[Holly Christmas]

can Rishi Sunak turn the country around as he vows. Or are we doomed?

I think he's the man.

[UserSince2005]

Who’d have thought Rowland Rat would have made such a good politician, all it took was a name change.

[arista]

Originally Posted by Kate!

can Rishi Sunak turn the country around as he vows. Or are we doomed?

I think he's the man.

He is doing a Hard job.
But he can not keep funding everyone
to stay at home.
It will end soon.


Sadly, some firms will not want all workers back

[arista]

[Holly Christmas]

Thank you Arista

[Shaun]

....no.

[Toy Soldier]

Even if he wants to, it goes against every fibre of Tory instinct to release the sort of money needed to properly jump start the economy... So he won't be able to secure the funding.

[joeysteele]

I think he has wanted to and has done the best he could while he had a more free reign.

I fear he will now be reigned in now, at the time when the right help, the fairer policies need to go to the right places and moreso the right people.

So I'm hoping he'll battle to still do the right thing, however this government wanted the treasury to have less freedoms, and tied closer to overall government advisors.
We know who one of those are sadly.
So I fear, Sunak will be forced to not be as fair.
Since he took the position knowing what happened with Javid.

I fear he'll conform now to remain as Chancellor.
It's a pity he wasn't actually the Con leader from his actions initially in the pandemic.
In my view.

[Cherie Christmas]

I like Rishi, he talks a good game anyway, and his dress sense is sharp

[Smithy]

Is the man with a net worth of £200,000,000 and a billionaire father in law the man to help the rest of the UK?

Hmmm

[joeysteele]

Originally Posted by Smithy

Is the man with a net worth of £200,000,000 and a billionaire father in law the man to help the rest of the UK?

Hmmm

On paper no, I agree Smithy, not to those who will now as they lose their jobs, will need massive support and help anyway.

Initially, he had to be given as much free reign as possible.
With little time to think and just act.

Even in that furlough scheme however, that was more in part, to help employers keep workers employed by them.

Now as that scheme draws to a close, I fear the main help will still be channelled to help Companies stay afloat with the inevitable losses of workers however from said Companies.

As I said, Javid resigned because he was told to get rid of his own selected advisors.
Johnson and co, wanting the Chancellor tied into overall governmental advisors.
That's a big concern in my view.

So, I doubt Rishi Sunak will now be allowed to do his own thing.
He did mostly the right thing given that free reign for a time.
However he still did not sadly give any help to those outside the criteria set up for the financial help during this pandemic.
Leaving some with nothing at all really.

So now as things move to where we are now, I think the roping in of the Chancellor likely to come soon, to the harder, less fair ideas of government advisory sources.
That then, the good done previously by Sunak, will not really be continued in the right way, to those who will desperately need it done still.

[bots]

I think I prefer him to Javid, and I think he has championed the government being as generous as they have been, but please don't be deluded, everything he did was sanctioned by Dom and Boris.

[Liam-]

No

[UserSince2005]

I called him Rowland Rat first and I still call him Rowland Rat.

Get that Rat out.

[Quantum Bauble]

Originally Posted by Kate!

I think he's the man.

He was, as it turned out, not.

[bots]

i could never really work Sunak out. I felt at times i hadn't seen a more insincere politician

[Christmas Dynamo]

This pic sums up his time as PM

[Quantum Bauble]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i could never really work Sunak out. I felt at times i hadn't seen a more insincere politician

He seemed like a little boy who was roleplaying as a politician. Quite odd really. Like he was in the playground and wanted to join in, but didn't really understand the game, so he was just "doing what the bigger boys do".

[Quantum Bauble]

Basically he's someone who would never, ever have been PM if it hadn't been in those very specific circumstances: Boris had to go, and they tried Truss but it was a disaster. So they had to give him a shot at it by default. In normal political times it would never have been Sunak. Or Truss. Or May. Boris was always going to have his day, but really since Cameron fled that podium whistling that little tune, it's all been a hilarious mess.