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.

The one person I knew whose son won an assisted place to an Independent school was most definitely not working class.

This didn't apply to Sunak though - his parents had done well for themselves and chose to educate their sons privately, but not daughter.

I said, "Pretend you got no money."
And he just laughed and said, "Oh, you're so funny."
I said, "Yeah
Well, I can't see anyone else smiling in here,
Are you sure?"

😎

That's interesting; I didn't know that they chose to privately educate the sons but not the daughter. It is very typical, traditionally, for Indian families to favour the sons. Destructive too.

Destructive ? Comes with the "Approved by Farage" stamp of approval.

I'm not clear what you mean here, @SerendipityJane

Not just Indian families - I know white families who have never lived anywhere else but England privately educating their son(s) but not the daughter(s). With the excuse that the local girls school is very good.

Yes I know a family with 2 sons and 2 daughters who sent the sons private. Girls went to good state schools, which begs the question of why if they were in the catchment of a good state school why all of them didn't go State and share the money out fir extra curricular etc for all kids. Similarly Sunaks parents. They could have sent all 3 to a cheaper private school but chose one of the most expensive schools in the country.

Agree. Carla Denyer of the Greens said 'I was lucky I had a comfortable childhood and didn't want for anything'. End of story. Same as most people.

Have you seen how much private school is though? To be fair to him, they probably did go without luxuries to pay for private education. I bet the uniform alone was extortionate

Cassetteboy needs to get on the case with this!!

Saw this today 😂

Alot of children in this country are going with nutritious meals because processed food is so much cheaper, Many have never been out of the area in which they live for a holiday or day out. It's ridiculous that he thinks he could understand the world of poverty, drugs and crime like many teenagers will go through in this country to survive. He's pathetic and completely out of touch with the real world!

I took him to a supermarket,I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere

I suspect - unlike most of the UK - that has been doctored.

They can’t be as rich as everyone is making out then, if they couldn’t send all their kids to private school

@SerendipityJane It's definitely real as my children go to school down the road and I see it when I drop them off occasionally. I think it may well have been a more recent addition though

Rishi married money, his family were not in the same bracket or even close. Arguably starmer’s family were wealthier, his father owned the factory.

sunak married into a very wealthy family indeed.

We didn’t have a sky dish in the 90s either

Mother couldn’t bear the look of them.

suspect that the Sunaks thought sky dishes were frightfully lower class

And he also lied about it too

Yes but he went to Winchester

Liar liar pants on fire he is

I was born 1977 but we had sky in by the time I went to high school. And I don’t think we were in the first batch of people getting it. My dad took some persuasion. But I don’t think sky was even that expensive back then. Certainly not the equivalent to private school. 🤦‍♀️

Well not having a Sky subscription would cover about 1-2% of the annual fees for a school like Winchester, so where's the other 98% come from? Using own brand tomatoes?

FML this bloke is out of touch with reality.

Absolutely this. Where are the advisors?

I'm just slightly older than Rishi and from a working class family with very little money.We had Sky from 1990 as I remember people were given a free sky set up as a free trial. A relative signed up for this free trial knowing he was moving house soon. when he moved he installed the huge white Amstrad sky dish at my parents house for us. we had free sky tv for many years as back then you were able to buy dodgy viewing cards to put in the decoder box for £10 in the local pubs! these cards lasted years until sky became digital 😒🤣.Almost every family we knew at the time had sky this way. But we still didn't go to private school!