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.
FarceOfWill ( @FarceOfWill@infosec.pub ) 30•20 days agoI’m beginning to think he hates the Tory party even more than I do
Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English15•20 days agoI mean the Tory members elected fucking Liz Truss over him. He must still have an axe to grind about that.
It’s the only explanation that makes sense.
frog 🐸 ( @frog@beehaw.org ) English21•20 days agoLook, I’ve been searching all morning, and I simply cannot find a violin tiny enough for Sunak’s horribly deprived childhood.
He also didn’t have a tiny violin as a child.
Actually, he did. It’s just that he’s so tiny it looked like a cello.
frog 🐸 ( @frog@beehaw.org ) English4•20 days agoI guess that’s the problem. Getting a violin that’s tiny enough for Sunak means it’s so tiny that I can’t see it.
(Although I am no taller than Sunak is. At least I am wider. 😂)
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 4•20 days agoProbably have to teach a tardigrade to play it.
HumanPenguin ( @HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ) English3•19 days agoAmazon sell 8cm violins called worlds smallest for £6.
Would be hilarious if a few hundred turned up addressed to Rishi at 10 Downing Street tommorow evening.
frog 🐸 ( @frog@beehaw.org ) English3•19 days agoOh that would be awesome! Do you think they can actually be sent there, or do packages to No 10 get redirected for security reasons?
HumanPenguin ( @HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ) English1•19 days agoNo idea. But likely the redirect thing.
Pretty sure amazon turning up with a few hundred tiny violins. Will make news though. Simply because someone is paid to open them.
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 12•20 days agoDo 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.
Cameron was the last PM who actually got things done. They were bad things, sure, but he did do them.
JohnSmith ( @JohnSmith@feddit.uk ) 6•20 days agoNow 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.
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.
Blackmist ( @Blackmist@feddit.uk ) English11•20 days agoIs he trying to throw this election?
I mean, I’m delighted that every time he opens his mouth they drop another 3 points in the polls, but I’ve no fathomable idea how a man can be so utterly useless. It’s like he doesn’t only not want to be PM any more, but he doesn’t want to be official opposition either. Like he just wants to go back to his nice mansion and lie on a big bed of money doing fuck all.
anytimesoon ( @anytimesoon@feddit.uk ) 7•20 days agoTo be fair, if those were my options, I certainly wouldn’t opt for a life of politics
Echo Dot ( @echodot@feddit.uk ) 6•20 days agoThen why doesn’t he just resign? Why is he throwing the election intentionally.
anytimesoon ( @anytimesoon@feddit.uk ) 3•20 days agoYou’ll have to ask him. I can only answer for myself. Happy to do an impromptu AMA on what I would do if I were Sunak
On that note, I would definitely resign today.
frog 🐸 ( @frog@beehaw.org ) English3•19 days agoI’m beginning to wonder if he’s trying to throw it intentionally, and as badly as possible, so that he vindictively destroys the careers of all the MPs who have done nothing but plot to stab him in the back since the moment he became leader. There was a rather telling moment (yesterday I think) when he listed previous home secretaries but pointedly skipped Nutella Braverman. Sunak is certainly tetchy enough to go “fine, I’m going down and I’m taking you all with me!”
JohnSmith ( @JohnSmith@feddit.uk ) 6•20 days agoThe rate at which Rich-i keeps showing his foot deep into his mouth makes me admire his dexterity and flexibility.