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Thank god we've got a PM who's a grown up again.
by nprateem 4y ago
Thank god we've got a PM who's a grown up again.
- przemub 4y agoSupporting his father in law comes first.
- kdkwsndne 4y agoHow was he involved? How did he help this situation? The US also did it over the weekend. Kinda had to be done.
- nprateem 4y agoSunak was apparently very hands on according to the FT.
- kzrdude 4y agoHe has a finance background
- varispeed 4y agoYes, he was doing books for his parents' pharmacy.
- harvey9 4y agoWhatever you think of the bloke, there's a bit more to his CV than that.
- mnw21cam 4y agoYeah, he tripped and threw the curry he was trying to serve over my wife's shoes. It's all she talks about whenever she sees him on TV.
- varispeed 4y agoIs that when he was working at Indian restaurant "for fun"? edit: "Chancellor Rishi Sunak 'did shifts for fun' in Southampton Indian restaurant" https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18237824.chancellor-rishi-sunak-did-shifts-fun-southampton-indian-restaurant/ https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/18237824.chancellor-rishi-s...
- kmlx 4y ago> HSBC on Monday averted a crisis in Britain’s tech sector by rescuing Silicon Valley Bank’s UK arm, a dramatic fire sale concluded after all-night talks led by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and the Bank of England. > A sale of SVB UK, which has 3,300 UK clients, including start-ups, venture-backed companies and funds, was the preferred choice of chancellor Jeremy Hunt, avoiding a big government intervention to protect depositors. source: https://www.ft.com/content/216b193d-62b3-4e5e-8f67-e8eb3d96ebf1 https://www.ft.com/content/216b193d-62b3-4e5e-8f67-e8eb3d96e...
- substation13 4y agoDo we? His style is more school-boy debate club than anything else. It doesn't matter what the reality is, so long as you get some zingers in.
- distcs 4y agoIt is really sad to see comment threads like this that devolve into shallow and petty dismissals devoid of any actual content or substance!
- joe__f 4y agoI've seen him a few times on PMQs and I thought this comment was a reasonable description
- substation13 4y agoFair point, so I will flesh this out a bit. The typical pattern we see in PMQs every week is this: 1. Valid concern from the opposition 2. Rishi ignores the concern 3. Rishi says something about "the member from Islington North" 4. Jeering from the back benches (both sides) 5. Opposition moves on to another topic Or perhaps this: 1. Government back-bencher asks "Does the PM agree that we are doing a fantastic job on X?" 2. Rishi agrees 3. Rishi uses the time to grandstand about some other unrelated accomplishment Perhaps this is more a criticism of the system than Rishi? Still, I see no evidence that he is using his position of power to improve on this.
- jeromegv 4y agoI don't know about the UK parliament, but the Canadian parliament is quite similar in political structure and the "debates" at the chamber are a bit of a clown show as well. Just someone doing a speech and zingers, the same side applaud, the other side boos, and it goes on and on for a few hours. If the population actually saw what was happening over there, they wouldn't be too impressed. The medias tend to only feature a couple questions and a couple (empty) answers, but they typically avoid showing us the circus. But this has been like that forever, not very specific to any party or any PM.
- realjhol 4y agoSunak was as supportive as anyone of the lockdowns and other hysterical COVID madness that lead to economic turmoil that precipitated this situation in the first place.