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kiwi-duckquack · 7 months

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Not enough people are talking about it, but I'm going to.

It is terrifying, being transgender in the UK today. Our prime minister, one we didn't vote for, has said the phrase 'a man is a man and a woman is a woman'. Introducing anti-trans laws such as banning trans women in female NHS wards. I don't even want to look into it much more - it's making me feel sick.

When similar things happened in the US (which was and is horrific, I'm not comparing that!), it was everywhere. Even on prkmarily UK or European accounts, it. Was. Everywhere. Everyone was calling attention to it, or it felt like it.

I have seen maybe 3 people post about Rushi Sunak's transphobia in his speech. 2 were musicians (one of which was a transgender musician from the UK. The other was Yungblood.) and one was a transgender person who often makes informative posts educating about transgender people.

When it was in the US, even cis people were calling attention to it. At least within our community, it was large.

Maybe I'm just not seeing it, but I have not come across one tumblr post about Rushi Sunak. Not. One. Where the community was so quick to uphold and support it's transgender members from the US, not enough people know or are talking about it in the UK. And I think it's telling that 2/3 people I saw reporting on it were transgender.

And it's disheartening. As a transgender young person, I feel utterly powerless. I feel there should be some call to action, some offer of help, but I've seen next to nothing. And I know the UK is a lot smaller than the US and I know the US has a lot more going on but.

Please help. We're scared. And in danger.

#vent #transphobia tw #transphobia #rushi sunak #britain #UK #transgender #trans youth #fuck the tories #anti tories #fuckin just. jesus fucking christ.#idk what to do #semi in relation to my last vent #should probably step off tumblr for a bit #if anyone has any resources give them. please.

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harringtons-cupid · 2 years

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Ahaha the UK is a joke

I feel like crying I’m so angry!!

We did not vote for this

#general elections #general election now #rushi Sunak #uk conservative party #uk politics

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netalkolemedia · 2 years

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Rushi Sunak, le Premier ministre britannique, plus riche que le roi

Remplaçant la première ministre Britannique Liz Truss qui a passé seulement 45 jours au poste, Rushi Sunak à 42 ans, est le plus jeune Premier ministre de la couronne en 200 ans, mais pas que ça : il est également le plus riche, et même plus riche que le roi. Si on ne peut être plus royaliste que le roi, on peut quand même être plus riche et le nouveau Premier ministre britannique l’a…

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thakremukesh62 · 2 years

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##news ##Britain ##rushi #sunak ⭐🎉🎉 (at Vankal Surat) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjIm1IwJG8M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#news #britain #rushi #sunak

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bluemoonstonesy · 2 months

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5 likes i shoot rushi sunak (real)

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favroitecrime · 3 months

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None of this should be comprehensible. None of this should be something you and I are expected to deal with and carry with us during our day to day lives. Mass murder before our eyes, a genocide so well documented we will be able to give our future generations detailed descriptions.

It’s nearing campaign time. Fuck Joe Biden. Fuck Donald Trump. Fuck Keir Starmer. Fuck Rushi Sunak. And fuck every single politician you lot are debating voting for. For once, act on the change you aspire to have in your nations instead of voting for old men who simply will ignore you.

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blackswaneuroparedux · 2 years

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Anonymous asked: What are your thoughts on Rishi Sunak as PM after all the psycho-drama of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss? Is he too rich for Britain’s blood? Are the Tories finished?

It is a ‘psycho-drama’ as you correctly summarised the last seven weeks, where our country is now on its third Prime Minister. I was talking to my eldest sister on the phone back in England and we both realised that one of her children has already lived through three prime ministers, four chancellors and two monarchs. She is only one years old.

Britain is a punch bag at the moment. My work colleagues - drawn from other nationalities - are having a good laugh at our expense but what’s worse is when French friends who go from laughing at us to actually putting a consoling arm around your shoulder out of sincere pity, then you know you’ve hit rock bottom.

