Westminster Politics

Oh feck off you Cnut.



Given you need £1m in investments or £3m in savings to be eligible for a Coutts current account, I would hardly describe it as denying someone access to a basic service.
 
Given you need £1m in investments or £3m in savings to be eligible for a Coutts current account, I would hardly describe it as denying someone access to a basic service.
Basic from where Rishis sitting.

I mean, if you don't have a £1m investment account do you even need a bank account?
 
He's right though. Free speech is the cornerstone of our democracy. We should march on the streets in protest against this... oh.

First they came for the rich racists, and I did not speak out.

Because the rich racists had legislated that my right to protest was no longer legal.
 
This is all the Tories have got, they haven’t got anything else. Shall we make the Tories pay for rebuilding Ukraine due to donations from the Russians or maybe I should send them an invoice for my extra mortgage payments.


 
There's an election around the corner, let's drag this ghoul out because Johnson is washed up and we need to drum up a culture war to keep the establishment parties to the right.

He is a "globalist" btw. Man is a millionaire jet-setting, former investment banker. That's what a globalist is.
 
It's amazing how quickly this government can spring into action and look at changing bank licenses when one of their own is "cancelled", but when it comes to banks and businesses fecking over everyone else it's just met with a shrug and "we understand this is tough but we have difficult decisions to make blah blah sowwy"
 
There's an election around the corner, let's drag this ghoul out because Johnson is washed up and we need to drum up a culture war to keep the establishment parties to the right.

He is a "globalist" btw. Man is a millionaire jet-setting, former investment banker. That's what a globalist is.

This is a story about a threat to class status. No wonder Sunak, himself a social climber, has taken the time out to comment. Which just underlines how politically inept he is. I mean really, if you really want to know what a bad politician he is, you couldn't have chosen a better way to remind people how rich and out of touch he is.
 
This is a story about a threat to class status. No wonder Sunak, himself a social climber, has taken the time out to comment. Which just underlines how politically inept he is. I mean really, if you really want to know what a bad politician he is, you couldn't have chosen a better example
:lol:
 
I guarantee few people are as acutely aware of the British class system, and its in and out groups, than an immigrant's kid put into a public school.
Yes that’s a beautiful example of social mobility. A boy who despite his tough start in life attending Stroud Preparatory School and Winchester College managed to earn a place at Oxford University and somehow battled the odds and found himself among the upper middle classes.

I have a single tear in my eye, lump in my throat and courage in my heart after writing that.
 
I guarantee few people are as acutely aware of the British class system, and its in and out groups, than an immigrant's kid put into a public school.
The guy can't even use a fecking contactless debit card and needs to pose with someone else's hatchback to come across as "one of us". The only thing he knows about working class people is that he doesn't like them.
 
Yes that’s a beautiful example of social mobility. A boy who despite his tough start in life attending Stroud Preparatory School and Winchester College managed to earn a place at Oxford University and somehow battled the odds and found himself among the upper middle classes.

I have a single tear in my eye, lump in my throat and courage in my heart after writing that.
We must mean different things by social climber. I mean someone who is desperate to join a higher class or social group he wasn't born into and might engineer it through connections or marriage. It's not the same as social mobility, it's supposed to be slightly insulting.
 
We must mean different things by social climber. I mean someone who is desperate to join a higher class or social group he wasn't born into and might engineer it through connections or marriage. It's not the same as social mobility, it's supposed to be slightly insulting.
Yes a man that was born into the upper middle classes and desperately climbed his way up to the upper middle classes. We’re talking about the same thing.
 
We must mean different things by social climber. I mean someone who is desperate to join a higher class or social group he wasn't born into and might engineer it through connections or marriage. It's not the same as social mobility, it's supposed to be slightly insulting.
If you mean it as an opportunist, or an arriviste, then fair enough, although I personally disagree, as I think he was born in wealth already.
 
If you mean it as an opportunist, or an arriviste, then fair enough, although I personally disagree, as I think he was born in wealth already.
His dad was a GP his mum a pharmacist so paid enough to send kid to public school but he'd have been one of the poorer kids at Winchester I imagine. Hence his siding with the underdog Farage....
 
So who thinks sunak will still be PM come Monday? Odds quite clear that they've lost all three by elections and so the tory blood letting will be in full force over the weekend...
 
So who thinks sunak will still be PM come Monday? Odds quite clear that they've lost all three by elections and so the tory blood letting will be in full force over the weekend...
He'll still be in.

What he might do is call an early election mind, damage limitation.
 
So who thinks sunak will still be PM come Monday? Odds quite clear that they've lost all three by elections and so the tory blood letting will be in full force over the weekend...

He will stay and there won’t be any energy in the calls for him to be removed because there is nobody else to take over. A complete dearth of talent and ideas. They basically need to be annihilated at the next election so they can do a bit of a reset and figure out how to get back into power.

He'll still be in.

What he might do is call an early election mind, damage limitation.
No chance. They’re losing the next election, what they are doing right now is seeing out all the inquiries and enjoying the grift while they still can. No chance they cut that short.
 
No chance. They’re losing the next election, what they are doing right now is seeing out all the inquiries and enjoying the grift while they still can. No chance they cut that short.
Not sure about that. There was an article in the telegraph the other day about sunak calling an election early to avoid a 1997 type defeat, and it does make sense.

Which tbf means he probably won't do it.
 
Doctors have had a 17% pay cut in real terms since 2010, but have been told a 6% pay rise offer is final, and urged to “think of their patients”. Amazing how tories suddenly find some compassion when it suits them.