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Song Parodies -> "Rishi"

Original Song Title:

"Mickey"

 (MP3)
Original Performer:

Toni Basil

Parody Song Title:

"Rishi"

Parody Written by:

Phil Alexander

The Lyrics

Rishi Sunak is now Prime Minister of the UK: back in April (seems like aeons ago), it was leaked (any odds by a Boris who was feeling threatened by the popularity of his Chancellor) that Rishi's wife Akshata Murty, a billionaire scion of the Infosys family, had non-dom status and was paying a nominal 30k pa on multi-million income.

When this story broke, Sunak went in to bat for his wife, saying what she was doing was legal. It was, and is, completely legal - nobody was suggesting lawbreaking or anything other than it highlighting a manifest and gross unfairness in our tax system that lets incredibly rich people pay to all intents and purposes nothing. Murty let it be known that she was voluntarily going to pay tax on worldwide income to try and avert the storm which threatened her husband's political career (https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/rishi-sunaks-wife-akshata-murty-gives-up-non-dom-tax-status-and-promises-to-pay-uk-tax-on-worldwide-income-1566258). Very successfully, it now turns out: for a few million in tax, her husband now has the most powerful job in the UK. In more normal times, this story probably would have been a career killer, but after Johnson and then Truss, the Tories were desperate for someone who had even the tiniest vestiges of credibility.

But.. Sunak had the power to make rich people pay appropriate amounts of tax as Chancellor, yet spurned that opportunity. He didn't want his wife to pay a fair amount (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-61034496), and I find it disheartening that it seems the opportunity to run the country can be bought so cheaply. Murty sounded very gracious in saying "It has become clear that many do not feel it is compatible with my husband’s role as Chancellor. I understand and appreciate the British sense of fairness and I do not wish my tax status to be a distraction for my husband or to affect my family.", but that sounds very much like "I can pay what I want, and if my husband wasn't politically ambitious, I'd carry on paying a pittance"

We shouldn't be happy that she decided to make that decision, we should be appalled that it was necessary. A billionaire shouldn't need a spouse to be vying for the country's top job to pay tax, it should be a part of the country's tax rules.

He got lucky: being the least utterly pisspoor option of the bottom of the barrel scrapings. It would be so nice if he were to look at his wife's decision to pay tax on her earnings in the UK and say "if she can do it, so can everyone else (even you, Lord Rothermere of the Daily Mail)". But the evidence suggests that he won't. Sigh.
Oh Rishi, you're PM
You're PM in this mayhem
Hey Rishi, hey Rishi

Oh Rishi, you're the boss
You're the boss of this chaos
Hey Rishi, hey Rishi

Oh Rishi, you're in charge
You're in charge of this farrag-
O Rishi, hey Rishi

Oh Rishi, CEO
CEO of this shitshow
Hey Rishi
Hey Rishi

Been reading 'bout your wife - she's living here so long
She's been here half her life but still taxed as a non-dom
It's clear this isn't right
So will you right this wrong, Rishi?
She's making piles of cash, can't you see it isn't fair
I'm giving you the facts, Rishi, please Rishi, care
So will she pay her tax or at least a fair share, Rishi?

Oh Rishi, what a pity, you don't understand
A fair tax should be part of living in this land
Oh Rishi from the City, can't you understand?
It's guys like you, Rishi
And your wife, too Rishi, ooh Rishi
Should play your part, Rishi

Hey Rishi
But it was not OK, and when everyone could see
She said that she would pay her taxes voluntarily
So there would be a way that you could lead, Rishi
Now step up to the plate, and modify the law
It isn't that we hate the rich, they can afford it more
You can accommodate a little more for the poor, Rishi

Oh Rishi, what a pity, you don't understand
A fair tax should be part of living in this land
Oh Rishi from the City, can't you understand?
It's guys like you, Rishi
And your wife, too Rishi, ooh Rishi
Should pay your part, Rishi

Repeat ad lib. Or at least ad nauseam.

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Peregrin - October 31, 2022 - Report this comment
Another obvious title sub - but ya gotta have the knack of thinking of it first! An interesting read, in the anitpodes you find out the who but the what often gets left out of the story (until the s*** inevitably hits a fan somewhere). 555 tax euros for you.
pickle - November 03, 2022 - Report this comment
He and his wife had it coming!

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