I can’t remember a chancellor that has misjudged situations so badly.
Over the past few weeks he has shown how completely out of touch he is in various examples.
I think the moment for me that I realised how much he didn’t care was when Beth Rigby was interviewing him after his budget announcement. She asked him about being fair and hitting people on the lower end the hardest… And what did he do, he smirked. Imo it almost looked like he wanted to laugh. You can see this here;
He tried to go into the commons and throw us some scraps, throw us starving dogs some scraps. 5p off a liter, a rebate on your council tax for energy.
These measures are literally like throwing a cup of water through a window of a burning building.
Hes not stupid. He knows what he is doing and we all know he’s essentially got unlimited wealth and clearly very intelligent. He studied at Stanford.
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunak-wife-hand-elite-26642625.amp
HE KNEW exactly what 5p reduction would do. NOTHING! And then he had the cheek to try and SELL IT TO YOU AS HELP. Sell it to you as “THE BIGGEST DUTY CUT FOR AGES LOOK HOW AWESOME I AM”.
You can see this here being interviewed on GMB;
He had more money to spend than he thought in his budget. What did he do in this moment of crisis? When were all being harder than ever!? HE HELD MONEY BACK!
Were all talking pounds. He’s talking pence.
We’re all in this together Rishi. Are we? I don’t feel like we’re all in it together. People are saying to leave his wife out of the situation but sorry Rishi. You live by the sword you die by the sword mate. You decided that you wanted to set your tax affairs up this way with your wife. Unfortunately although legal once again in your position, you should be setting the example. ( not that barely any of these conservatives are setting examples ) Yeah sure under some legal loopholes it’s all “legal” but absolutely morally repugnant.
And if as some suspect your plan was to withhold money so you can give us a tax break at election time. You’re sorely mistaken if you think that’s going to pay off. The pain that’s going to set in for us over this year and next. Will not be forgotten when you try to buy back votes. Your red wall is for sure gone. Your middle classes at this rate will turn on the conservatives because you’re barely backing the super hard workers.
And you know the thing that’s made me rage the most. He wrote off all the bounce back fraud. If you were a criminal and you got the full £50,000 loan fraudulently.
CONGRATULATIONS BECAUSE RISHI JUST LET YOU HIT THE JACKPOT. THEY STOLE £50,000. Disgusting. And what about all those hard working people that got a bounce back loan. You pay it all back. Every penny with intrest.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jan/24/minister-resigns-in-protest-at-handling-of-fraudulent-covid-loans
With Rishi Sunak in charge it pays out to be dodgy. It pays out to commit crime. It pays out to exploit the tax system. It pays out if you’re at the top. It pays out to be a massive energy firm because he’ll stick up for you.
And hes gonna treat you like a stupid puppy next election when he tries to buy back the votes.
I’m done with him and he will never have my support.
Sorry Rishi. It’s time to go. You’re not the man for the job. You do not understand the people. You had a chance to prove you could support the economy and you did effectively nothing.
You set up your families tax arrangements in a way that you damn well know the British public are disgusted with. Is it any wonder why hes not eager to change these systems?
Hmmm I wonder.
You cant have it both ways Rishi. You can’t be chancellor and use loopholes in the tax system that you represent. Then come down to us plebians and tell us we should pay what we owe.
Hed be gone tonight if I was in charge. And the longer he stays the more it just shows more and more they don’t care.
Get out Rishi. It’s time to go.
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You know what? It is time.
You’re so brave for this, thank you.
It’s time for the tories to go. He is just a pimple on a fetid and diseased corpse.
Yawn.
He’s not going to fucking go until the Tories leave office – you know when that happens?
When the opposition get their act together.
Either a coalition or labour sort their shit together. Judging by the last election and local Labour politics, there’s a way to go.
The whole lot needs to go mate. This post smells of Bojo pish
>Hes not stupid. He knows what he is doing and we all know he’s essentially got unlimited wealth and clearly very intelligent.
Him and half the cabinet, Tory Party & Members of Parliament.
