Is Rishi Sunak just out of touch with the ordinary person?

[RabbyMac]

Judging by the short shift he gave this guy, at a recent appearance, it seem that he just does not give a monkeys about the average person in the UK:

https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1757359624183816308?s=20

Apparently his hedge fund invested in Moderna before the pandemic, but he won't reveal how much money he has made from the whole thing. Private profits funded by the taxpayer! Meanwhile there is apparently no more money to pay our nurses and carers properly.

It all stinks doesn't it?

[Zone2NorthLondon]

Yes, he seems woefully disconnected and yet strives for approbation pretending to be regular and ordinary.

[MissBattleaxe]

The combined wealth of he and his wife is eye watering. He is completely out of touch with the majority of people he supposedly represents. Not that we got a chance to vote for him, but anyway...

[heartsinvisiblefury]

Yes

[AndThatWasNY]

He is richer than anyone I have ever known in my entire 50 years.
I have lived all over the country in many roles and lifestyles. No one comes close to the life he has lived. He hasn't got a clue. He can't even fill up petrol 😂

[Cherryon]

It’s all of them, the MPs. They are all out of touch. Most have never been a regular person ever their entire lives. The few that have put personal ambition over what a regular person needs from the Government (class traitors).

It’s not just Sunak.

[Pigeonqueen]

@Cherryon

It’s all of them, the MPs. They are all out of touch. Most have never been a regular person ever their entire lives. The few that have put personal ambition over what a regular person needs from the Government (class traitors).

It’s not just Sunak.

This. In buckets.

[niteklub]

Can't stand Sunak. Lived a life of privilege and has NO IDEA what it's like to live on even modest means. Totally out of touch

[Cherryon]

It’s the blind leading the blind plus a few willfully blind.
The PM, cabinet & Parliament.

They are clueless combined with a sense of superiority and overconfidence in their own competence and intelligence.

Why do you think their reactions to any common person challenging them with facts range from outrage to laughter?

[rooftopbird]

Yes.

[BumpheadParrotfish]

My local Tory mp makes more per month for a few hours with a dodgy side hustle with arms dealers, than a doctor (consultant grade) makes from working full time - yet he had the audacity to tell the local press nurses are the greedy ones.

It makes me so angry. And even in a Labour landslide, he's very unlikely to lose his seat

[Flyingcarpetintraining]

All politicians, particularly those allowed to have senior roles, should have to spend a certain amount of time living a ‘normal’ life in a standard house outside of London, at the National average income level (with no access to their personal wealth at all during that period). Spending a year or two in such a way would enable them to understand what life is like for most people in the country they claim to represent.

[BaroqueInterlude]

@Cherryon

It’s all of them, the MPs. They are all out of touch. Most have never been a regular person ever their entire lives. The few that have put personal ambition over what a regular person needs from the Government (class traitors).

It’s not just Sunak.

I'll go even further and say it's not just MPs - the whole segment of 'the elite' are separated from reality by the gulf of wealth division - 10% of people in the UK own half the country's wealth.

[herewegoagainy]

I have never known someone his age who is a driver and yet does not know how to work a petrol pump. How privileged do you have to be to have driven for years and not know how to fill up a car with petrol?

[theduchessofspork]

No!

How could you say such a thing 😢

[upanddowns]

@Flyingcarpetintraining

All politicians, particularly those allowed to have senior roles, should have to spend a certain amount of time living a ‘normal’ life in a standard house outside of London, at the National average income level (with no access to their personal wealth at all during that period). Spending a year or two in such a way would enable them to understand what life is like for most people in the country they claim to represent.

This, definitely!! They haven't a clue.

[Cherryon]

@BaroqueInterlude

I'll go even further and say it's not just MPs - the whole segment of 'the elite' are separated from reality by the gulf of wealth division - 10% of people in the UK own half the country's wealth.

Definitely all the elite! Sadly it’s the ones that are in charge that affect our lives so much with their clowning.

[Cherryon]

@Flyingcarpetintraining

All politicians, particularly those allowed to have senior roles, should have to spend a certain amount of time living a ‘normal’ life in a standard house outside of London, at the National average income level (with no access to their personal wealth at all during that period). Spending a year or two in such a way would enable them to understand what life is like for most people in the country they claim to represent.

It would help, but smacks a bit of poverty tourism where they know it is temporary but don’t realise how much this affects their experience of it.

