like the queen this thread will never die: in which we ALL resign (ourselves to disgusting miseries to post-boris politics 2022)

The degree of wealth makes him particularly unfit or unlikable? The bootstrap narrative may not be true, but based on the dialogue here, I expect he has encountered racism and wonder if that is an unspoken handicap.

It’s more likely that Sunak will be used to drive home racist policies while criticism of him is defended as racist. It happened with Patel too.

Off the top of my head, Tory MPs Drax and Benton have shitloads of money but nothing like this.

The degree of wealth makes him particularly unfit or unlikable?

Do you think reaction to him has been particularly more vociferous than previous PMs? If you're going by this thread, surely you must realise we would never express anything but contempt for any tory that becomes PM? And indeed most labour people too.

They are all unlikable, detestable even, but the obscene degree of wealth will probably not help when he is enthusiastically enacting policies that will literally kill poor ppl

Sunak was born in Southampton to parents of Punjabi Indian descent who migrated to Britain from East Africa in the 1960s. He was educated at Winchester College, read philosophy, politics and economics (PPE) at Lincoln College, Oxford, and gained an MBA from Stanford University in California as a Fulbright Scholar. While studying at Stanford, he met his future wife Akshata Murty, the daughter of N. R. Narayana Murthy, the Indian billionaire businessman who founded Infosys. Sunak and Murty are the 222nd richest people in Britain, with a combined fortune of £730m as of 2022. After graduating, Sunak worked for Goldman Sachs and later as a partner at the hedge fund firms the Children's Investment Fund Management and Theleme Partners.

Theleme Partners? Was that founded by Aleister Crowley or something?

No doubt Sunak wwill soon be denying all knowledge of a magick money tree

It was highly possible he would never have been elected if he was put to the members against Penny M and I did talk about enjoying his humiliation.

I do think they will be further divided and the vote come election will be even more repressed. The racism will kick in if he is not successful in pulling it out of the bag, as things go wrong.

He will deliver on the promise of a piss5 and coast to victory

looks like the labour party have made Nadia Whittome delete her very mild and inoffensive tweet. ffs.

Theleme Partners? Was that founded by Aleister Crowley or something?

uh, Theleme is from Rabelais. Crowley pinched it, sure, but that was ~400 years later

lit-dork mode off

I did not know that! gargantuan news

Although Rishi Sunak is a Hindu, he will still be able to advise the King on ecclesiastical appointments. Only Jews and Roman Catholics are barred from doing so by statute. 1/3

— Jason Loch 🏳️‍🌈 (@JasonLoch) October 24, 2022

well here is an interesting perspective on this very huuuge victory for representation

Might be awkward if Rees-Mogg somehow becomes PM, which wouldn't surprise me too much as nothing surprises me any more.

Boris Johnson converted to Catholicism while PM.

That's the real reason they got rid of him.

Why did he convert?

It will go back to Cameron/Osborne but how does that operate in the current recessionary environment? At least the UK had shitty levels of growth then.

A reminder (via @jules_birch) of Sunak's stated position on housing policy. He sees the state as a vehicle for increasing home ownership, not providing social housing. This is more Cameron/Osborne territory than Johnson/May https://t.co/tvCCpaXFqw pic.twitter.com/TtaiHuEMi3

— Peter Apps (@PeteApps) October 25, 2022

(xp) fast track to heaven for incorrigible sinners

I thought Blair converted after killing millions of Iraqis?

He did, but waited till he left office.

Boris didn't convert as far as I can tell - he was baptised Catholic and they have you unless you put in a lot of effort - simply getting confirmed as an Anglican doesn't seem to count!

Events dear boy events.

With Rishi Sunak's elevation to Prime Minister a long period of populist chaos in British politics — defined by Brexit, Boris and Corbyn — draws to a close. The next chapter belongs to Sunak, Starmer and their 'sensibles.'

— Ben Judah (@b_judah) October 24, 2022

farewell Jormy Cromblyn and your populist reign of terror

They tried sensible with Teresa May and that didn't exactly work out.

Yup, good call. Even if I was reminded of her yesterday I forgot her again.

Sunak's 'modular building' sounding very much like converted shipping containers rented out by buy-to-let landlords at eye-watering rates. But maybe there's a less sinister meaning!

Sunak seems to be pretty popular with millionaires and billionaires? Or does that not count

From a locked twitter acc:

"On the NS podcast, Rachel explains that Sunak will appeal to young people because he’s young & presents like a tech bro. Ben chips in that young people in red wall areas who do not usually vote will admire his wealth."

maybe if by "young people" they mean "real estate heirs"

This Ben guy seems like his finger is on the pulse.

enough with the fucking red wall the only red wall to care about is the one splattered with tory blood and guts one day

to any officers reading this that was a joke

No cops here

, over.

Just had word, Jacob Rees Mogg has reSIGNED

How many BBC reporters are gonna get suspended for starting a conga line?

Lmao

Lot of people will be cheering Jacob Rees-Mogg’s departure. But he’s a decent man who always conducted his politics in a civil way.

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) October 25, 2022

Brandon Lewis resigned, no doubt to make way for Suella Braverman's triumphant return.

urrrgh

Hearing that Suella Braverman is making a return to cabinet less than a week after being sacked over a security breach.

One govt source even suggests she might be back as home sec, perhaps in return for endorsing Sunak. Bold move, if true.

— Pippa Crerar (@PippaCrerar) October 25, 2022

Tfw they are laughing at us all.

the era of the sensibles is here says Ben Judah, shortly before Sunak appoints Braverman as home sec

Talent pool emptied out and refilled with toxic sludge pumped in by a rogue water company

Labour does not plan to attack Sunak's wealth directly, though it is inevitable some MPs will do so, but party chiefs see that as an obvious trap.

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) October 25, 2022

I've seen several people express the view that tory attacks on Ed Miliband as "weird" were crypto-racist and had a subtext of 'visibly ethnic' (alongside more explicitly racist stuff like the Mail's hit piece on his dad), this seems like a dubious attack line for Labour

sorry, wrong tweet, supposed to be this

But they also believe they can also draw a distinction in their character, with Sunak as a “weird guy” attempting to present himself as slick and Starmer as a reliable “centrist dad”.

— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) October 25, 2022

Starmer is a profoundly weird dude too is the thing.

If anyone is a weird guy...

(xp)

They both talk the same language of tough decisions. Wonder how low the turnout will be.