What Rishi Sunak Should Have Apologised For
As he left Downing Street as Prime Minister for the last time, Rishi Sunak apologised to the nation for the record of his Conservative Government. Here, Mark Ellse imagines what else he should have apologised for…
To the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry.
I have given this job my all but you have sent a clear signal that the Government of the U.K. must change, and yours is the judgement that matters.
I have heard your anger, your disappointment, and I take responsibility for this loss.
But there is one particular way in which I failed you as a member of the Government. Now that I am leaving political leadership, I should like to say sorry and, so far as I am able, speak honestly about my errors.
During the Covid years, the Government of which I was a part failed you. We lacked the humility to acknowledge that there are some difficult things in life over which no human has control. Instead we made rash promises to defeat an airborne virus like flu, something we simply put up with every winter as we now indeed do with Covid.
Whether from faith or stoicism, we all know we have the ability to face very difficult human situations with courage rather than unbridled fear. Yet instead of demonstrating such courage, the Government deliberately encouraged fear, for reasons that we can now clearly see were unjustified.
The Government was preoccupied with the need to be seen to be doing something, preoccupied with the vain promise of “defeating covid” instead of acting with wisdom. Sufficient of us were aware of the economic chaos we were causing. Despite that, we silenced and pilloried those who predicted that shutting down much of our health service and the economy would damage us profoundly. We failed to balance any good that lockdowns might be doing with the harm we knew they would do. To my shame, I even allowed myself to be silenced on this matter by Hugo Keith KC when giving evidence to the Covid Inquiry.
There is now a general scientific consensus that the burning of fossil fuels is contributing to natural climate change, raising global temperatures and resulting in potentially serious consequences for human life on this planet. So, as with Covid, there are predictions of catastrophe. The temptation is for governments to spread fear instead of quiet wisdom, and to act precipitously whether or not it does more harm than good. We are inclined to act even when we know, if we are being honest, that our efforts will have little benefit. As with Covid we are in danger of abandoning wisdom and silencing those who challenge the consensus. We are reluctant even to allow the discussion of whether the harms we would do by depriving so many in the world of affordable energy would be greater than any benefits of abolishing fossil fuels.
I say these things now because I want to leave office having been completely open and honest with you and I want to help a future Government avoid making the same mistakes over Net Zero that I made over Covid.
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I don’t want or need an apology from Sunak. I want the truth, and for him to spend the rest of his political career trying to undo the damage – as Bridgen has tried to do.
I want him and his billionaire wife to take up their USA Green Cards they’ve been keeping all this time.
Yeah he won’t be missed.
Didn’t he only apologise for losing the election not his calamitous premiership? It was a meaningless apology unless it was directed at those Tory MPs who lost their seats.
Yeah he probably thinks he was a great PM. Even the usually reasonably sane Desmond Swayne is still bleating about Liz Truss and her “mistakes”
Sunak and the entire Convict-Pharma-ment bar a few can issue their meas culpas from prison, just before they meet a guillotine.
A proper apology would be to admit that Covid was a globally-coordinated “plandemic” aimed at trying to shackle the people into digital straitjackets (vaccine passports which would morph into dystopian digital ids), with a dose of global depopulation thrown in for good measure. Don’t forget that Sunak made his fortune by investing in start-up Moderna (insider dealing?). Reiner Fuellmich and his team of experts sussed out the nature of the Covid plandemic over two years ago in their Covid-19 Crimes Against Humanity mock trial: https://metatron.substack.com/p/reiner-fuellmichs-grand-jury-court.
A further proper apology would be to admit that the so-called consensus on “climate change” is a hoax which was hatched decades ago for the purpose of bringing about the collapse of Western industrialised civilisations. My debunking of the climate change hoax is here: https://metatron.substack.com/p/debunking-the-climate-change-hoax.
Thanks for posting. Brilliant work.
I wonder what these down-tickers are thinking? One of them was inadvertently myself when I looked to see if it clicking the symbol would give a list of user ids (it doesn’t) and now I can’t cancel it!
Are they happy that the economy was wrecked by the Covid plandemic and that the collective health of the nation has been perhaps irretrievably degraded by the untested, experimental jabs, all for a condition that was no worse than ordinary flu?
Are they happy that Net Zero based on false pseudo-science will wreck our energy infrastructure, further deindustrialise the economy and drive millions into poverty? The fact that the Lab/Con/Lib Uniparty all back pointless unilateral NZ when the rest of the world is not taking a blind bit of notice is the easiest giveaway that it is more than just a hoax, it is an assault on the people (as with Covid).
I’d like to see these down-tickers try to refute the evidence presented in the two linked papers. They won’t, though, just as my complicit parliamentary representatives never responded to my emails.
Excellent, ‘nail on head’ stuff, Douglas. I used to enjoy reading your letters posted by Joel Smalley.
As for the ‘Shadow Lurkers’, I’ve seen bigger balls on a Ken doll so you’ve not got a hope in hell where they’re concerned. In my opinion, any excuse for an insertion of our ‘Novax’ here and how he deals with the haters. A lot of time for the respectful peeps but to the hostile ‘scroteless wonders’, ”You guys can’t touch me.” Never stop dropping those truth bombs.
