Tuesday 25 October 2022

A little bit of quieter, calmer politics please Rishi Sunak

I don't suppose there's a hope in hell of everyone in Parliament just calming down and getting on with making decisions that will benefit everyone. Labour will be in a tizz because after weeks of crying for a general election they are not going to get it which means they have at least two years of whingeing and bellyaching ahead of them while the one man they hoped wouldn't make it to Number 10 - Rishi Sunak - is now firmly esconsed on Day One of his premiership and looks like surviving until the next election. But let's hope Labour and leader Keir Starmer don't just bash the Tories non-stop for no good reason and allow Sunak to get the economy of this country back to a favourable state. After Boris and then Liz Truss it's a wonder we're not all begging for food in the streets. So please we want sensible decisions, nothing wild, a period of quiet, meaningful politics and no dramas. I realise of course that whatever Sunak does he can't act independently of the rest of the world, and the consequences of the Putin war in Ukraine will continue to undermine almost everything the new prime minister decides. But with Boris's instinctive glamour politics and Truss's unreconstructed back-of-the-envelope econmics gone out of the window, Sunak has the chance to govern this country in a more adult fashion. Here's hoping.

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