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

[number10bus]

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.

<face palm>

Did it annoy you that Starmer claimed his family couldn’t afford Sky TV when he was a child. Starmer was 27 years old when Sky TV started up!

No we hate him because he is a self serving tory who has throughout his working life treated the UK as his and his extended families money box. He made his first fortune shorting the GBP in the financial crash, ie a disaster capitalist. He was complicit in the handing out of dodgy covid contracts when he was chancellor as well as admitting at that time there was circa £6 billion unaccounted for that they were not going to chase, never mind the test and trace £37 billion for the worlds most expensive and inefficient program. His stupidity with the boat people and Rwanda is beyond a joke. The Tories and him as PM have always had the option of processing people in France and elsewhere but chose to keep the British people angry with all the boat crossings, never mind the cynical motivation of putting £100s of millions into cony hoteliers pockets (as intended) The list is endless, like multiple contracts to Infosys etc. he is a piece of s*

Nothing to do with envy. People who quote that tend to be of the jealous and envious kind themselves. It is to do with the massive fk up he and his chums have inflicted on the majority of people in the UK, not you perhaps but most others and in particular the very poor, disabled and chronically ill. He, like Johnson have overseen the most inept, corrupt and destructive government in living memory and probably a lot longer than that. They have doubled down on Thatcher's mess, but too stupid to realise that that Thatcherism been played out, there is nothing left to sell. Sunnak and the rest of the inner circle of Tories are nothing more than traitorous disaster capitalists.

@number10bus I agree, of all the Tory MPs we've had, Sunak is so far removed from an average Joe that it's aggrevating just listening to him trying to say he's not privileged.

Parliament should represent the people, so obvs if there was proportionate representation we might have 1 or 2 MPs like Sunak.

The thing that annoys me more about him is the £21b fraud the audit committee found in his first 4 months as a PM and that he openly gives contracts to and makes policy decisions that benefit his family and mates all at the cost of the tax payer.

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When Rishi was at school our Sky Package was about £25 a month... Perhaps he'd like to share the Private School that charges £5-10 a week 😂

@Chezza2502

when they came to the UK in the 60 from Kenya at which time people in those professions were being murdered

Would you be able to provide more details about this?

I thought the Asian exodus from Kenya was largely because the Kenyan government started Kenyanisation/requiring people who weren’t Kenyan citizens to have work permits.

There was a lot of bloodshed before and after independence, but my impression is that was heavily slanted towards the British killing and torturing the Kenyans.

my heart bleeds for him NOT there are kids in this country going to bed in temporary accomodation hungry because of Rishi and his nasty party !

He simply has no idea.

Oh yes, the poor man(!) Maybe you ought to consider your own misplaced empathy! Jeez. Of all the people in this world, this man does not need anyone's pity. And he has brought this on himself when he could have just kept his mouth shut!

Accusing people of 'jealousy' is a pathetic, lazy argument after all the Tories have done to destroy the UK.

If he'd just said 'I was lucky enough to have a privileged childhood/upbringing and didn't want for much' it would be fine. Yes he'd still get some push back but because he kept on about there definitely being lots of things he went without as a child he just dug himself a massive hole to lie about!
It was the answer to the question about what is in a better position after a Conservative led government and he answered 'Education' that really got me - I nearly woke my baby for laughing! The bloke hasn't got a Scooby what's going on for the average family in this country. I'm not sure what I was expecting him to answer, but it certainly wasn't that!!! The education system and schools, much like the NHS, are on their knees from 14 years of chronic underfunding and lack of resources. Teachers are leaving in their droves because of the unrealistic pressure and workload, and children (in particular SEN children) are being failed because of a lack of provision. I want to make it clear that this is not at all the fault of incredibly hardworking school staff by the way - they're the only ones keeping it all afloat.

I think he comes quite unstuck one on one. I think it's linked to uncertainty about himself. It would be better if he said he recognises he is fortunate to be where he is, and was fortunate in his upbringing and wants to help others.

