Stavros
10-25-2022, 02:51 AM
As they lay out the Diwali lights outside No 10 Downing St, the new occupant and his supporters hope this is the end of chaos and uncertainty. Rishi is the 'steady hand' who understands the Markets, he has a grip on the fiscal policy of the UK which saw this country through the Pandemic and which now can tackle the problems of Debt, and Public Spending.
Hmmm....but these problems did not originate with Liz Truss, but Boris Johnson -when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor....and Billions were wasted on schemes in the Pandemic that didn't work, and lost to fraud. But a week is a long time in politics, or maybe 24 hours, and Sunak inherits a financial mess, and a party divided that may give him a lot of Rope right now, but could just as easily hang him out to dry if things go wrong.
Whatever. Some basic facts-
Sunak is from Southampton, a dreary, racist shithole on the Southern Coast with two ferries to the Isle of Wight (East Cowes, or West Cowes, depending on how desperate you are to get away).
His Indian heritage makes him the first Hindu Prime Minister of the UK, and the first from an 'Ethnic Minority' (not Benjamin Disraeli for reasons we won't go into here).
We are told this means the axis of his power base is his links between the UK, India and the US, where he made most of his money -for in addition to the other first, he is also the Youngest Prime Minister since the Napoleonic Wars (which ended in 1815), and also The Richest, his net worth being somewhere in the region of £750 million, small change compared to his wife's family -her father founded Insfosys in India. Does this make a post-Brexit Trade Deal with India a slam dunk? I doubt it.
If anything, it reinforces the 'Atlantic Obsession' the UK has with the US at the expense of Europe, Sunak being a Brexiteer, but with what passion remains to be seen.
That said, his parents were born in Kenya not India, and are part of that wave of 'East African Asians' who either emigrated to the UK in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s (1966 in the Sunak case), or were expelled in a wave of 'Black Nationalist' politics that in the UK gave the Neo-Nazi National Front a cause to champion, while at the same time a Conservative MP, Enoch Powell gave a speech in which he predicted race riots consequent on what Tucker Carlson would call 'Race Replacement'. He was expelled from the Conservative Party a few years later. And many of the 'East African Asians' have done exceptionally well in the UK. As for this 'flood' of immigrants threatening to swamp the UK, it was somewhere around 50,000.
Sunak's father was a GP, his mother a Pharmacist, and they scraped the money together to send their boy to nearby Winchester College, where, guess what?, he became 'Head Boy'. So in addition to being the richest Pm we have had, the first Asian, we have the first Wykehamist to become Prime Minister, though previous alumni have held high office -eg Geoffrey Howe was Margaret Thatcher's first Chancellor. And when he went up to Lincoln College, Oxford, guess what he took his degree in? Yup, PPE.
Anyway, it might be his moment to 'take control' and even repair the damage he has caused, and in doing so repair the Conservative Party's fortunes with the voters. Or not. Too early to say.
Two links which give a reasonable profile of our new P<-
Analysis: Can Rishi Sunak end the chaos and restore Britain's credibility? | CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/24/uk/rishi-sunak-job-ahead-intl-gbr-cmd/index.html)
Everything you wanted to know about Rishi Sunak but were too afraid to ask – POLITICO (https://www.politico.eu/article/rishi-sunak-united-kingdom-liz-truss-britain-latest-prime-minister/)
Hmmm....but these problems did not originate with Liz Truss, but Boris Johnson -when Rishi Sunak was Chancellor....and Billions were wasted on schemes in the Pandemic that didn't work, and lost to fraud. But a week is a long time in politics, or maybe 24 hours, and Sunak inherits a financial mess, and a party divided that may give him a lot of Rope right now, but could just as easily hang him out to dry if things go wrong.
Whatever. Some basic facts-
Sunak is from Southampton, a dreary, racist shithole on the Southern Coast with two ferries to the Isle of Wight (East Cowes, or West Cowes, depending on how desperate you are to get away).
His Indian heritage makes him the first Hindu Prime Minister of the UK, and the first from an 'Ethnic Minority' (not Benjamin Disraeli for reasons we won't go into here).
We are told this means the axis of his power base is his links between the UK, India and the US, where he made most of his money -for in addition to the other first, he is also the Youngest Prime Minister since the Napoleonic Wars (which ended in 1815), and also The Richest, his net worth being somewhere in the region of £750 million, small change compared to his wife's family -her father founded Insfosys in India. Does this make a post-Brexit Trade Deal with India a slam dunk? I doubt it.
If anything, it reinforces the 'Atlantic Obsession' the UK has with the US at the expense of Europe, Sunak being a Brexiteer, but with what passion remains to be seen.
That said, his parents were born in Kenya not India, and are part of that wave of 'East African Asians' who either emigrated to the UK in the second half of the 1960s and early 1970s (1966 in the Sunak case), or were expelled in a wave of 'Black Nationalist' politics that in the UK gave the Neo-Nazi National Front a cause to champion, while at the same time a Conservative MP, Enoch Powell gave a speech in which he predicted race riots consequent on what Tucker Carlson would call 'Race Replacement'. He was expelled from the Conservative Party a few years later. And many of the 'East African Asians' have done exceptionally well in the UK. As for this 'flood' of immigrants threatening to swamp the UK, it was somewhere around 50,000.
Sunak's father was a GP, his mother a Pharmacist, and they scraped the money together to send their boy to nearby Winchester College, where, guess what?, he became 'Head Boy'. So in addition to being the richest Pm we have had, the first Asian, we have the first Wykehamist to become Prime Minister, though previous alumni have held high office -eg Geoffrey Howe was Margaret Thatcher's first Chancellor. And when he went up to Lincoln College, Oxford, guess what he took his degree in? Yup, PPE.
Anyway, it might be his moment to 'take control' and even repair the damage he has caused, and in doing so repair the Conservative Party's fortunes with the voters. Or not. Too early to say.
Two links which give a reasonable profile of our new P<-
Analysis: Can Rishi Sunak end the chaos and restore Britain's credibility? | CNN (https://edition.cnn.com/2022/10/24/uk/rishi-sunak-job-ahead-intl-gbr-cmd/index.html)
Everything you wanted to know about Rishi Sunak but were too afraid to ask – POLITICO (https://www.politico.eu/article/rishi-sunak-united-kingdom-liz-truss-britain-latest-prime-minister/)