Rishi Sunak’s time is up!

[Smokeandsteam]

I am hoping that the Tories take leave of their senses and go for full on swivel eyed loon Truss. The subtly and humanity of a house brick to the face.

Sunak seems to have some latent popularity among soggy PMC types despite his immense wealth, privilege and obvious ideological commitment to dying neo-liberal dogma.

 

[Carvaged]

He'll be the first Prime Minister younger than me We could have been at the same Ox college at the same time had I gone to Lincoln. For that reason alone he should be banned asap.

 

[cupid_stunt]

Christian Wakeford's statement just read out on Sky, he certainly doesn't mince his words about Johnson.

 

[8ball]

Grown out of them, only had them six weeks

They are deliberately cut that way to make him look taller.

 

[bluescreen]

Pickman's model linked on the Johnson thread to the speculative Fail story yesterday about the links between Sunak and Munira Mirza.
Tldr; in place of link here:





And FWIW - not a lot I suspect - this morning I had a look BTL. Not much love for Rishi there. The comments that were by far the most popular accuse him, not unreasonably, of being a rich out of touch toff with no idea how ordinary people live. And someone who'd never win the Tories an election

 

[Louis MacNeice]

Just like Sterns

(((((Sterns))))

Cheers- Louis MacNeice

 

[Dystopiary]

Rishi Sunak has received a questionnaire from Met Police as part of 'partygate' investigation. The Chancellor was present at the PM's birthday party in Cabinet Room on 19 June, 2020. He has previously claimed he was on his way to a Covid meeting.

 

[Serene]

The triple lock is a government commitment to increase the value of the state pension every new tax year by either inflation, average wage growth or 2.5% – whichever is higher.

Rishi " up yours you scroungers ".

 

[Epona]

I know how Will Smith felt about his wife being criticised, says Rishi Sunak

The chancellor speaks out over criticism of his wife, who owns shares in a firm operating in Russia.

www.bbc.co.uk

(I also posted this in the Oscars thread as it also relates to some of the discussion there).

 

[two sheds]

Added this to the Independent thread:

Lay off Rishi – being rich isn’t a crime | Salma Shah

Money doesn’t make you evil, nor does poverty make you saintly, writes Salma Shah

www.independent.co.uk

Fine piece of writing.

 

[Epona]

Added this to the Independent thread:

Lay off Rishi – being rich isn’t a crime | Salma Shah

Money doesn’t make you evil, nor does poverty make you saintly, writes Salma Shah

www.independent.co.uk

Fine piece of writing.

Fucksake, like poverty has ever been considered saintly (outside of the confines of a monastic order).
Mostly those in poverty are considered as an "underclass" or deemed likely to be halfway to being criminals if they aren't already there. The amount of invective directed at the poor not just in living memory, but historically, makes the "saintly" statement above a complete fucking joke - lazy, criminal, stupid - all insults used to explain why people are in poverty.

I explain it a different way - class society, capitalism, exploitation. Sunak is one of those currently steering that particular ship while the toffs sunbathe on the upper fucking deck.

 

[stavros]

He strangely equates Chris Rock making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith with those criticising his wife and her family for having millions staying invested in Russia.

 

[seeformiles]

He strangely equates Chris Rock making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith with those criticising his wife and her family for having millions staying invested in Russia.

Yep - talk about a bandwagon being jumped on

I know how Will Smith felt about his wife being criticised, says Rishi Sunak

The chancellor speaks out over criticism of his wife, who owns shares in a firm operating in Russia.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Sue]

He strangely equates Chris Rock making a joke about Jada Pinkett Smith with those criticising his wife and her family for having millions staying invested in Russia.

Not at all a pre-prepared line. (Just heard it on the radio .)

 

[bluescreen]

Jesus

 

[stavros]

To be way too generous, it's a less shite comparison than Johnson's Ukraine-Brexit one last week.

