The Sin Bin • Re: PM in Intensive Care...
Sal Paradise wrote:
Its the one bonus of being the top man - someone takes the bullet for you. Johnson has served his purpose for the Tories, he killed the hard left Labour Corbynites in one night - never to be seen again. I would not be surprised if he steps down through ill health and allows Sunak to take over. He will certainly give Starmer a run intellectually/gravitas wise a run for his money.
One of the problems the Tories made and it was probably a left over from the GE - they put too many eggs in the NHS basket at the cost of everything. It worked the NHS coped really well sadly the care sector suffered.
Do you think that Sunak will still be a front bench politician when the Government have to balance the books.
All that he's done so far is to open the country's wallet and boy, has he opened it.
Spending at a rate never witnessed in peace time.
If he gets through this one, with borrowing under control, he will probably be made king, never mind Prime Minister.
It's far more likely than Boris will use him as a fall guy and tell the country how he "trusted him to get us through this", as he eases him aside for yet another one of his cronies.
I was always told that it's easy to spend money and that anyone could do it, much more difficult to achieve the same results on a budget and he's certainly not sticking to any budget but, there will be a day of reckoning at some point and then we will see, not only how good the Chancellor is but, also how good Boris is under severe fiscal pressure and most importantly, there wont be the get out clause of the last 10+ years, where every difficult decision was blamed on Labour - I'm looking forward to it.
Statistics: Posted by wrencat1873 — Fri May 15, 2020 2:16 pm