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 can’t think of one PM at the end of being in power being spoken about nicely. Boris, Theresa, Liz. Margaret Thatcher was hated a lot, and still is. You could argue that maybe it was just because she was a strong woman, and there was a bit of sexism there, but I just think that the hate currently directed at Rishi is down to him being a poor PM. He’s done nothing since being in power other than a rushed attempt at sorting out the immigration thing. If you’re going to pin everything on racism, how has Khan survived another term of serving as Mayor in London?

Nope.

I think there are always going to be some who can't resist being a racist twat.

For the rest of us and I do think thats the vast majority, we think he is a prick, the colour of his skin is wholly irrelevant. He'd be a prick no matter what colour he was.

I also don't think he's getting any more brutal a treatment than any other prime minister has.

Here's a quick sample of cartoon jibes at Boris https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-prime-minister-cartoon-dave-brown-b2158351.html Theres similar for every one and plenty of other politicians who haven't been PM.

I think people are fed up with privileged wealthy privately educated Oxbridge graduates running the country. He’s no better or worse than the next but they are so out of touch with the real struggles people face. They have no clue what’s it like to live in poverty.

We need someone that can speak from experience and really understand the struggles people face who tries to do the right think by the public.

As we have no one readily available- we’re fucked and they’re all as bad as each other!

He's definitely not a moron. Unprincipled, driven by self-interest, totally lacking in leadership qualities and spectacularly out of touch with the average person in the UK, but not stupid.

What he is is the last man standing after Brexit, Johnson and the culture wars have driven all the talent out of the Tory party. It'll take them years to rebuild.

No. Nothing to do with racism, at all. Just that he's a plonker.

No. Everyone hated Boris too, probably more.

Nobody from a normal background at all.

Apart from the bloke who I dimly seem to remember was the son of a toolmaker and a nurse. The women whose parents were state sector teachers and went to her local comp. The woman who left her local comp age 16 when she became pregnant and then worked as a care worker to support herself and her baby. The guy whose immigrant Guyanese mother had to bring her four children up single handed when her husband buggered off. The dyslexic kid who left his comp with no qualifications at all, and made it to uni at the third attempt aged 25. The guy whose father died when he was four, and then had to care for his terminally ill mother when he was just a teenager. The guy whose grandparents were criminals and whose single teenaged mother brought him and his many siblings up in a council flat.

If only there were people with those sort of normal/challenging backgrounds standing for high office.

That's true. Sunak is a charisma vacuum and the wrong person for the job. Johnson was a completely different class of utter cunt.

No darling, it’s not. It’s because he’s an out of touch, rich, Tory cunt. Like the other Tory idiot PMs we’ve had this parliament.

No. It’s a thinly veiled hatred of privilege and utter lack of self-awareness.

HTH.

This times a million.

I can’t work out if you agree with me or you’re being sarky 😂

Also the tories have been moving further and further right. Therefore have been getting into the space where more supporters are racists. That means that on top of most people hating him because he’sa right wing pm, his own camp are going on the attack as well. Was Farrage this nasty against Johnson, or working with him?

But most of us hate him because he’s enacting incompetent cruel policies from a place of privilege.

It's not racism. He is shit at his job. Doesn't matter what colour his skin is.

Nothing to do with race- everything to do with being yet another out of touch Tory PM. No sky TV as a kid.. hope he got therapy for that one.. They’ve all had a rough ride of it (and rightly so) part and parcel of the job!

Possibly. At least he’s psychologically an adult unlike bozo and truss. I actually don’t mind him, he’s just not a good leader & he inherited a shit show.

Yabu. It’s because he’s a Tory. Their policies literally kill people.
it’s also because he’s out of touch due to extreme wealth. It’s not because he has brown skin.

yabvvu - he’s a tory , that’s why he gets justified criticism

You can read what he says about himself - https://www.rishisunak.com/about-me

He mentions his parents’ “sacrifice” and the tiny NHS pharmacy. It’s reasonable to criticise him for misrepresenting his background to appear more relatable.

But two things can be true at once - there is racism in some of the criticism. But he’s been a terrible prime minister.

Yes I think yanbu mumsnet are bunch of racists who don't see the good Rishi wants to do

Actually Keir Starmer is not the usual public school twat. His mum was a nurse (who became severely disabled) and his dad was a tool maker in a factory. KS got into a local grammar school via the eleven plus then got a bursary for sixth form. He then got his law degree at Leeds.
Whatever you might think of him he is a man who got where he is through his own efforts rather than privilege, wealth and nepotism.

I don’t mind Rishi being rich.

I do mind him pretending that he is anything other than rich.

I’d rather he didn’t pretend to know about football or trainers or any of his other faux pas. He just needs to be open - ‘I hate football, I live for dungeons and dragons’
‘Yes I’m rich, but I achieved that through my work ethic’. Whatever the actual Rishi is, he just needs to be it.

At least being honest would give him some semblance of authenticity. He keeps trying to be something he isn’t. And that, I really dislike.

I think the tory membership didn't vote him in originally due to racism
but currently the criticism is not at all racist but based on his total incompetence. he was not suited to be pm.

I'm south Asian and he was my choice to be pm when the torys had their last leadership bid

No he's just Uber rich and out of touch. He seems really sweet and well meaning but sadly Boris, Michelle Mone, Nigel Farage, Liz Truss and David Cameron have left him nothing to build on.
Boris was also massively rich and way more of a lying cheating snake than Rishi is, but for some reason this country liked him cos he likes getting pissed and acting like a clown.
I'd take Rishi over any other Tory, but we've all had it with Tories, the country is totally broke and ruined and we cannot let another Tory government drive us into the ground.
We have no choice but to stump up the supposed £2000 to save the NHS, schools etc etc etc because the Tories have ruined our country enough.

Personally I think he comes across as someone with integrity (a rare characteristic in politicians) and I like his quiet confidence, and his gentle manner. Just not keen on the rest of the party, and since we vote for the party and not the leader, it's a bit of a stumbling block.