'Everything Golden Boy Rishi touches turns to dust - he's Midas in reverse'

26 November 2023 , 20:05

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'Everything he touches turns to dust' (Image: UK PARLIAMENT/AFP via Getty Imag)

Five relaunches and five flops for Rishi Sunak is a Prime Minister now living in mortal fear of a bushtucker penis eater is going from bad to worse. No National Insurance cut poll bounce for the Prime Minister and Conservative Party, Labour’s lead actually going up three points to 16 with Opinium Research, plus jungle daggers from Nigel Farage are a nightmare for the failing little rich chap in Downing Street.

First he hoped burning net zero and sacrificing green policies would improve Tory fortunes. It didn’t. Next he painted himself as a fresh-faced change from the Cameron and Johnson as well as Blair and Brown years. Nobody believed him.

Then he wrote a King’s speech for Parliament’s state opening that instead of dividing people united them against him. Those who never bought slippery Sunak’s change spin were vindicated by the fourth relaunch U-turning the second, Dodgy Dave exhumed to be Foreign Secretary Lord Cameron.

And the fifth, last week’s financial tweaking, crashed because voters aren’t fools when their pockets, purses, wallets, pay slips and bank accounts tell them a Tory grab of £1,900 from households between elections isn’t his heralded biggest tax cut in history.

Thatcherite slicker Farage and the Hard Right Reform UK party stalking the Conservatives is spooking a Sunak no longer able to use Channel boats and Rwanda as diversions from net migration reaching a record 745,000 when he vowed to cut it.

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Loudmouth Tory deputy chair “30p Lee” Anderson claiming he was offered a fortune to defect to Reform, a charge incidentally refuted by a Reform spokesman who labelled the MP a “plank”, is the Brexit gang destroying each other.

The next election is about damage limitation, saving seats, minimising defeat for the Tories when Keir Starmer has one foot in Downing Street already. Under assault on all political fronts, things might only deteriorate further for once golden boy Sunak.

Everything he touches turns to dust. The PM has what tainted leaders cannot shed, the Sadim touch. That’s Midas in reverse.

Kevin Maguire