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Goodness - golden boy Sunak now less popular than Starmer!

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pinkquartz Wed 06-Apr-22 23:12:12

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.

MissAdventure Wed 06-Apr-22 22:56:53

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

Happy to be proved wrong, though.

Niobe Wed 06-Apr-22 22:55:58

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.

JenniferEccles Wed 06-Apr-22 22:20:00

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

Urmstongran Wed 06-Apr-22 21:56:00

Or £1,000 to 100 inner city schools.

Niobe Wed 06-Apr-22 21:45:59

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

Urmstongran Wed 06-Apr-22 21:43:48

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.

MissAdventure Wed 06-Apr-22 21:22:34

Ugh!
Greedy, grasping sods.

vegansrock Wed 06-Apr-22 21:18:36

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

MissAdventure Wed 06-Apr-22 21:15:39

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.

Pantglas2 Wed 06-Apr-22 20:59:48

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

MissAdventure Wed 06-Apr-22 20:50:55

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

Pantglas2 Wed 06-Apr-22 20:43:24

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!

MissAdventure Wed 06-Apr-22 20:13:34

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

Urmstongran Wed 06-Apr-22 20:05:05

How the tide can turn eh?

That's pretty impressive for a 'Tory' chancellor. Less popular than a useless, kneeling, Labour leader. We He's had some pretty stiff competition from his own party too.