Rishi Sunak’s time is up!

[Ming]

Bored with all of this now.

Blah blah blah ..

boring

Isn’t it? The next PM will be just a different flavour of shite. It’s like 55 Tufton Street just grow them in tanks. They’ve all been assimilated by the Borg. Actually I’m even been bored by the recently invigorated threat of nuclear war. Just jaded i suppose.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Patel —> Braverman —> Raab

Why do we need to have sociopaths for home secretary?

 

[Bingoman]

Patel —> Braverman —> Raab

Why do we need to have sociopaths for home secretary?

So where does that leave Shapps then?

Not only that If Raab is the new Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will eat him for breakfast

 

[WhyLikeThis]

So where does that leave Shapps then?

With nothing more important than stationary monitor. Hopefully.

 

[DaveCinzano]

With nothing more important than stationary monitor.

You really it's safe to entrust him with the name badge printer?

 

[PR1Berske]

The relationship with Modi will be of interest. The anti-everything brigade will latch onto anything, especially recent unrest in Leicester, as an example of Rishi's unsuitability as leader. Modi is no moderate. Rishi is no compromise candidate.

 

[platinumsage]

Biden pronounced his name "Rasheen Su Nook" in a press conference last night, so that's off to a good start.

 

[MrCurry]

Biden pronounced his name "Rasheen Su Nook" in a press conference last night, so that's off to a good start.

Sunak should reciprocate by calling him “Go Bidet”.

 

[bimble]

saw this sign yesterday, felt like where we are at as a country

 

[maomao]

I won't be referring to any politicians individually anymore and will only refer to the government as the 'Sunak-Hunt government'.

 

[mojo pixy]

Fucksake it's even more depressing and shit than ever. He's young! He's rich! He's Asian! Yeah look at us all progressive and historic!

Meanwhile we go on freezing and starving, addicted to drugs and in thrall to celebs, disengaged, distracted and atomised while everything we value gets sold off under our arses. The lies continue, the cronyism grows, real opposition of any kind continues to wither and splinter.

Every day in every way we're more fucked and hopeless, and I can't see past it at all.

Fuck sunak, fuck his 'nonwhite'ness, fuck his competence and his furlough laurels, fuck his smug little smile and everyone who thinks he's going to be better than what there was before. And as an aside, fuck Labour who are as useless and toothless and mendacious as I've ever seen them.

Good morning!

 

[likesfish]

he's the sweetcorn in a pile of shit.
after the trusscoylapse being a cunt looks like the voice of sanity.
the tory membership is pissed they can't vote for Boris or an even worse choice.

If I was Rishi I'd troll modi and his bjp supporters into believing the UK was going Hindu for lols because frankly the we are in the shit

 

[19sixtysix]

Sunak is just a sign of what Britain is like if you buy access to the right school.

 

[brogdale]

If that's the best they can say...

 

[bimble]

Feels like every PM since I was born has done PPE at Oxford. I can't be arsed to google it but its just bizarre, thats what you do if aged 18 you have ambitions to be PM. Great system such diverse.

 

[moochedit]

Feels like every PM since I was born has done PPE at Oxford. I can't be arsed to google it but its just bizarre, thats what you do if aged 18 you have ambitions to be PM. Great system such diverse.

I was never any good at sport

 

[killer b]

Feels like every PM since I was born has done PPE at Oxford. I can't be arsed to google it but its just bizarre, thats what you do if aged 18 you have ambitions to be PM. Great system such diverse.

Just Cameron and Sunak

 

[Sue]

Feels like every PM since I was born has done PPE at Oxford. I can't be arsed to google it but its just bizarre, thats what you do if aged 18 you have ambitions to be PM. Great system such diverse.

Well apart from (off the top of my head)

Margaret Thatcher
John Major
Tony Blair
Gordon Brown
Theresa May
Boris Johnson

(ETA Admittedly all Oxford I think apart from Major and Brown.)

 

[bimble]

Just Cameron and Sunak

And liz. But yeah I forgot Johnson didn’t do Ppe, he did classics. Hunt did the correct degree though so that’s good.

