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The man that inflated the housing market during pandemic? The man who came up with "eat out to help out" before the peak of covid? Nice. Oh did you know he is

by saos 4y ago

The man that inflated the housing market during pandemic? The man who came up with "eat out to help out" before the peak of covid? Nice. Oh did you know he is also a millionaire* who is so out of touch with normal working close people? The sooner we can have a general election the better. Been a complete and utter mess. Edit: Wrong about net worth but we all know about Infosys?

zimpenfish 4y ago
> he is also a billionaire Current estimates seem to put him and his wife combined at about £730M[1] (and most of that is his wife, I think.) [1] https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23073397.rich-rishi-sunak-net-worth-valued-730-million/ https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23073397...
- trynewideas 4y ago
  ah. so he was a billionaire in USD a year ago, just not now. thanks, exchange rate!
  - zimpenfish 4y ago
    > ah. so he was a billionaire No, not even in USD; he and his wife[1] combined would have been a billionaire in better exchange days but he's got a long way, even at $2:£1 before he's any kind of billionaire. [1] who has ~£500M, largely from the family business, I believe.
DrBazza 4y ago
In 2022, the 'working class', are in offices, working. Which I suspect the PM, and government ministers all do. And often for longer hours, and over weekends. > Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton[10][11] to African-born Hindu parents of Punjabi Indian descent,[12][13] Yashvir and Usha Sunak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak Apparently coming from an immigrant family, modest background, becoming wealthy though hard work, and becoming PM is something to be despised? As much as I despise this current bunch of MPs, I don't see anything wrong there. I doubt he would have achieved so much had his family stayed in Kenya.
- touristtam 4y ago
  Nothing in the parent comment is referring to its "race". He is a billionaire with a rich wife that hasn't been on a working class family wages for a very long time if he ever was. He cannot fathom the hardship that he is about to unleash on said working class. To be descendant from immigrant is only relevant if you are a bigot with a potential impact on him becoming PM.
  - DrBazza 4y ago
    Parent comment has been edited, but either way, it is referring to Sunak being a billionaire and out of touch, which apparently is "a bad thing". Despite the fact he comes from just about the most modest background possible. Which is surely something aspirational. Nothing bigoted about that. And I don't see why someone's good fortune in life should be despised, just because they're an MP. Self-made wealth? Why not get angry with Alan Sugar, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and so on?
    - Veen 4y ago
      No one educated at Winchester, a public school that costs £45,000 per year, comes from 'the most modest background possible'.
    - n4r9 4y ago
      Although second generation immigrants, his father was a GP and his mother ran a local pharmacy. As a sibling comment notes, he attended a very privileged boarding school. The South Asian diaspora that migrated to Africa in the 1930s and then on to the UK in the 1960s faced many hardships, but economic woes were not often one of them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of them have gone on to hold positions of power: Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Shailesh Vara to name a few MPs.
      - skippyboxedhero 4y ago
        Most of them lost everything. Idi Amin expropriated wealth from this group, that is how they ended up in the UK. The reason why this group hasn't had economic woes is because they work harder than everyone else. I know a few families with this background, all of them came here with nothing, all their kids went to private school, they just worked harder and spent nothing. One family I know: three kids, all private school, their parents slept on the sofa and floor of their living room in a tiny flat, mother worked two/three jobs, dad worked 5am-10pm every day...if you didn't know what it took, they are privileged...but all anyone sees is "private school"...must be rich. GPs and pharmacists didn't make that much money back then. Drawing sweeping conclusions about someone because of the school they went to (particularly given that Sunak was massively successful after school) is weak, it is the kind of narrow-minded viewpoint that the left constantly claims to be a victim of (in the UK).
admg 4y ago
The infosys part is pretty infuriating. He pushed through off payroll working reforms to make business a bit more nervous about using contractors then handed some more massive uk public sector contracts to infosys. Massively corrupt.

by saos 4y ago

zimpenfish 4y ago

> he is also a billionaire Current estimates seem to put him and his wife combined at about £730M[1] (and most of that is his wife, I think.) [1] https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23073397.rich-rishi-sunak-net-worth-valued-730-million/ https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/national/uk-today/23073397...

trynewideas 4y ago
ah. so he was a billionaire in USD a year ago, just not now. thanks, exchange rate!
- zimpenfish 4y ago
  > ah. so he was a billionaire No, not even in USD; he and his wife[1] combined would have been a billionaire in better exchange days but he's got a long way, even at $2:£1 before he's any kind of billionaire. [1] who has ~£500M, largely from the family business, I believe.

DrBazza 4y ago

In 2022, the 'working class', are in offices, working. Which I suspect the PM, and government ministers all do. And often for longer hours, and over weekends. > Sunak was born on 12 May 1980 in Southampton[10][11] to African-born Hindu parents of Punjabi Indian descent,[12][13] Yashvir and Usha Sunak. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rishi_Sunak Apparently coming from an immigrant family, modest background, becoming wealthy though hard work, and becoming PM is something to be despised? As much as I despise this current bunch of MPs, I don't see anything wrong there. I doubt he would have achieved so much had his family stayed in Kenya.

touristtam 4y ago
Nothing in the parent comment is referring to its "race". He is a billionaire with a rich wife that hasn't been on a working class family wages for a very long time if he ever was. He cannot fathom the hardship that he is about to unleash on said working class. To be descendant from immigrant is only relevant if you are a bigot with a potential impact on him becoming PM.
- DrBazza 4y ago
  Parent comment has been edited, but either way, it is referring to Sunak being a billionaire and out of touch, which apparently is "a bad thing". Despite the fact he comes from just about the most modest background possible. Which is surely something aspirational. Nothing bigoted about that. And I don't see why someone's good fortune in life should be despised, just because they're an MP. Self-made wealth? Why not get angry with Alan Sugar, Richard Branson, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and so on?
  - Veen 4y ago
    No one educated at Winchester, a public school that costs £45,000 per year, comes from 'the most modest background possible'.
  - n4r9 4y ago
    Although second generation immigrants, his father was a GP and his mother ran a local pharmacy. As a sibling comment notes, he attended a very privileged boarding school. The South Asian diaspora that migrated to Africa in the 1930s and then on to the UK in the 1960s faced many hardships, but economic woes were not often one of them. Perhaps unsurprisingly, many of them have gone on to hold positions of power: Priti Patel, Suella Braverman, Shailesh Vara to name a few MPs.
    - skippyboxedhero 4y ago
      Most of them lost everything. Idi Amin expropriated wealth from this group, that is how they ended up in the UK. The reason why this group hasn't had economic woes is because they work harder than everyone else. I know a few families with this background, all of them came here with nothing, all their kids went to private school, they just worked harder and spent nothing. One family I know: three kids, all private school, their parents slept on the sofa and floor of their living room in a tiny flat, mother worked two/three jobs, dad worked 5am-10pm every day...if you didn't know what it took, they are privileged...but all anyone sees is "private school"...must be rich. GPs and pharmacists didn't make that much money back then. Drawing sweeping conclusions about someone because of the school they went to (particularly given that Sunak was massively successful after school) is weak, it is the kind of narrow-minded viewpoint that the left constantly claims to be a victim of (in the UK).

admg 4y ago

The infosys part is pretty infuriating. He pushed through off payroll working reforms to make business a bit more nervous about using contractors then handed some more massive uk public sector contracts to infosys. Massively corrupt.