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

@bubblesbubbles11

"How can anyone with that level of personal wealth remotely understand the lives of ordinary people?"

But someone with the upbringing/family background/education/family money that Boris Johnson has had is far better placed to understand the financial position of the man in the street??

Eh?

Why on earth did you assume my comment was a pro Boris Johnson one? How odd.

@LuluBlakey1

This sums him up I think - Shell announce £20 billion profits because of rising oil prices. He dies not windfall tax this. However, he loans each of us £200 to pay him back in 4x£50 instalments so we can pay for the electricity produced by the oil sold by Shell.

Typical Tory - make money for the rich, fuck anyone else.

Exactly what you said

Trouble is there is no one any better. From the start of the pandemic it was obvious there would be two major fall outs; a mental health crisis and a financial crisis, worldwide.

It’s the wrong time to put up national insurance, caps need to be placed on profit levels/dividends paid out.

he married a very rich woman

how can he answer questions?
as a politician his life is to be liked
he has to back boris but slightly distance himself, he wants to keep his job and appeal to prospective voters

I wonder how anyone of such a comfortable lifestyle could ever feel anyones pain when it comes to worrying about paying your bills

@the80sweregreat @UnconditionalSurrender
I will never forget multi-millionaire Jeremy Hunt proudly showing his receipt where he had used Eat Out to Help Out to gain £30 of public money and reduce he and his friends' lunch bill.

Sunka has thrown billions of public money, our money, away or rolled it into the bank accounts of Tory donors or fraudsters (these are not necessarily different people) on the pretext of 'pandemic' necessity or help.He has borrowed hundreds of billions. WE will be paying it back for 100+ years in taxes.... unless you are Shell.

@foxlover47

I wonder how anyone of such a comfortable lifestyle could ever feel anyones pain when it comes to worrying about paying your bills

Precisely.

@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

FYI Infosys is worth US$98bn today. According to filings she owns 0.9% of it. Some way above "174m"

How many billion has the government written off in the last week?
£4.9 billion they loaned during Covid lockdown without doing the basic checks that any company would do before giving you a credit card. £8.7 billion has been written off on PPE equipment - where the contracts to procure it were handed out without proper checks, often to those linked to Ministers.

Who was the Chancellor of the Exchequer while billions of public money were being pissed away? Rishi Sunak.

Sorry Sunak not Sunka (which sounds like a word Robin from Ghosts might have made up . 'Dooka Dooka'. )

I think he's pretty good. Anyway we will see if Labour next time can win - they have not won an election since 2005 (thankfully). however I do want a low spend, low tax and small state Tory party and we do not have that - we have an interventionist high spending one. Only 99 MPs all Tory rebelled against that horrible lock down laws. Labour stuck with deprivation of freedoms proposed by the Tories right the way through sadly

Elon Musk is amazing?? Jesus Christ. The man is utterly abhorrent.

Also, why do we still not have adequate gas storage? In mainland Europe it’s standard for companies to have gas storage. Our gas storage capacity was always low and dropped by 70% in 2017 when the government cut subsidies that were needed to maintain and upgrade it.

www.theguardian.com/business/2021/sep/24/how-uk-energy-policies-have-left-britain-exposed-to-winter-gas-price-hikes

@Corcory

Sunak is the son of an immigrant Doctor and pharmacist. He got a scholarship. So not brought up to 'privilege' He is very bright. I think he meet his wife at Harvard. So she must be bright too. Not her fault she is the daughter of a billionaire.

@Corcory - doctors and pharmacists a hardly poor.

Where he's done well is with immigrant parents (especially Asians) they generally tend to push kids to do well and study hard to get good jobs/uni educations.

However I know friends (Sri Lankan) and their DD is at uni studying some sort of creative dance course so that bucks the trend slightly! Very talented dancer though!

Wow. You really said that.

