First of all you have to go back to PMQs to realise
That Sunak was flummoxed by several of the questions being about failings in the criminal justice system that his party have overseen for the past 13 years
Here's question 1
Here's question 2
Here's question 3
Now you will note in those 3 questions
Rishi Sunak's responses do not answer the questions from Keir Starmer
Questions 4 - 6 of course touched on the issue of Nadhim Zahawi
Here is Q 4
Here is Q5
Here is Q6
The one that Rishi prepares most for because he knows it is the one where he gets to respond without any comeback from Keir Starmer
I want to focus on
"The difference between the right hon. and learned Gentleman and me is that I stand by my values and my principles, even when it is difficult. When I disagreed fundamentally with the previous Prime Minister ... I resigned from the Government"
You have to remember of course the sheer number of ministerial resignations Boris Johnson faced at the end
Eventually at the last
Many of his ministers found some spine and some some courage
And finally admitted (to a degree) they could take no more
Now I could compare Rishi's resignation letter with so many other ministers to inspect the choice of language used as to the WHY they chose to resign
It is fascinating
Imagine you are the Finance Director of a massive company
The Chief Executive has once more tried to get away with a shameless lack of ethics and done something else
not lying to nation
not lying to Elizabeth
not racism
not xenophobia
not pissing on democracy
not unlawfully proroguing Parliament
not interfering into the investigation into a bully
not being AWOL whilst letting rip
not joking of Operation Last Gasp
not locking down late repeatedly
not a PPE lane for party donors
not begging for wallpaper decorating money
not begging for childcare
not begging for holiday villa's
not lying to Josephine
not fostering a work culture so bad you illegally party the evening before the funeral of HRH the Duke of Edinburgh
not protecting Owen Patterson
not passing a treaty no unionist could support
not trying to break a treaty you signed up to
there is so fucking much
so so fucking much
now as finance director
scores of other directors are resigning stating massive ethical issues with the behaviour of the CEO
what do you do?
do you do a Truss and avoid resigning as you don't want to be tarred as a "back stabber" and hope that will carry some weight in the leadership contest to come?
you resign but you cite policy differences as the reason so you can try and claim you didn't resign because of ethical principles
I find Rishi's resignation reason shameless
He knew he had to resign
But he could not bring himself to do so and provide genuine reasons for fear of how they might impact
so he EXPLOITED the massive number of his colleagues resigning to come out with his own resignation with the absolutely pathetic I disagreed with the PM on policy grounds
Fuck off Rishi
and when you get there
Fuck off some more
then having watched a lettuce fuck over a nation for her brief tenure at No10
Rishi was desperate to avoid a leadership contest going back to the party membership because he KNEW he would lose to Penny or Kemi or others
So he stitched it up
With the aid of Suella
All it cost him to buy her off
Was the position of Home Secretary
So to Rishi Sunak
Take your words on principles
And fuck right off
But thank you for being SO UTTERLY FUCKING STUPID
You think that clip from PMQs shows you in a good light
It is WORSE
and to any Tory who says asking questions about the ethical behaviour of ministers and their conduct
Here is Margaret
here is my thread on Rishi and Nadhim Zahawi that I had written prior to PMQs
My questions were not on the ethics of the behaviour of Nadhim Zahawi in this matter
Those words taken from a chat between a poet and a comedian
And now to quote from the below
Its closing warning
" Many, many times since it all happened I have pondered that pair of great maxims, Principiis obsta and Finem respice—‘Resist the beginnings’ and ‘Consider the end.’ "
"it was opposed by the Conservative Government and the Labour Official Opposition but, late in the evening of 28th July 1981, after 13 failed attempts by backbenchers in both Houses, a House of Lords amendment by Lord Nugent of Guildford, succeeded in the Commons. "
"In the first interview, May gave explicit replies to only 14% of Marr’s questions. This contrasts with my previous analyses of 33 broadcast interviews with other British political leaders, where I found an average reply rate of 46%"
"I’m afraid some of our hospitals are falling apart. The Queen Elizabeth Hospital in King’s Lynn, near me – bits of the hospital are being held up by stilts. That is not good enough for patients across the NHS.”