He’s a car crash in interviews, and every paper to come out of the treasury has been a mess since he’s been chancellor.
Can't say I've watched any interviews for years, so can't comment on that.
As for Treasury papers, that would be very far down my priority list on what I want from a Chancellor. The Tories are in a bit of a bind, just lead the largest Keysenian intervention on record yet idealogically opposed to such behaviour; so I can understand a lack of consistency.
BUT he does have amazing branding on all his announcements
https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/1329402978252582913
He even replaced Conservatives with his own name & got a telling off from CCHQ for this ^^
You cant deny he is excellent at self-promotion & hes not let this pandemic go to waste on that front
I’m just glad it wasn’t labour in power during this inflicted hard time or we’d all be properly screwed.
Imagine if we had someone in charge that wanted to fund the NHS and gave a shit about the poor (who are suffering far more in the pandemic). Much better to keep your millionaire mates happy.
If Rishi has broken rules for not disclosing interests he should have, then the proper channels should be explored, but I can’t help thinking that this is a non story.
The proper channels all end with "Johnson" Johnson saying "the matter is closed". The sooner the guillotines are set up at street corners the better - that's 'proper channels' in any just society.
Does anyone not think he is just a spokesperson for the Reptilian Elite? Whilst he and Boris obey their masters they will be fine.
(Although Boris has just about served his purpose and will be moved on soon.)
@scuttler, not taking the P, at all, when he became chancellor i googled him,
it was very clear to me that he was married to the daughter of an Infosys Billionaire.
its not like he hid his wifes face / name from the media, it was all out to see. hence the Guardian seems a little late to the party.
i stand by my comment it's a non story..
he seems to be the only MP dealing with the set issues at hand, which for him are purely financial keeping the country afloat, their will always be winners and losers, as a PAYE tax payer I'll always pay the fair rate of tax, whereas many won't..
Directors receiving majority of earnings as Dividends :0(
Yes. Our country is also corrupt, well done. Have you ever been to India? I worked there for a bit.
I think a lot of my venom is due to humiliation, shame and embarrassment. I've spent my life labouring under the delusion that the Britain of today is somehow more egalitarian, wholesome and fairer than it was in the middle ages.
The hard truth of what a ****hole we live in has been a bit of a blow.
Imagine if we had someone in charge that wanted to fund the NHS and gave a shit about the poor
You're shitting me right ? you are seriously saying this Govt doesn't fund the NHS ? Or provide financial support to anyone who actually needs it ?
Amazing. STW at it's best.
You’re shitting me right ? you are seriously saying this Govt doesn’t fund the NHS ? Or provide financial support to anyone who actually needs it ?
Amazing. STW at it’s best.
Haha you're hilarious brads
a decade of austerity says otherwise, with life expectancies now falling in UK fir first time in a generation
They had to be humiliated into feeding starving kids by a man u striker!, twice!
I suppose you do prove that Sunaks PR efforts work on some people
The fact that he’s considered the best of the current crop is frankly a shocking reflection of the corruption at the heart of the Tories. Frankly they’re disgusting and not a single one should be in power.
Hmmm - storm in a teacup.
I'm very far from a toryboy but this does not float my boat.
I don't imagine he broke the ministerial code because his wife/her family are minted. He broke the code by not declaring his wife is connected to her family. Something anyone with 2 mins on the internet can discover.
The declaring system is there the unknown and hard to find is revealed - this was all known.
Meh.
A lot of long and well thought answers above.
Then there's is mine below.
He's just another turd in a u bend full of turds. He's just a bit more visible at the moment as he hasn't actually gone around the u bend and there is camera pointed at him occasionally.
Basically he's on I'm a Turd, Get Me Out Of Here but not being voted off anyone soon as he is the product of a pizza bought during the Eat Out to Help Out super spreader event.
You’re shitting me right ? you are seriously saying this Govt doesn’t fund the NHS ? Or provide financial support to anyone who actually needs it ?
Scary insight into the mind of a tory in denial who actually thinks the tory party properly fund the NHS and give support to those who need it and I guess that is how they live with themselves.
I'm also in the "storm in a teacup" camp - he should have disclosed it, but it's in the public domain anyway.
He probably is one of the better and more capable ministers. That's a reflection of the rest of them rather than him though.
Wether or not he has been a good minister only time will tell, all we know of him so far is that with the furlough scheme he has been the one dishing out the opiate for the masses. Too soon to tell and too soon to judge.
What he does have is the easy charm that Tony Blair first exhibited, (without that slightly 'touched' weirdness that was always present in Blair.) He also comes across like a less Wallace and Grommity Ed Milliband.
Either way, I think we're talking about our next Prime Minister, and looking at all the ads posted by Kimbers we can see that his campaign is well underway. He knows this is his opportunity, the furlough scheme and oncoming economic crisis could come to bite him in the proverbial in the not to distant future so he knows he has to strike now.
