Child Sunak deprived of Sky television | James O'Brien - The Whole Show 

Iwas privileged enough to go my entire childhood without sky tv.

That homeless shelter interview was so horrifying. Like how can you be so disconnected?

Think of the poor children right now living in Tory Britain not having enough food to eat, and Rishi comparing that to not having Sky TV to watch when he was a child.

It must have taken years of therapy Sunak being deprived of the TV of the future.🤣🤣🤣

We had a black and white television, no VCR, no game console, and no computer. Rishi knows my pain.

He doesn't care it's that simple

After listening to his deprivation of sky , i couldn't hold my tears... it chsnged my opinion about Rishi sunak

According to Theresa May ... I'm a citizen of nowhere, who aspired to be a citizen of the world. It's in our DNA and my consciousness. This was a dream of mine when I was in my 20's. I'm now 66 years old, politicians and public inertia have made my dream impossible. Young people "The Country needs you" GET OUT THERE AND VOTE. Please ... hold them to account

Rishi was also deprived of working class friends when he was growing up.

I think he genuinely believes that his privilege is deserved, and those that don't have that privilege don't deserve it. That is the only way he can justify his career to himself.

How are we shocked that Sunak didn’t feel it important to remain at the D-Day event?! He belongs to a Party that, as BREXIT and other decisions and behaviours prove, has forgotten all the lessons of WWI and WWII.

The only logical conclusion that you could come to when considering Sunak's behavior is that he simply didn't want to appear alongside Macron, Shultz and Biden. Question is why? Was he calling upon his Brexit muse and was therefore discomforted by appearing alongside two leading European leaders in which case he was pathetic. Or was he so uncertain of himself that he simply felt embarrassed in the company of world statesmen. In which case he was pathetic.

They think it's survival of the fittest, rather than dumb luck.

Kier would love to tell the truth about brexit but he's no fool. He has to bide his time and work with the situation he has inherited. He has to educate the English that they are not a superpower and working with the rest of Europe will be in their interest especially for the young ones. It takes time

It was calculated his school fees where 46.000 a year at todays prices.

Wow all of us that had the measly 4 channels now know that was borderline child abuse.

Has lack of access to Sky TV been added to the criteria of Child Poverty yet?

Sky tv existed when Sunak was a child? I thought it was a new channel created and owned by FOX in the 90's. My childhood in the eighties consisted of an old black and white will all channels courtesy of a coat hanger... and luck! And FOX wasn't one of them.

The thing with Nigel Farage is that if someone doesn't throw stuff at him, he's not above arranging to have something thrown at him so he can cry about it and raise money.

1960's Glasgow we ran out of food regularly. Remember going to bed early with white bread torn in strips, soaked in a bit of warm watered down milk and sugar to eat, usually depended on the family allowance being collected on a Tuesday as the wages from Friday were done, to get us from Tues to Fri. Linoleum on floors, scrap wood and bits of coal burned in the one fire on the Living room. Thankful for free school dinners. School uniform from the council's charity providers, cardboard insoles cut to put inside shoes that had holes in them, but still let the wet in through the soles. Permanently hungry with my 2 wee brothers. But everyone else was in the same boat in our street. Played shops with the contents of dustbins from the midden with our neighbourhood pals, went to the swing park and played with skipping ropes. Both our parents worked.

James keep the fantastic work up we need a voice

How dare sunak be punished with terrestrial TV...

Starmer just seems to not say anything about what he will do for fear of the Tories lying about what they say. We are just not getting the full picture

Sunak leaving to work in the 🇺🇲

Sunak always sounds like he was accidentally put in Slytherin by the sorting hat, and has just accepted his fate.

He has had opportunity, connections and a basic leg up. That's the difference between people working hard and still not being able to make ends meet.

What I don’t understand is why, in the absence of an inspiring or even trustworthy personality to vote for on either side, you wouldn’t then default back to at least voting for the party with better policies. Maybe Starmer doesn’t inspire you or make you believe in Labour, but does Sunak? This is democracy, a parliamentary one at that, and I’m sorry, but you don’t always get the candidate of your dreams. But you can still vote in your own interests…you can still vote for the right policies…you can still vote against brexit, and xenophobia, and racism, and austerity, and isolationism, etc. someone explain this to me, please.

He was born in 1980 Sky didn't come in until 1990 So what's he on about? Answers on a postcard to the usual address 😂

"He and his wife do work with veterans"...CHARITY? THE BILLIONAIRE FAMILY DO CHARITY? HE'S IN CHARGE OF POLICY.

James, you were privileged as a child. I had nothing and my dad was a vetenary surgeon. We worked for everything we got.

12:25 Sunak deprived of Sky television

Sunak is a psychopath. He shares many of the traits. Its not that he is disconnected... that would suggest he was connected at some point. The man has NEVER had that capacity in his life. He can't relate or empathies because that capacity does not exist within him.

