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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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[–] echodot 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Do you think he does mock interviews or does he just refuse to do them.

I cannot decide if he does mock interviews and everyone on his staff is such an idiot that they can't come up with obvious questions like this, or if he just refuses to do them because he's arrogant.

I'm inclined to think it may very well be the former because the whole administration just seems to be pathologically incompetent. For all his faults, and they were many, at least Cameron's administration probably could organize a piss-up in a brewery.

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cameron was the last PM who actually got things done. They were bad things, sure, but he did do them.

[–] JohnSmith 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Now now, Boris got brexit done. It ended up being a complete pig’s ear, quite possibly from the same pig Cameron was acquainted with, but it did get done.

[–] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago

I was considering whether to mention that and I think on balance you're right that it did Get Done and I should have included it. Mea culpa. In my defence, it was world-historically shit.