Chris Bryant called him out on it yesterday, Swatch Sunak's expression at the end.

twitter.com/rhonddabryant/status/1489211549369647108?s=21

And we have Andrew Bailey- Bank of England Governor on a salary of close to £650,000- who on a day when:
1.Shell announce £20 billion of final profit from hiking oil prices (which does not include all their billions of write-offs for monies supposedly put into equipment, development for which their word is just taken)
2.The Gov does not Windfall tax that 20 billion

1. Energy bills rise by 54% (or more) following OFGEM price cap.
2. Sunak loans us each £200 to pay back in 4 x £50.00 instalments so we can buy electricity, produced from the oil sold by Shell

On the day all that happens, Andrew Bailey tells ordinary workers and pensioner 'not to expect a wage rise'.

It's staggering.

And still voters defend Boris.

@Im2022

Also, his billionaire wife received 1.3 million in covid relief funds, when she’s worth 430 million.

Being rich and then taking more when you know the country is in hard times. Disgusting.

Not to mention how much commercial property he owns and pushed for people to go back to work and to eat out and get infected. Rich prick.

To be fair lots of people were only to happy to run out and eat. I saw lots of post on here, posters talking about eating out to help the economy. Some of those posters would have done well to have kept their money in their pockets, with what is happening now, with fuel going up, etc.

[quote lonelyapple]Apparently the Bank of England Governor has told us plebs not to ask for pay rises whilst he gets circa £500k per year salary and a nice index linked pension. I think these people are trolling us.

news.sky.com/story/dont-ask-for-big-pay-rises-bank-of-england-governor-suggests-as-it-battles-surging-inflation-12532421[/quote]
They're absolutely trolling us. Spot on.

Sunak has NO idea what anyone living near or under the poverty line feels or thinks. He's as out of touch with the vast majority of the British public as the rest of the cabinet - a more self-serving gang of braying arseholes there never was. They're sickening.

I consider Sunak's massive wealth and privelege a factor in his decision-making precisely because he's never had to struggle or worry about money. He can't fathom the dread of any British family terrified of what the future holds and so he can't adequately empathise.

Then again, NONE of the cabinet have any capability of empathy. They truly do not care about anything but feathering their own nests. Anyone claiming to the contrary is, quite honestly, living in a dream world where those lovely, well-spoken boys are really only doing what's best for all of us.

I keep thinking back to that Tory MP grinning idiotically at the photo opp during the opening of yet another foodbank - that neatly distilled everything I hate about this government into a singular image.

Not to pretend he’s doing us a fucking favour when we’ll all be paying it back anyway.

This is the thing that makes me so angry. I'm being forced to borrow £200 (I would never have chosen to do so) which I will be paying back for 5 years, and he is throwing out his chest and acting like he's giving out smarties!

@CMZ2018

Can’t do right for doing wrong can he? What do you want him to say? ‘I am considerably richer than yow’ or should he move into a council house in some shit hole estate and live on pot noodles before you’re happy?

I would actually like him to spend a month or two in a cold house, counting pennies and bouncing debits just to be able to eat, yes.

Why do we have to accept this £200 rebate (loan)? Will people get a choice if they want it, or not?

You don’t have to live it to have empathy. You just need to listen and not be an arsehole. Also, not wasting billions of public money. That would help.

[quote DuncinToffee]Chris Bryant called him out on it yesterday, Swatch Sunak's expression at the end.

twitter.com/rhonddabryant/status/1489211549369647108?s=21[/quote]
I noticed this very early on with Sunak, all cow eyes, until someone says something he doesn’t like, those eyes turn very scary indeed then.

Labour won't win an election with Sir KS in charge. This is just my opinion though but it's a long way off yet anyway
The political landscape is pretty dire at the moment.
I did agree with the lockdowns at the time because the NHS would have been even more overwhelmed if they hadn't done something. The pandemic has made everything worse economically, but writing off billions and some other measures they brought in were not well handled either and navy did fall through the gaps for any help as well.
I don't want the loans for the energy , I pay enough to keep in credit because I'm lucky to be able to do this , for now anyway! Plus I am one to turn it off too.
I wish he could give more to those in real financial difficulties with their bills instead.
Or screw the likes of Shell etc into the floor with their huge profits , which is what they won't do for whatever reasons they give.