‘If last week was a dummy run, what’s the excuse now?’ - How Sunak’s second reset of 2024 just made things markedly worse (Part . I)
With this week being the first ‘proper’ week back to Parliament for MPs, you could say that last week was a kind of dummy run for Sunak; a soft opening; a phased return of sorts where we - perhaps - should be more forgiving of his misfortune because he clearly needed time to get back into his stride.
The problem with this argument is that most of Sunak’s misfortune was brought on by his own decision-making, incompetence, personality, and his own haphazard and unworkable policy.
So -
Sympathy. In short supply.
Sunak could have just as easily remained in hibernation waiting to return this week but instead he chose to stick his head out of the hole only to be swatted down by the weight of his own sheer incompetence and exaggeration.
‘Stop the Boasts! I''ve got lots to get on with!’ - Sunak’s bottled it with an eye-wateringly, grimace-inducing start to the New Year
Rishi Sunak got off to a blistering start in 2024 by announcing on X/Twitter last week that the asylum backlog had been ‘cleared’. There was just one problem: it hadn’t. And many [many!] people were quick to point out that it hadn’t.
This page has not been keeping score of the number of resets Sunak is up to now, incidentally, but an educated guess would suggest double figures.
At least.