Sunak 100 Days In Office

[Gromit]

A bit of a shitshow.

// 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. //

[douglas9401]

'Well at least' will be along to defend the indefensible shortly.

[ichkeria]

I dont think Sunak is all that bad. Probably the first “sensible” PM we’ve had since Theresa May.

But he’s got a pretty impossible job. The Tories have morphed into a rather fractious English Nationalist version of themselves. They need a period in opposition to try and regenerate.

[lankeela]

Damned if he does and damned if he doesn't! How can sacking Zahawi be seen as being weak? Surely that is being strong and standing up for what he believes in?

[naomi24]

Theresa May was sensible? Wow! Who knew?

[Gromit]

He was weak because his party colleagues had been urging him to sack Zahawi for days.

10 days ago at PMQs he said Zahawi had answered all the allegations against him and Sunak fully accepted that. He again ignored calls for him to sack Zahawi at this week’s PMQs.

It was only after it became inevitable that he would have to go, did Sunak reluctantly act, too late and the damage to his and the Party’s reputation, had been done.

[Hymie]

For all her faults, Theresa May negotiated a very good Brexit deal, certainly the best we could have hoped for - which would have been nowhere near as disastrous as Boris’s.

But her MPs rejected it by a narrow margin – the rest is history.

[ToraToraTora]

May surrendered to a Brino deal. That would have been a betrayal of democracy.

[naomi24]

Give over, hymie! So good she couldn’t even get it past Parliament!

[david small]

I agree with naomi24 re Theresa May. She was on the fence so long she now has permanent notches on her bottom.

[ichkeria]

It’s ironic that it was Brexit that largely did for Labour at the last election and yet it’s the Tories that are now paying the penalty.
And the arguments still rage as the above exchanges illustrate.

[youngmafbog]

//He was weak because his party colleagues had been urging him to sack Zahawi for days.//

No, he would be weak if he capitulated to every MP demand. I cant imagine Sir Kier doing that either and he would be right.

Far better, in this sort of case, to gather the facts and then make a call rather than knee jerk. It has also given the Tories a head start on a new chairman.

Whatever he did would be wrong in your commie eyes anyway gromit so who cares what you write, well apart from sensible labour voters I suppose.