Quite interesting sort of, article about what that course is like

Britain Still Can’t Look Beyond Oxford for Its Leader

Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss depart from the white male prime minister tradition, yet they both possess an educational credential that keeps them in the UK political mainstream.

www.bloomberg.com

 

[killer b]

And liz.

I'd already forgotten her

 

[Sue]

And liz.
But yeah I forgot Johnson didn’t do Ppe, he did classics, next door.

Her too apparently.

Liz Truss - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MickiQ]

He goes to meet King Chucky this morning, pity Phil the Greek isn't around anymore we could have relied on him to make some tasteless and inappropriate remarks at this point.

 

[Karl Masks]

So where does that leave Shapps then?

Not only that If Raab is the new Home Secretary Yvette Cooper will eat him for breakfast

Another wanker from the Tufton Top Trumps collection.

What else could it be?

 

[ska invita]

he's the sweetcorn in a pile of shit.
after the trusscoylapse being a cunt looks like the voice of sanity.
the tory membership is pissed they can't vote for Boris or an even worse choice.

If I was Rishi I'd troll modi and his bjp supporters into believing the UK was going Hindu for lols because frankly the we are in the shit

i hate sweetcorn

Feels like every PM since I was born has done PPE at Oxford. I can't be arsed to google it but its just bizarre, thats what you do if aged 18 you have ambitions to be PM. Great system such diverse.

Look at the process of candidate blocking by Starmers Labour for details

 

[killer b]

He goes to meet King Chucky this morning, pity Phil the Greek isn't around anymore we could have relied on him to make some tasteless and inappropriate remarks at this point.

I'm no lover of Rishi Sunak, but I don't think I'd actually want him to be racially abused by the british royal family tbh

 

[bimble]

just popping this here to read later cos i think it is interesting, the country being largely ruled by a small group of people who have had this particular shared experience

PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain

The Long Read: An extraordinary number of Britain’s elite studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. But does it produce an out-of-touch ruling class?

www.theguardian.com

 

[platinumsage]

I think it's rather unremarkable that lots of politicians have studied the most popular social sciences degree at the most prestigious university in the country for social sciences.

 

[Sue]

I think it's rather unremarkable that lots of politicians have studied the most popular social sciences degree at the most prestigious university in the country for social sciences.

Really? I think it is quite remarkable. As is this:

'Of the 541 MPs with higher education degrees in the 2015-2017 Parliament, only 93 (17%) held degrees in STEM subjects; for comparison, 46% of UK students in 2019 graduated in STEM subjects. This lack of scientific experience among MPs is at odds with the increasing pertinence of scientific issues and techniques to political decision-making.'

MPs with both an educational and occupational background in STEM are the most likely to demonstrate engagement with STEM issues in Parliament

Joshua Myers and Hilde Coffé investigate the effect of having a STEM background on both the likelihood of MPs proposing a STEM Private Members’ Bill and the proportion of proposals an MP dedi…

blogs.lse.ac.uk

 

[Pickman's model]

just popping this here to read later cos i think it is interesting, the country being largely ruled by a small group of people who have had this particular shared experience

PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain

The Long Read: An extraordinary number of Britain’s elite studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford. But does it produce an out-of-touch ruling class?

www.theguardian.com

yeh ian bone was posting on his blog about ppe and oxford many years back eg STEPHEN HESTER – ALWAYS KICK A RICH FUCKING SCUMBAG WHEN HE’S DOWN

 

[bluescreen]

Feels like every PM since I was born has done PPE at Oxford. I can't be arsed to google it but its just bizarre, thats what you do if aged 18 you have ambitions to be PM. Great system such diverse.

Simon Kuper's book on this is good.

It goes without saying, reading this history, that the overwhelming influence of a single kind of graduate from a single university (and often a single school, Eton) at the top of British public life has been profoundly damaging.

Chums: How a Tiny Caste of Oxford Tories Took Over the UK by Simon Kuper – review

A penetrating analysis of the connections that enabled an incestuous university network to dominate Westminster and give birth to Brexit is perceptive and full of surprises

www.theguardian.com