100 Days Of Scandal & Failure In Sunak’s Broken Britain












I am old enough to remember a time when a political leader would typically enjoy a honeymoon period. 


Boris Johnson was only 100 days into his leadership when Covid-19 arrived, and Liz Truss’s honeymoon didn’t even get as far as Heathrow before the messy divorce proceedings began.


Rishi Sunak has managed to survive for 100 days as Prime Minister - an impressive achievement when compared to his predecessor - but has the Goldman Sachs Prime Minister improved the fortunes of the rapidly-dying Conservative party? 


In short, no. 


In fact, the Conservatives are as far behind Starmer’s red Tories today as they were the day the disgraced Etonian yeti Boris Johnson departed the top job.


This has absolutely nothing to do with the Labour Party being of any use and absolutely everything to do with the Tory party being utterly shit, of course. 


So it would appear the days of a political honeymoon period have been temporarily suspended until the establishment can get its house in order. 


Whilst the right-wing media are telling you that Sunak may well still have a “narrow path to victory” at the next general election, I would suggest you only need to take a look at the reality on the ground to understand why the Tories are walking into a huge electoral defeat. 


Sunak only had a very small window of opportunity to win back the Tory voters that abandoned the party under the leadership of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. 


But they haven’t returned to the Tory party because they have seen the official opposition morph into a Tory party that sits more comfortably with their right-of-centre views.


Sunak thought it wouldn’t take much more than Suella Braverman and a cabal of fellow hate preachers pointing towards the English Channel as the source of broken Britain’s ills and the Tories would be back on track. 


Instead, the nation turned its attention to a few marquees in a field in Manston, Kent, and the Home Secretary didn’t know what to do. 


Self-entitled Sunak thought not being Boris Johnson or Liz Truss would be enough to see a reversal in the Tories disastrous polling, yet 100 days after taking over from the ridiculous Truss he is leading the Tories to electoral oblivion. 


These important early months in office take on a huge significance for Sunak because they will always be used as a benchmark for successes, or in Sunak’s case, abysmal failures. 


“What failures?”, screams the angry Tory, before telling you we’d all be speaking Russian if Jeremy Corbyn won the general election of 2019. 


Let’s start with the most disruptive and entirely necessary industrial action since the 1980’s, including the largest NHS strike in history and the biggest walkout of ambulance staff in 3 decades. 


Civil servants are striking.

Teachers are striking. 

Rail workers are striking. 

University staff are striking. 

Criminal barristers are striking. 

Royal Mail is striking. 

Physiotherapists are striking. 

Midwives are striking. 


This isn’t just a coincidence but a massive and damning failure of government that the Conservatives must be held accountable for. 


What a damn shame broken Britain doesn’t have a radical opposition that is ready and able to stand by the working classes that have suffered one punch in the guts after another in the name of austerity. 


And what about the very real crisis in the NHS?  You’ve never had to wait so long for an ambulance and you’ve never had to wait so long in A&E. 


Sunak has also faced the resignation of Gavin Williamson due to bullying allegations, and things aren’t looking good for Dominic Raab - a close ally in Sunak’s inner circle - following a string of allegations that he too is a Tory bully.


Nobody is in the slightest bit shocked that Raab has been accused of numerous bullying incidents, apart from Raab himself. I remember Raab when he was describing feminists as “obnoxious bigots”. 


Sunak was said to have been told of Raab’s "unacceptable behaviour" before he put him into cabinet. What does this say about the Prime Minister's judgement? 


And what about Nadhim Zahawi? Yet another elitist freeloader that has been forced to resign in absolute disgrace. 


This has all been happening on Sunak’s watch. 


We want solutions to the cost of living crisis, not pointless interviews with washed up gammon such as Piers Morgan to an audience the size of a gathering for a school nativity. 


It’s blatantly obvious. People are fucking sick of the Tories. They don’t particularly care what the alternative looks like.


Just about managing used to be the worse case scenario for trillions of people, but now it is something to aspire to. Hardship is the norm in broken Britain in 2023. 


It wasn’t that long ago the Tories seemed impossible to beat. Austerity, Brexit, Covid, sleaze, the NHS in crisis, corruption, second jobs, absolutely nothing seemed to be registering with the electorate. 


The beginning of the end for the Conservatives started with a party and a birthday cake ambush and it will end with Rishi Sunak, one of the few politicians I have encountered 


The Tories needed an entire Resus department to give them any hope of long-term survival, not a former hedge fund manager and investment analyst. 


It’s very easy for Sunak to go on a tour of TV studios and tell you how tough the next few months are going to be because they won’t be tough for him, they won’t be tough for any of his ministers, and I doubt very much they will be tough for any of his MPs. 


Let’s be real here. Sunak wears £3,500 suits on a normal day and wears £490 Prada shoes on a visit to a building site in Teeside. Sunak doesn’t, hasn’t, and never will understand what it’s like to struggle. 


I doubt many people would care about Sunak’s £200 coffee cup if he was doing a half decent job, but he isn’t, he’s a disaster for his party and a liability to his country.


Spineless Sunak’s shambolic first 100 days have been clouded by failure, sleaze, corruption and bullying. Very little has changed from the days of Boris Johnson. 


But one thing that has changed is the British public's willingness to afford a honeymoon period to another unelected Tory Prime Minister, and for Sunak, and the wider Conservative party, this is an absolute disaster. 


For the rest of us, it’s bloody hilarious. 


Until next time. 


Rachael 





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