 

[bluescreen]

More on the ££bn bounceback loans scandal from The Times (free to read today). They start off with the quick sensationalism below but it's worth reading the whole thing - not all of it news. This thing is going to run and run, however much the govt tries to hide it.

Suitcases filled with cash from taxpayer-backed Covid loans were seized at the border as people tried to smuggle them out of the country, a Times investigation reveals today.

Border force officials have stopped people at airports across Britain “carrying large amounts of money suspected from coronavirus bounce-back loans”, a Home Office source said.

Other recipients of financial support during the pandemic used the money to fund gambling sprees, home improvements, cars and watches, it has emerged.

They are among dozens of company directors who have been disqualified after misusing the loans scheme that was set up to support businesses during the pandemic.

In many cases the individuals took out the loans before immediately transferring the funds into personal bank accounts and spending the money on themselves instead of their companies.

Suitcases of Covid loan cash seized at UK’s borders

Suitcases filled with cash from taxpayer-backed Covid loans were seized at the border as people tried to smuggle them out of the country, a Times investigation

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[Serene]

I have an idea to stop us going into recession again. Tax the wealthy top earners more.

 

[magneze]

FFS

Rishi Sunak vows to cut taxes for business to tackle cost of living crisis

Chancellor to urge investment in innovation at CBI speech as UK inflation soars to 9%

www.theguardian.com

 

[NoXion]

More on the ££bn bounceback loans scandal from The Times (free to read today). They start off with the quick sensationalism below but it's worth reading the whole thing - not all of it news. This thing is going to run and run, however much the govt tries to hide it.

Suitcases of Covid loan cash seized at UK’s borders

Suitcases filled with cash from taxpayer-backed Covid loans were seized at the border as people tried to smuggle them out of the country, a Times investigation

www.thetimes.co.uk

Somebody had to have signed off on these loans. Somebody had to put their name down to say, "yes, this loan is for legitimate purposes".

So the idea that "iT's tOo hArD" to find and punish the perpetrators of this fraud is 100% bullshit.

 

[NoXion]

Defrauding the public purse should make one liable for decades in prison. You're literally stealing from millions of people and diverting funds meant to help them. The lowest of the low.

 

[bluescreen]

Defrauding the public purse should make one liable for decades in prison. You're literally stealing from millions of people and diverting funds meant to help people. The lowest of the low.

Exactly. I can't understand why more people aren't more worked up about it.

 

[ruffneck23]

 

[Pickman's model]

Somebody had to have signed off on these loans. Somebody had to put their name down to say, "yes, this loan is for legitimate purposes".

So the idea that "iT's tOo hArD" to find and punish the perpetrators of this fraud is 100% bullshit.

They seem to find people on benefits easily enough

 

[two sheds]

Hundreds of "Mr. M. Mouse" variants can be trickier though

 

[Pickman's model]

Hundreds of "Mr. M. Mouse" variants can be trickier though

yeh but all the chancellor needs to do is go through his facebook friends and send the police to every single one

 

[Almor]

They seem to find people on benefits easily enough

Yeah, and if they do go after anyone for these loans it'll probably be small traders who slightly over claimed rather than big companies that took the piss, like the old tax evasion ads on the radio going on about corner shops and plumbers with no mention of Vodafone and amazon

 

[teqniq]

Yet there is no money available to help out people in difficulty due to the rising cost of living and he refuses to consider a windfall tax on energy companies:

Rishi Sunak spends £500,000 of taxpayers’ cash on focus groups ‘to repair his image’

Two focus groups and one online poll each week until February 2023 will take the total outlay to above £1.35m, Labour protests

www.independent.co.uk

 

[NoXion]

"People think I'm a cunt. Maybe I should stop being a cunt? Nah, I'll just spaff half a million up a wall in order to try convincing people I'm not a cunt without actually changing my behaviour"

These people are alien to me.

 

[magneze]

Rishi Sunak ‘wasted £11bn by paying too much interest’ on UK debt

Labour accuses chancellor of wastefulness for failing to insure against interest rate rises

www.theguardian.com

£11bn wasted. Incompetent.