Sunak 100 days in office – Richer than rich in a poorer country

Richer than rich – poorer than poor! The striking contrast between British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak (42) and an ever-growing group of compatriots can be summed up in these six words. Millions of Britons live in appalling conditions.

The prime minister, who is of Indian origin, comes from a wealthy family of doctors and made his own fortune as a hedge fund manager as a young man. However, he only became really rich when he married Akshata Murty (42), the daughter of an Indian industrialist. According to the Sunday Times, the couple, with a net worth of around £730 million, ranks 222nd richest in Britain.

A mansion and several apartments
In addition to the country house in a Yorkshire village in northern England where the couple and their two daughters live, Sunak and his wife also own a terraced house in Kensington in central London, an apartment in South Kensington and a penthouse in Santa Monica. California.

In contrast, for most of Sunak’s compatriots, real wages have not only not risen, but have actually fallen. Great Britain is the only OECD country where the economy does not pick up again after the corona crisis, but continues to contract. Brexit, which the British have been lied to about by irresponsible political self-promoters like Boris Johnson, is showing its effects. The price for this is being paid by the proverbial little people and the falling middle class.

Huge budget hole, highest military spending
The country’s debt burden is about 100 percent of gross domestic product. In addition to this huge budget deficit, which does not really allow for legitimate demands for wage increases in, for example, the health sector, there is galloping inflation, which exceeded eleven percent in November of the previous year and is still at 10.5 percent in January.

At the same time, Britain is the country with the highest military spending in the world, after the US, China and India – in 2021 they were the equivalent of about 66 billion euros. And at that time there was no war in Ukraine. A war in which Great Britain, a staunch ally of Ukraine for years and staunch military friend of the United States, invests billions despite all other crises. Should Ukraine win the war against Putin’s Russia, Britain would be happy to side with Poland and the United States on the side of the victorious powers.

A little rest after the chaos years
After the chaotic years and weeks of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss’ episode of 10 Downing Street, Rishi Sunak has at least managed to bring some peace to British politics in his first 100 days in office. Although he has not been spared from scandals in his cabinet and the government reshuffles that have been forced on him as a result. And probably won’t be spared in the future either. But that has now become a tradition in Britain.

Tories worry about next year’s election
Admittedly, that doesn’t make things any easier for Rishi Sunak if he wants to achieve his goal of pulling the conservative Tories out of the political quagmire the party has plunged into. In the almost 13 years that the Tories have been in power, things have really only gone downhill in Britain. One austerity dictate was followed by another, Brexit was followed by the pandemic – with equally fatal consequences. The war in Ukraine and sky-high energy costs do the rest.

Rishi Sunak is not responsible for this, but it can be assumed that his Tories will take the bill in next year’s election. Not a week goes by in Britain without a strike. And the opposition Labor Party has an almost unassailable lead in all polls. Prime Minister Sunak seems to be in a losing position.

The only question that remains is why would a man who could actually live a carefree life do all this to himself? Rishi Sunak can probably only give the answer himself. He would probably say he wanted to serve his country. You can believe that or not.