Less than 200 Conservative MPs have given ex-chancellor Rishi Sunak 42. the keys to number ten despite him losing an election race to Liz Truss the most useless Prime Minister in British History just last month.
The Tories retain a majority in parliament, meaning that as their
leader, Sunak has been named prime minister by King Charles III. Twice as rich as the King, Mr Sunak will now preside over brutal public spending cuts.
Despite no vote by Conservative members who so overwhelmingly rejected him or any of us the people getting a vote on the matter either. Rishi Sunak this morning headed to Buckingham Palace, where the King asked him to form a government without knowing what the latest Tory Prime
Minister plans for the nation are.
Economists have questioned whether Sunak can tackle the country’s
finances while holding the party’s multiple warring factions together. Over the past two years Rishi
Sunak stood next to Boris Johnson as the government failed to tackle the
cost of living crisis, failed our country and the disaster that was Liz Truss trashed our economy.
He has sold himself as the chap who can get us out of our current mess which ought to be plausible but he is largely the chap who is responsible for getting us into this mess.
Sunak’s win on Monday came days after Truss’s resignation after her
disastrous tax cuts plans and policy U-turns plunged the markets into
chaos. The unprecedented economic crisis drew a rare intervention from
the Bank of England.
Mr Sunak has won power without saying a single word in public about
how he plans to deal with the cost of living crisis or the economic
chaos caused by Liz Truss in her seven weeks in No10.
His silence has left families worried that he and Jeremy Hunt. should he be kept on as Chancellor – are about to impose a new era of
austerity, slashing benefits and public services that have already been
cut to the bone.
Last week, Mr Hunt warned of spending cuts and financial decisions “of eye-watering difficulty”.
Britain faces serious economic challenges and needs
stability and unity, Sunak said on Monday in his first public speech
since winning the contest.
“There is no doubt we face a profound economic challenge,”
Sunak said. “We now need stability and unity, and I will make it my
utmost priority to bring our party and our country together.”
Sunak, a former finance minister, has been left with the task of
steering a deeply divided country through an economic downturn set to
make millions of people poorer.
As another member of the right wing fundamentalist billionaire club.with a net worth of £730 million, how is he meant to support us out of an economic crisis which working class people are taking the shit for? How will he ever comprehend the real financial problems so many families in the uk are dealing with at this present time?
Expect attacks on workers rights, human rights, the poor and any dissenting voice. Its about to get worse, a lot worse.Only;last year, Sunak was heavily criticised for
axing a £20-a-week increase to Universal Credit that had helped some of
the poorest families through the pandemic. More than 200,000 would have
been pushed into poverty as a result of the cut, according to research by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
Just weeks before the cut was confirmed in July, the chancellor requested planning permission
to build a private swimming pool, gym and tennis court at the Grade
II-listed Yorkshire manor that Sunak and his wife, Akshata Murty,
purchased for £1.5m in 2015.
After several
MPs from his own party spoke out against the Universal Credit cut,
Sunak increased in-work benefits in his Autumn Budget – but not by
enough to offset the cut.
When it comes to knowing who Sunak really is
and what he believes in, I would suggest we look to comments made on a
sunny lawn in Royal Tunbridge Wells in July, surrounded by Conservative
members, whose votes he was desperate for.
Microphone in hand,
the ex-Chancellor bragged to the crowd about how he had worked hard to
divert vital funding away from areas of deprivation and towards more
affluent, Tory-voting communities.
He
said: "I managed to start changing the funding formulas, to make sure
that areas like this are getting the funding that they deserve, because
we inherited a bunch of formulas that shoved all the funding into
deprived urban areas, that needed to be undone and I started the work of
undoing that."
Even if you take into account his desperation for
votes in what was a flailing leadership bid, this was still a moment of
remarkable mask-slipping honesty - and others soon followed.
Just
days later he was proudly declaring that if elected he would "govern as
a Thatcherite." While this idea may appeal to large sections of
Conservative members, it will strike fear into the hearts of so many
communities that suffered so badly under the rule of
Margaret Thatcher.he
was moving funding from areas of deprivation to areas of affluence.
This pledge is particularly worrying for communities that have been
torn apart by the past decade of austerity and when talk is rife in
government of the need for further spending cuts to try and plug the
huge black hole created by Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng's disastrous
economic announcements.
More evidence of the hard-lined right
wing approach behind Sunak's slick and professional presentation style
arrived when he promised to do "whatever it takes" to get the
government's cruel plan to send desperate and vulnerable asylum seekers
to Rwanda and vowed to pursue more “migration partnerships” with other
countries.
As if that wasn't harsh enough, he vowed to cap the
number of refugees the UK accepts each year, tighten the definition of
who qualifies to claim asylum in this country and even discussed housing
asylum seekers in cruise ships instead of hotels to save money.
These
were of course all statements that were made in a previous leadership
election (although it was only a few weeks ago) - but as we have heard
absolutely nothing on policy from the man who will now become the next
Prime Minister, it is probably fair to assume this is what he still
believes.
Rishi Sunak may be a more polished performer than Liz
Truss, he may seem more competent and even moderate compared with the
bizarre, short-lived Truss experiment. But you can see from his previous
promises and pledges that this is not a moderate politician we are
talking about and is one who many in communities that have already
suffered greatly over the past 12 years of Tory rule will be very
worried about.
The 'rise of Rishi Sunak' is not a sign of how we're now some great meritocracy. It's a sign that class privilege. going to elite schools, knowing the right people and having obscene amounts of wealth work in your favour. The exact opposite of social mobility and meritocracy.
The multimillionaire former hedge fund boss. who like his own former boss was fined by the police during the partygate scandal. and was found in 2010 to have not declared his wife's financial interests. and was then revealed to have been using non- domicile status to avoid British taxes on her massive overseas earnings. and who waived his salary as chancellor so that as a US Green card holder so he could avoid paying taxes in the US is now expected to
impose deep spending cuts to try to rebuild the UK’s fiscal reputation,
just as the country slides into a recession, dragged down by the surging
costs of energy and food. So no matter who they put into Number 10, it will mean that life
will become increasingly challenging for those that need the most
support.
After 12 years of a Tory Government, people are struggling to pay
their bills, their mortgages are going through the roof and waiting
lists for the NHS are growing. We urgently need to
clear up the mess left behind by the Tory Party
Sunak
arrogant and undemocratic with no answers or ideas has ruled out calling a General Election to try to secure his own
mandate. knowing that he would lose it. It is the people of our country who should decide who they want
to
see in Number 10. Surely we cannot be expected to put up with Sunak telling the poorest people in the UK how much more they've got to suffer in order for him to balance the books. the books that he and his toxic party have trashed over the last 12 years.More austerity is not the answer to the problems we are currently facing.
We have had three different prime ministers over the past three months..Enough is enough. The only way off this carousel of chaos is with a General Election so
that the public can have their say, and so that our country can have the fresh start that we deserve.
