Goodness - golden boy Sunak now less popular than Starmer!

Whitewavemark2

This. Murdoch isn’t keen on Sunak either.

Daniela Nadj
@DanielaNadj
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Rishi Sunak is limping heavily tonight. It sounded like the Sunday Times has a major scoop on Sunak coming up. I think he will fall by the end of the weekend.

I wish he was being criticised for being a rubbish economist rather than the personal stuff.

PECS

With you there vegansrock. Furlough was a political decision & I suspect reluctantly made.

I am sure there were both those who would have benefited from such a scheme but did not qualify & those few who used it inappropriately / fraudulently. I am sure it was a lifesaver for many..but it was not a result of the personal generosity of Sunak!

He was forced to pay it. Germany's "Kurzarbeit" scheme (similar to furlough) was more generous and, I believe, still ongoing. Once the decision to lockdown was made, there wasn't a choice and he obviously decided that the minority who received no help didn't have a loud enough voice to matter.

This. Murdoch isn’t keen on Sunak either.

Daniela Nadj
@DanielaNadj
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Rishi Sunak is limping heavily tonight. It sounded like the Sunday Times has a major scoop on Sunak coming up. I think he will fall by the end of the weekend.

With you there vegansrock. Furlough was a political decision & I suspect reluctantly made.

I am sure there were both those who would have benefited from such a scheme but did not qualify & those few who used it inappropriately / fraudulently. I am sure it was a lifesaver for many..but it was not a result of the personal generosity of Sunak!

Sunak did not pay furlough money out of his own pocket, we paid for it and will be paying it back for years , plus billions was claimed fraudulently by business owners and not being pursued. So stop pretending Sunak is some sort of philanthropist.

from dishy to fishy.
from hero to zero, or rather more than six zeros...

Ah, he is (allegedly) listed as his wife's beneficiary on documents related to her financial arrangements.
That's as well as holding a green card for 2 years whilst working as the chancellor. Allegedly, of course.

Zonne

Callistemon21

Are they not married then?

That doesn’t make her name Sunak, any more than it makes his Murty.

It makes her Mrs Sunak. Or titles of married women have changed radically in the past few days...

Oh dear, 5 pages into this topic, several explanations of what non dom status entails (absolutely nothing to do with citizenship of any country) and we're still getting tirades from the uninformed. ?

Oh well, it takes all sorts...

Callistemon21

Are they not married then?

That doesn’t make her name Sunak, any more than it makes his Murty.

What are you on?

I'm one of those "idiot freelancers" and I received not one penny, nada, zilch from any Covid scheme. There are about 3 million of us in the same situation. I couldn't carry on with my work, so I had no income for a while - absolutely nothing - but still had bills to pay. Sunak knew, but made his excuses and did absolutely nothing.

As for people working at home ... some still are - working. They have jobs which can be done in front of a computer screen and that's what they're doing. They weren't furloughed because they were working.

Pantglas2

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!

Hooray someone with a good memory and some sense. Some idiot freelancers have soon forgotten the billions given in furlough money and money to help businesses survive. If this was another country they would not have received anything and been left to go under. I notice that a huge number of people working from home were not in a hurry to get back to the workplace. The owner of Pimlico Plumbers ordered all his staff back to the workplace or they would be sacked.
Absolutely right about Margaret Thatcher, (my hero). How many people bought their council houses with a massive discount and then sold them for a massive profit after the number of years had lapsed before they could sell them. Margaret Thatcher, the milk snatcher, what a load of bxxxxxxs, she was actually outvoted on this issue.

Are they not married then?

Slightly off the point, but please stop calling her Mrs Sunak. Her name is Akshata Murty.

And for that matter, where's your evidence that this is the "politics of envy"?

Where's your evidence that the sleaze is coming from the opposition? The longer it goes on, the more it looks like it's coming from inside the Conservative Party.

Mrs Sunak pays tax on her Indian earnings in India - and on her UK earnings in the UK. She is doing nothing wrong - nobody pays more tax than they need to if they can help it. I understand she would likely be a British citizen if India allowed dual citizenship like we do, but she clearly does not wish to renounce her Indian citizenship which would be her only choice.

This story is not new - Private Eye covered it around a year ago, its just the usual suspects dredging it up trying to have a dig at Rishi by attacking his wife. The usual fake allegations of sleaze from the opposition - no surprise given the forthcoming May elections. She is not the Chancellor and is doing nothing illegal. Not a massive fan of Rishi but his personal fortune is self made - his parents were a pharmacist and a GP respectively, so he doesn't exactly come from money.

I dislike the stench of the politics of envy when it comes to wealthy politicians - by all means criticise his policies but its not a crime to be wealthy, much as I am sure some on here would like it to be.

Whitewavemark2

Callistemon21

Whitewavemark2

Johnson denies he has nothing to do with it.

Of course we all believe someone who constantly lies.

So he's saying he does have something to do with it?

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Sorry, it's not polite to pick up a double negative
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Good post winterwhite.

Callistemon21

Whitewavemark2

Johnson denies he has nothing to do with it.

Of course we all believe someone who constantly lies.

So he's saying he does have something to do with it?

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Whitewavemark2

Johnson denies he has nothing to do with it.

Of course we all believe someone who constantly lies.

So he's saying he does have something to do with it?

Whitewavemark2

I see Mrs Sunak is giving up her non dom status.

Over to you Johnson.

No I was wrong. She isn’t giving up her non dom status. She has simply announced that she will pay tax on her foreign earnings.

As most of her foreign earnings will be going into a trust, this won’t be much.

Johnson denies he has nothing to do with it.

Of course we all believe someone who constantly lies.

I see Mrs Sunak is giving up her non dom status.

Over to you Johnson.

DaisyAnne

Correction: I love the phrase "greased piglet".

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