Thursday 2 February 2023

100 Days Of Rishi

 After all the right-wing policies over the last 13 years crashed and burned, it's close to time to return to proper, grown-up policies but first we have to put up with the Conservatives for at least another couple of years although whether by the time the next General Election rolls around Rishi Sunak will still be in charge is up for debate, especially looking back at his first 100 days in Office.
Some people are making the excuse that all of the problems Rishi faced in his first century of days were inherited from the debacles which were Liz Truss and Boris Johnson and i could have some sympathy with that view if he hadn't been so keen to bring back into the fold some of the very worst Members of the previous administration such as Gareth Williamson, Suella Braverman, Dominic Raab and Nadhim Zahawi, those catastrophes of human kind are all on him.  
You would assume after the multiple Boris lies and nutty Liz Truss blowing up the economy, not being either one of them would be enough to ensure things would take an upward tick but Rishi hasn't so much steadied the ship as guiding people towards the life rafts.
Being the person responsible for making people pay tax and then being found to have a wife who had non-dom status to avoid paying UK tax wasn't the best way to introduce himself nor was having to sack your Cabinet Office minister for sending threatening texts, then your party chair for hiding millions in an offshore account and still facing the inevitable firing of his Justice Minister for bullying his staff and all that between fire fighting the unhelpful efforts inept rumblings of your own Party members who didn't vote for him in any of the three times he tried to lead the Party.
Throw in the striking public and civil servants, train drivers, University Staff and picking an unwinnable fight with teachers, Ambulance drivers and Nurses over pay and conditions while interest rates rise to 4%, food prices up 17% and a cost of living crisis which has been made worse by the IMF announcement that Britain's economic forecast puts it 20th in the G20 league of nations, beaten even by Russia and Rishi hasn't had a war and sanctions to blame it on, and things are far from rosy in the Rishi garden.
The NHS crisis leading to 1,000 additional deaths a week isn't doing his reputation any favours and as his party lays 30 points behind the opposition, the Election draws closer the Tory infighting will only get worse as Conservative Members see the unemployment queue beckoning as they lose their seats so the dog days of  Rishi's short reign will be brutal, hopefully only for the Nasty Party but more than likely for the rest of us also. 

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