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To intensely dislike Rishi Sunak?

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IClaudine · 30/09/2023 10:03

He has no backbone, no coherent policies (u-turns a dozen times a day)and no understanding of ordinary people's lives. Plus he wears all his clothes a size too small, which really irritates me.

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neverbeenskiing · 30/09/2023 10:49

burnoutbabe · 30/09/2023 10:27

I find it weird to dislike him intensely
I tend to think most of them either side are trying their best and it's a hard job.

They are probably in it for good reasons even if they don't do what people like.

(People like trump excluded)

So I think this is a case of play the ball, not the man.

This is such a strange take. It is not even remotely "weird" to judge a man by his words, his actions and his ethics. The notion that Sunak's integrity and decency shouldn't be called into question because being PM is "a hard job" is positively childlike.

The lies, the incessant u-turns, the financial corruption, the callous disregard for the lives of the poor and the disabled, throwing vulnerable refugees under the bus with cruel and downright racist Foreign Policy decisions designed to pander to the far-right, the wanton destruction of our vital public services, the abject failure to address the COL crisis, the complete and utter detachment from the lived reality of ordinary citizens, the video of him openly bragging about his plans to take funding and resource out of deprived areas and funnell it into already affluent communities...the simple fact that Suella Braverman still has a fucking job in his cabinet!....do none of these things give you an inkling that Rishi Sunak might not be "in it for good reasons"?

I absolutely detest the man, and if that makes me "weird" in some peoples eyes then I can live with that.

reallyunderstandsometimes · 30/09/2023 10:51

He's an utter lying twat.

During Covid he excluded all kinds of people from support and went on live tv and said he'd never met them and wasn't aware of the issues, did his stupid smug grin and moved on.

But a week before he'd been in a meeting with the group. He knew people were desperate.

He has blood on his hands due to his exclusions there were 12 sucides within that one group alone - people who'd worked their entire life to find themselves excluded from furlough support due to a few loopholes he could have sorted out.

bombastix · 30/09/2023 10:56

He just seems weak and incompetent; active dislike would mean really engaging with him and he appears so disconnected that many just struggle to do that.

I don't really know why he wanted this job; what I dislike is that disconnection.

I can see why Truss beat him.

Libertass · 30/09/2023 10:57

I don’t particularly dislike Sunak. I don’t agree with many of his policies, nor will I be voting for him but, unlike his two predecessors, he comes across as a decent, competent, hard working, intelligent guy.

He is trying to do an impossible job : To clear up the enormous mess left behind by Johnson & Truss while finding a way to win the next election for his party, which is currently 20% behind in the polls. He has had some successes, eg the Northern Ireland deal, but nothing which has moved the dial in the polls. This is why he is currently posing as the motorist’s friend in the hope that he can repeat the shock result of the Uxbridge by-election in other areas & hang onto some seats.

neverbeenskiing · 30/09/2023 10:58

burnoutbabe · 30/09/2023 10:39

Let's be fair who really would want to be an mp? And then could suddenly be put in charge of running the country and jobs swapped around for the cabinet every few months?

It's not how you would run a company -swapping around execs and then replacing them with a completely fresh team after 10 years who wanted to pursue a totally different strategy!

(I know civil servants stay the same who do have experience)
It's a strange system. And clearly only slightly strange over confident people go for the top job. As you'd have to be slightly mad to want it.

Eh? "Who really would want to be an MP"? MP's obviously! No one has a gun to their head. People become MP's because this is something they have made a conscious decision to pursue! This isn't something that is thrust upon them againt their will. Sunak wasn't "suddenly put in charge of running the country" at all, he actively campaigned to become PM! You're talking like he had no say in the matter.

itsgettingweird · 30/09/2023 10:59

MereDintofPandiculation · 30/09/2023 10:49

What really annoys me nowadays is the manifesto seems to be nothing to do with “what we think is the best way to run the country” and everything to do with “how to stay running the country”. So over the last few days we’ve ditched any sensible plans to get to zero carbon, and gone over to “cars are everything, sod everyone else”. Not as a logical extension of policies to date, but purely as a plan not to lose the general election. It’s been like that for a long time, but Sunak is the most cynical of the lot.

Totally agree.

