To wish Rishi Sunak were PM

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Just that, really, interested in your opinions,

Head boy at Winchester, a First from Oxford, a Stanford MBA, a career in investment banking, married to a billionaire and just 6 years' experience of being an MP.

Currently best known for handing out billions to support workers and the economy which, while necessary, hardly demonstrates some kind of outstanding political acumen.

Honestly not my idea of the ideal prime minister, no matter how well he might come across.

At least he's demonstrated intelligence and a work ethic, unlike his boss. Also it would set the gammons off, always a good thing.

apparently civil servants of all hues rate him for taking advice

That's his nail in the coffin then. We need people to challenge the civil servants. Though it was clear Sunik has no mind of his own when he announced the incomprehensible business/employee support scheme with more holes than Swiss Cheese and full of inconsistencies. Only civil servants could have come up with that load of bollocks and there's Rishi enthusiastically supporting it and refusing to engage with all the professional/trade bodies lining up to point out all the flaws!

Someone asked why I don't rate him as my MP. He doesn't have a real grasp of the local issues and imho doesn't much care. He's goes after the easy quick wins to get himself in the paper. The amount of photos he has with a brown tourist sign is ridiculous.

Never mind our local a&e no longer has a children's service, services are getting cut left right and centre meaning some people have to drive almost two hours to go to hospital appointments (although tbdf Hague tried and failed too and he was good mates with Hunt at the time). All this plus 10,000 troops being recalled from Germany and no additional infrastructure.

When I personally challenged him about library closures it i was told it was nothing to do with him and a county council issue. No empathy at all.

His voting record is appalling. He is a Tory yes man parachuted into the strongest Tory seat in the country. He was always going to go far, but then look at who he father in law is.

I also went to his Brexit q&a before the vote about why it was a good idea. I'm a staunch remainer (where it turns out over 65% of constituents voted to leave) he wasn't prepared for any hard questions about funding about long term planning impacts on R&d collaboration , about what plan the govt has in place etc. and seemed to think we'd magically make a go of it. No. I'm not impressed.

I also went to his Brexit q&a before the vote about why it was a good idea. I'm a staunch remainer (where it turns out over 65% of constituents voted to leave) he wasn't prepared for any hard questions about funding about long term planning impacts on R&d collaboration , about what plan the govt has in place etc. and seemed to think we'd magically make a go of it. No. I'm not impressed.

I mean, that's fairly standard for Tory MPs unless you were fortunate enough to get a Remain leaning one.

Except he's now the bloody chancellor!

Yes, the tory part which has Tommy fucking Robinson's backing and a horrific Islamophobic issue will put somebody of Asian background in charge

Dishi Rishi reminds me of the Kipling paraphrase:

If you can keep your head while all about you are losing theirs, it's possible you may have misinterpreted the situation.