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'They just keep popping up!' - Why Zahawi's sacking is the beginning of the end for 'rage quit' Sunak

'They just keep popping up!' - Why Zahawi's sacking is the beginning of the end for 'rage quit' Sunak

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During the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the most popular games played across the globe was Ndemic Creations’ ‘Plague Inc’ - a game that sees you take on the role of any number of different contagious diseases with the aim being to, essentially, wipe out humanity. 

Despite the game being produced in 2012, it took on a whole new role of educating players with information on contagious diseases and how to tackle the spread of coronavirus back in 2020 - the game’s creators rather nobley donated a substantial amount of money to fund Covid-19 relief, too. 

Political scandals often have a habit of working in the same way as contagious diseases in the sense that an alert may pop up to let you know that something truly wicked and nefarious is beginning to spread - as with Nadhim Zahawi’s tax affairs - and something else usually pops up alongside it. Over time both may gradually mutate into something else entirely. 

Sometimes they may even converge like wave interference. 

That is, this may happen if you do little to mitigate the spread - indeed, the original intention of the game was to cause as much damage, as quickly as possible which as history will dictate in a political context, was not Rishi Sunak’s job; it was Liz Truss’. 

BUT - 

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