Yes he has to go, lets… erm… Call a citizens election or some shit? A public vote of no confidence? Wait for him to leave or his own?
Yeah – but there are hundreds like him queuing up in the Tory party to take positions in government.
Sunak fell foal of Boris. That’s why the sudden bad press.
>With Rishi Sunak in charge it pays out to be dodgy. It pays out to commit crime.
Genuinely wondering why I shouldn’t turn to crime some days. It’s not like there’s any police left to stop me, and if I get rich enough then I’ll even become a protected citizen!
İf people still vote Tories in the next GE despite all this shit I’m leaving the country. If I’m gonna get fucked in the ass by austerity and an incompetent government, I may as well do it in some nice weather.
Let’s see if I’ve got this right.
The Sunaks have set up a dubious tax avoidance scheme, which, given that Rishi is in charge of tax regulations, taxpayers ought to be aware of, but understandably, they want kept secret.
Someone has realised that taxpayers ought to know this and has put this information into the public domain. While the Sunaks deny any wrongdoing, Mrs Sunak is voluntarily paying millions in extra tax, even though she claims she was doing nothing wrong.
Now Rishi wants an inquiry into who told taxpayers information taxpayers had a right to know, and he wants this inquiry paid for by taxpayers. Yes?
Can we just tell him to fuck off?
In fairness to Rishi, Osborne was much worse… still waiting for the International Criminal Court to sort Osborne and Cameron (the evil duo) out…
*Just* Sunak? Johnson, Gove, Patel, etc; they all need to go.
I think a general election would be a better idea, Rishi is in the middle of the pack of the current government, getting rid of one guy won’t change anything.
To me, Rishi Sunak represents everything that is wrong in politics. He has absolutely no real life experience, he walks into the Tory party with his money and has effectively bought himself a cabinet position. What exactly are his qualifications to be an MP, let alone Chancellor?
As for the current tax row, he’s either incredibly naive or wilfully deceptive. It’s not appropriate for him to be PM.
Rishi isn’t special. He’s just as bad as the rest of them. They choose which twat gets to be the scapegoat for the plebs this week. Keep that energy for ALL OF THEM! And the Murdochs.
“I’m done with him and he will never have my support.”
Something tells me he may never have had your support in the first place. Why does that matter? Because these people know that. You need to convince Tory voters to get rid of these clowns and unfortunately ranting diatribes isn’t going to cut it. Approach them with civility and logic and you may have a chance but shouting, whining and name calling wont do it. You will just cement their held belief that the left is full of lunatics.
Having gone through the covid pandemic with my husband as one of the excluded from any financial support from the government while unable to work – I’ve known for a long while now how nasty and self serving Rishi is.
Lol, this post is funny. I kind of understand why the Tories don’t care. Just toss out a few scraps and you can misdirect the public. Sure, they treat us like we are stupid but many don’t make an effort to convince the Tories otherwise. Rishi Sunak has a boss and colleagues. He didn’t do this all on his own. This indignant screed is just jumping when the Tory machine says jump.
This sub is very anti-tory. You’re just preaching to the choir with this kind of post.
I’m sure he pays attention to Reddit…
The only was to get rid of the Tories is to convince people who don’t usually vote to do so.
The 5p fuel duty reduction only hits you if you are wealthy enough to be able to afford a car. I know it doesn’t mean you are wealthy, but you’re certainly not at the bottom of the pile.
They’re ALL evil and sick minded. They create suffering for sport. The only way out is making people realise they caused this by voting for them. And hope those people take responsibility and stop voting for the totally fucking corrupt.
They just don’t know when to stop do they? Already fabulously wealthy by ordinary people’s standards he has to squeeze out MORE millions for his family by paying £30k for the non Dom swindle. This £30k is more than Joe average annual wage.
The top Tories are so engulfed in millions of funny russian “donations” and obscene billions of COVID fraud they have completely blinded themselves to ordinary salaries.
Sunak vaguely waving a petrol pump nozzle around in a Sainsbury’s is and absolute insult. Just like Johnson buying one roll of wallpaper that was the equivalent of a months work on a zero hours contract.
