New UK PM

[Lilith7]

I rarely read Stuff. They only ever present one half of a story. We don't know how good or bad Sunak will be but obviously his party thinks he's the best they've got and we just have to watch from afar.

How much money he has and what his wife does isn't really relevant to the skills he needs to bring to the job. People aren't automatically evil because they are rich. Quite the contrary in most cases. And if he is out of touch with some of his constituents he may be able and willing to learn. For his wife, it looks like she got her tax structures wrong. She may be in a position where she could end up paying twice which is not fair whoever or wherever you are. Presumably it has been or will be sorted and doesn't really show whether her husband has the right leadership skills to lead the country.

This article also appears in other publications. Agreed that people aren't automatically evil because they're wealthy; & by the same token, neither are people automatically evil because they're poor.

I think his wealth & that of his wife is relevant, since they cannot have any real understanding of the reality of life for most people, & particularly those who are extremely poor. It was after all, wealthy people & those who wanted to be wealthy, who imposed the evils of Neo Liberalism on many countries.

I'd like to think he may be willing to learn but he is a politician, & they're not noted for going out of their way to either learn about the struggle life has become for many, or experience it themselves.

Perhaps every politician should be obliged to spend a part of their time as an elected politician surviving on the lowest income with no extra income permitted; possibly that would help create & maintain, their knowledge of the daily struggle faced by many - too many these days.