem to have forgotten that Rishi Sunak only got the chancellor job because his predecessor, Sajid Javid, refused to sack his advisers on Boris's orders. So by that I am assuming that Rishi was prepared to fire some people so got the job. What does that tell you about him then?

FunkyKingston · 09/04/2020 01:15

that Rishi was prepared to fire some people so got the job. What does that tell you about him then?

That he's a cowardly, spineless twat who'll chick anyone under a bus on that buffoon Johnson's say so, if it means personal advancement for Rishi Sunak.

TSSDNCOP · 09/04/2020 04:38

He's certainly the man of the moment, fronting the government agreed approach to finance during unprecedented chaos.

But, there will come a point when this is all over that the books will need to be re-balanced and at that point Mr Sunak will need more than polished oratory.

Regarding the Opposition, well done for electing a Leader that doesn't repel the electorate. Good to see he's dialled back the rhetoric of the weekend and hopefully has a cabinet that will balance the approach of Angela Rayner.

Playmistyforme66 · 09/04/2020 04:49

No, he's still a Tory, still a member of the party that ran the NHS into the ground, that starved public services of money, that hounded disabled and sick people into penury or worse to death.

People like him because he's currently the one on the TV offering reassurance, doling out cash (which people are struggling to actually access) and he has a calm persona. It's just your desire to be reassured that's fucking with your judgement. Having said all that I do wish the Government well and hope they can put all their ideological instincts to the side and make the right decisions over this pandemic.

HappydaysArehere · 09/04/2020 05:32

Who mentioned Priti Patel? What are trying to do? I am depressed enough as it is.

OldLace · 09/04/2020 10:15

I agree, a good suit and a polished delivery
(of course, he is an old Wykehamist after all)
do not a good PM necessarily make.
Cameron was fairly polished and 'presentable' after all and look at the mess HE left us with!

SapatSea · 09/04/2020 11:25

As was Bliar, sorry, Blair.
Wells aid oldlace

avocadotofu · 09/04/2020 11:41

I was thinking yesterday that he seems like he'd make a good PM so I'm with you.

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