The rise of Rishi Sunak, the most popular politician in Britain today

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Although his ascent through British politics has been exceptionally fast, he hasn’t quite ‘come from nowhere’. John Rentoul tells the story of the ‘bright boy who would always go on to great things’

t turns out that I know Rishi Sunak’s world, a little. He was married in Bangalore in 2009, because his wife’s family is from there, and her father’s business, Infosys, is based there. I was brought up in the city because my father was a minister in the Church of South India. So Sunak and I are familiar with the three gold lions on the top of the Vidhana Soudha, the seat of the Karnataka state government my father used to call the Banana Soda.

 

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Here we are again RishiSunak we told you we won’t go away until we are treated equally, we are not asking anything we don’t deserve, fix the JRS include newstarterfurlough and make newstarterjustice

RishiSunak BorisJohnson sleep well chancellor with your comfortable life and family. Continue ignoring the suffering families of those you ignore and their sleepless hungry nights.newlyselfemployed will never forget your inhumanity

Not only RishiSunak are you ruining peoples lives under the JRS, you are also jeopardising the economy and companies that are still managing to pay new starters they hired. Surely you want EVERY business in the UK to be as strong as it can be after lockdown? SHAME !!!

Not now he has shown what a greasy pole climber he is.

Please RishiSunak give tax paying New Starters their fare share of the Furlough Job Retention Scheme. How can we follow lock down advice? how can we pay the bill's? How can we put food on the table? How can we survive? Why are we different to everyone else? How can this happen?

RishiSunak BorisJohnson sleep well chancellor with your comfortable life and family. Continue ignoring the suffering families of those you ignore and their sleepless hungry nights.newlyselfemployed will never forget your inhumanity

Is he fuck.

Nah. RishiSunak supports liars who potentially infected us all but insists 1.5 million hard working taxpayers are frauds & feeds their families to extreme hardship & possible suicide. He’s an ugly cruel man newstarterjustice

Says who? His mask is slipping. Those who were blissfully unaware of his broken promises caught a glimpse of the real RishiSunak with his support for Cummings. newstarterjustice wouldn’t be so quick to agree with you. OhRishi

Self employment grant extension ?

Not with the thousands and thousands of new starters excluded from CJRS. He is totally unwilling to look at our solutions and happy to leave families destitute. newstarterjustice RishiSunak BorisJohnson

No furlough as I had the audacity to change jobs on the 1st of march.And I got offered 97p on UC We had no savings of significance. I cant work till 4th july either. So no pay for around 15 weeks. Thanks Rishi. My vote changes to labour, you lost my vote. newstarterfurlough

Who the fuck did you poll to get that result? Rishi Sunak?

Most popular? Dare suggest that Least Despised is probabaly more accurate.

How much did he pay you to write this? He could have paid my furlough instead of deliberately excluding me from CJRS causing me to lose my job that I had already started. He isn't popular in my house plus at least 1.5M others. Wait til he puts tax up! newstarterjustice

A country that lost its values is just a piece of land.

Total incompetence from Conservatives RishiSunak BorisJohnson regarding newstarterjustice, should be held accountable for 500,000+ desperate taxpayers who just changed jobs and get paid monthly!!! Full of false promises THEY HAVE BEEN FORGOTTEN!!! get it SORTED!!!

He is our employer this days!

Not any more. What a difference a day makes, 24 little hours rishisunak

😂😂😂😂😂😂

Respected for giving new starters nothing, he was respected until he made that despicable decision

RishiSunak is responsible for my family having nothing. He has actively ignored us for months, 100s of 1000s of us. He is certainly not popular in my house. newstarterjustice jobrejectionscheme newstarterfurlough iamnotatradeoff leftbehind

INDIAN?

He was popular for about 48 hours until newstarterfulough forgottenltd forgottenfreelancers realised his promises were empty and his cup of care was empty

Was ...... until he backed Cummings

Yr having a laugh

Newstarterjustice beg to differ. We are a huge group of individuals denied help from CJRS as we changed jobs. We were accused of being frauds despite evidence of signed contracts pre-CJRS! Signed mine Jan, Started 2/3 RTI submitted morning of 20/3 before announcement of CJRS

Let me just point out the abject arrogance of a man failing to listen to over a million hardworking taxpayers he's accused of fraud, called collateral damage & defensible victims rather than admit there's a solution Smug & reprehensible are the words to be used newstarterjustice

I mean if you're using Dominic Cummings as a measure of said popularity I'd probably agree 😂 His blatant and complete ignorance of newstarterfurlough is starting to grate though newstarterjustice

Not popular anymore with the newstarterfurlough group. We as hard working tax payers have suffered injustice through this man

Until he starts telling people to pay him back

Popular to who? Because of him REFUSING to change the guidelines surround furlough - more than 500,000 people do not qualify for it. This week will be my second pay date when I receive nothing from my employer. He’s a useless shit bag.

🤣🤣🤣

Is he fuck.

The most popular liar maybe? He has not done his job, he has not been fair, he has been openly discriminative to taxpayers and he can't even answer a question straight. Being popular isn't the same as being liked!!

