It is hard to recall someone becoming a Cabinet Minister with so little political experience and to find himself in 10 Downing Street after just seven years in the House of Commons is unprecedented. He’s a one-man band of mediocrity at a time when so much more was needed after the disastrous years post Brexit and, it seems, a slow learner.
Sunak entered Parliament in 2015 with only the most superficial experience in politics. By no stretch of the imagination could he have been called a politician. His life had been privileged by his education and his high, but extremely narrow, abilities. His intellect is strong and he applied it well to have a successful and extremely well-rewarded career in Finance. But it is clear that he never wandered outside of his comfort zone.
Sunak was parachuted into William Hague’s safe Yorkshire seat. This is not the Yorkshire of the red wall but, generally, of wealth and advantage. He had no social intelligence when he arrived as a carpetbagger in the North of England and he gained none in leafy Richmond. In normal times Sunak would have been a backbencher for five years or more learning the politician’s trade. Then he might have got a junior ministerial job and gradually worked his way up if he performed well. But these are not normal times.
The best politicians have backing in the Party, their constituency and the country. But there are no “Sunakites” mainly because nobody has a clue what he stands for.
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I grew up in the Yorkshire Dales my family was a long line of farmers going back into the mists of time. As a young man, I used to visit the Richmond Conservative Club every Friday night. The reason was they served the best pie and peas found anywhere and Theakstons Old Peculier. We played snooker with the great and good of the constituency including Sir Tim Kitson the MP who had the seat for donkeys years. William Hague succeeded him and was a good MP and is a decent man.
Appointing Sunak to the constituency and as you rightly said ‘parachuting him in’ from nowhere seems to have been a bit of an aberration by the Party. I suspect it was done because of a need to appeal to the incomers of the constituency who have moved into the towns over recent years and might be tempted to vote Labour. The constituency is enormous and very diverse.
I struggled to believe Sunak would be very popular until I read that each year he holds a lavish garden party at his mansion at Kirky Sigston where the good folk of the area can eat and drink to their heart and stomachs are replete. Yorkshire folk have an old saying ‘Out for nowt tek it for the sel’.
Sunak has that Uriah Heep quality of subservience. You see it whenever he meets anyone. He hasn’t the faintest idea of how to relate to ordinary people. Or perhaps more importantly world leaders. He’s a non-entity, a lightweight in a heavyweight contest.
Sunak has absolutely no idea how to run the country either. He is certainly not PM material. An investment bank perhaps but the country needs an honest political leader with a hinterland.
Starmer fits the role perfectly. It needs to happen soon before any further unrepairal damage is done. Britain and its people need to be rescued from this appalling government.
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