Oh Dear Looks Like Labour Are Rattled......

[ToraToraTora]

....and what happens then?
https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/nottingham-mp-deletes-tweet-saying-7743452
...Yep the nasties come out of the wood work. To stand any chance of getting into no 10 Rodders you need to purge the nasties.

[Untitled]

“ Why isn’t his appointment to the highest office a “win for Asian representation”?”

according to the mp this thread is about, what he stands for will damage the community he comes from… she’s well within her rights to say that.

“ Let’s cut to the chase, Ms Whittome’s dislike of Mr Sunak and/or his policies has nothing to do with his ethnicity. It is to do with the fact that he is a successful businessman who has made a lot of money. It simply the politics of envy.”

you’re free to think that if you want but down here in the real world i don’t think there is very much evidence to suggest that this is actually true…. you appear to be attacking the fictional person you imagine that she is.

[ZebuSanctuary]

// the politics of envy. //

Labour MP. Say no more. It was ever thus!

Her claim is unfounded. Totally nonsensical. The Labour whips to their credit, realising her little faux pas ordered she take down the tweet. Too Right!

[Gromit]

Sunak certainly made a lot of money, but I am not sure that he was a successful businessman.
He was employed by various hedge funds before becoming a Director of his billionaire father in law’s Investment firm.

// a victory for all downtrodden, struggling immigrant families //
He was hardly downtrodden or struggling. He was educated at Winchester and was at Stanford in the US when he met his billionaire heiress wife.

[1ozzy]

No jealousy there I hope

[emmie]

of course there is 1ozzy.....

[New Judge]

//...according to the mp this thread is about, what he stands for will damage the community he comes from… //

So I'll ask just one more time, then I'm out unless I get a sensible answer: what "community" is she suggesting he comes from and what does she suggest he stands for that will cause them damage?

[youngmafbog]

Never mind Gromit, you just sit there tapping away in your bedsit while he sits in his mansion running the country.

The man has done well, however you cut it.

[Untitled]

i think i already answered that newjudge... she was speaking about him not as a constituency mp, but as a person who represents british-asians in politics by virtue of being one of them. I am sure that you cannot have missed the celebration of his selection by numerous people for this reason.

she is expressing disagreement with that point of view because of what he stands for... she thinks his ideas are only going to cause damage to british-asians.

it really isn't hard.

[Untitled]

In terms of damaging ideas: he stands for severe cuts to public spending which will damage vulnerable people and has spoken about removing funding intended to assist deprived urban areas... that is not contained in the tweet but i would guess that is what she is alluding to

[Untitled]

there is nothing wrong with doing well but there is something wrong with pretending you weren't lucky

[ToraToraTora]

untitled: //it's a legitimate position for a political opponent to take. Her point is that she thinks his policies will do a great deal of harm to the community he represents... there is nothing "nasty" about that// - yes it's legitimate opposition so why mention ethnicity. She's basically saying he's not a proper Asian because he's a Tory.

[naomi24]

untitled, //there is nothing wrong with doing well but there is something wrong with pretending you weren't lucky//

Do you believe that success only comes as a result of luck?

[Untitled]

i think you might be reading something that isn't there toratoratora... she's just disagreeing with celebrating his ethnicity because she thinks he will be bad for British Asians who are not extremely wealthy... which is most of them.

I don't agree personally - i do think it is a welcome precedent for an Anglo-Indian to become PM. But it isn't nasty to say what she is saying...

[Untitled]

largely yes i do naomi... even if it doesn't feel like luck.

[10ClarionSt]

Spicerack @ 17.16:

//Silly girl. Rishi's appointment is a victory for all downtrodden, struggling immigrant families.
And a salutary lesson for the Neanderthals who refused to praise diversity.//

Does that include BLM? With the appointment of Sunak, where is the credibilty for BLM?

[naomi24]

untitled, you're insulting millions.

[10ClarionSt]

The avatar from TTT is really funny. He voted against Sunak in favour of Truss only a few weeks ago. Never mind Truss being a flip-flop. AB's own Mr Flip-Flop is right there!

[naomi24]

Clarion, you're being silly. Truss is no more. Politics has moved on and so has TTT.

[youngmafbog]

//largely yes i do naomi... even if it doesn't feel like luck.//

And thats why you are there in your mums basement tapping on AB while Rishi runs the country from his pile.

Still its a typical leftie attitude from someone who has clearly never tried to seriously run any tyoe of business.

[youngmafbog]

Change the record 10C, TTT has explained why.

It really is quite simple, so you are either being very argumentative for arguments sake or you are thick as a plank. I suspect the former.