• [UK Democracy] The 100-day test for new leaders and why Rishi Sunak is

    From ltlee1@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jan 29 06:35:41 2023
    Latest Poll result on Rishi Sunak and his party,

    https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/favourability-towards-rishi-sunak-january-2023-ipsos.jpg

    Why Rishi Sunak is getting poorer rating? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/29/the-100-day-test-for-new-leaders-and-why-rishi-sunak-is-flunking-it?

    Actually, Rishi Sunake did not get high rating from the beginning. He was "elected" or given the job due to spectacular failures of Mad Queen Liz and Bad King Boris.

    "Tory MPs gave him the top job in reaction to the manic chaos generated by his predecessors and he sold himself as the doctor who would cure the maladies that Liz Truss and Boris Johnson had inflicted on the country. He would restore confidence in the
    government’s fiscal competence after the lunacies of the brief reign of Mad Queen Liz and rebuild trust in the government’s ethical integrity after the moral squalor presided over by Bad King Boris. "

    Rishi Sunake's performance:
    "On the first mission, Mr Sunak has succeeded to the limited extent that financial markets think Britain is now under more reliable management, but at the price of jacking up taxes to an even higher level and while presiding over waves of industrial
    unrest the like of which we’ve not seen in this country for decades."

    But he performance is disappointing over the UK government's integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.

    "Mr Sunak’s 100th day in office will be marked with the Tories once again swirled in a poison cloud of allegations relating to rule-breaking, conflicts of interest, bullying of officials and money, all so horribly familiar from the Johnson years. We
    are not talking about the misdeeds of some miscreant backbenchers that Tories can try to shrug off as unrepresentative of the party as a whole. Those under investigation are the chairman of the Tory party, the Conservative-appointed chairman of the BBC
    and the deputy prime minister.

    The latter, Dominic Raab, is the subject of an investigation by Adam Tolley KC into many formal complaints that he mistreated officials in several departments. The public appointments commission is looking into Richard Sharp, the BBC chair and Tory donor,
    who was put forward for the role at the broadcaster by Mr Johnson only weeks after Mr Sharp facilitated discussions about securing an undisclosed £800,000 loan for the then prime minister with a Canadian multimillionaire as the guarantor. After terms
    were agreed, the three men reportedly dined à trois at Chequers. ..."

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  • From stoney@21:1/5 to All on Mon Jan 30 01:23:54 2023
    On Sunday, January 29, 2023 at 10:35:42 PM UTC+8, ltlee1 wrote:
    Latest Poll result on Rishi Sunak and his party,

    https://www.ipsos.com/sites/default/files/inline-images/favourability-towards-rishi-sunak-january-2023-ipsos.jpg

    Why Rishi Sunak is getting poorer rating? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jan/29/the-100-day-test-for-new-leaders-and-why-rishi-sunak-is-flunking-it?

    Actually, Rishi Sunake did not get high rating from the beginning. He was "elected" or given the job due to spectacular failures of Mad Queen Liz and Bad King Boris.

    "Tory MPs gave him the top job in reaction to the manic chaos generated by his predecessors and he sold himself as the doctor who would cure the maladies that Liz Truss and Boris Johnson had inflicted on the country. He would restore confidence in the
    government’s fiscal competence after the lunacies of the brief reign of Mad Queen Liz and rebuild trust in the government’s ethical integrity after the moral squalor presided over by Bad King Boris. "

    Rishi Sunake's performance:
    "On the first mission, Mr Sunak has succeeded to the limited extent that financial markets think Britain is now under more reliable management, but at the price of jacking up taxes to an even higher level and while presiding over waves of industrial
    unrest the like of which we’ve not seen in this country for decades."

    But he performance is disappointing over the UK government's integrity, professionalism and accountability at every level.

    "Mr Sunak’s 100th day in office will be marked with the Tories once again swirled in a poison cloud of allegations relating to rule-breaking, conflicts of interest, bullying of officials and money, all so horribly familiar from the Johnson years. We
    are not talking about the misdeeds of some miscreant backbenchers that Tories can try to shrug off as unrepresentative of the party as a whole. Those under investigation are the chairman of the Tory party, the Conservative-appointed chairman of the BBC
    and the deputy prime minister.

    The latter, Dominic Raab, is the subject of an investigation by Adam Tolley KC into many formal complaints that he mistreated officials in several departments. The public appointments commission is looking into Richard Sharp, the BBC chair and Tory
    donor, who was put forward for the role at the broadcaster by Mr Johnson only weeks after Mr Sharp facilitated discussions about securing an undisclosed £800,000 loan for the then prime minister with a Canadian multimillionaire as the guarantor. After
    terms were agreed, the three men reportedly dined à trois at Chequers. ..."

    Much of the gain is from the leftover of Liz. Some more time to see how other issues will be eventuated with results.

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