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.

It was about £20 a month in the 90's! Its only about £100 a month now for the top package

Well said!

If you had sports and film it was more.

For those who didnt see the clip, the question was what do you do day to day to make sure you are still in touch with what ordinary people face. Rishi himself segwayed into his growing up years and his parents prioritising education. Own goal given the prevalent attitudes of most Brits. He may well have felt deprived of Sky etc compared to weathier kids growing up but this is a campaign and you need to know your audience

https://x.com/PaulBrandITV/status/1800755827927613806?t=xpGpjHUZUKGApa2imy5FIA&s=08

Indeed. Eton, here I come.
He is like that meme "how do you do, fellow kids".

My colleague actually changed his name to News Bunny - he was the original news bunny who stood behind the newsreaders reacting to the news. The bastard boss got him to make his name News Bunny so he could stand for election. I often wonder if hje changed it back.

Bastard boss was Kelvin Mackenzie no less. And it was Kelvin who came up with topless darts and the bouncing weatherman. The bloke's brain is basically made of sleaze.

Sunak's PR team are AWFUL! Why are they letting him repeatedly open his mouth, only to stick his foot in it? The optics on this are clearly shit, just as they were for leaving the D-day service early, so why is nobody making this clear to him? I mean he should be able to work it out for himself but he clearly can't.

Again, for those who don't understand - doctors and pharmacists where wealthy enough back then. Winchester was £12k a year, senior docs where on £60k NHS scales. So even if they sent 3 at the same time (£36k a year net), and they both earned £60k each, it would have been tight but definitely doable. Most likely both his parents earned closer to £70-80k as they were both owners (like most GPs). Not on the breadline but able to maintain a nice house, pay fees and maybe fly 'home' once a year

Poor lamb. Bet he had to share his pony with another boy.

Just googled the cost of Sky TV when it launched in the late 80s early 90s. Apologies if someone has posted something alone the same lines already.

Apparently it cost around £250 to have it installed and have the box but there was no subscription.

Sky movies was the first subscription channel. It started in the early part of 1990 and cost £8 a month.

Yes, that would have made a huge different as to whether little Rishi when to Winchester or the local comp.

It's just blunder after blunder, I am finding it hugely entertaining, What nonsense will he come out with next?

I think the fact that he can't do this is very telling, it shows a real lack of imagination and empathy and no skills of self reflection

Total dick. DD's uncle and aunt were GP and pharmacist. Very well off thank you, and sent their DD to private school without any scrimping or saving. Sunak is tin-eared - which is why it didn't occur to him (or his inner circle) that leaving the DD celebrations to do a not that urgent recorded interview was offensive (and a breach of protocol, surely, if HMK was present?)

I haven't got Sky. I must be the most deprived grandparent in the UK. Do you think Sunak will do something to help me, I shouldn't have to be living in Sky poverty at my age.

So the question was about what does he do to keep in touch with the struggles of normal people when he is wealthier than the King.

To which the only helpful answer to his goal would be ‘do you know what, I was very privileged. My parents worked hard to put me through private school and I am hugely grateful for that. It means though that it can be hard for me to fully understand the experiences of others who haven’t had that privilege and that’s why I listen and learn. I’ve listened XYz insert examples of when he’s listened and what he’s learned.

The truth is the answer is ‘nothing because I don’t actually give a shit about ordinary people. I believe that if they just worked hard enough they could be in my position too. I have a lovely life, I deserve it. Tough shit if you can’t heat your home.’

Didn't it do so bad originally it had to merge with another company? I think he'd have been in his teens before it started to be popular so I don't think it was that big an issue for little Rishi.

Dunno guys we had a rigged cable box deffo in the 90s! Didn’t cost a penny though

So the question was about what does he do to keep in touch with the struggles of normal people when he is wealthier than the King

Its not his wealth as such, he can't chose his parents.... its that he has no real idea of poverty and deprivation.... so with his money, he could do so much good with it, as many very wealthy people often do.

Instead he keeps it for himself, seemingly of the view that if you aren't wealthy, then thats your fault and you don't deserve help or support.

I’m not sure that ‘wanting Labour’ is quite the slur you imagine it is.

We’ve just got a Sky Glass package - that’s only £99 a month with the TV thrown in. Like £1200 a year is going to make a difference to private school fees !! They’re thrashing about in panic now and it’s showing - Grant Shapps gave the game away this morning that they’re expecting a Labour ‘supermajority’. He seemed to be saying that people needed to vote Tory just to reduce the majority of an incoming Labour government and keep it in check.

He was a day boy according to this article;

Unusually, he went as a day boy, because Winchester is only a few miles from the northern suburbs of Southampton. One friend of his from school says:
“... it was a sign of the esteem in which he was held that he was made head boy despite being a day boy”.

https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/long-reads/rishi-sunak-profile-winchester-akshata-murthy-chancellor-a9525996.html

Rishi Sunak's parents were dirt-poor*

*in comparison to his billionaire parents-in-law.

Winchester was £12k a year

Presumably less than that for Sunak as a day boy.