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.

Is Winchester £52,000 per year! Dash it, I was just about to cancel Sky. Sky will be inundated with calls today with people who realise they can now access Winchester. (Did Rushi study maths?) (Does he realise Sky didn't come about until around 1989 ish) He could get a new job as stand up comedian 🤔

Lurching off topic, this has made me look around as I walked down the road.

In my head satellite dishes are a thing of the past, but actually they're still bloody everywhere - I just don't notice them. I've seen literally a hundred on a five minute walk. I wonder how many people still use them or how many are derelict.

Broadbnd is absolutely fine here btw - I assume some people still need satellite in more rural areas.

When I read this all I could was laugh. I feel sorry for satirists, because the politicians are doing the satire for them!

Reminded of that biography about Kate Middleton which described her NOT eating at a fancy restaurant when she was a student as "roughing it".

Different class, different planet.

The dates stack up fine, he'd have been starting school in 1993.

Who is doing his PR?! They aren't giving him any advice at all, or they're trolling him!

If Keir Starmer had said the same it would really annoy me too. It's so out of touch. If RS just owned the fact that he had parents who were able to afford to send him to public school it would neither surprise me or annoy me.

Yes - does he honestly think it would come across worse to just say "I'm fortunate enough that when I was growing up, we didn't have to go without. I want every child to have that sense of security that I had etc etc".

He has no political awareness.

Its quite shocking that some poor staffer obviously had to come up with something that made Rishi more relatable to ordinary people and this is the best they could come up with.

Ah thanks. Guess people should just cancel Sky or Netflix then and follow hus parents lead. Off to Winchester everyone can go.

Oh god yes, it's totally clueless. That's the other reason why I think it's probably true. If you were making something up you'd make up something that worked.

Posh people don't let their kids watch tv anyway

Is he trying to look like more of an idiot than he already seems? LOL. What a nob.

I was struggling to think of a worse example of relating to ordinary people, and then I remembered Johnson's 'I like to paint little models of buses'.

This interview is begging for a Man in the Room Next Door sketch.

He was a teen before sky even launched, perhaps 12. I was at 6th form. I remember watching the rocket launch for the Astra satellite. Does he really think that forgoing £49 a month tv (current prices not then) will pay for private education????

I don't dislike him. I think he is out of touch and I'll informed. If he was honest it would be much better for him.

The rushing off to repeat lies instead of attending D day commemoration with Veterans was bad.

Now this attempt at showing sky TV was sacrificed to attend Winchester.

🙄

He gets more ridiculous by the day, the GE can't come soon enough!

Anyway, I'm about 3 weeks older than Rishi, I remember we got Sky TV in the 90's, it was a big deal, but we definitely weren't wealthy so I don't think it was that expensive. I mean, it was a privilege, but if my parents could afford it, I'm pretty sure Rishi's could, so he probably didn't have it through snobbery rather than lack of funds!

Exactly this. I'm the same age as the PM and in the 80s and 90s it was most common for people not to have Sky. What on earth is the man talking about?!

I've just seen another clip from the start of the interview where he comes in a bit late, apologising that the D-Day commemorations "ran over".
Bloody veterans, not keeping to schedule so Rishi can get to his interview 🙄

I'm the same age and yes, it was.

However in my year at primary there was only ONE kid who had satellite TV.

At my local comp it was similar until the mid 90s when it became more common.

Sunak is so out of touch. I worked in a pharmacy as well as the Saturday girl - it hadn't made me into a wanker. AFAIK.

Sounds like now's a good time to lock him in a fridge for a while..🤦‍♀️

Oh dear. Poor Rushi.

Jeremy Vine has just shown a clip of Rushi apologising to the TV company for being late for their interview because the D day ceremony 'ran over'. OMG unbelievable. His interview to repeat lies was more important than the Veterans ceremony 'ran over'. He's toast.

I saw this too. Just on TV its appalling. His face as he said it. Those Veterans 80 years ago, a mere inconvenience. 😥

it's like he's literally thought of the most working class stereotype and applied that

Exactly OP.

He is a supercilious, patronising wanker who has no clue about anything other than how to make himself richer.

Odious little man.🤬🤬🤬

I don’t understand how his parents could have afforded Winchester. If he’d said, we didn’t have holidays, I didn’t see my parents because they worked obsessively and we lived in a tiny one-bed above the shop, then there’s a tiny chance the figures could have stacked up, but a GP and community pharmacist giving up nothing but Sky? Where did the money come from? Are his grandparents very rich?

They didn't have Sky because the big dish was seen as a bit common in those days. It was never that they couldn't afford it.

Yep it was. I was born in the late 70s and people I knew had sky, or bskyb I think it was called (?) once I was in v early secondary years. It wasn't common though!