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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      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.

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            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

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              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.

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          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.

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      I mean the Tory members elected fucking Liz Truss over him. He must still have an axe to grind about that.

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    Is 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.

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          Because only plebs give up power! A true aristocrat squanders all options to leave as little as possible behind.

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          You’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.

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    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.

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

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        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.

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          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.

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    Why do you need Sky TV? Freeview ought to be enough for everyone.

    Hell, I’m not didn’t in the UK and I enjoyed CBBC. I can’t remember how I got access to it (because geoblocking, which is bullshit), but I liked it. I can’t say the same about news programming because fuck that amirite?

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          Now, you mention it, I do remember that. They used to do Marvel Hour on Saturday, with the X Men show. It was the tits.

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      during my childhood, you needed sky to watch stuff like nickelodeon and CN. shit was mad expensive, basicallv useless in the rain and had ads. It was awful

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        That’s why you made friends with someone who had it. Then you went around their house and ate wagon wheels and watched Totally Spies, and felt things.

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        Sad. We had free to air versions of those on satellite (although Nick closed in 2011 for… honestly I have no idea why they closed it down)

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    The rate at which Rich-i keeps showing his foot deep into his mouth makes me admire his dexterity and flexibility.