I think not left with no income because my Crystal Ball was not working and I changed jobs. No income and no answer when he is asked. I have all the proof needed dm me for more info newstarterprotest newstarterjustice newstarterfurlough

A man who helped cause the crash. Fuck him.

RishiSunak biggest mistake this country has ever seen you mean newstarterfurlough

Are you having a laugh....I think not!!

RishiSunak’s dogged determination to avoid reasonable questions regarding deliberately implausible CJRS caveats and continual sidelining of new starters, job changers and seasonal workers has made him very unpopular indeed! newstarterjustice

Tax in March. Contracted in February, employed and spent a month working at Gatwick helping to repatriate the nation on behalf of Rishi’s government just to be told we get nothing 😢newstarterfurlough this man isn’t popular, he’s a monster

Leaving hundreds of without support and unable to access Furlough, UC or JSA? After giving his public word to not leave anyone behind? Come on Independent you are better than this 😕

U clearly made a mistake here calling him popular after hes ignored pleas & continued to leave millions out the JRS. Forcing families into poverty. Then wrongfully defends a man for “taking care of his family” but hes taken away our ability to take care of ours newstarterjustice

His voting records suggest otherwise....

Who says ' he is the countries most popular politician' ?

Rishi Sunak has completely ignored the plight of over a million newstarters. He has completely ignored our pleas for help. Now facing 3rd month with 0 income, 0 UC, 0 JSA. How much further can he push us. He has called us frauds & trade offs. newstarterfurlough newstarterjust

He's a fake - claiming to be compassionate in helping people through hard times - nope - he's saving businesses above all else. That's all tories care about. He could give a toss about people. If he really cared, he would have implemented Universal Basic Income.

Really, not popular with taxpayers left with no income because they changed jobs. 9 weeks with no income and he can't even answer any questions from us. We are not frauds. rishisunak newstarterprotest

Please tell me this is a sick joke? 🤢

Not anymore he isn’t. Backing cummingsgoing, stating how important family is and yet pushing 1.5m into poverty. Nah, he’s no different to the other Quads newstarterjustice

Until his unjustifiable neglect of 1.5 million taxpayers newstarterfurlough and then his foolish tweet yesterday in support of dodgy Dom. He's just another Tory.. Plain and simple.

You are mistaken. He is responsible for 100s of 1000s now not having any income as a result of his inability to understand his own cjr scheme and HMRC process re payroll. newstarterjustice Artwork: _Lonewolf69_

Err not amongst the millions of people unable to access furlough payments because of changing jobs!! So many families destitute and unable to feed their families. newstarterjustice

newstarterjustice people can prove beyond any doubt that they had jobs lined up in Feb, Mar, and April. Offers, contracts, email communication, recruiters information. Don’t leave us behind with no income in these unprecedented times newstarterjustice newstarterfurlough

RishiSunak BorisJohnson sleep well chancellor with your comfortable life and family. Continue ignoring the suffering families of those you ignore and their sleepless hungry nights.newlyselfemployed will never forget your inhumanity

Not only RishiSunak are you ruining peoples lives under the JRS, you are also jeopardising the economy and companies that are still managing to pay new starters they hired. Surely you want EVERY business in the UK to be as strong as it can be after lockdown? SHAME !!!

Please RishiSunak give tax paying New Starters their fare share of the Furlough Job Retention Scheme. How can we follow lock down advice? how can we pay the bill's? How can we put food on the table? How can we survive? Why are we different to everyone else? How can this happen?

Not so sure now after nailing his flag to Cummings post by publicly defending him, saying was doing only any father would do for his child. Insulting to all decent fathers who stuck to the rules of lockdown & thinking doing right by their kids. Were these fathers wrong then?

Won't be so popular when everyone is expected to pay double tax. Even worse when he denies you access to the CJRS because you changed jobs. Why should I pay for a scheme that I was refused me & 1.5M others help when we most needed it? 🤔 newstarterjustice newstarterfurlough

Not any more

Have you heard of newstarterjustice? We're one of the many groups excluded from the CJRS & fighting for newstarterfurlough. RishiSunak is very unpopular with us. We're hard-working people & have been denied vital financial support as we changed roles.

Not sure how that's come about. 1.5M excluded from the CJRS. Some have become homeless, some lost their jobs, some can't afford to feed their families - all because they changed jobs. RishiSunak calls them frauds & tells them to get UC - most awarded £0 UC newstarterjustice

Good guy and for the future !!

Haha! Ok. Very good. What about the thousands & thousands excluded from furlough - despite all the evidence being available - who happened to change jobs at the wrong time?!? newstarterfurlough newstarterjustice

Best person we’ve had around for ages. Excellent work.

He won't be very popular when everyone is paying twice at much income tax

Not since he nailed his colours to Dominic Cummings's flagpole.

More Neo-Liberals being promoted to ensure that the Aristocracy remain in power. DirectDemocracy GiftEconomy

WasHe?

