Sajid Javid – what’s he thinking now?

Chancellor in gov with massive majority.
Resigns on point of principle and rightly so.
Within days the global economy is massively compromised by a viral pandemic.
Sunak, as new chancellor, must be simultaneously crapping and creaming himself.
PM designate in one (easy) step.
Saj – how do you feel now?

Stuck at home, I suppose.

I am not sure he can think – certainly not properly

Don’t think he was thinking when he shafted all the newly-self employed who have spend what savings and profit they had in setting up, courses and building their business.

Are people who have only been in employment for less than 3 years exempt from the 80% salary support?

I reckon he’s pretty happy that social distancing is here now. He gets to use his power stance without tripping up people.

Can’t see Sajid as the next PM. He’s burnt that bridge.

His replacement, however….🤔

By the time we have to re elect, anything done right now will be long forgotten.

By then, we will all be suffering the consequences of paying it all back

Whilst he took a principled stand, ultimately no10 got what it wanted so what was the point? It’s not as if his reason to would start the downfall of Johnson like Howe & Thatcher. It was barely months into a new parliament with a massive majority, unlike Howe & Thatcher when there had been rumblings for a while.

I’d suggest Sajid feels slightly relieved not to go down in history as the chancellor responsible for the UK largest debt in living memory.
Taking a back seat through this crisis won’t damage his future prospects. What will screw his chances is that it does seem like he has some integrity/loyalty for a politician!

He can fondly look back on the times when his power stance was the talk of London.

Resigns on point of principle

Full of pronciples when it came to his own job. When it was other peoples lives he screwed, not so much.

He’s “my” MP, no one’s seen him since he resigned. He’s not in the vulnerable group of people so maybe he’s joined the volunteers delivering to them locally? 🤔

Ultimately he won’t be bothered, he’s still trousering his MPs wages, money on the side from the investment banks he used to work for and will work for again when he eventually stops being an MP (which will be a long time because he’s probably got a fairly safe seat because he used to be chancellor). No sympathy from me.

Tory economic policy is still a mess, the self-employed are being strung up which is bad news for the economy and the individuals in that position – we aren’t collecting anywhere near the amount of tax we should (and could easily do so) so the deficit is growing. Don’t be fooled by Sunak just because he can speak in full sentences, he’s pledged big money to calm nerves but no real plan for long or medium term.

I bet he’s thinking “I guess that other fella will be the first brown Prime Minister now”

Yep – I’d say Sunak will replace Boris, maybe sooner than you’d think. Very confident and assured performance so far.

Kicking himself I assume. The other chancellor who most of us didn’t know existed and probably only got the job because Javid resigned at the last minute has been thrown into the limelight and at the moment seems to be responsible for any ‘good’ news when Johnson get all the bad.

They were talking about Sunak as the next PM seconds into this disaster and it’s his to lose now.

Don’t think he was thinking when he shafted all the newly-self employed who have spend what savings and profit they had in setting up, courses and building their business. </blockquote

Maybe they should have also spent some time putting some resiliency into their business model. It is all well and good wanting to be your own boss, get all the profits for yourself etc,. but needs to be properly thought out. You need to manage all the risks yourself.
Also, in a few months time a lot of self employed people will be able to just start working again whereas employees who companies have made them redundant need to find new jobs.

Yep – I’d say Sunak will replace Boris, maybe sooner than you’d think. Very confident and assured performance so far.

Yep – he’s come across a lot better than Boris (who just looks scared) Williamson (idiot) and Matt Hancock (out of his depth)
I agree – he’ll be our next PM, and maybe slightly better qualified for the job than Boris..

I’d say it is a little early to tout Sunak for PM for 2 reasons

(1) he’s only doing what no.10 tell him and
(2) wait until this is over and we need to pay for all this

He is a good communicator, but still a tory c**t

maybe slightly better qualified for the job than Boris

Low bar, low bar.

I’d say it is a little early to tout Sunak for PM for 2 reasons

(1) he’s only doing what no.10 tell him and
(2) wait until this is over and we need to pay for all this

He is a good communicator, but still a tory c**t

Oh agreed it’s a long road, he’s got to shift Johnson for a start, a vindictive man without shame. He might just throw him under a bus for looking too good through this.

He’s got enough profile for a shot at it though.

Does anyone think that if they close their eyes when Sunak is talking that it could be Tony Blair?

Has anyone seen them in the same room, even pre social distancing?

Matt

Might be a good thing to have someone new, with a low profile and who has no idea how to run an exchequer; but with a bit of common sense. More likely to listen to his department where all the actual experience and knowledge is.

Probably thinking about how he can exploit poor people some more. He’s a Tory, that’s all that his type are capable of doing.

If this lock down goes on much longer we’ll have a coalition government before too long, then a GE when its all over…

Oh, hang on, there may be an job opening for PM…

(this is a joke, get well soon Boris you Tory ****).

Two words to bear in mind for the PM replacement; Gordon Brown.

Similar clear thinking for a financial disaster followed by a car crash as PM

Sunak is a far greater public speaker than Gordon Brown, or many of his peers.

This whole conversation has only come about because unlike the rest of the front-bench, he appears not just competent, but also vaguely human.

Reportedly loyal, so perhaps not one to force Johnson out.

OTOH reportedly ambitious.

Also prior history in economics so perhaps treasurer was the end goal.

Who knows.

Similar clear thinking for a financial disaster followed by a car crash as PM

You must be thinking of a different Gordon Brown to the one-eyed Scottish idiot who thought the 2008 crash would ‘blow over’

The only politician who is really in the good place now is Cameron.

He can sit back and look at what a complete shitshow has come along once he stepped down.

That he instigated with that referendum

The only politician who is really in the good place now is Cameron.

He can sit back and look at what a complete shitshow has come along once he stepped down.

A bit like claiming Blair can sit back and look at the current shitshow in Iraq and Syria and think “I’m glad we pulled out of that one before it all went badly”.

Also. Cameron -> Austerity -> cuts to everything that wasn’t (and often was) “frontline services” which would have inevitably included things like

1) A stockpile of in-date PPE for more than a few days.
2) The ability to test people.

Austerity didn’t cause the virus, but it’s going to make the epidemic a whole lot worse.

Rishi Sunak was a Fulbright Scholar for his MBA at Stanford and one of the ‘Masters of the Universe’ at Goldman Sachs. (They have a track record of ‘seconding’ staff to various governments.) No doubt he’s a bright lad. I hope he does a good job for all our sakes.
Goldman Sachs

Sajid Javid – what’s he thinking now?

“I’m glad i moved house. I hear that arsehole next door has got the virus”