It’s not just Sunak that has to go. Can we bring back austerity Osbourne and Greensill Cameron back for a public tribunal while we’re at it?
Everyone Johnson appoints is incompetent (Peter Principal). He’s petrified of a challenge so incompetence is all around him, that’s why we are in this mess, Johnson is real the problem.
He’s gonna resign before he’s fired (cue the thick of it jumping before youre pushed scene) and I think he’s gonna swing big at Boris on his way out. I image he’s gonna try and set himself up for a run at the leadership so anticipate him trying to put all the blame for the cost of living roses on Boris and say “I cant be a part of a government that is doing this to people” and other such bullshit.
I don’t get why anyone with that sort of money would want to “work” in politics, or at all. A fraction of that would see me retiring with a nice ski chalet and living the best life
Prior to the energy price increase he was primed to be our next prime minister. This will hit the Tory seating majority hard, but it’s not like Starmer will be much better. Liberalists appeasing Rupert Murdoch. Our NHS getting increasingly privatised is next and it’s effectively now illegal to protest about any of this mess.
Getting rid of Sunak wouldn’t change the economic policies of a conservative government. You could put Rabb, Dorries, Truss or even put javid back in but the outcome will still be the same.
I’m sure after all this he’d be quite happy to fuck off to the USA and get some cushty job in the private sector, because Brand Rishi is in tatters
and be replaced by someone similarly corrupt. I’m tired of Tory politicians.
No one think the timing of this leak is coincidental? Boris is down in the polls coming off party gate, Tory insiders are looking at potential contenders like Rishi and bang this comes out.
Two years away from the GE so voters will have forgotten about this, the only one in the Tories this hurts is Rishi.
There are no political parties without it’s share of incompetent assholes, cnuts and pricks. No one with a clear ability to get voted in.
We’re stuck with this cnut and his Tory friends for the foreseeable.
If you want him out, Labour need to stop shitting in their own mouths and form a credible opposition.
They make out we should be thankful that she’s decided to pay tax in this country. Which she’s only really doing to save her husbands career.
He seems just as good as the rest of them to me, if not better than half of them.
All of this was leaked by Boris too. He is fearing a leadership challenge from Rishi Sunak and decided to take him out. This cabinet is entirely made up by vile cunts and they all need to go, half of them preferably to jail.
Change the record, why are you blaming one man when he is just executing the will of Tory party. Too many of you are easily manipulated sheeple who will vote for whichever Tories replace Johnson and his cabinet in the next election, and you will deserve whatever extra misery they bestow on you.
It’s cute that you think he should go, but he’s right where his owners want him. The Tories are here to stay. They’ll win the next election, even if they have to rig the election. They’ve got plenty of experience at that, and plenty of backing from the Russians to get it done properly. There’s only one way this party is leaving power, and it ain’t a peaceful one.
As a foreigner in the UK, I understand the British people are very “concerned” about immigration. The Tories ultimately serve the Elites/corporations but in order to get into office they use immigration as a means to get votes from the “concerned” British people. So being upset the Tories don’t serve the lower class “starving dogs” as the OP refers to, shouldn’t come as a surprise? A well used British saying – you’ve made your bed and now you get to lie in it.
The whole system has to go. Think 1776, but we remove our own government.
I know I’m gonna be downvoted a lot on this sub for this type of comment but I do have to say as someone who earns well below the average income, I am pretty pleasantly surprised to be paying £850 less than I did last year especially after the biggest period of public spending (covid) in a very long time. I know people are gonna be pissed about inflation but most of this is out of the governments control as it’s still knock on effects from covid and Putin being a crack head
They just can’t help themselves greedy mother fuckers….
Then go and fucking vote.
Young people still barely vote in the UK, the turnout at the last general election was a bit better but it was still pathetic.
I hate Sunak and the rest of his corrupt cronies as much as the next person, but the reality is that he is part of a political party who were elected. The way to get rid of him is to vote his party out of power.