• Publish Your article
  • Editorial Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Advertise
Saturday, June 3, 2023
  • Login
No Result
View All Result
Birmingham Times
  • Home
  • UK News
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Entertainment
    • All
    • Sports
    Childcare funding will be paid upfront to poorer working parents in win for The Sun’s campaign

    Childcare funding will be paid upfront to poorer working parents in win for The Sun’s campaign

    I was a star international athlete known for being a hardman – but I moved hundreds of miles away for very different job

    I was a star international athlete known for being a hardman – but I moved hundreds of miles away for very different job

    Horror moment daredevil shatters his legs as base jump goes badly wrong leaving him stuck on a mountain for 17 hours

    Horror moment daredevil shatters his legs as base jump goes badly wrong leaving him stuck on a mountain for 17 hours

    Former European champs Wasps demoted to BOTTOM of English League pyramid after having Championship licence revoked

    Former European champs Wasps demoted to BOTTOM of English League pyramid after having Championship licence revoked

    My son’s grandparents smoke while babysitting him but my husband won’t back me

    My son’s grandparents smoke while babysitting him but my husband won’t back me

    TikTok Women’s Six Nations preview as England expected to run riot against winless Ireland

    TikTok Women’s Six Nations preview as England expected to run riot against winless Ireland

    Britain’s Got Talent in fresh fix row as Golden Buzzer act was on huge rival talent show – and fans are fuming

    Britain’s Got Talent in fresh fix row as Golden Buzzer act was on huge rival talent show – and fans are fuming

    England seal stunning Six Nations Grand Slam with incredible 38-33 win over France in front of record crowd

    England seal stunning Six Nations Grand Slam with incredible 38-33 win over France in front of record crowd

    I’m a gardening guru – the perfect accessories to glow up your outdoor space including B&M & Dunelm bargains

    I’m a gardening guru – the perfect accessories to glow up your outdoor space including B&M & Dunelm bargains

  • Lifestyle
    • All
    • Fashion
    • food
    • Health
    • Travel
    Woman in white robe holding toothbrush with paste.

    The Importance of Daily Brushing for Optimal Oral Health – National Smile Month UK

    Revolutionize Your Health: Support Omega 369 – The Ultimate Wellness Breakthrough!

    Revolutionize Your Health: Support Omega 369 – The Ultimate Wellness Breakthrough!

    I’m a single mum & nurse & did a food shop in Tesco – it’s soul destroying putting the food away, I barely got anything

    I’m a single mum & nurse & did a food shop in Tesco – it’s soul destroying putting the food away, I barely got anything

    What is skiplagging, and why are airlines not happy about it?

    What is skiplagging, and why are airlines not happy about it?

    My easy, cheesy recipe is so fun for a quick midweek meal – it’s only 3 ingredients, the crowd will go crazy for them

    My easy, cheesy recipe is so fun for a quick midweek meal – it’s only 3 ingredients, the crowd will go crazy for them

    London-themed resort in China has Big Ben, Abbey Road and double-decker buses

    London-themed resort in China has Big Ben, Abbey Road and double-decker buses

    I cleared the shelves of a 19p Farmfoods favourite – I’m trolled but if I hadn’t nabbed them someone else would’ve

    I cleared the shelves of a 19p Farmfoods favourite – I’m trolled but if I hadn’t nabbed them someone else would’ve

    The best way to see Crete? Get away from the tourists – here’s how…

    The best way to see Crete? Get away from the tourists – here’s how…

    I visited the ‘world’s poshest McDonald’s’ – it’s got fancy sculptures & little espressos

    I visited the ‘world’s poshest McDonald’s’ – it’s got fancy sculptures & little espressos

    6 things you should definitely do on a long weekend away in Athens

    6 things you should definitely do on a long weekend away in Athens

    Trending Tags

    • Golden Globes
    • Mr. Robot
    • MotoGP 2017
    • Climate Change
    • Flat Earth
  • Health
  • Opinion
  • Tech
  • Science
  • Travel
  • Real Estate
  • Sports
  • More
    • Crypto
    • Press Release
Birmingham Times
No Result
View All Result
Home Opinion

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state

by Chandler
October 24, 2022
Reading Time: 12min read
0
SHARES
Share on FacebookShare on TwitterShare on Reddit


SEVERAL times over the past 1,000 years of our history, we have had a year of the three kings.

Well, 2022 turns out to be the year of the three Prime Ministers.

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state
Getty

Rishi Sunak has become the third Prime Minister in 2022[/caption]

Yesterday the Conservative Party seemed to be suddenly awakened by some remaining survival instinct.

