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Oct 2022
11:28am, 24 Oct 2022
17,778 posts
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Cerrertonia
I don't think having a billionaire leader at a time when living standards are going backwards is a great look. Some people seem to think Johnson was "likable" - one of us, a bloke you could have a pint with. That's baffling to me, but there you have it. I don't think Sunak has the common touch and he'd be well advised to steer clear of staged displays of his 'umbleness. It won't wash. Not in a month of Sundays.
He was working as a waiter in a restaurant at the same age that Johnson and his Bullingdon club mates were out trashing restaurants for a laugh. His parents were a GP and a pharmacist. I reckon we'll be hearing plenty about that from the right-wing media in the weeks to come.
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Oct 2022
11:33am, 24 Oct 2022
28,769 posts
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Johnny Blaze
He's practically working class.
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Oct 2022
11:37am, 24 Oct 2022
6,809 posts
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Pothunter
I don't think having a billionaire leader at a time when living standards are going backwards is a great look.
Personally I don’t have an issue with him being a billionaire. I don’t think someone’s financial status should have any bearing on whether they should or shouldn’t be in a particular position.
Far more important is his ability to calm the markets and head up a reasonably stable government.
I’m not saying he’s the perfect candidate but given the alternatives he’s the least bad of a rotten bunch.
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Oct 2022
11:52am, 24 Oct 2022
28,770 posts
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Johnny Blaze
Rich people get elected. Same all over the world. That doesn't mean they are the best of us. That doesn't mean they rule for us. It usually means the opposite. In a better world we have equality of opportunity instead of a gilded staircase for some and a life devoid of opportunities for others.
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Oct 2022
11:56am, 24 Oct 2022
18,633 posts
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rf_fozzy
1, 2, 3, 4, all together now...
'he was working as a waiter in a restaurant, when I met you....'
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Oct 2022
11:57am, 24 Oct 2022
19,431 posts
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larkim
Rishi's star was waning with the general public though, after riding pretty high through the first wave of covid and through to the October / November period 2020. Since then he's been tarnished goods, and having failed once to get the loyalty of the membership he doesn't look like a "winner" (even if that was about being a winner with an electorate that is somewhat unreliable!).
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Oct 2022
11:58am, 24 Oct 2022
18,634 posts
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rf_fozzy
Excerpt from Johnson's new album there.
'Don't you want me Rishi?...'
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Oct 2022
12:07pm, 24 Oct 2022
1,943 posts
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paulcook
According to YouGov, Sunak's popularity was 48% in mid-late2020. Now 25%. Even among Tory voters it's only 41%.
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Oct 2022
12:14pm, 24 Oct 2022
23,813 posts
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Bazoaxe
ERG unable to back either candidate, but will back whichever one is succesful. Make of that what you will.
and is that Farncois holding the ERG press conference
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Oct 2022
12:15pm, 24 Oct 2022
57,155 posts
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Derby Tup
Rishi ‘common as muck’ Sunak will be perfect, especially if he can manage an accent like the lasses from the Human League
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