Goodness - golden boy Sunak now less popular than Starmer!

As popular as a fart in a space suit, as the saying goes.

It’ll be the same people who didn’t have a good word to say about him even when they were grabbing all that furlough money.

I have friends who bought their council houses and still hate Thatcher for depleting social housing stock!

Well, it may have been an idea to build some more when they sold them off...

Of course- you’d probably have built one for each ten they sold at a massive discount to tenants, that’d explain the shortage...

Yes, very true..
I'm sure they could have come up with some schemes to house people, though.

They can certainly come up with schemes to look after their own interests.

The ex council flat above me rents out at £850 a month.

Sunak’s billionaire wife claims non dom status to avoid paying U.K. tax. That is not a good look.

Ugh!
Greedy, grasping sods.

Not a good look for the wife of the Chancellor is it?

Yet Non Dom status and claiming remittance basis of tax is completely normal for some wealthy folk.

Any income she receives from overseas cannot be brought into the U.K. and of course her wealth will have been taxed in India.

Sunak and his wife have donated £100,00 to Winchester College, his old school. I think they could have found a more deserving recipient for their largesse. Could have given £1000 to a hundred different food banks for example. He’s as out of touch as the rest of the Tory party

Or £1,000 to 100 inner city schools.

How do you know he hasn’t donated to food banks?
A lot of surmising going on here.

If RS , or any other cabinet minister, was donating large sums to food banks it would be all over the right wing press. It isn’t.

I wouldn't have thought food banks are top of his priority list.

Happy to be proved wrong, though.

There is no empathy or sympathy for the poor in India. So perhaps not so surprising that Sunak did nothing for those of us at the bottom here.
I doubt he has much interest in our Welfare State.
In India your wealth it is seen as your Karma. Ditto your poverty. Ill health and disability.

His wife has non-domicile status. She 'earns' around £11m from her share in her family's business in India and does not have to pay tax on it here. The Sunaks recently gave a donation of £100,000 to his old school, Winchester College. How can we expect the product of such an exalted social standing to have any sympathy - never mind empathy - with the poor, the sick, the elderly and those struggling to pay for a University education.

In India there are plenty millionaires. It's a poor country but not for some.

JenniferEccles

How do you know he hasn’t donated to food banks?
A lot of surmising going on here.

Maybe he has (although I doubt it), but it's irrelevant. Can you honestly claim Winchester needs £100,000 more than foodbanks?

It's very odd that the wife of the chancellor who supposedly lives in Downing Street is actually a non-dom. The main question though is how these people are chosen for high political office in the first place.

It's easy to be popular when you are dishing out the cash, not so easy when you have to make tough decisions and balance the books.

I'm not so keen on Sunak now.

Daisymae

It's very odd that the wife of the chancellor who supposedly lives in Downing Street is actually a non-dom. The main question though is how these people are chosen for high political office in the first place.

There is nothing illegal about her non dom status
She hasn't been chosen for high political office

She does not have British citizenship, India, from memory, is one of the countries that does not allow dual citizenship. I can quite see why she does not want to relinquish her ties with her country of birth . She will pay tax in India on her dividend and will have no say in where the company is registered and therefore where the dividend is paid.
I would argue that India probably needs the income more than we do.

I hold no brief for the Sunaks - her, I don't know; him I don't know either but I was appalled by the spring statement.

However, I don't see why she should have to pay tax on income which has been earned and taxed in another country. As far as I can see its legal, and while I support taxation 100% to fund key services, I couldn't warm to the idea of having to pay it twice.

It may be legal, but looks dodgy - she is a non dom for tax purposes but actually is dom - she does live in the U.K. - maybe this loophole will be tightened up? I’m not holding my breath on that one.

If course it's perfectly legal but it does seem a tad odd.