Monday 24 October 2022

Meet Rishi, The Latest Prime Minister

I'm guessing nobody was taken in by Boris Johnson words that he was withdrawing from the leadership race out of some remarkable gesture of magnanimity, that's him withdrawing for the good of the party and the nation because we all know thats bull because he didn't have the 100 MP's backing him and would have made himself look a right pillock.
He wouldn't have cut short a Caribbean holiday and rushed back to the UK to only then decide against running and Rishi Sunak and Penny Mourdant have come out and said that Boris tried to offer them a deal to withdraw and leave him a free run at a second tilt at the job he got kicked out of seven weeks ago but while celebrating that Boris won't be stinking up the nation once again, we do still have the man who was his Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, who this afternoon was handed the keys to Number 10 and the warning of his MPs to not be as awful as Liz Truss.
It's a bit like being the Doctor who got to replace Harold Shipman on his rounds in Yorkshire although as a man of colour and a Hindu, how well that will go down with the very old and very white Conservative Membership is not hard to guess, like a brick in a swimming pool is the answer.
So we now have the third Prime Minister in 4 months and another gift to the opposition as Rishi was the man who holds an American green card, is a multi millionaire married to another multi millionaire who paid £30,000 to avoid paying her tax in the UK until she was caught and is the second Prime Minister in office to have a police fine against his name for breaking his own governments lock-down laws.  
The much repeated line when he ran before was if he couldn't get his own wife to pay her share of Tax how can he get the rest of us but as his first speech was to announce 'tough economic decisions', it sounds like he will give it a good try although he failed to mention that the tough economic decisions are due to the economic mismanagement of his two Conservative predecessors, one of which he was an integral part of the decision making team but i guess he hopes we forget that.

1 comment:

Liber - Latin for "The Free One" said...

the ability to change government leaders 3 times in a year without an election has advantages... it also has disadvantages.

changing conditions cause business owners to freak out because they are not sure they will be able to adjust to the changing conditions, no change is bigger than a change in national leadership...

three changes of the magnitude seen in UK leadership this past year is definitely bad for business, thus the economy - the business owners will stop innovating, they will stop investing, will stop hiring, will start cutting people to cut costs, and they will put a hold on pay increases...