I don’t know about you but I am exhausted. Boring is best. We could all do with some ‘boring’ government. We need calmness and solidity, and above all, no-drama. Irrespective of our political beliefs, one should wish Rushi Sunak the best and I hope he becomes best boring Prime Minister that this country needs in this moment of crisis and instability.

I don’t know what you mean by if Sunak is ‘too rich for Britain’s blood’. But I can guess.

Rishi Sunak is Prime Minister number 57, in case anyone is counting. At 42 he’s a year younger than either David Cameron or Tony Blair were appointed Prime Minister. Sunak is the youngest Prime Minister win modern British political history and you would have to go all the way back to 1812, when Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, was made Prime Minister at 42 - the youngest ever of course was William Pitt the Younger at a precocious age of 24 years old.

He’s the first British Asian of immigrant Punjabi Indian parents to be made Prime Minister, and that is definitely worth celebrating. But he’s not Britain’s first Prime Minister from a different ethnic background. That honour goes to other two former prime ministers.

Benjamin Disraeli remained Jewish regardless of the fact that he was baptised. The fact that Disraeli first held the office 155 years before Rishi Sunak demonstrates that Victorian England does not deserve the obloquy that it frequently receives for prejudices of which it was far less guilty than its contemporary counterparts elsewhere.

And then of course there was Boris Johnson. Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was born an American. On top of which Bojo’s paternal great great grandfather was a Turkish politician, Kemal Ali. Ali Kemal was labeled as a traitor by many Turks as a result of his harsh criticism of the Turkish National Liberation Movement, and his hostile attitude and insults against Mustafa Kemal Pasha.

Perhaps including Johnson is a jokey stretch but I hope I’m making my point.

The Conservative Party doesn’t warrant such racist criticism. Not only will the first non-white Prime Minister be a Conservative; so are the first three women to hold the office. As for the other Great Offices of State: the first minority Foreign Secretary , the first two minority Chancellors of the Exchequer and the first three minority Home Secretaries have all been Tories. So much for white privilege then, as the left likes to carp on.

Needless to say, some on the Left will continue to carp, perhaps to distract from the fact that they have been much slower to promote women and ethnic minorities - just take a look on the other side of the Despatch Box in the House of Commons. But still critics say Sunak’s victory is just how white privilege works because he had to prove himself. Really? Isn’t that how life works? We all have to prove ourselves worthy of the trust and responsibilities given to us, don’t we?

In the political arena it is normal to have to prove oneself against others. Rishi Sunak lost to Liz Truss last summer mainly because he had been seen by some in the party as the principal assassin of Boris Johnson - who incidentally had promoted him to be Chancellor, replacing Sajid Javid (whose heritage is Pakistani Muslim), despite Mr Sunak’s relative youth and political inexperience. That he has taken until now to enter No 10 suggests not ‘white privilege’ but the opposite: dollops of luck which every politician needs and a ruthless meritocracy that tested his older and more experienced rival to destruction.

‘White privilege’ as a phrase may have some meaningful application in the United States, but it is positively mischievous and destructive when applied to modern Britain. Quite frankly I’m sick and tired, as many are, of how our genuine problems in our politics and society such as inequality and social mobility should always be seen through the distorting lens of American culture and politics, even down to the colonising of words such as ‘white privilege’, ‘inclusivity and diversity’, and ‘BIPOC’ (black, indigenous, and people of colour…which begs the question just who is indigenous in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland?)

The one minority that Rishi Sunak and his wife Akshata Murty are less keen to identify with are people of wealth. Nearly every article written about Sunak, especially now that’s Prime Minister is about his wealth. ‘Rich’ is by far the most commonly used adjective to describe him. It is true that one would have to go back a long way to find a Prime Minister whose personal wealth compared to that of Sunaks - whose wealth now exceeds the British monarchy.

But Rishi Sunak is almost certainly street smart enough to know that in British politics, wealth is best kept in the background. If he has any doubts, he should ask the former MP for Richmond, London, Zac Goldsmith, son of a charismatic billionaire, whose failure to become Mayor of London was followed by the loss of his seat, twice in three elections. Like so many monied politicians, he has ended up in the House of Lords, appointed by Boris Johnson, who had his expensive holidays paid for by Goldsmith. If the new plutocracy is now to encroach on British politics, too, then better far that the billionaires know their place - what MPs derisively refer to as The Other Place.