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“There is now a general scientific consensus…”
Consensus isn’t scientific, it’s religious.
Science isn’t a democracy, it is supported by evidence not show of hands.
That should have been in this article as Sushi’s apologia.
Why don’t PPE graduates point this out?
It should have been covered in their one year of Philosophy.
Or he could have said:
Sorry not to have done a ten minute Google in March 2020 to find out that SARS CoV 2 was a novel common cold coronavirus.
Sorry not to have supported Jesse Norman in cabinet when he asked for a cost benefit analysis regarding lockdowns.
Sorry not to have spoken to Anthony Watts and briefed myself on why climate change is not caused by CO2.
Sorry not to have placed defence of the realm, particularly borders, as my (and the treasury’s) number one priority
I will now campaign for proportional representation.
I’ll get my coat.
Nah. Damn they’ve changed the locks.
Rory Stewart, at the end of his recent conversation on Triggernometry, on YT, said that what ‘we weren’t talking about’ was excess information, especially at higher management levels, that leads to any basic, agreed, facts of the case, so mistakes are made.
I would expect this to be true when there’s an absence of experience in the discipline, especially when there’s no foundational education, say, to A Level standard. If all his friends are from the Arts, Humanities and Social Science bubble, he doesn’t have a chance.
How can a History graduate, with no interest in STEM subjects, or business experience, understand that NET Zero policies are a Trojan Horse, even if he understands the metaphor.
“preoccupied with the vain promise of “defeating covid” instead of acting with wisdom”
Or Eurasia fighting Eastasia!
No, it’s Oceania and always has been. Keep up 😃
Nothing will convince me that the leadership thought they were “defeating covid” or that they thought there was anything much to “defeat”.
Brilliant summation of what Sunak should have said. Will the sheeple listen? Sadly no,they couldn’t care less.
Unfortunately, the hallmark of “something must be done”, without a proper understanding of whatever it is, applies to the relevant Departments across the board, regardless of which political appointments are in power. Wise politicians should try to influence it, or manage it, in some way, if they learn how to do it in due course.
This also applies to many professional institutions, especially if their reputation looks bleak on account of something.
Can we please not have any more photos or speeches of the Hindu Billionaire Utter Loser on here? It’s a national embarrassment that his Imbecile Constituents didn’t give him the boot.
Surely once he resigns as leader he will quit as an MP so he can take up a post with the UN, WEF, WHO, NATO, IMF, World Bank, Blair Foundation or whatever
Well, that’s an excellent point, though Klingons like him have a nasty predilection for clinging on, just like that new African Leader of Wales who has already shown his contempt for democracy by refusing to stand down, even after losing a clear vote of No Confidence in his leadership because of his corruption scandal…
I would have thought he’d find the life of a backbench constituency MP in a pathetic rump of an opposition far too humdrum.
He can’t be a Klingon – they were an honourable warrior race.
What Fishy should have said: To the country I would like to say first and foremost I am sorry. I was manoeuvred into this job by my good friends at Davos and was given one simple goal – to bring this once great country to its knees, physically, spiritually, financially and psychologically. Although I gave the job my best shot and some of my targets have been partially met I reluctantly confess that I am just not up to the enormity of the task and for this I apologise. To my backers. On the financial front I have largely succeeded principally by borrowing and printing money on such a scale that the country can never pay it back. I have managed to set inflation off like a runaway train and combined with wage stagnation – public services excepted – and soaring fuel costs I am confident that within a couple of years the country will be utterly bankrupt. My background in the banking world has finally been put to good use. Physically, the destruction of national infrastructure is proceeding ‘at pace’ (Civil Service phraseology 😀) with roads particularly falling to near terminal collapse. Hospitals are melting at the seems and… Read more »
Sunak, Johnson, May, Bliar, Browne, should all be jailed for their dire performance and implementation of awful anti British, anti freedom policies and open door immigration.
All party manifesto items should be on the ballot paper. And, as well as putting a cross against a candisate, we should then put a cross against all the policies we agree with, and a ‘no’ against those we don’t. And if they get elected, a party must then only develop those policies that the electorate have supported. This way we would have more control over the political animals and we, the people, would rule more directly.
“The Government was preoccupied with the need to be seen to be doing something”——————–This is the problem with all government. My old dad used to say “When in doubt do NOTHING”. Governments today always intent on justifying their existence do EVERYTHING. It was never clearer that during covid and is clear as day with the Political Class doing “EVERYTHING” they can to pretend to save the planet to such an extent they are prepared to destroy the Industrial base, lower living standards and pursue ideological dreams rather than practical solutions. But if we thought the Tories were dumb in this regard then we “ain’t seen nuthin yet”——–This Labour Government with Miliband onboard will set about destroying prosperity with zeal never seen before.
“Sorry I did a great many things you didn’t want ….. and I didn’t do a great many things you did want. But my Controllers wouldn’t let me, even if I wanted to. And I didn’t.”