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New British PM
The Pioneer ^ | Wednesday, October 26, 2022 | The Pioneer

Posted on 10/26/2022 5:53:21 PM PDT by Jyotishi

Rishi Sunak happens to be Hindu by faith, but this fact is unlikely to make him pro-India

With Rishi Sunak becoming the third Prime Minister in two months, there are great expectations from him, especially because he has experience, as a former finance minister, to tackle the economic crisis that Britain faces. Just like his immediate predecessor, Liz Truss, he is a Thatcherite. “My values are Thatcherite. I believe in hard work, family and integrity. I am a Thatcherite, I am running as a Thatcherite and I will govern as a Thatcherite,” he wrote in a newspaper. But there is also a difference between him and his predecessor in this regard: while Truss’ adoption of Thatcherite principles was doctrinaire, Sunak believes in a pragmatic approach. Truss seemed impatient; she wanted to undertake Thatcherite reforms like tax cuts in a hasty fashion, without taking the fiscal situation into account. Since public finance is related to inflation and interest rates, her earlier announcements hit bond markets hard. But the blowback shook her; he had to remove her finance minister and dump the reforms. This, she believed, would “reassure the markets of our fiscal discipline,” but that didn’t happen. Her policy U-turn also made her political position untenable, leading to her exit. Right from the beginning, he has been critical of the imprudent decisions made by Truss. When the two leaders were fighting for the prime ministerial office a few months ago, Sunak had expressed his skepticism over Truss’ bold and audacious (which now look disastrous) plans. While Truss’ Thatcherism was filled with ideological enthusiasm, Sunak’s looks more grounded. Which is not surprising given his background as a banker and entrepreneur.

Sunak, who is the son-in-law of Infosys founder NR Narayana Murthy, also happens to be the first British Asian and Hindu Prime Minister of the UK. The 42-year-old went to Winchester College and studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Oxford University, according to a British Government website. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University (USA) where he studied for his MBA. Many Indians are feeling vicarious pleasure in Sunak’s ascension, though he never lived in India. The saffron brigade is jubilant that a Hindu now heads the top office in Britain that ruled India for over a couple of centuries. More excited deshbhakts are using the term ‘reverse colonialism,’ as if we have sort of righted a historical wrong. Serious Indians should trash such notions with the disdain that these deserve, for Sunak doesn’t appear any less British than his predecessors. He is a devout Hindu, and his Diwali photographs have gone viral, but his faith is unlikely to influence the course of Indo-British ties. There is nothing on record to suggest that he would do anything that would benefit India. And last, but not the least, Sunak’s rise gives the lie to the theories Left-liberals keep spreading about racism in Western societies. Which non-Western nation would accept a white person as their head of government?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: britain; diwali; economy; finance; fulbright; hindu; india; liberal; oxford; primeminister; religion; rishi; scholar; stanford; sunak; thatcher

1 posted on 10/26/2022 5:53:21 PM PDT by Jyotishi
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To: Jyotishi

He’s WEF, Jim...


2 posted on 10/26/2022 5:55:55 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Jyotishi

Smart guy. His wife has some serous dough. Her Dad is the founder of Infosys.


3 posted on 10/26/2022 5:55:58 PM PDT by nascarnation (Let's go Brandon!)
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To: Jyotishi

All according to the plan.

He’s going to introduce cbdcs. Guaranteed.


4 posted on 10/26/2022 5:57:28 PM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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To: Paladin2
He’s WEF, Jim...

Yes, he is, Captain.

5 posted on 10/26/2022 6:03:55 PM PDT by BfloGuy ( Even the opponents of Socialism are dominated by socialist ideas)
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To: nascarnation

“Infosys”

According to Wikipedia:

“Infosys Limited is an Indian multinational information technology company that provides business consulting, information technology and outsourcing services. The company was founded in Pune and is headquartered in Bangalore. Infosys is the second-largest Indian IT company, after Tata Consultancy Services, by 2020 revenue figures, and the 602nd largest public company in the world, according to the Forbes Global 2000 ranking.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infosys


6 posted on 10/26/2022 6:04:22 PM PDT by Jyotishi (Seeking the truth, a fact at a time.)
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To: Rural_Michigan

A. He describes himself as a “Thatcherite”.
That’s a description even average Americans can understand.
That’s a good thing, if he lives up to it.

B. What is CBDCS?


7 posted on 10/26/2022 6:05:13 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: lee martell
A. He describes himself as a “Thatcherite”.
That’s a description even average Americans can understand.
That’s a good thing, if he lives up to it.

I have no idea whether Maggie Thatcher would have approved of fracking or not.
8 posted on 10/26/2022 6:21:51 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: Jyotishi

Deep state by choice.


9 posted on 10/26/2022 6:30:10 PM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

Yes she would have

Wha was the last true capitalist conservatives arbitrariness had

And this guy is no Iron Lady clone, and neither was Truss


10 posted on 10/26/2022 6:40:04 PM PDT by OneVike ( Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Jyotishi

He’s as much a ‘Thatcherite’ as Liz Cheney is a conservative Republican. As much a Thatcherite as former Premier JUSTIN Kenney was looking out for Albertans’ liberty and freedom.

I don’t see the ‘divide’ between ‘conservative’ and ‘liberal’ and ‘socialist’, I see it as between ‘globalist’ and ‘individualist’.

Big biz, be it ‘big pharma’, ‘big tech’, ‘big media’, etc.,have joined with ‘big gubmint’ to drive our the small entrepreneur, to move countries into becoming fascist states, where the ruling elite from biz and gubmint control everything. The individual is nothing more than a ‘serf’, living and providing for big biz. If one complains, suddenly their ‘digital bank account’ becomes Frozen and inaccessible.

It is all about individuals controlled at the will of the fascist, oligarchic governmental-business complex. We are cogs in the ‘machine’, there to serve the ‘machine’, at its pleasure. 1984 in 2022.


11 posted on 10/26/2022 6:40:04 PM PDT by A Formerly Proud Canadian ( Ceterum autem censeo Justinius True-dope-us esse delendam)
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To: lee martell

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/central-bank-digital-currency-cbdc.asp


12 posted on 10/26/2022 7:02:27 PM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: nascarnation

He’s a globalists for the great reset blessed by the horse face king of the UK


13 posted on 10/26/2022 7:21:10 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ronnie raygun

He supports digital currency


14 posted on 10/26/2022 7:23:36 PM PDT by combat_boots ( )
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To: Jyotishi
Meet the new boss...

Suella Braverman leaked plans to cut deficit by £14bn with 'growth visas'

...same as the old boss.

The UK has Deep State, too.

What it doesn't have, and desperately needs, is a Trump.

15 posted on 10/28/2022 4:00:38 AM PDT by mewzilla (We need to repeal RCV wherever it's in use and go back to dumb voting machines.)
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To: Jyotishi

https://twitter.com/10DowningStreet/status/1585921170595094530

In this Official tweet from the PM’s Office, the music drumbeat in the background reminds me of the drumbeat from this MM song. . .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DPzrSWDN4Q


16 posted on 11/03/2022 7:45:13 AM PDT by Texan4Life
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