What reinforced the the filthy rich opprobrium was the scandal of his wife Akshata Murty’s non-dom tax status - a legitimate position but not the best optics - but which has now been rectified so she does pay tax. Unlike America, Britain still secretly despises wealth or be seen not to show it off. Sunak can’t win on this but he can lessen the target area. If he was smart he would think about creating a philanthropic foundation. The prejudice against the rich is one of the last that is still seen as acceptable.

The only answer to it is to give away as much of their wealth as they can bear to part with. She would be able to demonstrate her charitable credentials in a manner that the British public would immediately find sympathetic. Great wealth is tolerated in this country when it is combined with munificence. There is no other way to disarm the politics of envy, which the Opposition parties will undoubtedly deploy ad nauseam. Rishi Sunak deserves his success, just as his family do not deserve to have his position held against them. But the Sunaks will have to make a sacrifice of part, at least, of their fortune before the new Prime Minister will gain a fair hearing when he demands sacrifices from the rest of us for the sake of the country.

To me all this is a distraction. Britain faces serious problems and it needs serious people with serious solutions.

Rishi Sunak has the toughest of challenges against some serious head winds facing both party and country.

Sunak becomes leader of the Conservative Party and the country at a critical moment in our national history. Sunak’s inbox is, to say the least, daunting. His party is in free fall and it is not yet clear if it has a parachute. The Conservatives, remarkably, are now averaging less than 20 per cent in the polls, a historic low, and trail the opposition Labour Party by more than thirty points - a situation we have not seen since the 1990s. They are heading for a complete electoral wipeout and it is now down to the young Sunak, who only entered the House of Commons in 2015, to stop this from happening.

After the disastrous experiment with Trussonomics, the party has also squandered its reputation for fiscal competence and economic credibility. And on every major issue in the country, from the cost of living through to the National Health Service, the Conservatives are simply not trusted or considered competent by a large swathe of the country.

The Tories are also bitterly divided. Sunak inherits a party that is not only tanking in the polls but lacks a unifying message, ideology and dominant faction. And if voters don’t vote for competent parties then they certainly don’t vote for divided ones. On all the key issues of tax and spend, Brexit, immigration and how to level-up the country the party is not just split between two rival camps but several different tribes, all of which Sunak will have to carefully balance, manage and reflect in his key appointments. One reason why Truss’s fall was so rapid and dramatic is because she failed to do this.

In all my conversations with friends and peers who are closer to the political coal face in England, I don’t get this sense that they or indeed anyone within those political circles can answer some of the more existential questions that now face the Conservative Party. What exactly is the purpose of post-Brexit conservatism? What do today’s conservatives believe? Where do they want to take the country? And how do they plan to hold and expand their new electoral coalition (the so-called Red Wall made up of northern working class voters)?

Sunak, a Brexit supporter, will now have to answer these questions. To do so, he would be wise to avoid the mistakes of his two main predecessors by surrounding himself with serious thinkers and strategists. The Conservative Party does not need only to renew its leadership; it needs to renew its entire intellectual scaffolding and rebuild and re-energise.

He will have to do all this while grappling with the fact that many Conservatives, whether inside or outside the party, never wanted him to become leader and prime minister to begin with. Because he was not endorsed by voters, members or even a formal vote among MPs, he is vulnerable. Inside the party, there remain many people who are loyal to Johnson and see the events in recent days as a classic, top-down stitch-up among MPs. The changing of the rules within the 1922 Committee, the call for at least 100 nominations, they argue, points to a concerted attempt among MPs to stack the deck against Johnson and override the wishes of grassroots Tories.

Outside the party, meanwhile, there are many others who go further by viewing the appointment of Sunak as part of a ‘globalist Remainer plot’ to satisfy the interests of financial markets and return to the pre-Brexit status-quo. It might be tempting to dismiss all this as the stuff of a crank fringe but it is not hard to see how it could drive some kind of populist alternative which further reduces space for the Tories at the next general election or, more simply, drives higher rates of apathy among 2019 Conservatives who choose to sit the next election out, convinced that their party is no longer really interested in what they want or have to say.

