Why on earth was Boris on holiday?

Annie1 Maybe you could stop criticising people for things you imagine they've done because it suits your agenda. Please show me where I have criticised the new PM.

Sunak's wealth is immaterial.

What we should worry about is that he has appointed Braverman, Coffey, Williamson and the rest of them, to Cabinet. Braverman had to leave her post last week for being a security risk.

Sunak's credibility all shot to hell in one short afternoon.

Anniel

I should have known that…But he is writing a book …whatever. I cannot let you have the last word

I’ll have it, please!
It’s about Shakespeare and called ‘The Riddle of Genius’.
It was to be published in 2016 to coincide with the 400th anniversary of WS’s death.

Johnson still hasn’t written it.

He was paid an advance of half a million pounds by Hodder & Staunton, and the US publishers.

So it’s another job he’s been paid for and not done.

Katie59

Hedge fund managers are “the scum of the earth” because their aim is to make money regardless of the consequences.
Just remember, for every profit made there is a loss made and a commission taken. Not only that but “inside information” is widely used illegally

I am in complete agreement with you there, Katie59

I seem to recall that Johnson's Churchill book was slated by the critics...

Sunak's parents being able to afford £ 72,000 a year in prep school fees and £150,000 a year in boarding school fees puts them on my wealthy list.
Can I ask where you found those exorbitant school fees from Normandygirl? They are incorrect, and also Sunak's parents wouldn't have paid the same amount in 1990s as now.

Because Johnson is now an international celebrity he can base himself wherever he likes and claim most of the cost as business expenses

Joseanne

^Sunak's parents being able to afford £ 72,000 a year in prep school fees and £150,000 a year in boarding school fees puts them on my wealthy list.^
Can I ask where you found those exorbitant school fees from Normandygirl? They are incorrect, and also Sunak's parents wouldn't have paid the same amount in 1990s as now.

Plucked out of thin air.

Perhaps that was spread over 14 years.

A decent private school boarding fees are about 30.000 a year- but on top of that are many more other expenses, uniforms, trips, some acitivities, etc, etc.

One of my tutees is a boarder at a top London school. She's a scholar, so her fees are only £27,270 a year. If she didn't have a scholarship the fees would be £45,432pa for 5.5 days a week.

The fees for Winchester College, which Sunak attended, are currently £45,936 per annum.

No idea where the £150,000 came from.

Callistemon21

Joseanne

Sunak's parents being able to afford £ 72,000 a year in prep school fees and £150,000 a year in boarding school fees puts them on my wealthy list.
Can I ask where you found those exorbitant school fees from Normandygirl? They are incorrect, and also Sunak's parents wouldn't have paid the same amount in 1990s as now.

Plucked out of thin air.

Perhaps that was spread over 14 years.

The Sunaks have three children.

Private primary schools too.

Or did only Rishi get the fancy education?

*Mr Sunak’s time at Stroud (private prep school) cost — an estimation based on inflation rates — a total of £12,794.88. Today, a student studying at the prestigious primary school from year 4 until year 8 would have to fork out a staggering £24,665.

After leaving in 1992, Mr Sunak joined the 600-year-old Winchester College as a boarder, where the yearly school fees today amount to £45,936 per year, and £33,990 for day pupils.*

To afford such fees (plus all the other associated stuff) puts Sunak’s parents in the rich category to me.

To be honest I don’t actually care about whether he had a privileged upbringing or not. What really annoys me is the ‘story’ he tells about coming from an ‘ordinary’ background and that his parents could only afford his private education because ‘they worked hard’. Rubbish! Just be honest man - stop trying to be like one of the ‘ordinary people’. Acknowledge you come from a very well-off family and you have benefitted from all the privileges that affords. Mere hard work does not Winchester College fees pay!

At 1990 prices?

He's just a bit older than my youngest and I can remember enquiring about private boarding school fees at the time as we thought we might be sent overseas.

They were nowhere near the cost they are now.

Mr Sunak’s time at Stroud (private prep school) cost — an estimation based on inflation rates — a total of £12,794.88

School fees have gone up way beyond the inflation rate.

LizzieDrip

*Mr Sunak’s time at Stroud (private prep school) cost — an estimation based on inflation rates — a total of £12,794.88. Today, a student studying at the prestigious primary school from year 4 until year 8 would have to fork out a staggering £24,665.

After leaving in 1992, Mr Sunak joined the 600-year-old Winchester College as a boarder, where the yearly school fees today amount to £45,936 per year, and £33,990 for day pupils.*

To afford such fees (plus all the other associated stuff) puts Sunak’s parents in the rich category to me.

To be honest I don’t actually care about whether he had a privileged upbringing or not. What really annoys me is the ‘story’ he tells about coming from an ‘ordinary’ background and that his parents could only afford his private education because ‘they worked hard’. Rubbish! Just be honest man - stop trying to be like one of the ‘ordinary people’. Acknowledge you come from a very well-off family and you have benefitted from all the privileges that affords. Mere hard work does not Winchester College fees pay!

Having a GP and Pharmacist as parents, doesn’t make your family circumstances rich , it does put the family in the comfortably well off category.

A GP and pharmaceutical chemist.
Well-salaried middle class rather than super wealthy.

X post, GrannyGravy

Comfortably off.

Fleurpepper

A decent private school boarding fees are about 30.000 a year- but on top of that are many more other expenses, uniforms, trips, some acitivities, etc, etc.

The comment referred to school fees Fleurpepper and not extras. So £120,000 a year seems a lot for a few trips, unless they go to NZ every week, or wear Dior or Versace uniforms.
Joking aside, maybe the figure was plucked from mixing up fees per annum and then multiplying them by 3 terms. I'm sure the bursar would be delighted if that were the case.
But then the usual private school disapproval comments are to be expected when talking about various politicians.

It depends what you mean by "rich". For anybody on minimum wage (or even the national average wage), the fees for Winchester are more than they earn - and I bet they were in the mid 1990s when Sunak went there.

Callistemon21

X post, GrannyGravy

Comfortably off.

A bit more than "comfortably off"!!

Callistemon21

A GP and pharmaceutical chemist.
Well-salaried middle class rather than super wealthy.

Which means they were probably in the wealthiest 10% of households.

There are substantial discounts for siblings, so even if there were 3 of them the £150,000 on school fees per annum is still way out.

growstuff

Callistemon21

X post, GrannyGravy

Comfortably off.

A bit more than "comfortably off"!!

I suggest you tell that to the GP’s who are complaining at the moment about their low pay

No idea about Pharmacists pay.

Private school fees have increased by 550% since the 1990s apparently.

GrannyGravy13

growstuff

Callistemon21

X post, GrannyGravy

Comfortably off.

A bit more than "comfortably off"!!

I suggest you tell that to the GP’s who are complaining at the moment about their low pay

No idea about Pharmacists pay.

So how did they manage then?

I know GPs and I know pharmacists, and none of them could afford Winchester College fees. Not that any of them would even consider it anyway.

It doesn't matter how much money they had, what matters is that Rishi tries to pretend he one of the lads, delivering things on his bike and working as a waiter. Just admit you were well off, Rishi....