The main contenders for the leadership dropped out, leaving Rishi Sunak the uncontested leader of the party and therefore the country.

The manner of Boris Johnson’s dropping out from the race could hardly have been more typical.

Johnson was sunning himself on holiday when Liz Truss resigned.

Read More on Rishi Sunak

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state

THE RISH LIST

PM to appoint ‘government of all the talents’ – here’s who’s in and who’s out

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state

CONQUERING HERO

How Rishi ‘revealed his competitive side’ when MPs gave him hero’s welcome

He scrambled back to the UK, only to discover that he had run out of political tarmac.

As for Penny Mordaunt, to her credit she realised the markets and the country could not cope with another hour, let alone a week, of Conservative Party infighting.

She dropped out gracefully, though presumably not with- out some haggling.

And so, after Johnson and Truss, Sunak finally finds himself crowned — or cursed — as the latest occupant of No 10.

Most read in The Sun

RADIO HOST DEAD


Radio DJ, 55, dies while on-air as tributes pour in for presenter


NOT SO ROSIE


Helen Flanagan is embracing single life after split from Scott Sinclair


RISHI'S VOW


New PM says UK faces profound challenges – but vows to unify Britain

FAIR PRICE


Inside Katie Price’s Essex home as fiance Carl Woods sells house for £475k

SQUEEZED OUT


I was turfed off Thorpe Park rides after staff said my boobs were too big

'now at peace'


EastEnders' Emma Barton heartbroken following death of her 'beautiful girl'


Certainly it is not a good time to inherit the role.

The public finances are in a mess. Public spending is out of control.

National debt is at historic levels. Inflation and the rising cost of living are hurting savers and spenders alike. And those are just some of the problems at home.

Yet there are a number of things to celebrate about Sunak’s arrival.

The first is that, at a time when the economy has never been more important, here at last is a Prime Minister who actually understands the thing.

Boris Johnson never took much of an interest in the matter.

Liz Truss tried to do too many things at once and almost crashed the country.

But in Sunak we have someone who understands the trouble our economy is in and hasn’t been afraid to identify the problems.

Tackle inflation

He lost the leadership race among the Tory grassroots partly because he did not sugarcoat things. Unlike his rival.

And it was Sunak — not Truss — who was proved right in double-quick time.

His challenge now is to tackle inflation and public spending. This will involve tough calls and tough times.

But Sunak is a good communicator — unlike the clunky Truss — and if anyone can explain to the country what needs to be done, then it is him.

It is also a good moment for Sunak because, throughout the problems of recent years, he has been a consistent voice of sanity.

While some of his colleagues in the Cabinet were calling for endless lockdowns during the Covid era, Sunak constantly tried to make the case for keeping the country open.

It wasn’t a popular opinion at the time, and he didn’t get his way when it mattered, but nevertheless, his judgment has been proved right.

There is also the issue of welfare reform.

Abilities and skills

Sunak knows there is something deeply off about the number of people in this country who are claiming out-of-work benefits.

Some estimate the figure to be as high as 13 per cent of the population. This in a country which has an historic labour shortage!

The Conservatives have tried welfare reform before, but this time it is desperately needed, and Sunak knows it.

Our country needs to fire up and get going again. It can’t do so if hundreds of thousands of our fellow Brits are being paid to sit at home.

So there are many reasons to think Sunak is the right man for the hour.

But there is one other thing that deserves a brief comment.

Yesterday the BBC heralded Sunak’s appointment as leader of the Conservative Party by running the headline “Rishi Sunak to become UK’s first Asian British Prime Minister”.

And there was something distinctly off about this. Because one of the things that makes us so different from many other countries is how little this actually matters and how little it has been noted.

In America, the election of an ethnic minority candidate to the presidency 14 years ago was treated as an historic world event.

And for the United States, the election of Barack Obama in some ways was.

As for most countries across Europe, the very idea of some-one from an ethnic minority becoming Prime Minister or President remains unimaginable. Or at least light years away.

Only in Britain is this the case, and also the least important, least remarkable thing about our new Prime Minister.

Sunak has not ridden into No 10 because of his skin colour, nor in spite of it.

Read More on The Sun

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state

I’M LOVIN’ IT

I tested Aldi’s McDonald’s food dupes & one was a total 10/10

Rishi Sunak has been a consistent voice of sanity – now he needs to battle lunacy of our ballooning welfare state

REAL STATE

Our houses are surrounded by a CAGE after builders abandoned a whole estate

He has got there on the basis of his abilities and skills, despite the fact that this has happened in a country that has been so smeared and defamed in recent years for being so “racist” as to vote Brexit.