Furlough Boy - his answer to all, furlough, letting some people stay off when they have a job they can go back to, to go parks, gardens, back yards getting pissed, while there is a sincere group who cannot go back like retail and hospitality.

Is he fuck. Snake 🐍 ForgottenLtd

What?

He’s a slimy, slippery snake like everyone else in the cabinet. Don’t let his smile and demeanour fool you.

He is not! He is a liar just like his bunch of cronies!

He's a Tory cretin. The same as the rest of them.

Not in my house

So sick of the MSM writing anti government stories and just rabidly supporting leftie loonies and...oh. Wait. What?!

smoke less crack

Sorry, was this written before he threw his support behind Conniving Cummings?

Popular my ass 🤣 Don’t be ridiculous

Is he, thanks for telling me that the 'yes man' promoted because he promised to do what he was told is worth 5 minutes of my time, I had no idea.

He is not popular round our house mate!!!!

Just what the UK needs ...another Goldman Sachs investment banker

Not since his tweet in support of Cummings.

I wouldn’t say he is the most popular politician he is however one of the best in the Goverment ministers

not for long wait till he takes the scheme out the way. I told him to start taking Bitcoin for the Taxes

After that tweet. .

The most obsequious article of the day.

Until he came out in suppprt of Cummings

“The richest MP in the House of Commons”. That’s going some.

The most popular politician in the UK today is Keir_Starmer. Check the polls

His popularity is on the same level as Hancock, Johnson, Shapps, Williamson and all the other MPs who have shown contempt for the British public by defending the indefensible

Not after this weekend, he’s been playing a blinder looking like the ‘reasonable one’ up til now, turns out just the same as the rest...

Another one of those slimy Cummings apologists

He certainly is not! Bit o propaganda?

Who says?

Why would I think that a vulture capitalist would be a good replacement for LiarJohnson?

Well up to the point he came out and wholeheartedly supported Dominic Cummings that is.

Just stop it. He did fuck all for hundreds of thousands of people and gave precisely zero shits about it.

kimmmmy_k Kim 😭😭😭😭😭 you love this man

Until he opened his mouth and regurgitated the party line on Dominic Cummings. Fail

You’re talking shite!

You’re meant to be left leaning.....

Not after this weekend

The shiniest turd is still a turd

But then he threw it all away by protecting Cummings. So many spineless Tories

For a brief period. Not anymore.

But lacking a backbone.

Oh shit. Is the start of the media putting forward their favourites to oust Boris? We can expect to see more articles like this in the coming weeks.

Not because he has done anything good, but cause he is the least embarrassing Tory?

Wtf

He’s spaffed his career with one tweet supporting Cummings

Not in this house he’s not.

Is he tho....

utter crap Nicola Sturgeon leads the field by furlongs stop fkin lying tory rag....

This is a weird article I thought..then I see it is by Rentoul

Let him get his A levels first though.

This guy?

course he is popular he's just giving away a load of money, isn't that how they all grasp onto power, let's see how people's opinion of him change when he increases taxes, reduces benefits and public services.

May I humbly suggest that NicolaSturgeon is the most popular politician in Britain

Which series of The Apprentice was he on?

turns out being fairly attractive and dressing casually on zoom meetings can only get you so far when you are a government tool.

Another of Cummins snakes -got his job because he would prostrate before Cummins which Javed wouldn’t

Eh?!

Before his Saturday afternoon Tweet. You need fo update the article to be the ‘rise and fall’

Completely lost my respect this week

Just the only one with the cleanest hands.

You missed 'and fall'

He was until his tweet in support of Cummings now he is just another Tory Twunt

It’s handing out free money that’s popular, not Sunak. Taxing us to death to pay it back will be less popular.

He was until he had a spine removal op. 🤡

As of the time of this tweet 12 people in the UK agreed with this article.

who protected Cummings and thought people needed to be 'weaned off' payments during Covid19? Come closer - I'll tell you a secret: HE IS A TORY!

no he's fucking not.

He has to try to stand alone even if that means go against his ‘mates’... many pple believe he can do the job because he can, but been following the wrongdoings and backing up those who clearly wouldn’t care less for the effort thousands keep doing it will kill his popularity!

Most popular? Hardly!

Until he backed cummings

Not for long. Showed his true colours at the weekend.

Dont want this prince charles lookalike he's no good, but the nation loves evil people to cut their own throats!

Politics should not be a popularity contest it should be looking after your constituents. Nothing else

Has the independent suddenly become a rightwing propaganda tool? seems like it.

Friday called, it wants its headlines back.

Not when he has defended & supported Scummings.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 aye ok...

Announcing massive spening plans will do that, not so much if he announces cuts or tax increases. Backing cummings with the copy/pasted statement didnt help either...

Yeah... right.

Anyone can be popular when they're throwing money around.

He shat on Englands pandemic

The what?

As popular as prostititus.

Who did you poll for this His fan club or something? Definitely not 'the most popular politician in Britain today'

Have you been gargling bong water?

This is racist fetishising of a man of colour. Surprised at The Independent.

Did he not support Cummings too?

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