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Rishi Sunak says he went without 'lots of things' including Sky TV as a child (youtu.be)

submitted 5 months ago by frankPodmore@slrpnk.net to c/uk_politics

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HOW IS HE SO BAD AT THIS?

He should've said, 'Look, I was very fortunate growing up, there's no point denying that. What I want is for every child to have the opportunities I had, that's why our policy is to blah, blah first-time buyers blah tax, etc., unlike Labour who want blah VAT on private schools, blah'.

Instead, he gets immediately rattled and starts gibbering at the first follow-up question. He is just the worst.

By the way, this is the interview he thought was so important he had to run away from Normandy to do it. Apparently, it wasn't important enough for him to do any prep.

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[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 19 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I figure he's decided that's he's squirreled away enough graft money and is deliberately trying to get booted from office so he can pull a runner.

[–] OrlandoDoom 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Think you mean grift, this ponce has never done a hard day's work in his life.

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Don't forget, he's allowed to claim £115k of UK taxpayers money for the rest of his life after he and Boris dismantled a bunch of the safety nets for UK society.

"Dole for me, not for thee."

[–] OrlandoDoom 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'd actually be in favour of this if they weren't allowed to take any other jobs afterwards. I reckon doing that removes a bunch of incentives to do nefarious things while in government

[–] sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 points 5 months ago

I am also generally in favour of it too, especially reading about world leaders back in the day that went destitute by having to pay for their own security.

It's just ironic that this fund was established for Thatcher, and generally is claimed by PM's who are independently wealthy.

[–] TallonMetroid@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nah, it actually is graft, because it's specifically him using his government position to enrich himself, for instance by taking bribes. Grift is the general case of dishonest money, although there's usually a connotation of scam involved.

[–] OrlandoDoom 4 points 5 months ago

I mean I'd call bribes dishonest money