Rishi Sunak - Prime Minister

[Unreal]

p1stonhead said:

How on earth Sunak kept his seat is beyond human understanding.

You'd have to ask the people that voted for him.

My suspicion would be that he had done a good job locally and isn't blamed for all of the turmoil of the last fourteen years. We're told Labour need 10 years to sort things out. What was Rishi supposed to have managed in under two trying to run a party in disarray. He may have had failings and but I don't think he deserves to be judged too harshly.

[turbobloke]

Unreal said:

p1stonhead said:

How on earth Sunak kept his seat is beyond human understanding.

You'd have to ask the people that voted for him.

My suspicion would be that he had done a good job locally and isn't blamed for all of the turmoil of the last fourteen years. We're told Labour need 10 years to sort things out. What was Rishi supposed to have managed in under two trying to run a party in disarray. He may have had failings and but I don't think he deserves to be judged too harshly.

It's only beyond understanding for a select few,

[EmBe]

Unreal said:

p1stonhead said:

How on earth Sunak kept his seat is beyond human understanding.

You'd have to ask the people that voted for him.

My suspicion would be that he had done a good job locally and isn't blamed for all of the turmoil of the last fourteen years. We're told Labour need 10 years to sort things out. What was Rishi supposed to have managed in under two trying to run a party in disarray. He may have had failings and but I don't think he deserves to be judged too harshly.

Richmondshire resident here - it's been a solid Tory seat for generations (was William Hague's before Rishi) and locally Rishi is quite well liked. As a new MP he was very helpful to my family on the subject of medication for sufferers of Cystic Fibrosis (my daughter has CF) and others report the same. He turns up to local events, even as PM and interacts with people, most people round here have either seen or spoken to him.
I think he's been a poor chancellor and PM, but the wider party is a shambles.

Personally I didn't vote for him, I voted Independent but I would wager he kept his seat because a) He's fairly well liked as an MP, b) Labour didn't target the seat (they sent a ginger 12-year old from Hoxton - Yorkshire people don't like 'incomers' and c) Put a blue rosette on a pig and a reasonable proportion of people round here would vote for it

[fourstardan]

Sunak still doing a victory speech when he's lost.

Will this plonker never ever realise his downfall.

[Bonefish Blues]

fourstardan said:

Sunak still doing a victory speech when he's lost.

Will this plonker never ever realise his downfall.

Dear Rishi, it wasn't about tax you prick. Hugs and kisses, The Electorate.

[bitchstewie]

I think that was a pretty good speech by Sunak to be honest.

Too little too late and a bit more of that earlier on and who knows.

Nice touch about Starmer at the end.

Reminded me a bit of what McCain said when he was asked about Obama.

[S600BSB]

Super speech.

[President Merkin]

I loathe the guy but this is fairly magnanimous & positively Churchillian compared to Johnson's.

[ChevronB19]

A lot of the ‘kindness/decency’ comments he made seem to be aimed at the ‘don’t go down the reform road’.

[Petrus1983]

Awesome speech. He's right to stand down as leader - but I respect him for doing it in a timely fashion.

[Bonefish Blues]

Was this the 'leaving downing street' speech? I was commenting on his earlier concession one.

[768]

Now that he's gone (just about), we can get on with the proud tradition of finding out that the next PM is the worse than the last one.

[redrabbit29]

Agree, I thought it was a good speech, humble and dignified.

[Rufus Stone]

I missed it, did he say he was proud of stopping the boats and sending people to Rwanda?

[98elise]

Good speech I thought.

[anonymoususer]

Rufus Stone said:

I missed it, did he say he was proud of stopping the boats and sending people to Rwanda?

Never mentioned it but with everything seemingly on the up and looking rosy perhaps he didn't feel the need amongst the triumphs he listed

[coldel]

What I want to know is are his kids going to do national service and get enlisted

[B'stard Child]

768 said:

Now that he's gone (just about), we can get on with the proud tradition of finding out that the next PM is the worse than the last one.

Nothing is going to dampen my mood today - Liz Truss losing a 26,000 plus majority in a blue heartland

fking Brilliant

[carlo996]

As poor a job as I thought he did, that was a good speech.

[Bonefish Blues]

B'stard Child said:

768 said:

Now that he's gone (just about), we can get on with the proud tradition of finding out that the next PM is the worse than the last one.

Nothing is going to dampen my mood today - Liz Truss losing a 26,000 plus majority in a blue heartland

fking Brilliant

And watching her lose it with consummate lack of grace, too. The measure of the woman.