{"id":21791,"date":"2022-10-24T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T14:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/?p=21791"},"modified":"2025-02-06T17:21:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-06T17:21:14","slug":"rishi-sunak-yet-another-unelected-british-prime-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garfnet.org.uk\/cms\/2022\/10\/24\/rishi-sunak-yet-another-unelected-british-prime-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Rishi Sunak – yet another unelected pro-Brexit British prime minister"},"content":{"rendered":"

So it seems we have yet another unelected Tory prime minister. In addition to being Britain’s first British-Asian and Hindu PM, and the youngest PM in over two centuries, Rishi Sunak also has the distinction of being our third<\/em> PM in seven weeks! This time there wasn’t even ballot for Tory Party members. He just needed 100 Tory MP’s to support him, and fewer than 100 other Tory MP’s supporting anyone else, and he’s in!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whilst I welcome an Asian as PM, unfortunately it will be used by conservatives to hide the fact that we have millions of people-of-colour who are more likely to be stopped and searched in the street, who are economically poorer and who suffer institutional racism on an almost daily basis. Meantime, Tories will argue, “There is no racism in the UK. We even have an Asian…<\/i>”<\/p>\n

Uniting the Tories?<\/h2>\n

Sunak is a brexiteer that is still in denial about the devastating effect brexit is having on our economy. He also hopes being a brexiteer will appeal to the party’s ERGers, little-Englanders and the other far-right tagnuts that have attached themselves to the Conservative Party. However, he also has the huge disadvantage of being the “wrong colour” for the swivel-eyed pro-brexit loons he wants to appeal to on the far right. Meanwhile EU remainers<\/em> distrust him mostly because he is a deluded liar with pathetic loyalty to the discredited d\u00e9b\u00e2cle that brexit has become. The expression “shot by both sides<\/em>” leaps to mind. So any hopes he has of reuniting the Tories are likely to crash and burn pretty quickly too.<\/p>\n

Sunak and his wife are worth over \u00a3700 million – so he’s hardly in a position to discuss “levelling-up”. His wife did a massive non-dom tax dodge while he watched on. She also received almost \u00a311.6 million in dividends from Infosys \u2013 a business which continued to trade in Russia despite the war in Ukraine. So he is at least as bent and self-serving as Boris. He just presents his dishonesty in a slightly less obvious way. The pro-independence National Scot describes Sunak as “defensive, aggressive and consistently dishonest”.<\/p>\n