ON March 13 millionaire former banker Rishi Sunak called on UK firms to divest from Russia. He said any investment would aide Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
It turns out that Mr Sunak does not think this should apply to his own family. Sunak’s wife has a £450 million stake in Infosys, which is still operating in Russia.
She has allegedly received a dividend of £12m in the last year from this investment.
When confronted with his hypocrisy, Sunak simply reverted to Tory type and refused to answer the question. The Tory-supporting tribal UK media have given Sunak a pass. This certainly would not be the case had a Scottish Government minster’s partner been making money in Russia.
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On Wednesday Sunak’s boss, the rancid liar Boris Johnson, claimed being in the EU prevented the UK Government from giving workers extra protection from arbitrary dismissal. This was in response to a question about why he had not supported laws to ban fire and rehire, as happened with P&O workers.
P&O couldn’t do the same thing to their French and Irish workers. Both these countries are in the EU and have better protections than Tory Britain. Boris Johnson simply lies about everything, knowing he will never face accountability.
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Just how how despised Johnson is on the international stage was evidenced at the Nato summit. He was largely ignored in the leaders photocall then his humiliation was compounded when he was barred from the EU summit.
This nails the lie once and for all that Brexit Britain is anything other than an abhorrent laughing stock.
The British Unionist Tory ideology is devoid of all integrity, morality, and truthfulness and has forever discredited itself as a source of objective and accurate information.
Alan Hinnrichs
Dundee
IT’S highly unlikely British economic sanctions against Russia will work if Rishi Sunak’s own family profits from investments in that country.
Mr Sunak’s wife Akshata Murthy (worth an estimated half billion pounds) gets £12m from her Infosys Russian investments, and therefore benefits financially from a regime which murders children and perpetrates genocide.
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Instead of ruthlessly targeting ordinary British citizens in his budget, Mr Sunak might have taken a tougher stance against British citizens like his wife, as well as Russian oligarchs who are happy to derive huge incomes from illegal wars.
Stephen McCarthy
Glasgow
ABSOLUTELY agree with Frieda Burns (Letters, Mar 28) about the “Tory, Tory out, out, out” slogan. It’s negative and joyless. Lacking vision. These marches should be joyous, happy, uplifting occasions .We can do much, much better. Our future’s bright, Indy right. Let’s spread this far and wide. Starting with Arbroath no more negativity please.
David Smart
Brechin
I AGREE with Frieda Burns. I know Tories who wish for independence, because of their disgust with Boris Johnson, so they can’t be the only ones. I am of the same view when it comes to republicans. I’m no royalist myself, but the level of interest generated when we are “graced” with a royal visit shows they have a fair number of supporters. Why alienate them?
One thing at a time. Independence first. Decisions about Tories and royals to be taken later in a fair and free Scotland.
Ann Leitch
via email
I WISH to support the request of Frieda Burns for indy marchers to refrain from chanting “Tories out”. I used to object to this long ago and then in recent times I began to feel it was justified in view of the actions of the Westminster government. However, once again, I feel it is unwise as there surely must be Tories who support independence and after all, we are supposed to be All Under One Banner to achieve our goal.
Melanie Grieve
Kirkintilloch
I HAVE to agree with Frieda Burns of Stonehaven. The All Under One Banner independence marches should be sending out a positive message about Scottish independence. The “Tories out” chant does nothing to promote the idea that everyone should consider the idea of independence, even Conservative voters.
I have spoken to Conservatives who are not opposed to independence if the economic case is solid. In a newly independent Scotland it will be up to the people to decide who governs.
Party political chants goes against the inclusive idea and principle of all under one banner.
Alasdair Smith
Eastwood
I NOTE with some interest that John Lamont, MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh & Selkirk, does not permit any replies to be made to made to his tweets that he makes from his Twitter account. This strikes me as highly unusual in a world where our MPs claim to be highly accountable.
By not allowing replies or comments to be made on his Twitter output, he could be seen as denying his constituents the right to reply – whether by questioning his views, or indeed, agreeing with them.
Healthy political debate is vital for our democracy, and surely one-way communication from an elected representative here in the Borders is at least stifling that debate, and at worse, could be construed by his constituents as unanswerable propaganda.
Either way, it is not a good look.
Stuart Munro
Overlangshaw, Selkirkshire
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