TBF fair, I know families who would deprive themselves of basic things to keep Sky, I know I used to install them. But this the stupidest thing to say, ever, to garner sympathy, or make yourself look like one of us. He is, as typical, completely out of touch.

When I was a kid in 1970's Australia, we thought anyone with a built in swimming pool and who got to go skiing or on OS holidays was rich!!!

I am lucky enough to have witnessed this. being born in a time where your £100,000 house is suddenly worth £300,000 . Yes, it's party time. for everyone else and their children and their children's children. You sold them out and it's a bitter horrible dark sinister thing.. help the kids and no i'm not a genius. Help the kids.. You didn't do anything. You just sold out your kids so give them a hand

Poor Rishi. I think i remember seeing his mum going into Brighthouse to buy a TV for the family in that TV show on C4 called Skint

There was no TV when I was a kid in fact we didn't even own a radio. I made my own crystal radio set, I 'borrowed' a telephone headset (my Dad was a telephone engineer). I'm not telling you my age!!😂

Poor little Rishi imagine the cruelty he suffered when young.....no sky.....makes me so angry that no one said or did anything. Didnt a teacher notice ?

Our family were privileged enough too enjoy channel 5, 7 years after sky was launched

A lot of Americans quit working during lockdown as well. It’s called The Great Resignation over here. Part of the reason may have been a lot of baby boomers were getting ready to retire anyway so they took the first opportunity to do it earlier. The rest were people who realized that there was more to life than spending most of their lives in American workplaces where they live on 2-3 weeks of vacation for most of their working lives. They’ve turned their hobbies into businesses or joined the gig economy. Probably not reporting all of their income. Some people returned to work reluctantly and were laid off last year when their performance (or lack thereof) showed they had quietly quit while they were working remotely. High interest rates curbed a lot of rehiring last year but now businesses are cranking out the postings. But wages haven’t really gone up or at least not that I have seen. I think workers are going to start getting restless soon.

Wonder how Sunak felt talking to a man with no home when he's got 5.

When a leadership campaign can be scuppered with a bacon butty jibe. Yet, a more serious gaff can be downplayed to the point of not being that important. Just goes to show!

The way he was at the homeless shelter is so telling. He has no concept of what being poor is like. How can a prime minister who doesn’t understand how the majority of people in his country live, lead effectively? He can’t. But to be honest, I do agree with some of the callers that it’s not really his fault. He obviously had an extremely sheltered life. That’s not his fault, but it makes him 100% the wrong person to lead.

Sunak cannot fathom the idea that the system doesn't allow for "hard work" to be the only thing that is required for success. He had money... money buys success in many, if not all cases. Without that last piece of the jigsaw, the jigsaw can never be complete.

Thoughts and prayers

Rishi Sunak’s School Of Hard Knocks (Aka It’s A Hard Crock Life) “The problem was that Normandy Overran; and it got in the way Of my Sky interview Sacrifices, a few I have made; there was no pay to play” Maybe it had not been invented Or perhaps parents hadn’t consented To young Sunak’s wish, he Was deprived, poor Rishi Just waited, until they relented He had always known trouble and strife It was tough, Rishi knew the hard life Of Winchester schooling And pubescent drooling For a small multi-millionaire wife All her money put Rish in a spin He did not know quite where to begin There was courting, of course And to stave off divorce Their financial affairs were a sin And yet Rishi remembers his roots An impoverished childhood, his suits Made too fit, for skid row Tailored in “Savile Sew” A boutique, it is where Rishi puts His feet planted, firm, square, on the ground As he surveys the world all around The poor and destitute See the shine on his boots And reflect on his hat, he is crowned With glory, yet he’s down to earth He’s the salt of it too, since his birth A messiah of sorts As he sneers and he snorts At those who don’t have his net worth And yet, Rishi isn’t phenomenal Compared with another, the chronicle Tell us Jacob Rees-Mogg Often just has to hog The limelight, looking down, through his monocle And so Rishi’s redemption is near His time’s almost up, it is clear He has the incentive To be more attentive He just has to learn not to jeer

For some people, "abroad" is a fancy holiday.

Aww, Nigel living rent free in James’ head. How sweet

When I was a kid, I started with a “mystery illness”. I’m 29 now, unfortunately never been in work because I’ve only just been officially diagnosed. I’ve started treatment and since I’m doing better, I’ve finally applied to do my nurse training (I start in September). I have had Crohn’s disease, and Ehlers danlos syndrome for 15 years undiagnosed. I’m sure before finally receiving an official diagnosis, I’d have classed as one of those with “fake diseases”. I was so ill pretty much all of the time and I’m ngl I’m terrified about September but I’m also really excited. I’m scared that I’ll end up really ill again but I’m excited to finally be doing what I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid which has seemed out of reach for so long

Sunak came into politics to pass laws for this family to become richer!