I hope that this is just the first of dozens of times over the next couple of years that this country can prove our many critics wrong.



Source link

Related Posts

We hope a sensible compromise can be found to avoid unprecedented public war between Cabinet Office & Lady Hallett

We hope a sensible compromise can be found to avoid unprecedented public war between Cabinet Office & Lady Hallett

by Chandler
May 30, 2023
0

Just keep calm NOBODY wants to see a public war between the Government which set up a public inquiry and the judge it appointed to run it. Yet that has been...

The Left’s secret prejudice against Rwanda scheme helps guarantee evil traffickers get rich while more migrants die

The Left’s secret prejudice against Rwanda scheme helps guarantee evil traffickers get rich while more migrants die

by Chandler
May 26, 2023
0

Rwanda slurs WHAT is the Left’s secret prejudice against Rwanda? Why do Labour and Lib Dem MPs and hand-wringing churchmen rail against flying illegal migrants out there? The liberal-Left help guarantee...

Inflation is set to fall sharply and the weather’s looking up – let’s be thankful for small mercies

Inflation is set to fall sharply and the weather’s looking up – let’s be thankful for small mercies

by Chandler
May 22, 2023
0

Sunnier times NOT long ago almost no one under 50 had any memory of the horrors of inflation. What a grim lesson the last two years have been. The average family...

Politicians must act now to harness power of AI for good as 10k BT workers face losing jobs to robots

Politicians must act now to harness power of AI for good as 10k BT workers face losing jobs to robots

by Chandler
May 18, 2023
0

Job terminators YOU may still think artificial intelligence is a sci-fi concept with little relevance to our lives. Tell it to 10,000 BT workers now facing the dole because bots can...

Labour’s Sir Slippery dresses his Brexit plan up in the guise of ‘fairness’ when it is nothing of the sort

Labour’s Sir Slippery dresses his Brexit plan up in the guise of ‘fairness’ when it is nothing of the sort

by Chandler
May 14, 2023
0

Red rig to a bull SIR Keir Starmer’s recent U-turn on Brexit, promising not to take Britain back into the single market if elected Prime Minister, always had a hollow ring...

It’s crucial that No10 cures the sickness at the heart of our economy

It’s crucial that No10 cures the sickness at the heart of our economy

by Chandler
May 10, 2023
0

Dole scandal IT’S crucial that No10 cures the sickness at the heart of our economy. Scandalously, 5.2million Brits are on out-of-work benefits while we have one million-plus job vacancies and rely...

Next Post
I made a complete breakfast in my Air Fryer including the perfect eggs and toast – it’s so easy

I made a complete breakfast in my Air Fryer including the perfect eggs and toast – it’s so easy

Popular News

Prepare now for next pandemic: WHO

1 day ago
Governor Indo-Pak.  International border visited

Governor Indo-Pak. International border visited

1 day ago
Ajuni Biotech started a pilot project in Rajasthan to explore the potential in sorghum cultivation

Ajuni Biotech started a pilot project in Rajasthan to explore the potential in sorghum cultivation

1 day ago
Dhoni may go to Kokilaben Hospital for the test

Dhoni may go to Kokilaben Hospital for the test

1 day ago
Woman in white robe holding toothbrush with paste.

The Importance of Daily Brushing for Optimal Oral Health – National Smile Month UK

1 day ago
Hugh Grant unlawful information gathering claims against Sun to be heard at trial

Hugh Grant unlawful information gathering claims against Sun to be heard at trial

3 days ago
Childcare funding will be paid upfront to poorer working parents in win for The Sun’s campaign

Childcare funding will be paid upfront to poorer working parents in win for The Sun’s campaign

3 days ago
Former MasterChef contestant faces jail after trying to blackmail cops over child-abuse material

Former MasterChef contestant faces jail after trying to blackmail cops over child-abuse material

3 days ago
Birmingham Times

All Rights Reserved © Birmingham Times - The Voice of UK

Important Links

  • Publish Your article
  • Editorial Policy
  • About Us
  • Contact
  • Advertise

Follow Us

No Result
View All Result
  • Home
  • Politics
  • UK News
  • Business
  • Science
  • National
  • Entertainment
  • Gaming
  • Sports
  • Fashion
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Health
  • Food

All Rights Reserved © Birmingham Times - The Voice of UK

Welcome Back!

Login to your account below

Forgotten Password?

Create New Account!

Fill the forms below to register

All fields are required. Log In

Retrieve your password

Please enter your username or email address to reset your password.

Log In