To think it’s a bit racist to call him Richie Sunak?

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I don’t like the man but for goodness’ sake it’s RISHI.

Some people seem unable to comprehend this and insist on calling him Richie, is it because Rishi is a non-English name and people simply can’t get their heads round it?

No it’s because he’s fucking rich and very focussed on getting richer.
Are you always this hard of understanding? You’re being deliberately obtuse and race bating. Stop trying to engineer racism where it isn’t.

Making a joke is racist now.

Absolutely!

That name's already been taken by Jeremy Cunt.

I thought he was just Rich!

Being pissed off at useless governmental puppets is racist too.

I’m a minority and it’s obvious to me that it’s because he’s rich and out of touch not because his name isn’t English. Like the migie Richie Rich?

I can remember not too far back when there were headlines about Dishy Rishi

It's not a secret that he's the richest PM in all of history so it's just a play on words. White PMs have been called a lot worse. It's not a race thing, please.

Umm…

😁

I am Indian and I am happy for people to call him a cunt. Or preferably, a dick. Hopefully we won't have him and his cabinet of brown racists around much longer.

I've heard of people who refer to him as Richie Sunk.

Just saying'

No, it's because he's rich. Like the comic book character Richie Rich.

In any case, people are always getting Keir Starmer's name wrong too; Kier or even Keith.

I don't care what people call him, they can call him idiot, asshole or dickhead. I'm an Indian by the way and I hate Richie Sunak compared to the other Prime Ministers.

You're crying wolf.

but I think some people just can’t get their heads round a non-British name and it’s rude/racist.

Seriously?? That's ridiculous. Name one other, well known person with a non-british name that people commonly do this with.

Come off it. What has a play on someone's name got to do with race? Was it equally racist to call Blair Bliar? To say nothing of all the silly names the right wing has found for Starmer.

No, people are free to attack him for being a lying incompetent hypocrite. Because that's accurate.

Noooo! I refuse to use a bit of female anatomy as the worst term of abuse.
The man is a prize dick, cock or wanker.

I'm related to a Rishi who frequently gets Richie, Ricky etc from people who dont think it matters. I get that it is a play on the fact that the is rich. But it is also something that people who are a bit ignorant/racist do to others with a name that suggests they are not white so I can see why some people are offended. In reality the majority of people using it probably aren't giving it that much thought, but it does grate a bit if you've spent your whole life trying to get people to give you the basic consideration of pronouncing your name right.

It is a joke and for the most part I'm sure the people making it dont hate brown people. But, for those saying that there is no problem getting people to pronounce names that aren't British in 2024- I wish I still believed this. I've seen perfectly obvious phonetically pronounced names (including rishi!) absolutely butcherd regularly, often anglicized despite frequent correction. Last year a nurse looked at my sons name, gave a tinkly laugh and announced she wasn't even going to try to say it. It's absolutely an every day thing.

Why, just why, does a man worth more than our king, want to be the prime minister, with all the stress that it entails, for the princely sum of a couple of hundred grand (peanuts to him).
Unless it's to make sure that the interests of the very very rich are protected.
He doesn't give a fuck about ordinary people.

That's as may be. But most of the posts here are attacking his wealth and the nickname in question references his wealth.

I agree with this bit. I too have had the tinkly laugh. But in the OPs example, it is a pun.

Loads of politicians have names that play on their perceived character/personality, Tony Bliar, Sleepy Joe Biden, all the way back to "Mad Jack" Fuller. With Sunak the play is that he's obscenely rich, not a mere multi-millionaire man of the people like Keir Starmer.