I wouldn’t call that much of a choice. No wonder their prime minister Boris will survive for a while. Stammer lacks a backbone to provide them with a solid opposition. Sajib Javid will probably have them all locked down with vaccine cards to step out of their doors if he can get away with it. Liz Truss is an unknown. Priti Patel’s immigration stance would have half of London voting against her.
My own personal summaries of these people for those who don’t know (may be controversial).
* Sunak: Current Chancellor, richest man in the House of Commons, married to the daughter of a billionaire. Became Chancellor just before covid and was immediately popular as he was allowed to throw infinite amounts of money at people whilst being young and photogenic. Favourability dipping as he can’t do that anymore and is pursuing a policy of higher taxes and lower spending.
* Javid: Current Health Secretary, former Home Secretary and Chancellor, came fourth in the 2019 Tory leadership election. Was briefly Chancellor, but was removed because he didn’t get on with Johnson’s special advisor, Dominic Cummings. Son of a bus-driver, he became the youngest ever VP of Chase Manhattan bank. Loves Ayn Rand and Thatcher. Not an unknown, but generally doesn’t illicit strong opinions from the public.
* Truss: Inexplicably popular with the Tory membership despite being an unknown to the public. [Most well known for her strong opinions on cheese imports](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YxhIq6t6Fk).
* Starmer: Labour leader. Born to a tool-maker and a nurse and became head of the Crown Prosecution service. Considered very centrist and quite boring, basically the type of politician a focus-group of middle-class, politics-enjoying moderates would make, but maybe that’s what the country needs right now.
* Johnson: Everyone already knows him.
* Patel: Current Home Secretary. Seems to be fuelled by pure hate, there is no measure too draconian, no policy too cruel, basically any weird authoritarianism coming from the UK over the past few years will originate from her. Despite this, she is somehow incapable when it comes to a lot of bread and butter stuff (i.e. immigration), that people expect the Home Secretary to handle.
* Corbyn: Magic grandpa, former leader of the Labour party. Grew up in a manor house and attended a private prep-school, where despite all this privilege, he somehow only attained two passing grades in his final school exams, both E’s (the lowest passing grade). I mention this, because some people attribute his later politics to malice whilst I chalk it up to being a bit dim. Has a long history of his policies and beliefs basically boiling down to “against whatever the west is doing”, including: opposing the Falklands War, opposing NATO (including blaming the Russian invasion of Ukraine on NATO), calling Hamas and Hezbollah his “friends”, praising Castro and Chavez, and maybe being anti-semetic (this is too much to get into). Not his fault, but his brother is also the UK’s leading anti-vaxxer and covid/global warming conspiracy theorist.
Who is Rishi Sunak?
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn.
If Boris goes is Rishi Sunak likely to succeed him?
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I wouldn’t call that much of a choice. No wonder their prime minister Boris will survive for a while. Stammer lacks a backbone to provide them with a solid opposition. Sajib Javid will probably have them all locked down with vaccine cards to step out of their doors if he can get away with it. Liz Truss is an unknown. Priti Patel’s immigration stance would have half of London voting against her.
My own personal summaries of these people for those who don’t know (may be controversial).
* Sunak: Current Chancellor, richest man in the House of Commons, married to the daughter of a billionaire. Became Chancellor just before covid and was immediately popular as he was allowed to throw infinite amounts of money at people whilst being young and photogenic. Favourability dipping as he can’t do that anymore and is pursuing a policy of higher taxes and lower spending.
* Javid: Current Health Secretary, former Home Secretary and Chancellor, came fourth in the 2019 Tory leadership election. Was briefly Chancellor, but was removed because he didn’t get on with Johnson’s special advisor, Dominic Cummings. Son of a bus-driver, he became the youngest ever VP of Chase Manhattan bank. Loves Ayn Rand and Thatcher. Not an unknown, but generally doesn’t illicit strong opinions from the public.
* Truss: Inexplicably popular with the Tory membership despite being an unknown to the public. [Most well known for her strong opinions on cheese imports](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YxhIq6t6Fk).
* Starmer: Labour leader. Born to a tool-maker and a nurse and became head of the Crown Prosecution service. Considered very centrist and quite boring, basically the type of politician a focus-group of middle-class, politics-enjoying moderates would make, but maybe that’s what the country needs right now.
* Johnson: Everyone already knows him.
* Patel: Current Home Secretary. Seems to be fuelled by pure hate, there is no measure too draconian, no policy too cruel, basically any weird authoritarianism coming from the UK over the past few years will originate from her. Despite this, she is somehow incapable when it comes to a lot of bread and butter stuff (i.e. immigration), that people expect the Home Secretary to handle.
* Corbyn: Magic grandpa, former leader of the Labour party. Grew up in a manor house and attended a private prep-school, where despite all this privilege, he somehow only attained two passing grades in his final school exams, both E’s (the lowest passing grade). I mention this, because some people attribute his later politics to malice whilst I chalk it up to being a bit dim. Has a long history of his policies and beliefs basically boiling down to “against whatever the west is doing”, including: opposing the Falklands War, opposing NATO (including blaming the Russian invasion of Ukraine on NATO), calling Hamas and Hezbollah his “friends”, praising Castro and Chavez, and maybe being anti-semetic (this is too much to get into). Not his fault, but his brother is also the UK’s leading anti-vaxxer and covid/global warming conspiracy theorist.
Who is Rishi Sunak?
Oh, Jeremy Corbyn.
If Boris goes is Rishi Sunak likely to succeed him?