Rishi Sunak went without Sky TV so his parents could send him to private school

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Honestly this has really annoyed me, apart from the fact it's such crap - he came from a family where his parents were a GP and a pharmacist, it's like he's literally thought of the most working class stereotype and applied that. He's so out of touch and I don't know why this one has annoyed me so much but it really has.

I'm not much older than our prime minister and we didn't have one either, or holidays and not much in the way of any luxury items and guess what my parents couldn't afford to send me to private school despite them working very hard too.

Blimey no Sky? You tell the young folk about that today and they don’t believe you.

Wow, Rishi went without Sky TV so millions of children in the UK can go without food, or shoes, or education.

What a sacrifice <3

And to me, the unpleasant racist assumption is that because his parents were immigrants they must have been poor.....

@the80sweregreat I'm still useless at hair and make up despite all that time doing styles on Girl's World.

They have similar at the college where I work for hair dressing students. Really quite alarming when you wander past the lockers and see one staring out. Discombobulated heads. Mind you we also have a mock up hospital ward with full sized plastic patients. eek!

There's a lot of private school parents on Mumsnet who are similarly out of touch.

Even with Sky’s exorbitant rates, I’m not sure any of their packages are equivalent to a year of fees at Winchester College (currently £36k a year for a day pupil).

Hilarious

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Not a fan at all.

But Sky / cable was around in the early 90s! I know because all my well off friends had it and this povo had no idea what programmes they were talking about at school 😭

Please tell me he went without one of those big tvs too.

He's not poor and he's a Tory. That's all that's required for some.

Posh Spice as PM. What would her policies be?

What would the other 4 be in cabinet?

He started school at the age of 13?

It’s not a racist assumption.

Google the expulsion of Indians from East Africa. Indians had 90 days to leave the country. They left behind their homes, businesses etc. Of course Rishi’s parents experienced economic hardship because of this. Many East-African Indians arrived in the UK with a few suitcases.

This country would rather take the piss out of people who have worked hard to improve their situation. It’s a disgrace.

Agree

To put it in context. I went to a private (GDST so not the most expensive) day school in Hampshire in the 1980s. One of my friends was a GP's daughter with a SAHM. They lived in a large house with an extensive garden in one of the best streets in the city, sent their 4 children to private (day schools) and had a lot of holidays in France, both parents had cars which was unusual then, and owned all the gadgets I wished we had (a video player and a soda stream...) So on just a GPs salary you could pay 4 sets of private day school fees and own an expensive house and not penny pinch.

Another friend was the daughter of a pharmacist, again with a SAHM. Both daughters went to my school and they had a very nice house and a boat.

Final example - one of the girls in my year was the daughter of two GPs. Their house was basically a small estate with its own beach, paddocks and horses and she got a catamaran for her 18th birthday.

So I can see how a GP and a successful pharmacist could afford to send 2 children to Winchester.

The other question worth asking is how and where the destitute immigrants who gave birth to this out of touch loser got their higher education to qualify as a doctor and a pharmacist. Suggests that they came from reasonably well to do families? So maybe not that penniless after all?

@Carota Cameron, for all his many faults never tried to fudge his background. Sunak does.

Absolutely nothing to do with the colour of his skin, it’s because he’s yet another bullshitting Tory cunt.

Wasn't there some story about someone from Buckingham Palace phoning his prospective employer before he had a job interview?

I didn't have Sky TV either
Or cable

I had NTL when I was around 20..

It's just proving how out of touch and idiotic some wealthy people actually are.

There's a vast ocean of difference between cutting costs, making ends meet and actually just not having enough and starving.

If you've paid your bills, saved a bit, chipped into a pension pot and still have a little money left at the end of the month, you're doing better than a lot of people..

The assumption is based on how he described his parents

there was. Allegedly he was 'someone to watch' as in a high flyer

Many economic immigrants come to the UK well educated. 30% of current NHS consultants went to medical school abroad (India, Africa etc) and came to the UK because the NHS had a need and they felt (rightly) that they would do better financially here with their education. Destitute/desperate only in the sense that many weren't exactly welcomed here with open arms initially. I know medics who had to work as cleaners/phlebotomists/lab assistants to make the money to pass their exams here and then hope the hiring person looks past their foreign sounding name to hire them

Cable/satellite TV in the 80s and early 90s was not the ubiquitous thing that digital subscriptions are now. Nothing unusual in not having it, and certainly not a marker of sacrifice.

they arent but they got him into one of THE public schools not your local private school. pritti Patels parent s were Uganda exiles and she did ok. Nobody is rinsing Sunak but lets not kid ourselves he was the average boy who got lucky. He was bright and that was encouraged all the way.

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My parents went without Sky TV so they could afford to feed me. He’s so out of touch it’s sickening.