Rishi

 

An hour before I heard about Sunak calling a General Election I’d read his speech at Policy Exchange on Security  the previous week.

JFW  :facepalm:  I think the medical model is overused but the first word that sprang to my mind was “pathological”.
“axis of authoritarian states ...blah blah ... undermine our values.”
Fear of war in Europe.
“War in the Middle East as Israel defends itself ....barrage of missiles fired ...directly from Iran.” 
“Iranian proxies are firing on British ships in the Red Sea “Putin cut off the gas supplies....”
“Countries like Russia are weaponising immigration ...”

And a load more of “Russia bad and China bad” etc etc.

I’m in awe of how uninformed he, publicly, is.   Everyone knows Israel’s declared policy is the elimination of the Palestinians.  That the Pals are a people under occupation against whom Israel has no “right” to defence.  And it’s an unequal conflict.
That Iran’s attack was a response to Israel blowing up its Consulate and assassinating its officials.
That the Houthis are attacking shipping heading to Israel in an attempt to prevent the genocide of the Palestinians.

As for “Putin cut off the gas supplies....”  Chrissakes !!  The EU sanctioned Russia including not buying any more of their gas.  Even Joe Biden said so and, with the German Chancellor beside him, said the Nordstream pipeline project wouldn’t go through.
Shortly after, the pipelines got blown up but no one, officially, has said by whom.  Ahem.

Freedom of speech is threatened, the streets are choked with antisemites blah blah blah.

I haven’t watched the vid of this speech.  His brains must be dripping out of his ears.


I was sympathetic to Sunak when he got in.  It was a shit situation, even though he’d been part of it, but there was no one else to do it.

I’d’ve expected before he got the gig that he knew what was involved.  And, if not before, someone would have briefed him.
You gotta toe the line if you don’t want to end up in a  Kevin Taylor situation or, if you’re not that lucky, succumb to a sudden heart attack while on a hill walking holiday.  


Anyway, the week before, he looked to be having a nervous breakdown.  That or early dementia. 
There are various suggestions for why he’s gone at this time.  I’d like to think it was because he realised he was eligible for an ICC arrest warrant for the collective punishment of the Palestinians when he cut off aid to UNRWA.  He needs to skip to the USA or some other non ICC country asap.
But I don’t think he’s that aware.

More likely are the inflationary pressures when he's pegged his "success" to bringing down inflation.  Food prices are going up as the weather's wrecked harvests.  And the renewal of fixed term mortgage packages are going to double the repayment costs for nearly a million homeowners.


Everyone I’ve spoken to does think he’s gonna skip the country after the election.