Local man reaches top rung.

25 October 2022

 

_{Southampton Greens today remarked on the announcement that Rishi Sunak became leader of the Conservative Party and is now taking the helm as Prime Minister in a leadership race that no other Tory  MP  really wanted to put themselves forward in.}

_{After Portsmouth MP Penny Mordaunt and Boris Johnson side-stepped the process, Rishi Sunak’s rise to the top of politics was made good without the need of any further supporting vote.}

_{Katherine Barbour a prominent Green Party campaigner in Southampton felt Rishi Sunak is out of touch with ordinary people and the lifestyles they are leading during one of the worst cost of living crisis since World War 2.}

_{She said, ‘I wish him good luck in sorting out the economy which has nothing but deteriorated since the 2016 vote to leave the EU; that aside we now have the chance to judge him on his future record of success in helping everyone make ends meet while making provision to protect humanity from the devastating effects of climate change’.}

_{Rishi Sunak was born in Southampton; he was mainly educated outside Southampton in a fee paying preparatory school in Romsey and eventually became head boy at the independent boarding school, Winchester College.}

_{As Chancellor in Spring 2020, Rishi Sunak signed off £3m so the City of Southampton could build a memorial to the Spitfire close to Southampton’s water front.}

_{Joe Cox who has stood as a Green Party candidate for the Southampton Bargate ward, many times over the years, likened the gesture as to giving a piece of jewellery to someone in order to gain approval.}

_{He said, ‘In my view Rishi Sunak does have a knack of patting people on the back while handing over trinkets and moving onto the next rung of the ladder. Now he is standing on the top rung it will be interesting to see whether he can keep his balance or whether he  topples off, so creating another vacancy for Prime Minister’.}

In yesterday's Independent the Green MP Caroline Lucas was quoted;  “it was difficult to think of a prime minister with less of a mandate to govern than Rishi Sunak, our fifth in six years – a man who was resoundingly rejected less than two months ago by Tory members”.

ENDS.

Note:
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/rishi-sunak-penny-mordaunt-prime-minister-b2209264.html?link_id=1&can_id=5f0ca57e1407d47268977cf3b17a2a4b&source=email-green-party-morning-briefing-monday-24-october&email_referrer=email_1714767&email_subject=green-party-morning-briefing-tuesday-25-october

 

 

 

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