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

Nobody from a normal background at all.

Apart from the bloke who I dimly seem to remember was the son of a toolmaker and a nurse. The women whose parents were state sector teachers and went to her local comp. The woman who left her local comp age 16 when she became pregnant and then worked as a care worker to support herself and her baby. The guy whose immigrant Guyanese mother had to bring her four children up single handed when her husband buggered off. The dyslexic kid who left his comp with no qualifications at all, and made it to uni at the third attempt aged 25. The guy whose father died when he was four, and then had to care for his terminally ill mother when he was just a teenager. The guy whose grandparents were criminals and whose single teenaged mother brought him and his many siblings up in a council flat.

If only there were people with those sort of normal/challenging backgrounds standing for high office.

No. Everyone hated Boris too, probably more.

No. Nothing to do with racism, at all. Just that he's a plonker.

He's definitely not a moron. Unprincipled, driven by self-interest, totally lacking in leadership qualities and spectacularly out of touch with the average person in the UK, but not stupid.

What he is is the last man standing after Brexit, Johnson and the culture wars have driven all the talent out of the Tory party. It'll take them years to rebuild.

I think people are fed up with privileged wealthy privately educated Oxbridge graduates running the country. He’s no better or worse than the next but they are so out of touch with the real struggles people face. They have no clue what’s it like to live in poverty.

We need someone that can speak from experience and really understand the struggles people face who tries to do the right think by the public.

As we have no one readily available- we’re fucked and they’re all as bad as each other!

Nope.

I think there are always going to be some who can't resist being a racist twat.

For the rest of us and I do think thats the vast majority, we think he is a prick, the colour of his skin is wholly irrelevant. He'd be a prick no matter what colour he was.

I also don't think he's getting any more brutal a treatment than any other prime minister has.

Here's a quick sample of cartoon jibes at Boris https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-prime-minister-cartoon-dave-brown-b2158351.html Theres similar for every one and plenty of other politicians who haven't been PM.

I can’t think of one PM at the end of being in power being spoken about nicely. Boris, Theresa, Liz. Margaret Thatcher was hated a lot, and still is. You could argue that maybe it was just because she was a strong woman, and there was a bit of sexism there, but I just think that the hate currently directed at Rishi is down to him being a poor PM. He’s done nothing since being in power other than a rushed attempt at sorting out the immigration thing. If you’re going to pin everything on racism, how has Khan survived another term of serving as Mayor in London?

I agree. But that's not the OPs question, which I was answering.

I don't care what colour he is.

He's an extremely rich Tory bastard who has no idea how ordinary people live.

@Daz57 the things he is saying and doing either indicate he is not very intelligent, or is trying to lose the election.

Yabu

He's the leader of a currently unpopular political party who have had 14 years governing the country and fucked it up royally.

He's a rich man with a rich wife with questionable tax affairs, at a time when huge swathes of the population can barely make ends meet, and he's done nothing to close the gap.

He's yet another privileged, out of touch public school boy and ordinary people have realised he's not on their side.

He may as well be roaming westminster with a sign on his back saying "kick me", its got nothing to do with his ethnicity.

I don't actually mind him at least he's not truss or Boris. I think people are just tired of the conservatives and the media are a bit like sharks who've scented blood. Now it's a competition to see who can get the shittiest soundbite on record.

Just really needs to keep his head screwed on and try not to do the man of the people routine and he can slink off in a dignified way to be megarich.

Calling him a moron is not acceptable and unkind. But this seems to be the level on MN now.

He’s a knob, less of a knob than Boris but still a knob. I am sure he’s a decent enough bloke but I think he’s been a poor prime minister.

Even his own Conservative Ministers have criticised him. Leaving D Day early for an election interview FFS.

I feel so much better for that rant. 😁

No, it's rooted in him being an absolute twatbag.

I’m not seeing that he’s getting much different treatment to Boris or Liz to be honest.

It's nothing to do with his race, it's because he's a useless knob of a Tory who likes nothing better than lining the pockets of his wealthy chums, while shitting on the ordinary people who don't earn 6 or 7 figure sums and rely on public services for their healthcare, education and a shedload of other stuff. Women are especially damaged by this, because they earn less on average and more likely to have caring responsibilities.

There are scores of others like him in parliament and most of the senior ones have smelt the shit before it comes off the shovel and are standing down.

I don't rate Starmer particularly highly but at least he won't make life worse for those on below average incomes, or who can't afford private healthcare, private education for their kids, or who have to pay crazy rents for some shitty flat because they haven't made funding available to build more than a smattering of social housing.

The Sky tv thing was a fucking insult to those who have to go to food banks, and almost as arse-clenchingly embarrassing as when he asked that homeless guy if he'd considered working in finance.

To try and pretend that the criticism is based on race is disingenuous and shows a gob-smacking lack of awareness. It's about what he does, not who he is.

@WorriedMama12

"I think more than anything, it's because he's a tory, and everyone loves to hate on tories!"

Then Tories shouldn't give everyone so much to hate.

It’s not thinly veiled racism, it’s envy.

His name is a gift for making a pun about someone who is very very very rich. This is not racism.

There's an election on and of course he’s going to get more flak as the sitting PM.

Rishi Sunak is totally incompetent. It would be racist to pretend he is competent purely because he is asian.

No. It's rooted in his being a lying little weasel.

I hate him because he's a Tory more concerned with making rich people richer than doing anything to improve the lot of his constituents, although I hate him slightly less than I hate gove, bojo and truss so I don't think his race has anything to do with it for me personally.

I did think all the chat about him not understanding Dday did have a bit of a racist undertone but generally I think conservatives and their donors are greedier than they are racist so they're probably happy to overlook his race if it makes them richer.

I'm sure race is an issue for some. However I'd say for a lot of us, it's because he's a tory and a lot of people hate everything they stand for.