It's been party before politics for so long we are now seeing real damaging effects of that strategy.

OnAFrolicOfMyOwn · 30/09/2023 11:03

SisterMichaelsHabit · 30/09/2023 10:47

I find him largely innocuous. A real grey man, IYSWIM.

Compare him to the original grey man and he is lacking.

neverbeenskiing · 30/09/2023 11:03

He is trying to do an impossible job : To clear up the enormous mess left behind by Johnson & Truss

You talk as though he had nothing whatsoever to do with that enormous mess. He was Chancellor under Johnson!

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 30/09/2023 11:04

With you 100%

And his whole Tory government

DuncinToffee · 30/09/2023 11:05

he comes across as a decent, competent, hard working, intelligent guy.

He does seem to 'inadvertently' break the rules a lot

CurlewKate · 30/09/2023 11:11

"And then could suddenly be put in charge of running the country"

It's not as if you have to apply to be party leader or anything......

tobee · 30/09/2023 11:12

MereDintofPandiculation · 30/09/2023 10:49

What really annoys me nowadays is the manifesto seems to be nothing to do with “what we think is the best way to run the country” and everything to do with “how to stay running the country”. So over the last few days we’ve ditched any sensible plans to get to zero carbon, and gone over to “cars are everything, sod everyone else”. Not as a logical extension of policies to date, but purely as a plan not to lose the general election. It’s been like that for a long time, but Sunak is the most cynical of the lot.

You're wrong to add "nowadays". This has been the Tories from the beginning.

As for Sunak, he's not cut out to be in politics.

neverbeenskiing · 30/09/2023 11:13

CurlewKate · 30/09/2023 11:11

"And then could suddenly be put in charge of running the country"

It's not as if you have to apply to be party leader or anything......

As if it's the fucking Hunger Games and poor Rishi is there quaking with fear hoping his name doesn't get called!

TheCupboardUnderTheStairsAtTheMojoDojoCasaHouse · 30/09/2023 11:14

YANBU.

In lockdown was one of the estimated 3 million people who paid all our taxes in full, had our businesses shut down, and still couldn't access any of the financial support schemes Rishi Sunak devised.

He then stood up on TV and said he'd helped as many people as possible.

Lying bastard.

I narrowly avoided losing my home and I'll never forgive him.

tobee · 30/09/2023 11:15

lol!

CheshireCat1 · 30/09/2023 11:15

I don’t know him personally to like of dislike him. I don’t agree with most of his policies and decisions so I won’t be voting for him.

tobee · 30/09/2023 11:15

That lol was to @neverbeenskiing

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IClaudine · 30/09/2023 11:17

neverbeenskiing · 30/09/2023 11:13

As if it's the fucking Hunger Games and poor Rishi is there quaking with fear hoping his name doesn't get called!

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May the odds be ever not in his favour (currently 4/1 compared to 1/10 for Labour)!

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IClaudine · 30/09/2023 11:19

I am sorry you went through that TheCupboardUnderTheStairsAtTheMojoDojoCasaHouse.

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Hbh17 · 30/09/2023 11:19

I can't really say whether I like or dislike someone I've never met. But he seems like a decent chap.
(I do agree about the clothes though - a little odd!).

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IClaudine · 30/09/2023 11:21

But he seems like a decent chap

What has he done to make you think that?

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Notonthestairs · 30/09/2023 11:23
  1. For - along with Dowden and Jenrick - ushering in Johnson. tps://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-tories-are-in-deep-peril-only-boris-johnson-can-save-us-3xq9lrvr They weren't concerned about the country, they were worried about their jobs.
  2. Telling Conservative members of Tonbridge Wells that he had redirected cash from deprived urban areas to more prosperous areas.
  3. There was a brief period after he said he would offer integrity, professionalism and accountability when I thought things might get interesting and then he appointed Braverman as Home Secretary.

There is obviously much more since then. But I am too lazy to type them out.

Won't comment on his fashion sense as I am not endowed in that area either.

MissMillyFluff · 30/09/2023 11:24

He's an odious little worm so you're definitely not being unreasonable.

Thesearmsofmine · 30/09/2023 11:37

The constant u turns just make him seem weak and a puppet. YANBU

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