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?

Fuck’s sake, @Locutus2000 all we need to do is hold our nerve.

I trust him even less as he said “borrow without abandon” when the phrase he meant was “borrow WITH abandon”.

what on earth makes you think Sunak is a winner @SerendipityJane? In what shape or form has he won anything.

Serendipity not one of my friends who voted for brexit is happy with it.

Even my staunch Tory supporter friends don't think it's working - they just blame other factors.

So there are plenty who didn't think that we'd get this with brexit.

The Tory party are no longer the party for the middle classes. They only represent the ultra wealthy (well, the ultra who don’t own businesses that will be affected by Brexit). Their time is up. I predict that Sunak will be living in the US in 2 years time and we will have a Labour government.

Hague wasn't a fucking local. He's from South Yorkshire.

13 years of this self-interested corrupt shambles, 5 x PMs and god knows how many secretaries of state, and people still talk like they're a serious government.

Blows my mind.

Sunak will definitely fuck off the USA, won't he?

Why does no one even ask the question that tax rises for the very wealthy could be one measure to help bring inflation down? Surely a journalist worth their salt would at least ask the question. A lot of people benefit from the fact wealth is taxed far less heavily than income. Many don't want that too change.

And obviously the government who lied to us about the benefits of Brexit aren't to blame in anyway?

Do people still not get that politicians lie?

£350m for the NHS?

You are telling me you actually believed this?!!

I am yet to be convinced that anything will change under a labour government. They were a shower of shite last time. There were just as many sleaze ridden, money fleecing pigs with their noses in the trough and there still are.
MP's are mostly rich tories pretending to care for the voters, no matter which colour they nail to the mast.
I got ripped to shreds for this opinion on another forum by some self proclaimed 'educated' (who implied I was not) gobby socialists, but I stand by it.
I have no faith in any of them and unless there are some fundamental changes in the attitude and policies (that I can trust) of both main parties before the next GE, for the first time in over 40 years I have no one to vote for.

Lots of things were much better under a Labour government certainly from a ‘children’ point of view-school funding, NHS funding and services-there was actually someone to refer pupils to when there were issues and you could find an NHS dentist, children’s centres, libraries etc

Otherwise, their policies of shifting wealth from poor and middle income groups to the ultra rich is not in your interest.

People don't understand this though. They aspire to be rich so they don't vote for things that they believe will disadvantage their future richer self. They don't realise that it just makes the gap between them and the actual rich wider.
It's why people are really angry now. They are the middle classes, the ones who work hard, they ain't feckless. The tories aren't meant to be coming for them.

"I didn't think the leopards were going to eat MY face..."

Hague wasn't a fucking local. He's from South Yorkshire

😂 Okay @Fightyouforthatpie you win but he did live here. 'South' Yorkshire's just a fucking made-up place - doesn't exist in my head!

I agree @loveandpoprockz let's hope so 🤞

Lots of them don't, in any case. Penny Mordaunt doesn't, for starters, and there's a very real chance we could end up with her as PM before this shitshow finally collapses. She clearly still fancies the job, and Rishi's not exactly bossing it.

MN re inforces the notion that not everyone should be allowed to vote. The sheer stupidity of this comment. Apparently this person thinks a crushing recession with millions of job losses is way to make housing more affordable. The mind boggles.

Yep. Mordaunt will be the next Leader of the Tory party, the only question is will it happen before or after the GE.

Does he still have a green card and it's associated allegiance to the US ?

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@PinkiOcelot Were we really?!

When I said we I should have clarified I meant on my section at work. Can't speak for the rest of the public sector obvs. But our employer has a very low turnover of staff, and it's a good place to work. And I do think the benefits I pointed out should be taken into consideration. My OH works in the private sector and he'd love to be able to get lieu time and time off sick on full pay etc.

Labour have repeatedly been asked where they are going to get these MH professionals and they don't know. Most of them will be school leavers who have done a 6 week course, I suspect.

With people so unhappy I don’t know why it isn’t more on the agenda at GE. If people want to vote on it it would give a mandate.

Unhappy with Brexit that is

It’s the one area that will actually get some funds going. Labour are still going to struggle without it

Our system is that a Party is in government, not an individual. That's one of the ways the Tories destabilised the UK.

Vote Cameron's Tory party, get Theresa May's Tories.
Vote Theresa May's Tory Party, get Boris Johnson's Tories.
Vote Boris Johnson's Tory party, get Liz Truss's Tories.
Rapidly followed by Rishi Sunak's Tories.

Their instability has made the UK a much more unstable, uninvestible place. Vote for Rishi Sunak's Tory party, you're going to get a different leader, probably Penny Mordaunt.

The last time a Tory PM lasted an entire term they were in coalition. The party is a chaotic mess.