He's given us the most unconvincing account of deprivation any of us have ever heard
The Prime Minister was asked the type of question which politicians plan for. How can someone with your level of wealth understand what it’s like for everyday people? failures. You could sit for days trying to arrive at a comprehensive list and still find it incomplete. Each day of thisToday, in a move no-one could have predicted, it was a comment about Sky TV and perhaps the most unconvincing account of deprivation any of us have ever heard.
If you’re a very wealthy man who happens to be prime minister, you’ll have workshopped your response to this inquiry. After all, it is one of your chief vulnerabilities. Sunak is literally. He is so rich he exists outside the comprehension of most people in this country. His team would surely know the problems that could throw up. They must have sat down and tried to formulate a response for what to say if it comes up, yet Sunak’s answer showed no sign of that whatsoever.
In reality, Sunak’s school fees would have been beyond the realm of most people’s understanding. The price of a year at, which he attended, is currently £49,152 for boarding students – well above the average income. It will have been much lower when he went, of course, but the basic dynamic was the same. Winchester competes only withAt this point, Sunak travelled from disingenuousness to absurdity. He was repeatedly asked what he went without.
For what it’s worth, I think it’s also utter hogwash. I grew up in the same part of the country as Sunak, at roughly the same time, in the same sort of circles. Posh kids never had Sky because the big satellite dishes were considered uncouth and working class – the urban totem of the council estate. They were indicators of low social standing, poor spending habits and cultural degeneration. Even
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