AIBU to think Rishi Sunak is actively trying to piss off the entire country?

[Locutus2000]

Or does he genuinely not get it?

Every time he speaks he seems further detached from reality. His interview today was insanely out of touch.

Got a mortgage? Stuffed

Work in the public sector? Stuffed.

Rent your home? Stuffed

Live in a small town? Stuffed

Supported Brexit? Disaster

Not to mention the Johnson honours scandal and Liz Truss.

AIBU to think the only people happy are his fellow super rich?

His soft interview today. What if he had to face one by someone who actually challenges in interviews, like Beth Rigby or Sophy Ridge? Or an aggressive one such as Andrew Neil?

It's hardly a surprise. The tories have presided over huge and increasing inequality. They ran a referendum to settle infighting within their own party then took us out of the EU with no plan. What a surprise to discover there are no benefits to Brexit. They have caused so much damage to country and the lives of ordinary working people. The rich have got richer and the rest of us poorer. I hope they get well and truly licked to curb at the GE.

I don’t think he cares. As long as his mates get kickbacks from his policies then that’s the main thing. People will still vote for his party.

Agree. His “we will get through this” or similar is nauseating!

He doesn't GAF. He knows Tories are out at next GE and has been taxed with the job of bleeding as much opportunity from selling off NHS and squeezing public sector dry and lining up offshore banking to protect the £trillions of money that should be part of the UK tax coffers so it's owners can keep taking the piss out of UK voters. Fuck Sunak.

I am just sad that I like many others, am forced to work several jobs. I am missing my kids growing up. Sadly, I have no choice.

Agree with every word of this. The Tories have picked somebody “palatable” to keep the wheels from falling off while they suck the last of the blood out of public assets. Knowing they won’t have to deal with any of the fallout.

”Sorry there’s no more money left!” was meant to be a joke. When Labour take over, it will unfortunately be entirely true.

It’s a nightmare for all atm

He'll get through it, so surely that's a cause for celebration ? We just need to follow his lead.

How can people be so mean spirited to snipe at someone who has worked so hard and put their all into getting this country where it is today ?

I think he's so out of touch with ordinary people he's immune to their concerns and suffering.

It's all about the bland platitudes.

"Sorry there's no money left" was meant to be a joke. When Labour take over it will, unfortunately, be entirely true.

The Tories are definitely going to need a bigger note.😱

I think whoever is in his seat is going to be massively out of touch with everyday life for the average person because it is its own little bubble.

I haven't seen the interview, but the snippet in the article posted I'm struggling to see the issue with. We do need to bear it, ride it and come out the other side. We can't throw money at the issue because 1. We haven't got it and 2. It won't do anything to tackle the root cause of inflation.

I'm not a tory, and don't especially care for anybody in politics. There's very little difference between one party and the next. I'm old enough to have seen that 13 years of labour rule were far from utopia too. People were poor, people waited for health intervention, we suffered a huge recession etc etc. The people at the core, who actually make the decisions and direct policy, do not change.

You are joking I take it?

The media seems to be on a massive Tory PR push at the moment. Just in the last two days, there’s been this soft interview and then the Times has had shameless puff pieces on Michael Gove, Gillian Keegan and Lee Anderson.

Yep, he just sticks with his mantra of “stick with it and we’ll all be OK”. Will Rishi, some of us are already not OK but I’m sure you and your billionaire wife will be 🙄.

How are you stuffed if you work in the public sector?

Because we’ve had below inflation pay rises for over a decade and the government is doing their best to keep it that way whilst also cutting funding to the services that we offer?

I don't think any party will be able to do any better right now the way things are.

However I feel Sunak actually is actually qualified to lead us out of this misery whereas Starmer is not

I want Starmer to actually talk more about what he can do better rather than just slag off the tories.

@Locutus2000

So I thought I would play devils advocate on this one. So going through your points whilst I don't disagree with your conclusions, you do question whether Sunak is entirely to blame:

Inflation (and therefore interest rates) has gone up due to a combination of three main reasons:

1. Brexit - this makes it more difficult to import goods from the EU, particularly food which then makes food more expensive.
   It should therefore be noted that the majority who voted for Leave are in part responsible (or actively wanted) this higher inflation.

2. Covid spending- the Government borrowed/ created £500 billion of debt that was then injected into the economy through bounce back loans, furlough, PPE contracts, eat out to help out etc.
   The majority of the public supported the lockdowns understandably in order to protect the elderly and vulnerable. You may disagree with how the money was spent or how wisely it was spent but once the approach was decided upon lockdowns rather than doing nothing then money had to be spent which inevitably would lead to higher inflation (eg Germany early 1920s).

3. War in Ukraine - this led to a sharp increase in energy bills due to a reduction in supply of Russian gas to Western Europe.
   Now there was a choice to either stand up against Russia and support Ukraine which leads to higher energy prices or selfishly throw Ukraine under a bus and do nothing in order to keep getting cheap energy from Russia. I personally think it was the right thing to stand up Russia as otherwise Europe would for ever be blackmailed by Russia on other issues through cheap energy supplies. But I recognise and accept that the price for this was higher energy bills.

So depending on where you sit on the above three points then we are all partly responsible for higher inflation, higher interest rates and higher Government debt.

I don’t think he has enough self-awareness to know he’s actively pissing everyone off.

As an experiment - strictly for science, you understand - I’d like to be as rich as him, to see if it is money that makes him so detached from reality, or if that’s a personality trait.

People who voted for Brexit are defo to blame in part.
What do posters expect Rishi to say?

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How are you stuffed if you work in the public sector? Because we’ve had below inflation pay rises for over a decade and the government is doing their best to keep it that way whilst also cutting funding to the services that we offer?

I work in the public sector and I don't feel stuffed at all. I'm very well paid for what I do, we get flexi time, lieu time, 30 days holiday, 6 months full pay if off sick. Things people don't usually get in the private sector. We were all happy with our pay award this year.

Rishi is personally insulated from the problems ordinary people have and so is plainly very removed from it. He can't empathise because he hasn't a clue. Who remembers his interaction with a homeless man that time? Not a danny.

He tries to look like he cares but he really, really doesn't.

I work in the public sector and I don't feel stuffed at all. I'm very well paid for what I do, we get flexi time, lieu time, 30 days holiday, 6 months full pay if off sick. Things people don't usually get in the private sector. We were all happy with our pay award this year.

Nice to hear from an MP for a change, rather than whingy teachers and snowflake nurses. I mean peoples futures may sound like a responsibility, and keeping people alive is all very well. But these people have to keep the entire country going. And there's only 650 of them. That's what a hero looks like.

You don’t get to be in the position he is by being a nice person, he gives no fucks about anyone other than himself.