To intensely dislike Rishi Sunak?

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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.

The Economist had a good article in which it pointed out (correctly) IMO that he is the most right-wing Tory in a generation.

He got a lot of goodwill from a lot of people when he came in because he looks managerial and professional in contrast to Johnson and Truss; plus, a lot of people are still naive enough to vaguely assume that a non-white politician will be less right wing (a glance at the Tory party as a whole should inform us that race really has nothing to do with this in reality!).

But yes, "most right wing since Thatcher" just about sums it up.

Johnson at least made some good noises on the environment and there was some real progress on stuff like renewables under him (and under Cameron, lightweight though Cameron was). Sunak? Those close to Sunak state bluntly that the guy just genuinely doesn't care about the environment and has no interest on the issue.

The Tories under him look tired and out of ideas.

I can't wait to see them gone.

I'm under no illusions that Labour can magically make the UK's many issues go away, but at least we are likely to get more focus on the environment, a more proactive approach to building infrastructure and housing, and better relations with the EU.

Why can't we have a thread to discuss Starmer's opponent? It's interesting to see people's views, the same as it was to see the views on the Starmer thread. Interesting to compare the MN polling too.

Unfortunately the same CCHQ trollbots ruining the other threads will be here soon.

Yep. The sick and disabled were being bashed a few weeks ago too, they've decided to have another go. Disgusting tactics.

A while back someone posted a flier from 1930s Germany which expressed the same sentiments about the disabled costing the tax payer too much money etc. It was chilling.

And no, I am not suggesting Sunak and the Tories are going to start killing disabled people. I am highlighting how deep down into the sewer they are prepared to go in the vain hope of upping their dire 4/1 odds.

I wonder why anyone becomes an MP today. They suffer constant personal abuse and threats from the keyboard warriors.

No personal abuse (apart from a comment on his odd dress sense), just a critique of the man and his policies and values. No threats either. As for keyboard warriors, well here you are, typing like the rest of us.

Our politicians in both main parties are the worst I've seen in my lifetime.

Election day will be depressing.

I'm looking forward to it. The day this shambolic government gets in the bin can't come quick enough for me.

I may be typing on a keyboard but have not said anything nasty. I do have experience of an MPs working life (not me personally) and feel sad at the amount of abuse they receive, when most of them work very long hours and try to do their best for people.

Every thing he comes up with goes completely against the common good. It's all wedge policies designed to appeal to the worst of us. He embarrasses us on the world stage.

Yes, I'm with the OP; I intensely dislike the man.

Odd response.

Surely it's just people saying the same about the opposite? I've not seen that thread but if it's good for the goose ....

Yeah not great start to your political career when you loose out to someone compared to a lettuce 🤣

Do they work hard? You would never guess that looking at the state of the country

I like him. My favourite of the last four PMs.

Hi has become a real pain in the neck now his circumstances are known. With his billionaire wife looking for ways to avoid tax. While telling everybody they can't have pay rises. A bit of a sickener to say the least.

My tory mp is a self serving wanker who ignored pleas for help from vunerable constituents when his area went 10 days without power, and that's just for starters. Publically mocking people concerned about flooding and breaking lockdown rules comes next.

He doesn't give a fuck about the people. Thankfully he has a tiny majority so we don't have to put up with him very much longer.

As for Sunak, he's just another talentless tory in a party full of amoral self serving idiots.

Had you not realised we have been through an epidemic, Brexit and been affected by the war in Ukraine? We are doing better than expected and hopefully that will continue no matter who is in charge.

Better than expected ? Worse than almost every other similar country is better than expected ?

That’s damning with faint praise.

Sadly the level of debate on Mumsnet is sinking lower every week.

That’s damning with faint praise.

It was meant partly tongue in cheek. Although I'm a Conservative voter so come from a different mindset than if you're a Labour supporter.

And the years of austerity before 2020, which even the architect (Osborne) admitted was not the right thing to do? The NHS, GP services, social care, dentistry, housing etc. etc. were all in parlous state before the pandemic hit.

Well to be fair, there is not much to debate when it comes to the Tories. They are doing absolutely nothing right now, except clinging on to power in the hope they can wring every last bit of cash out of the country before they are booted out.

Maybe that's not fair actually. They are keeping busy throwing increasingly repulsive policies at the wall like toxic spaghetti, hoping something will stick.

The new one for this weekend is the workshy sick and disabled.

@Daz57 Brexit isn't an excuse for the country being in a state when the people governing it are the ones who gave us Brexit - and the hardest, worst possible Brexit at that.