To think the never ending criticism of Rishi Sunak is rooted in racism?

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I know he's not perfect as none of our politicians are! But I do feel like people are out to trip him up over personal things as much as possible. This Sky TV thing is Rodin my opinion - Rishi has never claimed to have had a difficult start or to have grown up in poverty. The journalist pressed him for what he went without in order that his parents could afford his private education and he said he always wanted Sky TV and never had it. He was saying it in a fairly lighthearted way he wasn't moaning or complaining!

People can't seem to handle the fact that he's wealthy and also the puns on his name and the claims he's "unpatriotic". I feel a little bit of thinly veiled racism creeping in.

I wonder why?

No. It’s because he is a selfish and deluded little twerp. Newsflash - people of colour can be twats too. As can women. See Liz Truss for clarification.
And let’s not forget the clearly racist Suella too.

It was seen as terribly common to have a sky dish! We didn’t have it either, not because we couldn’t afford it, but because DM would have been too embarrassed to have one stuck on the side of the house.

(We watched it on holiday)

What, david the pigfucker?

I thought exactly the same...

I agree some of the criticism is racist or 'dog whistle', especially that from Nigel Farage the other day. However:

I think some is because his family are wealthy.
I think some of it is because he was prepared to accept things most people would not to get ahead, such as working for Boris Johnson under terms set by Dominic Cummings.
I think some is from poor decisions such as Eat out to Help out.

The comments about his height are unreasonable too, though would be said about any man below average height (Nicolas Sarkozy had a lot, for example).

Above all, even though I think he is less bad than Liz Truss or the traitor Boris Johnson, he is still one of the worst Prime Ministers in recent times.

I'm sure race is an issue for some. However I'd say for a lot of us, it's because he's a tory and a lot of people hate everything they stand for.

I hate him because he's a Tory more concerned with making rich people richer than doing anything to improve the lot of his constituents, although I hate him slightly less than I hate gove, bojo and truss so I don't think his race has anything to do with it for me personally.

I did think all the chat about him not understanding Dday did have a bit of a racist undertone but generally I think conservatives and their donors are greedier than they are racist so they're probably happy to overlook his race if it makes them richer.

No. It's rooted in his being a lying little weasel.

Rishi Sunak is totally incompetent. It would be racist to pretend he is competent purely because he is asian.

It’s not thinly veiled racism, it’s envy.

His name is a gift for making a pun about someone who is very very very rich. This is not racism.

There's an election on and of course he’s going to get more flak as the sitting PM.

@WorriedMama12

"I think more than anything, it's because he's a tory, and everyone loves to hate on tories!"

Then Tories shouldn't give everyone so much to hate.

It's nothing to do with his race, it's because he's a useless knob of a Tory who likes nothing better than lining the pockets of his wealthy chums, while shitting on the ordinary people who don't earn 6 or 7 figure sums and rely on public services for their healthcare, education and a shedload of other stuff. Women are especially damaged by this, because they earn less on average and more likely to have caring responsibilities.

There are scores of others like him in parliament and most of the senior ones have smelt the shit before it comes off the shovel and are standing down.

I don't rate Starmer particularly highly but at least he won't make life worse for those on below average incomes, or who can't afford private healthcare, private education for their kids, or who have to pay crazy rents for some shitty flat because they haven't made funding available to build more than a smattering of social housing.

The Sky tv thing was a fucking insult to those who have to go to food banks, and almost as arse-clenchingly embarrassing as when he asked that homeless guy if he'd considered working in finance.

To try and pretend that the criticism is based on race is disingenuous and shows a gob-smacking lack of awareness. It's about what he does, not who he is.

I’m not seeing that he’s getting much different treatment to Boris or Liz to be honest.

No, it's rooted in him being an absolute twatbag.

I feel so much better for that rant. 😁

Even his own Conservative Ministers have criticised him. Leaving D Day early for an election interview FFS.

He’s a knob, less of a knob than Boris but still a knob. I am sure he’s a decent enough bloke but I think he’s been a poor prime minister.

Calling him a moron is not acceptable and unkind. But this seems to be the level on MN now.

I don't actually mind him at least he's not truss or Boris. I think people are just tired of the conservatives and the media are a bit like sharks who've scented blood. Now it's a competition to see who can get the shittiest soundbite on record.

Just really needs to keep his head screwed on and try not to do the man of the people routine and he can slink off in a dignified way to be megarich.

Yabu

He's the leader of a currently unpopular political party who have had 14 years governing the country and fucked it up royally.

He's a rich man with a rich wife with questionable tax affairs, at a time when huge swathes of the population can barely make ends meet, and he's done nothing to close the gap.

He's yet another privileged, out of touch public school boy and ordinary people have realised he's not on their side.

He may as well be roaming westminster with a sign on his back saying "kick me", its got nothing to do with his ethnicity.

@Daz57 the things he is saying and doing either indicate he is not very intelligent, or is trying to lose the election.

I don't care what colour he is.

He's an extremely rich Tory bastard who has no idea how ordinary people live.

I agree. But that's not the OPs question, which I was answering.