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.

Sky TV launched in 1989 when Rishi Sunak was 9 years old. How many households actually had Sky from 1989 to 1998 when RS would have left school? I’m not sure it was such a hardship for the Sunaks.

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IClaudine
I can't believe you scoured Mumsnet back a decade just to prove you are right!😭

I didn't 'scour' Mumsnet - it took me 2 or 3 minutes to find the quotes. I put 'day boys Winchester' into advanced search - a list of results came up with the three words I was looking for all highlighted in yellow (I was using a desktop computer). One of the quotes I used was the 4th result in the list so easily spotted. I clicked on that thread - there were only 9 posts in total on the thread and the other quote was from the same short thread.

I can't believe you are still embarrassed about your silly mistake. We all make mistakes sometimes - don't be so hard on yourself.

@Clavinova that is the kind of patronising tone that turn people away from the Conservatives

I haven't got any working class friends either. Some of my friends had working class parents, but they are not working class themselves - they have middle class jobs and professions.

@Clavinova

This is not a surprise.

I agree @Aladdinzane

MyQuaintDog
so sunak does not know how to do a card payment?

He clearly does - he knew where the card machine was in the clip I have seen. He was flustered when the assistant said 'scan there for me'.

Sorry Starmer embarrassed himself reversing a hgv in to a bollard? He’s a barrister, you need driving lessons and to pass a test to drive one of those.

You don’t need the same to use a card machine. Hardly comparable.

It was a joke, referencing his previous remarks and struggles with petrol pumps.

The assistant was holding up a scanner.

Just as waiters do and bar staff do. Its hardly rocket science.

Starmer saying something a bit daft like that is not the same as someone who is so out of touch with the reality of most people but doesn’t realise or acknowledge that. How can people trust him to think about their needs when he’s so far removed.

He embarrassed himself by saying "Very good" after being told he had failed his mock test.

Rishi, you really need to come across as a man of the people. Time to eat a Findus Crispy Pancake or a Pot Noodle on the telly (Not Sky).

This reminds me if The Thick of It when the politicians pretended he watched Eastenders really badly.

No - the garage assistant was holding up a scanner behind the Covid screen - the card payment machine was on the counter. Sunak clearly knew where the payment machine was after the initial confusion - he didn't have to be directed to it.

Lets be honest, Clavinova would defend a Tory leader if they started sending people to Gulags.

Ooops, she already has.

Starmer saying something a bit daft

Like saying you've got two sons when you have a son and a daughter;

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/keir-starmer/video-3097315/Video-Sir-Keir-Starmer-mixes-childrens-genders-Sky-News-interview.html

@Clavinova making a mistake when you are talking is different to leaving D Day early which is a deliberate decision, or announcing the election in the rain, or announcing stupid policies that would never work.

Clavinova was here defending David Cameron when he was PM.

She then about faced and was supporting TM, till she wasn't and she supported Boris.

Then she was a ardent defender of Truss.

Now she defends Sunak.

All who have had different political stances.

She'd defend a pig with a blue rosette if it was the leader of the labour party.

Keir Starmer and Anas Sawar removed their poppies to record videos on Islamophobia - seemingly deciding to do so on the same day. Starmer's spokesperson claimed it was a mistake - not really a credible answer if Labour's leader in Scotland did the same thing:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1830894/lee-anderson-missing-poppies-islamophobia-keir-starmer-anas-sarwar
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/11/02/starmer-row-poppy-islamophobia-awareness-campaign/

Doesn’t it make you wonder why someone, who made millions on his hedge fund career, betting against the UK in the banking crisis, would want to leave that lucrative profession to become an MP on an annual salary of around £90k? (Granted they boost that significantly with so-called “expenses”.) It’s not as if he’s shown any burning ambition to “make things better” for the general public is it, no, I get the impression us ordinary Joes/Josephines are shit beneath his shoe.

Aladdinzane
Clavinova was here defending David Cameron when he was PM

I doubt it - I don't think I started posting anything on politics until shortly before the 2017 election. I was spooked by Jeremy Corbyn.

Then she was a ardent defender of Truss.

Sunak was my choice for PM over Liz Truss - I remember posting at the time.

The poor pig would need someone to defend it from Cameron's amorous advances to be fair

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