[TheFairyCaravan]

People with the sort of wealth that Rishi Sunak has shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near politics. He’s not in it for the good of the country, he’s in it for the good of himself. Like all the Tory millionaires. They make me sick.

[5YearsLeft]

How can Rishi Sunak not know he’s evil? Does he think it’s not evil because it’s just depraved indifference? I mean, he initially bet £1000 on the Rwanda flights happening. He was betting on sending innocent, terrified people to a police state where people were just shot for protesting food policy. And then he didn’t even pull back because it was FECKING EVIL. He did it because he was “not a betting person,” ie he was going to lose. Jesus wept. And this is just a single moment of a single day of his shenanigans.

Worse, he doesn’t believe in anything. Stewart Lee did great mathematics on this horrific bet in an opinion piece. £1000 is like 20p to Sunak, if we compare percentages between his personal wealth and the average UK citizen’s personal wealth. £1000 to the average UK citizen is like £4.2 million to him, so if he actually believed in a damn thing, he should have bet £4.2 million.

And don’t even get me started on his spineless abortion stance, abstaining from EVERY single abortion-related vote since he became an MP, including approving abortion in NI. Either approve or disapprove, but get off the fence.

He’s a public-school going, robotic chinless hobgoblin, just like the rest of that set (well, he might have a chin, but he’s chinless IN HIS HEART) who hates poor people and is incapable of making conversation with anyone who doesn’t: have a seven-plus figure net worth, own a penis, and a pair of loafers that cost over £500.

Er, so yes, I believe he’s a little out of touch with actual humans. But with the help of AI, he may soon learn to emulate us more successfully.

[hothotheatbag]

He hates the UK and everything it stands for. He was terribly bullied at his posh Winchester school and has done nothing but get his revenge. He's laughing at us all.

Out of touch and a really vile little man all round. I can't wait to see the back of him.

[Flyingcarpetintraining]

@Cherryon

It would help, but smacks a bit of poverty tourism where they know it is temporary but don’t realise how much this affects their experience of it.

Good point - it’d need to be a long enough period that it didn’t feel temporary.

[jasflowers]

@Cherryon

It’s all of them, the MPs. They are all out of touch. Most have never been a regular person ever their entire lives. The few that have put personal ambition over what a regular person needs from the Government (class traitors).

It’s not just Sunak.

He is exceptional though, most MPs would be classed as well off but Sunak is close to being a billionaire and has a private helicopter, swimming pools, whilst telling us all we have to have a heat pump.

Plus he has never really had a normal life, my former MP used to be a postman, Starmers sister works in the NHS.

what pisses me off most about Sunak though is he pays so little tax.

[prh47bridge]

@RabbyMac

Judging by the short shift he gave this guy, at a recent appearance, it seem that he just does not give a monkeys about the average person in the UK:

https://x.com/JamesMelville/status/1757359624183816308?s=20

Apparently his hedge fund invested in Moderna before the pandemic, but he won't reveal how much money he has made from the whole thing. Private profits funded by the taxpayer! Meanwhile there is apparently no more money to pay our nurses and carers properly.

It all stinks doesn't it?

Just to correct this slightly, as is normal for government ministers needing to avoid conflicts of interest, Sunak put his investments into a blind trust. That means he knows how his money was invested at that point but has no idea how it is invested now. He therefore doesn't know how much money, if any, he has invested in any drugs companies, nor does he know how much money he made, if any. The same will be true of Starmer when he becomes PM.

[RadFs]

Has anyone wondered why a billlionaire came into politics? All because he wanted to be in the parliament so he could award contracts to his wife’s company called Infosys and for his own benefit. You should look into how many contracts infosys keep winning. He’s completely out of touch with the average person he pretends he’s just an average guy but he isn’t

[Tiddlywinks63]

@Cherryon

It’s all of them, the MPs. They are all out of touch. Most have never been a regular person ever their entire lives. The few that have put personal ambition over what a regular person needs from the Government (class traitors).

It’s not just Sunak.

I completely agree. I’ve had the misfortune to work on projects with several MPs and all were on a different planet, egotistical and dismissive, if not actually misogynistic.
Sunak doesn’t have a clue and I don’t think he actually cares either.

My Conservative MP has held his seat since 1997, there’s no way he’s going to be replaced anytime soon unfortunately. He’s an arrogant, unpleasant individual.