Someone: I’m homeless. Sunak: I can’t relate.

So who suggested that Sunak’s bad judgement was down to his ethnicity?

Not having a Sky box doesn't mean Sunak was deprived - his parents just didn't want one, perhaps because they wanted Sunak focusing on his education and a Sky box would be a distraction. Deprivation doesn't include not having a sky box. Sunak couldn't think of one way he was deprived and to suggest a Sky box is deprivation shows he still doesn't have a clue.

MAybe he thought PM is just his route to a peerage and did not think it through.

Do you think sunak is trying to endear himself with the US rightwing con-men?

Hello, James! The case of workers being burned out is not unique. All over the world in some countries, people are realizing why do they have to do this? more and more. IF all we did was work for ourselves, we would actually be working less. But we aren't. The bulk of an average person's pay goes to his Landlord --or what I call, his LORD. Nothing else. Landlords. By that, I mean the rich man on top. Everyone else in the middle are just middlemen. Even some property owners who are landlords themselves --as long as they kick up a large percentage up to someone higher, they are just part of the long chain that serves the NOBILITY at the top. These are no longer people who "worked hard" to get there. These are multigenerational heirs of vast wealth being maintained by corporate rule. They are born owning 4 Ferraris out the gate. That's the problem. And as the population needs to sustain this growing noblity, you will have the French Revolution all over again.

He had it rough ay!? 😂

I'm sorry James but there is no defence for leaving, no British Public should follow A leader who cannot even tell aides "No, this is publicly important I stay for numerous reasons and you know it" then why are we left to believe he cares about us, especially if it was mentioned in his TV interview hardly anyone has even watched anyway, he has been the down fall of his own characterless character since the moment he stood outside the Drowning Street doors and Hampered on about "Accountability", I think it was ? Anyway, even if not, this election will be his moment for that. He doesn't care, he and his mates caused the economy to go bust,(in more ways than you realise), he and his mates are causing the current crisis with self identity and finances, and above all he has absolutely no gall, like usual, to admit he is only where he wants to be, at the sacrifice of our work and compassion. VOTE THEM OUT TO HELP OUT

Is this the original Simple Simon 😂

The EU passed laws that we did ignore... here's one - prisoner votes. We never implemented votes for prisoners despite the EU putting huge pressure on the UK to adopt it. Here's another - EU health and safety standards. It was deemed that the fact the UK has criminal negligence on the statue books and the capacity to imprison people failing to meet appropriate H&S standards, the UK would not have to adopt EU H&S standards as they'd actually be lower. Which party was in power when those two EU laws were ignored by the UK? That'd be Labour... under Blair.

Sky TV that's a joke wow

I read a comment that said sky was 7.99 a month while he was going to private school and his dad was a gp and his mam ran a pharmacy. He is a monster.

I have never owned Sky or any other subscription tv service in my whole working life. There is too much to do without the distraction of all that dross.

You don't have to be rich to not understand what it is to be poor. If you grew up KNOWING that your parents could afford certain things but CHOSE not to give you everything you asked for, it is possible to simply NOT get it. Many people - myself included, until I THOUGHT about it - couldn't understand why someone couldn't afford personal hygiene products. I just couldn't fathom it. Because to me that's baseline. Many of us DON'T get it.

We did not have a T. V. An we did it was black and white and dad had to pure in a half crown

Sunak to the homeless individual he's serving in a soup kitchen : "It's a great place isn't it?" Rather like Rees-Mogg saying "Foodbanks are uplifting": there is nothing great about a place having to exist to help the homeless, because what it speaks to is the fact that these places are needed at all in a rich country like ours because of the govt's austerity and neo-liberal market policies increasing wealth inequality. Is it any wonder Sunak is shamefully out of touch, given his oligarch credential?

I think his family probably just didn't think Sky TV was something worth having. But Sunak just remembers it from a child's perspective as being something he could have had that he didn't have. But it doesn't necessarily mean that his family didn't have the money for it. That's where he gets it all a bit wrong really.

It's weird that he just will not acknowledge the privilege. From where comes this fear to be honest and genuine? How welcomed would a line be like: "I do not know what it is to go without essentials, or not having the certainty that these essentials were there on a daily basis. That is why I will go around the country and have you tell me. I know this is a blind spot for me, so in order to actually, comprehensively tackle this problem I will need to hear all about it from you who go through it." Would a politician be savaged over this? If so, how and why?

John Curtice is 6 of this and half a dozen of the other ... it must be very profitable to sit on the fence for such a long time ... and how he loves the attention!

E bravo Marcè

I need to know what substrate you are using, what filter do you have , do you have an air pump and stone and are you going to use live plants ?

