Rishi has started his budget speech Archived Message Posted by Mary on March 11, 2020, 12:51 pm He reassured us that he is going to look after us. He knows we are worried, etc etc. He attended Winchester College (where the old boys are known as Wykehamists) where there is rivalry with Eton, the latter being the public school where many of the Tory Party hierarchy were 'schooled', including Johnson of course. This article details the rivalry between the two establishments. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/feb/16/rishi-sunak-boris-johnson-winchester-college-v-eton-feud-comes-to-downing-street 'One former Winchester boy told the Observer that Wykehamists had “an inferiority complex, but they also think they’re cleverer and politer and more thoughtful and less entitled”. “They think that this explains why they might end up as civil servants – or backroom operators like Milne or Schneider – rather than on the frontbenches. So I think a lot of them might be taken aback, almost affronted, by Rishi Sunak’s rise and obvious ambition – it’s a real kick in the teeth for that self-image as the sort of people who could run the country if they wanted to, but simply chose a different path.” He recalled an “environment where paranoid homophobia and racism and gross jokes about working-class people – cleaners referred to as ‘skivs’, for example – were commonplace. And all part of a culture where taking offence or calling it out as repellent was seen as a sign that you weren’t sophisticated enough to grasp the levels of irony at work.” Sunak, he said, would “probably have met girls through a house dance about once a year (to which it is likely he would have smuggled miniature hotel bar bottles of whisky in his underpants) and in school plays.”' Message Thread: Rishi has started his budget speech - Mary March 11, 2020, 12:51 pm Re: Rishi has started his budget speech - Mary March 11, 2020, 1:01 pm Re: Rishi has started his budget speech - Mary March 11, 2020, 1:20 pm His Treasury team today. Somewhat dwarfed by a couple of them - Mary March 11, 2020, 9:10 pm Richard Murphy's budget comments: - Ken Waldron March 11, 2020, 2:38 pm Nice one. Some sanity at last : ) ... - Tomski March 11, 2020, 10:23 pm   Searching