And then there is the wider country. Spiralling inflation, mortgage rates, the end of the current energy freeze in the spring, no end in sight to the war in Ukraine and the prospect of across-the-board tax rises and sharp spending cuts all hand Sunak the most daunting inbox since David Cameron faced the aftermath of the global financial crash in 2010 and Margaret Thatcher was left to fix the legacy of the dismal 1970s.

In Sunak’s short, behind-closed-doors remarks to Tory MPs after he was elected he told them they had to come together and unite. That otherwise they faced an ‘existential threat’ and there would be no second chance. He has already had to face down clarion calls for a general election - something he has already ruled out. But if he puts a foot wrong with any of the MPs who backed rivals, the calls will start up again. And some.

Now we will see exactly what financial analysts so-called ‘dullness dividend’ looks like. Bond yields - which spiked in the aftermath of last-month’s ‘mini-Budget,’ fell after Boris Johnson announced on Sunday that he was not running for office again, heading for their biggest drop since the early 1990s. And there is much damage done. Truss’s time in office will come with a price tag, according to Bloomberg Economics. GDP is likely to be about 2% smaller next year relative to the forecast before the ruinous Sept. 23 fiscal event. The economy is on track for a contraction of 1.4% in 2023, financial analysts say, compared to the 0.5% growth predicted back in early September. See below:

The verdict is painful but plain: Both monetary and fiscal policy are set to be tightened in unison as Britain attempts to regain credibility with financial markets. Talking to colleagues and peers in corporate finance, they predict a recession similar to the one seen in the 1990s, with what they call ‘peak pain’ due for the second quarter of next year. They also see inflation spiking at 12% in April, while interest rates will have increased to 4.25% by next May from 2.25% now.

Sunak may have a reputation for competence that is already reassuring the markets, but he’ll need a fair amount of luck, too. He will need luck dealing with all this while holding leadership ratings that are not all that impressive. The last time Rishi Sunak held high office he was deep into ‘net negative’ territory, not quite as deep as Johnson and Truss, but in net negative territory all the same. If, like Truss, he does not enjoy a significant bounce in the polls in the weeks ahead this will also make his job harder, not easier.

For all these reasons, then, the challenges that face our latest prime minister are immense and unlikely to fade from view. If he responds to them well, he may fancy his chances at doing what no other prime minister in our entire national history has ever done - leading his party to a fifth consecutive election victory. But if he responds to them badly, then he will soon find himself on our rapidly growing trash heap of former prime ministers.

There will be some who follow my blog who will not support Sunak’s politics. But I am going to go out on a limb here and say it is indeed a moving thing that the man charged with getting Britain back to good economic health was also the boy who as a devoted and hard working teenage son did the books for his hard pressed mother every Saturday in her pharmacy in Southampton. That’s the side of Rishi Sunak I wish he would remember when he sits behind his desk at Number 10 Downing Street, and it’s the side I wish the great British public, fair minded and decent, can put some hope in as we navigate the economic storms to come.

Thanks for your question.

#ask #question #rishi sunak #prime minister #british politics #politics #conservative party #tories #tory party #indian #parliament #economics #crisis

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heartapnea · 7 months

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rushi sunak is 5’7? I’m clotheslining him

#I’m still so angry and upset I can’t concentrate on anything LMAO #I fucking hate him and I hate this government

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usafphantom2 · 11 months

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In a reverse move, the Biden administration said it will help Ukraine get the F-16 fighters

Authorization given by the Biden administration is an important milestone in the creation of the coalition that intends to send dozens of fighters to Ukraine.

Fernando Valduga By Fernando Valduga 05/19/23 - 9:00 pm in Military, War Zones

President Joe Biden's administration reported that it will support allies by providing modern fourth-generation fighters to Ukraine, including U.S.-made F-16s, a senior government official said on May 19. Biden informed the allies about the plan at a G7 meeting in Hiroshima, Japan, the official said.

