By Arvel Grant
Not Even Boris-mania can Stop Sunak now: Britain Gets its First Coloured Prime Minister, A Very Different Lens Through Which to See its Coloured Minorities
At the start of the race, to elect a new leader for the British Conservative Unionist Party, I used an earlier piece, to lament the tragic reality that (though supremely more prepared for the job) Sunak would not be elected by the majority of members, because he is a coloured man, of East Indian heritage. So said, so done.
During the leadership race, Mr Sunak argued, (vehemently) that the economic plans of his opponent, will doom the British economy. With in 6 weeks into her tenure, Prime Minister Truss came under such pressure from the Market, forcing her to step-down, becoming Britain’s shortest serving Prime Minister…
This re-opened the Conservative Party’s leadership race. Once again Mr Sunak threw his hat in the ring. Sensing obvious danger to his short-lived legacy, Former PM Johnson signalled a likely return to the job. Obviously Establishment conservatives learnt their lessons and might have shown him the exit.
A very expensive lesson, costing ordinary British citizens perhaps, billions of pounds for years to come; and threatening the conservatives’ majority in the Commons…
By Friday of this week, British society should be settling-down to the idea of their new Prime Minister, a 2nd generation immigrant from India…
None should be under any elusions; Mr Sunak is a wealthy right of centre conservative politician. Only, that he is smart enough, to recognize that, the fiscal and monetary health of the British economy and society are as such, that, some centrist and (perhaps) left of centre, policies is the best programme-mix for a very sick economy.
Most importantly, as a former banker, Mr Sunak should be financially savvy enough, to recognize that, an IMF loan of cheep money, could be the “silver bullet” which kills the financial dragon, currently strangling the British economy to death…
In the meantime, the trade unions and the financial markets, are eyeing him like hungry eagles. The demands on the National Health Service are at breaking point and the middle and working classes are in grate distress. The trading bottle-necks and associated dislocations proceeding Brexit, hang over his government’s head like the preverbal “Sword of Damocles…
If Mr Sunak: Calms the markets, pacifies the trade unions, soothes the NHS, spurs growth enough to expand job creation and softens Brexit; He will have stolen Labour’s shirt.
If the new Prime Minister manages to do that, British Labour could be out of office for (at least) another 7 years. The Conservatives have a 70 seat majority in the Commons. A successful 2 years in office can do wonders for a political party, on the ropes.
Walk good until next time.
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