I think you have missed the point spectacularly there. It’s not what his parents did, that he went to a public school or that he’s richer than the king, it’s that he doesn’t seem to have any insight about the huge privilege that gives him.

He was asked how he keeps in touch with the struggles of normal people and HE brought up the sacrifices his parents made to send him to public school. The word sacrifice was also on his own blurb about himself as an MP. The interviewer then pushed him to name these sacrifices and he tried to avoid answering. Eventually he said Sky TV.

He showed no insight into his own privilege. He showed no insight into what sacrifices for your kids look like for those with very little. He showed no insight into how those comments might feel to someone with nothing. He showed no political awareness that this wasn’t a good move.

If he’d said he has been hugely lucky and privileged and that makes it hard for him to know the struggles of people but that he tries to listen and understand and how he wants every child to have a good education etc Id have had more respect for him. As it is I think he’s a prize idiot lacking in compassion, empathy and really isn’t the right person to be heading the country at this scary time. He’s loose mouthed.

Indeed.

I think Rishi doesn’t really want that

I thought he had bought some big place in California and is hoping to move there ASAP. The last thing he wants is to be stuck in no. 10

He should have said a Mr Frosty, isn't that what most adults his age yearned for in childhood

This is the first election where I won’t be voting

Sunak is out of touch with reality

(I don’t watch tv but I feel like a reality tv programme with Rishi trying to navigate claiming benefits and the Pip form for a diasabled person for a couple of months and living off benefits whilst paying rent and trying to find another rental as the landlord has given notice and he has to find another place to live halfway through the 8weeks would be a huge hit)

As for Starmer

I have no confidence in him. I know Labour has a manifesto but what is Keir Starmers vision
Not the vision of what a think tank says the vision is. Not the vision of his friends or who is shouting the loudest in his ear but His Vision of the future

I can see him getting in with the biggest majority ever and failing because he lacks his own vision of the future.

Whether you love or hate Boris or Thatcher or Blair. You knew they had a vision to work towards. You knew whether you agreed with it or not they had a vision and as leaders they lead the country

Starmer just looks like a weak leader who changes his rhetoric as soon as someone questions him.

At this point Nigel looks like the only one who can lead and if that is the case then we are in more trouble than we think we are in.
The country is F**ked

No of course you re not!!!

He has been an MP for just 9 years, there is nothing to suggest he has given away a penny of his fortune, none of his media supporters have ever said he has done anything for less well off pre becoming an MP.

Of all the things he could come out with when asked "what did you go without?" was SKY TV....

Just another T.May "Running through fields of Wheat" answer.

Out of touch with normal people, hence him and his parties collapse in the Polls.

Nothing random, its pertinent to his character.

@Yalta Boris's only vision was to become PM/make money... once there he didn't know what to to do.

Starmer faces a very hostile media and a UK with no capacity to borrow money and cannot raise taxes as few earn very much... he has to tread very carefully.

So Starmers "vision" seems to be to increase the countries growth, its the only strategy..... will it work? we don't know but its the only option for the UK.

Sadly you perpetuate the belief that if it is not publicised it is not done. Hence public figures ensuring they have a camera crew for every good deed. It is performative for people like you and hope you enjoy the show!

He may well not be philanthropic - but there are plenty people who die and then what they give is publicised. But nope - let's make sure @Alexandra2001 sees it on the cover of the DailyFail. That is true philanthropy

Poor rishi ..he wants to have gone to school with holes in his shoes in the winter and no coat like i had to, he would know what going without is then. Cheeky fucker...sky indeed. Judgemental entitled shite.

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Nope, i don't expect that.

I just think that the extremely wealthy should do some good with their money.

Its certain that had Sunak helped various organisations pre his political career, CHQ would be all over it.

The guy cannot even invest in the UK, his wealth has been derived from monies held in the USA.