Who cares if Rishi Sunak is the richest Prime Minister? | openDemocracy

Ruby Lott-Lavinga talks to Adrian Chiles on BBC Radio 5 Live about Rishi Sunak's boasts of an improving economy.
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[@Demun1649]

NO! Defiantly NO!

[@JugglinJellyTake01]

The economy is growing, wages are negative in real terms, public services are declining. Profiteering and handouts to fossil fuel companies, hand outs for covid PPE and other kit, outsourcing and PPI are strangling public services and starving families.
There is an urgent need to increase the top rate of income tax to 60% and higher, ending outsourcing and taking PPI contracts back into government hands. Scotland took back the extortionate Sky Bridge due to public pressure. The same needs doing for these rip off contract that failed to deliver and continue to cost the public purse billions.

[@marionmclean3749]

If the economy is so strong why are so many people in poverty? It might be great from where the multi-millionaires are sitting but it's not great for most people. If you (Sunak) have no experience of life in the real world - and we know he has no working class friends - how can you understand what needs to be done to help? He's just not got what it takes. 🤷

[@threebadmicefpv]

Oh yeah, selfless public service for sunak 😂

[@freespeechforever]

IS the economy stronger? Possibly but why has it got to this point? Sunak only knows a strong economy by means of the money rolling into his bank.

[@jonsmith1162]

Mass lay offs at Open Democracy I hear 😂😂😂 nobody wants what you're selling. Hope your mates enjoy the job centre.

[@lumasters8197]

Not a chance. Reform UK