James, out of those 6 millions, how many are carers, how many are raising children and home-schooling, how many are adult students? And then how many made enough to simply not need to work again? I certainly wish I could.

Did Sky Tv exist when he was a young child . Age 44 so 40 years ago was 1984 . Sky tv began 1989 and only had a million subscribers in early 90”s. So not many had it and was always a luxury subscription. How is that a doing without? Was his house warm? food on table? Did he have a table? Anyway it matters little what he had, as long he has compassion and support for poorer people and redistributing the staggering wealth for the few in this country by taking from poor and services

The number of us who are ‘economically inactive’ specifically in the UK may have something to do with relatively low wages - there are so many skilled but near-minimum-wage jobs here that are much better paid in comparable countries. Those starting a family and those nearing retirement are especially likely to do the maths and decide it’s just not worth it to stay on the hamster wheel.

Sunak is a devout Hindu, and he is married to a Brahmin (the highest Indian Caste). Caste is still very much a "thing" in India and a fundamental tenet of Hinduism is Karma. According to Wiki :"Karma is a concept of Hinduism which describes a system in which beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions..." - and thus the poor are obviously at fault re. their poverty, it comes from past bad actions.

1h29mn in, call it a throw back!

James was spot with the Big Trak - I used to dream of having one of those!

Thank you

Sunak: As a child I had to go without "lots of things"...like Sky tv for instance. So, **not** food or heating, then. For these are the kinds of things that spring to mind when talking about doing without: real hardship. But oh no. His idea of connecting with the everyday struggles of the rest of us is "doing without Sky tv" ffs Had he been politically astute he could've said, "Tbh I have never been in a position where I had to do without things, so I cannot imagine what it must feel like to go without the bare essentials; but it doesn't mean I can't sympathise and feel compassion for those who don't have enough." But then, if he were to say that, he would have to acknowledge the part his govt's policies for the last 14 years have played in contributing to people experiencing more poverty & hardship today, which he won't do.

+1 for Big Trak

The country is sick ... be it physically or mentally. Fix the country and we'll fix the employment crisis. And yes we'll still NEED immigrant labour!

I think Rishi Sunak is psychologically unable to say “I don’t know” and to take in other person’s experiences unless they mirror his own. It’s traits of a sosiopath and Westminster is mired in it and training new politicians from private schools to follow the same selfish thought pattern.

Denied pokemon as a child despite, the pokemon franchise starting when he was 16

How dare you not to present and night, while there are so many British people overseas in different timezones. Why do you sleep? That's the biggest miscalculation. I can't even comprehend this!

On the topic of worklessness, Ive worked in different countries in Europe and the UK feels like the comparatively worst on the whole work-life balance and its very often about management attitutes and rules that are a pain in the neck to workers and often arent even necessary. Unless one happens to be paid tons of money, work can look like a sentence instead (and even then, money is only motivating people up to a point). Covid managed to show many people that the devil of not earning a wage isnt necessarily that horrible and that a chunk of people have actually saved enough to live with less or no work.

Guy at 1hr 29mins is a classic Brexiter. Hates laws he can't name classic... "I'm not that bright, I didn't follow it that closely" This right here ladies and gentlemen is the cause of this countries demise.

None of that political Class know anything of poverty.....still crass

Oh man

I don't think it has anything to do with Rishi not being intelligent enough, he simply doesn't have the mental agility to come up with quick responses to questions he didn't anticipate. Some people are very quick on their feet, Rishi strikes me as someone that rehearses his talking points so much that he can't deviate from his script quickly.

Right so his dad was a doctor his mum had a pharmacy , they weren’t hard up and couldn’t have been or he wouldn’t have gone to 1 of the most expensive schools and if he lived in a normal but bit better off family he would have had working class friends, he can’t imagine being that hard up any more than I can imagine having hundreds of millions in the bank

Raleigh Chopper, then the Raleigh Grifter?

If Sky TV is like Fox News then things are starting to make some sense.

Zero seats

Yep probably was a young advisor , no living memory. No parents or grandparents alive who took part. But that said knowing what these amazing heroes did , is that even necessary ? We’re Richie’s grandparents or relations in the war ? If so he is disrespecting them. Hundreds of thousands of Indians were in WW2.

preeti patel , braveman , rischi sunak??? Tories used asian face for their nasty politics..

What have you missed out on schooled at Winchester?

O'Brien makes the excuse for Starmer about "not embracing brexit" whilst ignoring the fact if you ommit, you are lying still.

And orf JC tripped to Ox or was it Cambo, thus to footlights

He wanted to PM because he could make money for his family (which he has done no end). I think the main reason was connections and the Indian Trade Agreement (his family in law are friends with Modi)

James forgot about Gaza?