The U.S. “will support a joint effort with our allies and partners to train Ukrainian pilots in fourth-generation fighters, including F-16s, to further strengthen and improve the capabilities of the Ukrainian Air Force,” the senior government official added.

It is not clear where the planes will come from for the time being. The training effort includes the USA, UK, Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark.

Britain and the Netherlands increased the pressure on the US with a May 16 pressure to supply fighters to Ukraine. U.S. approval is required for American-made weapons to be supplied to a third-party nation.

“I welcome the historic decision of the United States and @POTUS to support an international fighter coalition,” Zelensky said in a tweet. "This will greatly increase our army in heaven. I am counting on discussing the practical implementation of this decision at the #G7 summit in Hiroshima." Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to speak at the G7 summit.

The Biden administration firmly refused to provide F-16 or support the foreign delivery of American fighters, arguing that such an expensive and advanced system would require a lot of investment and a lot of training time to make them useful for Ukraine in this conflict. Now this position has changed.

“This training will take place outside Ukraine in places in Europe and will take months to complete,” the senior government official said. “We hope to be able to start this training in the coming weeks.”

Previously, U.S. officials had said that F-16 flight training would take 18 to 24 months and the supply of the jets could cost at least $2 billion. The outgoing undersecretary of defense for politics, Colin Kahl, testified on this point in Congress. Kahl's departure, scheduled for July, was announced on May 17, two days before the policy change. It is not clear if the two are related or are coincidences.

Air power experts say that the cost and schedule to supply the F-16s to Ukraine depends largely on the number, age and types of F-16s supplied. In his testimony, Kahl mentioned the cost and schedule of the new jets. But older aircraft that may be overstock of U.S. or allied fleets may be delivered much earlier.

The senior government official said the U.S. has so far focused on providing short-term resources to support an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive.

“To date, the United States and our allies and partners have focused on providing Ukraine with the vast majority of the systems, weapons and training needed to conduct offensive operations this spring and summer,” the officer said. “The discussions about improving the Ukrainian Air Force reflect our long-term commitment to Ukraine's self-defense.”

American authorities have always left open the idea of helping Ukraine acquire modern aircraft in the future, but opposed trying to do so in the current conflict.

NATO allies praised the change of position.

“We welcome the upcoming approval by the United States of the training of Ukrainian pilots in F-16 fighters,” said Kajsa Ollongren, Dutch Minister of Defense. "Together with our close allies, Denmark, Belgium and the United Kingdom, we are working on the modalities. We are ready to support Ukraine in this."

British Prime Minister Rushi Sunak said the United Kingdom would help “get Ukraine the combat air capacity it needs”. Britain does not own or operate F-16, but discussed the supply of Typhoon aircraft.

The senior U.S. government official said that Western allies still need to decide "when to actually supply jets, how many we will supply and who will supply them".

Yahoo News reported on May 18 about an evaluation by the U.S. National Air Guard, which is evaluating the skills of two Ukrainian pilots who trained in F-16. The evaluation concluded that “four months is a realistic training schedule” and that Ukrainian pilots were skilled enough to deal with sophisticated challenges, including safe landing (on a simulator) after an engine failure. But the report also indicated that the lack of mastery of the English language by the pilots represents a barrier and a concern. In addition, Ukrainian pilots were not familiar with Western-style organizational and flight approaches.

A Ukrainian official said earlier this month that the Ukrainian Air Force has “a few dozen” pilots proficient enough in English to train in F-16s.

“Our pilots are ready to start training tomorrow,” the officer said at the time.

Source: Air Force & Space Magazine

Tags: Military AviationF-16 Fighting FalconUkrainian Air ForceWar Zones - Russia/Ukraine

Fernando Valduga

Aviation photographer and pilot since 1992, has participated in several events and air operations, such as Cruzex, AirVenture, Daytona Airshow and FIDAE. He has works published in specialized aviation magazines in Brazil and abroad. Uses Canon equipment during his photographic work around the world of aviation.