His star will diminish the more time goes on if he remains chancellor, he will start to share some of the blame currently directed to the PM and his useless rabble, but as Cummings leaves and others surely follow more scrutiny and criticism will inevitably come Sunak's way.
The brief of Chancellor will become a poisoned chalice that I'm sure Sunak is eager to pass on as soon as possible, so he can be remembered as the man who bailed out the Nation whilst some other unfortunate soul(less) individual can pick up the pieces Humpty Dumpty style.
He'll be PM by spring.
Serious question, and I mean that, but what news or social media do you read, Brad's? I ask because clearly, like others here, I'm a "woke lefty guardian reader", but I'd love to know where lines like "can you imagine if Corbyn was in charge?!" come from. Fact is, Tories aren't generally putting themselves in a good light (I'm putting that lightly based on my views) but clearly the usual anti-labour, right-wing media agenda can only say "imagine this under Labour!!!" to distract from the Tory shit show. Like many others, I can only dream that Labour had won the election a year ago. Not to say I'm a Labour voter, but that's mostly down to geography.
The brief of Chancellor will become a poisoned chalice that I’m sure Sunak is eager to pass on as soon as possible, so he can be remembered as the man who bailed out the Nation whilst some other unfortunate soul(less) individual can pick up the pieces Humpty Dumpty style.
Chris Grayling for Chancellor !!
What he does have is the easy charm that Tony Blair first exhibited,
I call it a smug tory bastard look.
You’re shitting me right ? you are seriously saying this Govt doesn’t fund the NHS ? Or provide financial support to anyone who actually needs it ?
Scary insight into the mind of a tory in denial who actually thinks the tory party properly fund the NHS and give support to those who need it and I guess that is how they live with themselves.
I'm working on the assumption that Brads was completely taking the piss with his comment. Nobody can be that stupid and still remember to breathe every few seconds surely.
I mean, there are apparently a huge number of the UK population who apparently do 'think' that way. But I assumed that the fact that STW has a 6 syllable URL and you need to leave him before you can post would act as an effective barrier to such mentally challenged people.
Cmon on Brad's, say it ain't so. Tell us you were just trolling....
and you need to leave him
..and you need to log in...
That'll be the sound of my petard going bang then... 😁🥵
Nope, I have a friend who is a manager for the NHS and I know how much of the money they are given is frittered away and wasted. That is not the Tories fault.
They are better funded than at any point in the past but it never seems to be enough, so that's a Tory fault as well is it ?
And where I'm from (mining area in central Scotland) poorer families get the help they need, simple as that. All that money comes from central Govt.
You may not like them, but that doesn't mean they aren't doing anything. I'd be interested to hear what previous Govt did more ?.
Oh, and I'm not a Tory.
I guess that is how they live with themselves
Wow, that's some superiority complex you have their bud. How unpleasant you sound.
My wife's wealth or otherwise is her business, and not mine to declare.
Why should Sunak's wife be any different?
And I'm rabidly anti-Tory.
Why should Sunak’s wife be any different
Because you’re not directly responsible for setting the country’s fiscal policy?
It’s not unreasonable to hold the actual Chancellor of the Exchequer to higher standards of financial probity, regardless of his actual politics.
Why should Sunak’s wife be any different?
Because the rules say so.
My wife’s wealth or otherwise is her business, and not mine to declare.
Are you a minister in the government?
And have you never had to declare anything about your wife to the HRMC or other state body?
kelvin
And have you never had to declare anything about your wife to the HRMC or other state body?
My wife is not a serf and her financial affairs are her business.
She has a right to privacy about she earns or what she has in the bank in her account.
If Sunak's wife is not directly involved in our public affairs, then what right have we to know her business?
My wife is not a serf and her financial affairs are her business.
She has a right to privacy about she earns or what she has in the bank in our account.
If crikey’s wife is not directly involved in our public affairs, then what right have I to know her business?
FTFY
Was genuinely hoping that Brads was being ironic/sarcastic in his statement. I was wrong.
The fact that there are far more food banks in the UK than McDonald's says that his logic is probably flawed. Food banks are going to be about the only growing "industry" in the years to come.
I understand that food banks exist, my only problem is that the only people I have known to use them are people that don't need to and are simply greedy. I don't let this colour my judgment of food banks, but it certainly doesn't help. I really do not know anyone who is in need of one, and I know people on the bare minimum of income.
The problem here is not what people believe or who they vote for, the issue is that no one on here is allowed a differing opinion without being insulted , degraded, marked of as mentally ill etc etc.
Not one person on here knows one thing about me but yet if I express a different thought to the circle jerk then I'm tory scum.
No wonder it's an echo chamber.
Hi Brads.
I'm very impressed by the way you're putting your point across in a calm and measured way. I don't agree with you, but am impressed by the way you've not got pissed off with people's rude way of engaging with you. ( Me especially)
And on another note, do you think you could change your username to Brad's as my phone keeps autocorrecting it to that.
😁
Brad's what? lol 🙂
Brads is a very old nickname I picked up as a teenager, Brad's will do if it saves you correcting all the time haha.