Serving MPs should not be permitted to hold any other jobs.

Arguably most shouldn't be permitted to hold the one they have got.

If I were a Brit I would not trust Sunak and co. to glue plastic eyes on to dollies in some sheltered workshop.

I had forgotten "The Unicorn Kingdom" jewel. The man is a complete prat.

Clearly being an MP is really only a part time job.

Maybe salary should be adjusted appropriately.

According to former MP Nadine Dorries, being an MP is actually a "lifestyle choice".

It says a lot about reform that they welcomed her with open arms when she defected, rather than simply saying "no thank you"...

Technically clueless benefits scrounger gets new job whilst retaining position in club for technically clueless benefits scroungers.

Why become a corporate shill?

He obviously doesn't need the money, his wife is rich beyond dreams. It's not as if these posts further the public interest, or do any real good.

What's the move here?

He might be getting her a friends and family discount on Microsoft licenses.

Sunak is also extremely wealthy in his own right, never mind his wife's fortune (she is even more wealthy than him)!

> Sunak is also extremely wealthy in his own right ..

That would be the case, seeing as the taxman doesn't extract 60% of his earnings before he ever sees it. The rest of us can't keep our money offshore in the Cayman Islands.

He's a Tory, fucking the majority over to spin himself a quick buck is his raison d'être.

Because once you reach a certain level of wealth it becomes a game/competition and people like that measure their own worth by the numbers. Enough is never enough. And to be fair, I am not sure if I would say no to a token position on an organization paying me a couple of million a year either regardless of my own personal financial circumstances.

But the fact that senior politicians, pretty much anywhere in the western world, can enter the system at X wealth and exit at 10x to 100x wealth should tell us what is really going on. If you are working as a politician for lets say 100k a year and 5 years later you exit political life a millionaire and further get lucrative gigs on the usual suspects boards etc. Doesn't that tell you all you need to know?

He wants to try and remain relevant, he's after the attention. Nothing new here.

He has a complex of "not yet a billionaire".

All his mates are billionaires.

He probably views himself as a povvo.

Conservative MP told he must not lobby for corporations

Is he allowed to put in a good word for his father-in-law?

And he was right about it.

She was totally mad!

"Known for creating systems that defy logic and often require a forced restart, Sunak will continue to serve as an MP on the Conservative backbenches."

And yes, I now need to go find paper towels to clear tea off my keyboard.

Have a beer for that one!

I think it is worth while emphasising this point:

"Sunak says his salary for the tech advisory roles at Microsoft and Anthropic will be donated to a charity he set up with his wife Akshata Murty, the Infosys heiress."

He doesn't need to line his pockets, and he doesn't need to do extra work. So maybe he does actually believe this is a good thing.

/ Never been a fan of Tories, but felt he was the best of a bad bunch

I think some research on how wealthy people leverage their own "charities" to reduce tax is needed.

https://fightforright.in/how-rich-people-use-charitable-trusts-to-reduce-taxes

Not to mention the "perks" they receive when their "charity" makes a donation to the right recipients.

In the US it is even more naked.

https://inequality.org/article/true-cost-of-billionaire-philanthropy/

Rich, charity = tax avoidance.

Honestly, I thought he was the best Prime Minister we'd had in a long time. He did seem to be working hard to get us out of the massive pile of shit that his predecessors had dropped us in. But he didn't really have time to achieve anything meaningful.

I mean Thatcher, Major, Blair, Brown, Cameron, May, Johnson,Truss were all either dishonest, incompetent or in some cases downright criminal. I wouldn't say any of them were any better. And our current government is an absolute shit show.

Now Rishi, I thought you'd have learnt the lessons Grant Schapps did about editing his Wikipedia page before you'd come on here and spout utter fucking garbage.

" He did seem to be working hard to get us out of the massive pile of shit that his predecessors had dropped us in."

Now Rishi,

memory may serve me wrong, but did you not, as Bojo the clown's chansellor, help to pile on the aforementioned massive pile of shit?

I liked how Rishi as a PM pretended all the carnage he caused as a Chancellor, wasn't his fault.

Weasel.

"get us out of the massive pile of shit that his predecessors had dropped us in"

I think that was May's job too, wasn't it?

Well, to be fair, May's job was to hold still in front of the unstoppable advert emblazoned bus she got chucked under. Why do we think Boris withdrew his run at leader the first time around? The bugger knew it was going to be impossible to remain popular with anyone in the wrangling immediately after the referendum. She had to steer us headlong into a shit idea without the luxury of being a sideline pundit like Farage.

No, I didn't like May. But she also stood no chance.

Major was OK I thought, Blair untrustable - did not like at all, Brown not really PM material - but a human.

Cameron a fool with referendums, May, could not read, Johnson an idiot and borderline criminal, Truss a lunatic.

So Sunak was not too bad compared to the previous bunch, and was definitely the best post Cameron.

Major was terrible at media appearances, but actually generated some good policies. That was back in the day when politics was still steered by logic and evidence. Brown also had some good ideas.

The waste-of-space Johnson killed off the use of logic, truth, and consistency, and so killed off the Tory party too. There were still sensible Tories around, but Johnson made sure they all left or got kicked out.

Labour seem to think that it's a Good Idea to pander to noisy idiots, tabloid newspapers, and the ultra-rich. So they've forgotten when they're for. They needed to pump big investments into public services, ASAP, but they're apparently happy to let services crash and burn. Schools, hospitals, GPs, prisons, the legal system, transport, water, power, all struggling to survive. We once were a civilised nation.

I'm sure Farage and his xenophobic fascists will sort it all out! /s

I'm hoping that Zack and the Greens can pull off an election win. He's certainly not afraid of Farage and the right.

Man who destroyed British IT sector and handed the remains to India, will fit right in at Microsoft.

"planned to donate his earnings to a charity he founded"

You would assume a "charity he founded" would be spending money in a way he sees as useful more specifically than your average charity..

e.g. I give to a few charities, but do not have any influence on how they spend their money and so have been some scenarios where they have spent some money on things that give me a WTF! feeling (as IMO that particular spend was not a great use of limited amounts of cash & something else should have been prioritized or maybe it seemed to have a whiff of cronyism in terms of who got some of the cash being clsoely associated with one or more of the charity trustees etc.)

.. Rishi will not have that problem of his cash disappearing to be controlled by others, his "top priorities" will be dealt with first & I doubt there will be massive concerns if a side effect is that businesses his friends or family have an interest in also profit from some charitable spend.

I'm not against charity (If I was a multi-millionaire like Rishi would love to have my own charity & use it to improve aspects of life in the UK - but I would be jumping through umpteen hoops to ensure I was not benefiting family / friends in the process (even if that ended up costing slightly more in time / money) as would want it all to be fully "squeaky clean" - for my conscience reasons, not for public opinion of me).

If I was a multi-millionaire like Rishi would love to have my own charity & use it to improve aspects of life in the UK

Probably that's why you are not a multi-millionaire.

I thought he was a career advisor for homeless people.