After the non-election, the backlash. Voters react to Rishi Sunak as prime minister
Rishi Sunak: yes, it’s this shot yet again. Still, he’s prime minister now. I’ll probably get some new ones in. Hopefully they’ll make him look just as daft.
The UK now has a prime minister whose value, taken in tandem with his wife’s, is greater than that of the King. What is he going to know about tackling the cost-of-living crisis?
Not a lot. At least, that’s the fear going around the social media right now. And who can blame people?
The information on which they’re relying is accurate – and incidentally makes a nonsense of any claim that we should applaud the elevation of a non-white Hindu to the highest office in the land.
See for yourself:
Rishi Sunak fined by the police this year, boasted of having no working class friends & switching funding from deprived areas to the rich, is now set to be the UK’s first billionaire PM.
The elite are back in charge.
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) October 23, 2022
Rishi Sunak is proof to all little South Asian kids that if your parents send you to £46k pa Winchester College you become a banker and profit millions from financial crash that led to 300k dying from austerity and throw other POC under the bus you too can be PM. Inspirational 🥺
— 🇧🇧🏳️🌈 / 🆓🇵🇸 m a r c u s (@marcusjdl) October 23, 2022
Let me get this right. The near-billionaire ex-Goldman Sachs analyst son-in-law of a billionaire that was part of a hedge fund group that launched with $700m and who is easily the richest member of the House of Commons is going to help us through the cost of living crisis?
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) October 24, 2022
Rishi Sunak and his wife sit on a fortune of £730,000,000.
That’s around twice the estimated wealth of King Charles III.
Remember this whenever he talks about making “tough decisions” that working class people will pay for.
— Nadia Whittome MP (@NadiaWhittomeMP) October 24, 2022
Ask yourself why would a man worth £730M want a job that pays £164K per year? 🤔 #RishiSunak
— The Left Wing Society 🇵🇸 (@LeftWingSociety) October 24, 2022
Whatever side you're on, whatever your ethnicity, this is truly a historic moment.
The UK has its first Goldman Sachs Prime Minister.— Aditya Chakrabortty (@chakrabortty) October 24, 2022
The next two should be taken together:
Politics aside, I want to congratulate Rishi Sunak on making history today as Conservative leader and soon to be Prime Minister.
— Sadiq Khan (@SadiqKhan) October 24, 2022
Politics aside, one has to acknowledge that Sunak sends a powerful message to people of colour – if you go to public school, amass a fortune, become the richest MP in parliament and with your wife have a joint asset worth larger than the King’s, you too can become prime minister.
— Nesrine Malik (@NesrineMalik) October 24, 2022
Rishi Sunak is becoming Prime Minister. His family is loaded so caviar and lobster on the menu for me from tomorrow.
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) October 24, 2022
Tories will have a brief sigh of relief but
a) the cost of living crisis is real
b) the Tories’ mismanagement means a £30-40bn hole in public finances
c) a very wealthy man with no common touch imposing austerity on ordinary families will soon jar horribly— Chris Bryant (@RhonddaBryant) October 24, 2022
No one voted for this. pic.twitter.com/thT78wdXuf
— The Labour Party (@UKLabour) October 24, 2022
https://twitter.com/withorpe/status/1584554990311329793
In just thirty seconds, this construction worker from Wakefield provided analysis of Rishi Sunak’s coronation that was more incisive and even-handed than anything the BBC has ever produced in its entire history.
Whoever put this guy on TV is 1000% getting sacked. pic.twitter.com/lahlzTRzB9
— Women for Wes (@Women4Wes) October 24, 2022
https://twitter.com/TheMendozaWoman/status/1584614011693576192
You said a lot there, Kerry-Anne!
And there’s a brutal, Tory winter on its way.
Have YOU donated to my crowdfunding appeal, raising funds to fight false libel claims by TV celebrities who should know better? These court cases cost a lot of money so every penny will help ensure that wealth doesn’t beat justice.
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