Nauseating Sunak

[Chippingbird23]

Really ‘I share your pain’! Who is kidding and he knows full well we know how rich they are. His wife is worth 174 million and he is worth a few million himself. This government is disgusting. Slow clap for voting for a bunch of criminals

I also remember the ' don't tell Syd ' ads too ; British Gas went through it at that time and many lost their jobs.

That was my first brush with industrial action ... the employees in my division had a sudden embargo on selling any shares they bought (this was around the Ivan Boesky time) without 3-week prior approval as we had access to "price sensitive" information. What caused the rucus (and near strike) was the explanation given that our bosses (who could ask us to provide that data) would not be subject to the same restriction as "they could be trusted".

It all got settled before a strike, but I remember (this was a work placement, so I wasn't in NALGO) being worried about crossing a picket line.

All our yesterdays, eh ?

I also remember shortly after (1987 ?) when the BP sale almost got pulled as - shock horror - it turned out the underwriters might actually have to fucking underwrite the sale, rather than trouser the moullah)

@the80sweregreat

This is all because Conservative policies from the 80s when the government deregulated the energy companies from state ownership Chickens coming home to roost now so many have gone under and this is the result :( Having to bail them out by stealth.

Conservative and Labour (and the Lib Dems).

40 years+ of short-termist policy.

Blair was very pro privatisation. If you like, he was in a way more Thatcherite than Thatcher. (Which might explain why he once spoke about wanting to continue her policies.)

@Tealightsandd

Blair was very pro privatisation. If you like, he was in a way more Thatcherite than Thatcher. (Which might explain why he once spoke about wanting to continue her policies.)

Oh give over @Tealightsandd, you’re obsessed with Blair. Start a thread about him if you want to discuss him.

It's relevant to the topic blossom

Things can never get better unless we understand and acknowledge all the reasons why it's how it is now.

Unless we learn the lessons of history, we are doomed to repeat them.

But this is a thread about how nauseating Sunak is, not what a politician who has been gone for 15 years did wrong. He's had plenty of criticism in his time.

@the80sweregreat

A very old friend of mine was all for private companies taking on the energy and rail companies , water etc etc. I also remember the ' don't tell Syd ' ads too ; British Gas went through it at that time and many lost their jobs. These same people moan a lot now about the higher prices , but forget the reasons why we now have this crisis. Lots of shareholders have made a few quid since all this started as well, which was the ultimate aim of course. The free market economy, only works for some.

It was “if you see Syd, tell him”, not “don’t tell Syd”

Sunak and that tone deaf cunt from the Bank of England can both fuck off to the far side of fuck. Cunts.