How was Rishi a back stabber? If your boss set some strict rules at work that they expected everyone to abide by but then didn’t themselves and then lied to you all about how he hadn’t broken the rules, but then got found to have broken the rules pretty badly would you be happy? You decide to stick by him thinking he deserves a second chance for him to then put a person into a high position that he knows has been sexually assaulting people, you would still stick by him? This is after he missed critically important meetings because he wanted to finish a book on Shakespeare and finalise a divorce.
After all that and more you quit and that makes you the back stabber? Give me a break.
Because he had his leadership campaign video ready since December, indicating he wasn’t actually bothered that Johnson had pledged loyalty to the sex pest Pincher, or wasn’t bothered about partygate, or wasn’t bothered about Johnson’s generally foul attitude - He was opportunistic. He saw an opportunity to spell the downfall of Boris as Prime Minister, when the Pincher scandal first became public knowledge, by resigning. In other words, he weaponised the sexual harassment, experienced by the young men who Pinched groped, in order to get his foot in the door at No. 10. That is disgusting and is representative of his immorality. I think I misused the word “backstabber” as I don’t really care about the fact that he double-crossed Boris, but it’s the fact that he willingly stood by for three years and witnessed Boris’s disgusting misconduct, which came at the country’s expense, yet Sunak openly defended him, such as when he voted that he had full confidence in Boris, but only resigned when it was clear there was no return for him as PM. By the time he resigned it was all too little and too late, and Rishi knew exactly what he was doing and he certainly wasn’t resigning because he was a principled man.
By the way, don’t think for a minute I’m in anyway defending Boris and I certainly don’t want him back in No. 10, but I’ve noticed in recent days people seem to be stating that Sunak would make a good PM, simply because he’s slightly less of an
hole than Boris or are showcasing support for Rishi simply because they don’t want Boris back in power, seemingly forgetting that he was a key member of Boris’s cabinet, who as a team, were responsible for a three-year shitshow.
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