We all know that Boris was a” bollocks,” well, everyone except the DUP. Though expectations of Boris as a Prime Minister were low, Boris even limbo-danced under that. His saving grace was, you got what was clearly said on the tin. Now Rishi is a different kettle of fish, he weaselled his way to the top job through a coronation, not an election which he would have lost. He promised integrity, honesty, economic credibility, and competence, leaving behind in the dustbin of political history, Truss the Strutless and Crazy Kwarteng. On all counts, he has failed. In his lust for power, he embraced the Truss appointees such as Braverman, Badenoch, Coffey, and Boris appointees such as Barclay.
His recent budget sounded like a scorched earth policy, leaving an even more restricted budgetary landscape for any future government. The budget showed no focus on the climate emergency, little to say on crumbling public services particularly the NHS and nothing to say on an industrial policy. He failed to show how the UK would compete with the Inflation Reduction Act in the US, where the United States government is investing $500 billion in a green energy transition. In the EU, a similar scheme runs into 10’s billions of euros. He prances out Laura Trott, the new Chief Secretary of the Treasury to criticise Labour Plans for a green transition. This includes a £28 billion public investment in partnership with the private sector, to accelerate the green transition which both helps save the planet and will create future jobs.
Rishi’s attempt to spearhead the AI challenge was overshadowed, by him looking like a third-rate Michael Parkinson when interviewing Elon Musk. Rishi seemed in awe of a guy worth 250 times more than him, that is $250 billion. This former private equity guy should have “Stayed in the City” because he has no qualities I would expect of a leader, such as vision, empathy, and integrity. The closest thing to a vision was, that there wasn’t any. The closest thing to empathy was to cut universal credit by £20 per week. The closest thing to economic competence was chanting the mantra “lower taxes” and the imaginary “fiscal headroom.” In terms of integrity, he was caught having his wife, resident in the UK for over a decade, registered as a non-Dom, possibly avoiding £20.0 million in tax and let’s not forget, he brought Suella back into Government, according to ex-Tory Chair Jake Berry, was a serial breaker of the ministerial code.
His performance at the COVID Enquiry was self-assuringly pathetic, using the phrase “can’t recall” 24 times. He also made the feeble excuse that he wiped his WhatsApp messages sent during the Covid because he was not advised to save them. Please remember, this is the guy who was going to bring integrity back into government.
Rishi’s 5 pledges were BS masquerading as policy. He has shown contempt for the North by abandoning the levelling-up agenda, barely repointing the red wall that catapulted Boris to his landslide Tory victory in 2019. The Tory party will be punished when the Red Wall returns home in 2024, after realising that flirting with the Tories was an interesting social experiment but not a relationship based on values.
His election strategy to hold on to power is to embrace culture wars, for this, he has hired Ester McVey, yes, the GB News presenter as wait for it, as common-sense czar. She will focus on an anti-wonkery agenda, the overblown myth of cancel culture, the liberal elite such as the BBC and inevitably on the family, sex, gender, trans rights, and migration. All of this will be music to the born-again New Conservatives. Rishi and his government’s attempts to control legal and illegal migration is an absolute shambles yet, he still believes Paul Kagami can save his political future. The Rwanda scheme which passed the first hurdle in the Commons has left the Tories split on the issue, with the ERG and the New Conservatives on one side and the One Nation Tories on the other signalling trouble ahead. If the objective of the Rwanda policy is to act as a deterrent to those travelling thousands of miles and spending all their savings to escape war and poverty, good luck with that. Please read my blog, control, and click https://grumpyoldbastard870122708.wordpress.com/2023/10/09/small-boatssmall-beer/
This gimmick has already cost £290 and that is £1.45 million for each of the two hundred refugees the agreement caters for. This policy is designed to deter, and the reality is, it won’t, or will the Tory government take a lesson from the IDF by dropping warning notes in Africa, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan, and other war-torn areas of the world. Rishi then flies off to meet his new soulmate, the Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni at a political gathering called the Atreju Festival that up to recently, was a fringe event attended by neo-fascist groups and far-right parties. Rishi by attending the event walks in the steps of great luminaries and thinkers who have graced the event in the past, like Steve Bannon and Victor Orban. He will be making a speech at the event reinforcing his newfound admiration and chemistry between him and Meloni. It is worth noting, that he is the only one of the G7 leaders attending Meloni’s bash clearly, you can judge people by the friends they keep.
He further reminded us of the Brexit referendum, by resurrecting back into government the half-wit who started the whole Brexit debacle. He cancelled a meeting with the Prime Minister of Greece over the Elgin Marbles. He accused the Greek Prime Minister a close ally of grandstanding which very much sounds like a guy throwing his toys out of the pram. As with the migrant issue, this is another rouse by Rishi to garner the votes of organisations like the EDL and stop conservative voters from leaking to the Reform Party.
Rishi also suffers from a form of political Tourette’s, unable to say the word ceasefire, weeks after the massacre in Israel by Hamas and the killing of thousands of children in Gaza by the IDF which is nothing less than collective punishment. He complained about protestors shouting, “From the river to the sea Palestine will be free,” as being antisemitic. However, he failed to complain when Danny Dannon and others within the Netanyahu cabinet, only refer to the Westbank as Judea and Samaria, the intention being not to recognise the Westbank as being occupied which is its status under international law. Many in Netanyahu’s cabinet, particularly the far-right religious fundamentalists believe in their version of the same chant, and it goes like this “From the river to the sea not a Palestinian will be seen.”
Finally, Sunak’s coronation as Prime minister was on the premise, that he was competent, on this count he has completely failed. He should now resign before the men in the suits from the 1922 committee visit him and crawl back into his hedge fund hole, to help the extraordinarily rich avoid paying more taxes and have dinner parties with his friends in secretive right-wing think tanks. One bit of advice to Rishi is to read Darren McGarvey’s book “The Social Distance Between Us” How Remote Politics Wrecked Britain, you might learn something.
Bye Rishi
Suneil Sharma
17th December 2023
The Gob 
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