O/T:- ⚠️Impressed with the leadership [The UK Party Politics Thread]

[Elite_Pie]

So now Rishi Sunak is pretending to be the injured party:

"Rishi Sunak has said he finds it "very upsetting" that his wife has faced criticism over shares she owns in a tech company operating in Russia. The chancellor compared his feelings to those of film star Will Smith, whose own wife was mocked at the Oscars. But he joked: "At least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good." Mr Sunak's wife Akshata Murty owns shares thought to be worth more than £400m in Indian firm Infosys, founded by her father, Narayana".

So Rishi, we want to hit the Russians hard, unless your wife happens to have a massive fortune operating from there. You must be devastated, maybe someone can start a crowdfunder page to help you through this trauma.

Further to this, Rishi Sunak's wife has now decided to pay UK taxes on her overseas income despite her husband claiming she had been "unfairly smeared" for previously avoiding it. I wonder what caused her to change her mind? Was it a moral decision because she realised it didn't sit comfortably with her husband pretending to care about the damage the cost of living crisis is doing to millions of hard working families, or was she shamed into doing it simply because her legal but utterly immoral tax evasion became public?

Is there any real hardship in paying a couple of million in tax on 'earnings' of ten million?

[Old_pie]

So now Rishi Sunak is pretending to be the injured party:

"Rishi Sunak has said he finds it "very upsetting" that his wife has faced criticism over shares she owns in a tech company operating in Russia. The chancellor compared his feelings to those of film star Will Smith, whose own wife was mocked at the Oscars. But he joked: "At least I didn't get up and slap anybody, which is good." Mr Sunak's wife Akshata Murty owns shares thought to be worth more than £400m in Indian firm Infosys, founded by her father, Narayana".

So Rishi, we want to hit the Russians hard, unless your wife happens to have a massive fortune operating from there. You must be devastated, maybe someone can start a crowdfunder page to help you through this trauma.

Well that's one of the many issues in allowing foreigners into the country isn't it? She was already domiciled (look it up if you are unsure as to its meaning) and wealthy before arriving here. Now through no fault of her own she has folk like you breathing down her neck.

Maybe the "British test" should be stricter, like which international cricket team do you support when England are playing?

[BanjoPie]

Well that's one of the many issues in allowing foreigners into the country isn't it? She was already domiciled (look it up if you are unsure as to its meaning) and wealthy before arriving here. Now through no fault of her own she has folk like you breathing down her neck.

Maybe the "British test" should be stricter, like which international cricket team do you support when England are playing?

I like you OP as you talk common sense

[Elite_Pie]

Well that's one of the many issues in allowing foreigners into the country isn't it? She was already domiciled (look it up if you are unsure as to its meaning) and wealthy before arriving here. Now through no fault of her own she has folk like you breathing down her neck.

At least having "folk like me" breathing down her neck caused the U-turn.

Folk like you can keep tugging your forelock if that's your choice.

[Old_pie]

At least having "folk like me" breathing down her neck caused the U-turn.

Folk like you can keep tugging your forelock if that's your choice.

I notice how you brag on when you've seen a "betting" opportunity where you can't loose. Well I don't call that gambling, it's theft. The only reason you get away with it is that if you put more money in it would be spotted, but of course you'll claim that you are simply operating within the rules. The only difference between you and Mrs Sunak is scale, oh, and she's now reluctantly in the public eye. (Dominic plying his remaining aces again?)

And sorry, I'd love to have some forelock left to tug, and even when I did I never tugged it for anyone.

I recall once an Australian Treasurer state that it was every citizen's duty to pay the minimum tax that the law required, no more and no less. You'd be better suited living in nanny state New Zealand.

Why should a woman have to bend by virtue of the man she marries? I thought we'd moved on from that, but no, you'd like to keep them in their place and then cry bigotry if anyone else did the same. There's a word for that but I can't be bothered to look it up.

[BigFatPie]

I shall answer both questions in a statement that I believe to be true:

Of course Andrew had xes with that girl - there were even messages sent by her to her friends saying that she went to bed with him. The photo is genuine, that cannot be denied but just think about it, at the time he had xes with her, he was a fairly young single guy (separated or divorced) - he met a very attractive young girl who to be fair looked a lot older than 17 so he probably didn’t give a thought about her being under age so, without any doubt I as far as I believe he did have xes with her.

What he did was no more than most of the men on this board would have done (if they are honest - did they check the girls birth certificate) the biggest mistake he made was following the instructions of the lawyers who advised him “you never even met this girl - deny it at all cost”. Had he have come clean and told the truth (despite his so-called legal advice) and said “yes, I did have xes with her, it never even occurred to me she was under age (only in that US state or perhaps a few others?)

Had he have ignored the stupid advice from his lawyers, he would have been able to use the ‘evidence’ of her friend receiving messages saying ‘I got prince Andrew into bed’. Had this have been the case, most people would just have called him ‘Randy Andy” and that would have been the end of the matter. In the end he had to pay the £9m to make the episode go away as it was taking centre stage over the Queens Jubilee year.

Regards Her Majesty having Andrew as her escort, why shouldn’t she, he was her son, Prince Philip was his dad and she probably knows the truth and also about the bad advice.

Thats my take on it. “Long live the Queen and the Monarchy”

Jesus, what a pile of sh!t. Blame the advisers, the same old tune from Tories and the royals and the arselickers who support them. What sort of thick tw@t claims they’ve not met someone when there’s a photo doing the rounds with their arm literally around that person?

As for Sunak, these ridiculous claims that his missus’s finance have nothing to do with him? Try that argument to claim any means tested benefits when your partner(not even your wife) earns over a certain amount. (Edit sorry Ochpie, just saw you’ve said the same thing)

Honestly, the right wing lads on here need to do better, the bollox they talk is getting too easy to point out, it’s getting boring. Up the Republic.

[BanjoPie]

Jesus, what a pile of sh!t. Blame the advisers, the same old tune from Tories and the royals and the arselickers who support them. What sort of thick tw@t claims they’ve not met someone when there’s a photo doing the rounds with their arm literally around that person?

As for Sunak, these ridiculous claims that his missus’s finance have nothing to do with him? Try that argument to claim any means tested benefits when your partner(not even your wife) earns over a certain amount. (Edit sorry Ochpie, just saw you’ve said the same thing)

Honestly, the right wing lads on here need to do better, the bollox they talk is getting too easy to point out, it’s getting boring. Up the Republic.

“Up yours”

[sidders]

“Up yours”

A subtle argument to which there is no comeback.

[ancientpie]

A subtle argument to which there is no comeback.

Seems a typical reply on political threads but without the BS.

[Elite_Pie]

Seems a typical reply on political threads but without the BS.

Maybe, but the thing that concerns me is that we have a Prime Minister who has openly lied to the people who voted him in, and not many of them seem to care. Apathy can be just as dangerous as extremism, but as a nation apathy seems to be the popular choice.