To think the never ending criticism of Rishi Sunak is rooted in racism?

Don't you remember the Tory London mayoral candidate in May?

Cameron got quite a lot of stick in his year days as party leader about coming from a wealthy family and going to Eton etc. His response was that he acknowledged the privilege but that he wasn't going to apologise for an accident of birth or a parental decision about his education as neither were choices for him to make. After that the Bullingdon photos did the rounds and he got a lot of flack for that. However he and his wife were quite careful about how they appeared - flying easyjet to Spain, she wore and M&S dress to party conference (although that backfired a bit), holidays in Cornwall etc. Basically trying to appear relatable to middle England. Cameron was also reportedly livid with Rishi not attending all of D Day. He just had a bit more olitical nous than Sunak basically.

"He seems really sweet and well meaning"

Really? The guy's an avid Thatcherite and neoliberal who's been part of the government that's deliberately trashed public services and made life harder for the poorest and most vulnerable people in the country. Tory policy on the NHS is literally killing hundreds of people every week.

And he's done it all intentionally, with a shit eating grin on his face, while metaphorically sitting on a massive pile of gold.

BTW - apparently he earned 2.2 million quid last year. He paid an effective tax rate of 23% on it.

How much of your earnings did you pay in tax last year?

All PMs get ripped apart when they're a few weeks off being booted out. It is tradition. He wasn't even elected in the first place.

Not all criticism of none white people is rooted in racism.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't he admit that it happened on his watch as DPP but because it was dealt with at a lower level and he was not informed, he was not responsible?
I think that speaks volumes of his lack of leadership skills.

I don't think racism remotely enters into it-

I won’t be voting Conservative but I do agree that there’s a whiff and undercurrent of racism. I don’t find Sunak as incompetent/ untrustworthy as his two immediate predecessors although I do find him somewhat out of touch. I think the D day criticism is overblown . He was there for all the events involving veterans and was respectful. However I won’t vote for him as a value public services.

Cameron was fortunate in 2010 to be running against a fairly unpopular incumbent government, and then in 2015 there was another party to split any blame with because they'd been in coalition.

And Rishi Sunak is getting well deserved criticism of his performance. He's awful! Nothing to do with racism.

agree. sadly too many voters have zero critical thinking skills and prefer "alternative facts" to reality.

I know. 😢I’m just so sick of of all the misinformation that gets touted around about so much. About all sorts. Not just politics. It’s everywhere. This election more than any other we need to go direct to the manifestos, listen directly to what they say and do our own fact checking of anything that seems too good to be true or like it’s aimed to stir emotion.

There always has been skepticism over whether Rishi was the right man for the job based on his background and whether his values align with traditional British values. I don’t think it’s racism per se but I do see a pattern that people always nitpick on small things near the end of a politicians time in office. It’s the small things that can be made into click bait, memes and it sort of lightens the mood. As much as I get what Rishi was actually saying with the whole sky tv thing, I have found some of the piss taking quite funny.

too much to ask for tory PR machine / conspiracy theorists / rishi sympathisers to do this, I am afraid.

He was nothing to do with the JS case. That has been debunked. Dear god people do a bit of fact checking before you go spouting off half baked slurs you read on Facebook. Use your own intelligence.

The £2000 figure is not fact. It’s been fact checked. Rishi lied. Kier called him out on it and there may well be an investigation.

Keir Starmer is a genius compared to all the tory PMs we've had in gov the last few years.

Nothing to do with his race but everything to do with his inability to listen to UK public and act in UK public interests. He is a globalist puppet and got a job lined up in the US already. Remember Batak Obamas recent informal visit to Rishi?

YABVVU. There is nothing racist in dislike of him, he is just absolutely fucking useless.

absolutely agree.

Highly Educated does not always equate with being clever and Starmer is a prime example of that.
The man who, when Director of the DPP, oversaw not only no action taken against Jimmy Saville, but also a very low key approach taken against the Pakistani Rape Gangs that Anne Cryer tried to expose.

I think it is more his privileged and billionaire out of touch lifestyle that people are annoyed about, not his race. I still remember the slagging Cameron got for not knowing the price of a pint of milk. Britain seem obsessed with this kind of thing which may be because most of the Politicians (Tories anyway) are from very privileged backgrounds. I don't think you get such a high percentage of highly privileged politicians in other countries.

Tufton Street's scare-mongering division is working over time, I see

Absolutely nothing to do with racism and all to do about the fact he’s absolutely fucking terrible at his job.

For me it isn't his religion, the colour of his skin etc it is his blatant lying, being out of touch and his lack of apology for anything.