Did anyone else find Sunak extra weird in PMQs?

ronib

Casdon no it’s more likely that he will be staying on in London.

Is it? How do you know?

I think the point is that our perceptions are being filtered through the media and by limiting our contact time to say twice daily online ‘news’ mental health is improved! Also critical faculties….

ronib

MaizieD refrigerators do break down.

I think your bias is showing through- Sunak may well turn the economy around. It’s still early days. I was surprised to hear the view from two friends who no longer watch the 6 or 10 o’clock news. They’re also dropping subscriptions to their newspapers. They agreed that the Uk is in a mess but when in such a hole, Labour isn’t going to be the party to improve the country!! They held no hope at all for the Liberal Party.

Maizie's bias! Try rereading the rest of that paragraph ronib!!!

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Sunak may well turn the economy around.

Oh, go on then, ronib. Do tell us how Sunak is going to turn the economy round.

MaizieD refrigerators do break down.

I think your bias is showing through- Sunak may well turn the economy around. It’s still early days. I was surprised to hear the view from two friends who no longer watch the 6 or 10 o’clock news. They’re also dropping subscriptions to their newspapers. They agreed that the Uk is in a mess but when in such a hole, Labour isn’t going to be the party to improve the country!! They held no hope at all for the Liberal Party.

MaizieD

I don't understand why Sunak is in politics at all. He has shown no interest at all in making the UK a better place in which to live. He is wedded to 'big money' (literally and metaphorically) and serves only the interests of big business and finance. And his billionaire in-laws.

He proves, once again, that a facile 'cleverness' is far from the only quality needed in a Prime Minister.

I can only agree with your first sentence Maizie.

Are these people "clever" though?. It's seems that this "cleverness" is in a very limited area. I just think of the remark in the Covid Inquiry about Boris giving up science at 15.

Sunak is well educated but does that necessarily mean a lust for knowledge and an inquiring mind? They do seem to struggle with more than one thing at a time.

Well I am left wondering how ripe the Stilton will be by the time it reaches India.

It's alright, ronib, it no longer takes 6 months to sail to India and we also have the modern miracle of refrigeration on our side..

So Sunak is following in the tradition of other great British prime ministers - although Tony Blair is hard to beat on the global stage?

At least 'other British prime ministers' had the interests of the UK at heart and did some positive things for the country before they swanned off onto the global stage...

Casdon no it’s more likely that he will be staying on in London.

I agree with MaizieD and maddyone, he’ll be off to Santa Monica (pity it’s not Bel Air, as he reminds me of the Fresh Prince) straight after the election.

And no, he doesn’t strike me as either weird or far right.

Does anyone want Boris back? Thought not.😲
Sunak seems a much better choice all round until the next election.

Well I am left wondering how ripe the Stilton will be by the time it reaches India.
So Sunak is following in the tradition of other great British prime ministers - although Tony Blair is hard to beat on the global stage?

Is Sunak really far right?

I don’t think he is. I think he’s a globalist who is only interested in making a name for himself on the world stage.
I agree with Maizie’s post at 9.50.

I don't understand why Sunak is in politics at all. He has shown no interest at all in making the UK a better place in which to live. He is wedded to 'big money' (literally and metaphorically) and serves only the interests of big business and finance. And his billionaire in-laws.

He proves, once again, that a facile 'cleverness' is far from the only quality needed in a Prime Minister.

DAR ps it’s Sunak’s new economic strategy….

DAR 24 chapters out of 26 have been agreed so far on the Indian Uk trade deal.
Cheddar cheese,Stilton and Scotch whisky as well as electric vehicles seem to be the major goods for export.
If this new deal helps the ailing British economy then that’s great. One sticking point seems to be the number of visas we issue to Indian professionals who want to work here. Although most Indian professionals in my area contribute greatly to the local health system.

I find Sunak weird most of the time.

He reminds me of a keen, young 6th former.

Aveline

I suppose I'm impressed he bothers with the job. No matter what he does nobody is happy. With his money he doesn't have to work at all. I wonder why he does.

He "bothers" with it because it is to his advantage. A trade deal with India will make him and his family even richer than he is at the moment.

Grantanow good point- Sunak is probably smarter than the MPs sitting opposite him too. Best not gild the lily….

I quite like him and he's brainier than many sitting behind him but he must be a born optimist to think the Tories will win the next GE.

I suppose I'm impressed he bothers with the job. No matter what he does nobody is happy. With his money he doesn't have to work at all. I wonder why he does.

He did seem irritated. The financial figures didn't seem thar great. I wonder if that was his problem.

The Spectator described him as tetchy, which I thought too, he is clearly ready for his Christmas break!
www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-did-sunak-sound-so-tetchy-at-pmqs/

Have just watched half of pmqs on iplayer- can’t see that it was any better or worse than other pmqs.
I think it is a very antiquated way of interrogating the government of the day and I wish it could be modernised and made more business like. If anything I thought KS was a bit odd this time around. Also there’s far too much shouting.

140,000 families homeless this year. He was asked about the 11 year old boy who wrote to Santa asking if he could have a forever home and saying he didn't want any new toys just all his old toys out of storage and to be happy again.

Sunak's reply ... ignored the little boy completely, not a word said about him. He just launched into one if his 'they didn't vote with us' small child style tirades. The homeless little boy has more backbone than he does.

Doesn't he realise they don't vote because they don’t agree with his priorities and methods. Or is his sense of entitlement so great that he simply can't imagine that. He seems to know nothing about running a government. Even his own party don't want to vote with him so why would the opposition?

It was shameful.