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The Millionaire. The Tax Cheat & The Child Snatchers.

Is the title too dramatic?

Almost as if I'm pursuing a career in right wing press.

As catchy and inflammatory as it is, it is true.

Our Millionaire Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, has had a tough couple of weeks. Bless his little Harrod's premium Egyptian cotton socks.

From the Scottish Government trying to give Trans people in Scotland a route to self acceptance and societal approval to dealing with questions over what GP surgery he uses and whether it be private or public services him and his family use regularly.

Whatever you took from his vague answers just always remember: His Dad was a doctor

Moving swiftly forward to our ever loveable multi-millionaire chairman of the Conservative party.

How could the public possibly turn on a man who ensured the ambient temperature of his horses accommodation was that or higher than the average UK families living room?

Well he might want to turn down the temperature on the thermostat of his and his horses gaffs.

Nadhim Zahawi, the man once charged with taxation regulation on behalf of a tory government just happened to commit a few 'errors' which resulted in him essentially 'forgetting who owned the shares and therefore who owed the tax bill'.

It appears that forgetting figures of tens of millions is quite easy for a few privileged. Comforting to know that this is the chairman of the current ruling party which is led by another more successful and wealthy gentleman who is married to an almost billionaire non dom resident.

Again moving swiftly on before my brain suffers a serious malfunction due to an overload of hypocrisy and corruption.....

The child snatchers.... I must admit, I giggled when I came up with that even though the title is probably the most fitting.

Somehow, the Home Office has managed to lose 200 children.

You read that correct, don't adjust your screens as they say.

200 children have been trafficked by unknown individuals from the care of a home office approved hotel accommodation in England. The fact that the general consensus of tory MP's like Jonathon Gullis is that 'they shouldn't have come here illegally' is a worrying sign of the depths extreme right wing members can plunge to.

After comments like wee jolly Jonathon's, social media is alight with false statements about the actual age of the children in question. Some claiming that as many as 70% of male asylum seekers are 18 and over and fraudulently claim underage status to enhance their chances of a successful asylum application.

These statements are clearly untrue and with a quick search of the ONS figures its closer to 11%.

Others simply don't deny the age of the children and claim that they deserve to be trafficked because they came here illegally.

The least offensive assumption from the right wing commentators is that the children have illegally re-united with relatives who are already settled within the UK.

Illegal to do so or not, I can't help but think 'go for it wee one, find your family'. Its tough having compassion for strangers in a world that's becoming so populist at a working class, grass route level.

I feel sorry for the people of England.