Rishi is PM - coronation, unelected -GE Now

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This is not democracy.

I’m glad the new leader was selected by MPs.

To me, it’s infinitely more democratic to have the party leader chosen by elected representatives than by a highly unrepresentative section of the general public whose only ‘mandate’ is paying their membership fee.

Do people still think locking down the healthy low risk population was a good idea or was it mass hysteria? I wonder how long we are going to have to pay for this.

Anyone who think that Sunak will do a worse job than the dross recently imposed on the country by Tory members is deluded. He can't be worse than Truss and her 'close friend' Kwarteng, so he's an improvement by default.

Thanks for some good news for once!

Now. Can we get on with the job? (I'm not Sunak).

I can't comment on the numbers bit I was one of them. I was on a zero hours contractbwhile trying to start a small business.
The hours were cut to zero- no support, the business had to stop- no support.

Dh was furloughed for 6 weeks, but losing 20% of his salary as well as 100% of mine caused major financial issues.

We both worked hard dh doing 6-7 day weeks at times to pay the arrears we had accrued with fuel, council tax, mortgage etc. We are now almost clear (end of the year).
Now our mortgage has increased and our gas and electric meaning we have to find an extra £300 a month.

The final kicker, we've received a bill from tax credits saying they had overpaid us by £1500 last year due to all the overtime we had put in following covid and we need to repay it.

The effects of Sunaks financial mismanagement are still affecting people. I'm fucked off with him and the rest of the fucking circus, the tories are all in it for themselves and he is amongst the worst.

Let’s face it the lick down was urged on Johnson by the scientists, the media and all political parties and especially Labour. Starmer urge red longer lockdowns. So right or wrong don’t blame Johnson.

Clearly some still do, they always will, critical thinking is not their forte.

The main concern I have is that because of the fact that he has not been elected (and probably because he is brown), expectations may be set too high for him both inside and outside the party.

He is inheriting a much worse mess than he would have done two months ago. Rather than bleating on about wanting an election immediately, I hope they give him a chance to try and sort out the mess.

the lick down was urged on Johnson by the scientists

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Eugh I just vomited in my mouth how Carrie can bare that I have no idea 🤣🤣🤢

I don't know if anyone is interested, but in ROI there is a (stable enough) coalition. They agreed to rotate the Taoiseach (Prime Minister) and that will happen in December.
I think it's great that ROI Taoiseach on the rotation will be Indian and Gay, called Leo Varadkar, who is in a relationship with a highly respected hospital consultant, and he is a doctor himself. Two Indian PMs on either side of the Irish Sea.
But that little country is streets ahead of the UK anyway. Put huge investment into education and has a huge pharma and computer industry, amongst others that takes advantage of good corporate tax rates and a highly educated work force.
I know where I'd rather be.

Perhaps he should just keep spending money we don't have?

If the Tories are smart they would call a GE lose then pin the misery on labour. There's no fixing this quickly there's no more free money to hand out. Our government printed a trillion quid and the interest payments on that are rising.

It is threads like this that make me realise that people have absolutely no idea what Rishi Sunak actually stands for, or the severe cuts that are now coming directly their way. Completely oblivious to the agenda he has very clearly set out.

Completely oblivious to the agenda he has very clearly set out.

This.

What 18m voters are you the official spokesperson for?

BtW Sunak has a larger constituency majority than either BoJo or Truss.

So what would you like instead?

More spending.. markets reacting making it worse. How do you do it

You just carry on laughing at being a racist.

I’m just glad it isn’t Johnson back in no.10 no doubt he is plotting his return after the next GE

we need some stability

and a British Asian guy my family can hardly believe it (more are Tories anyway but even those who are not are feeling proud)

Who do you think is going to foot the bill?
Sunak's billionaire club?
The oil companies making billions?

Truss planned to grow our way out, but she recognised people will need help to get through the winter and she failed miserably. Boris was planning to continue the support and try and hope we can pay it back another day. Sunak's policy is to rip up all support and slash and burn. He won't be charging BP a penny though.

The spreadsheets are the guiding star - and I am sorry but the posters on here are going to be screaming blue murder when it finally dawns on them the reality of our new banker PM.

That's normally Labour's job and they always do it really well.

Next slide please? *shudders

Again I get the sentiment. But no party will ever vote for it when in power. Why would they? This applies to all parties. So we are stuck with it

Good point. People don't seem to realise that we're not the only country up shit creek but we're the only country who had a duo who caused mayhem in just 41 days. It's brave of him to try to bloody clean up this mess. I'd have walked away and let people stew in the mess. It's not as if he needs the money!

What’s the point in announcing an ELECTION manifesto if there is no General ELECTION?