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Sunak asks a homeless man if he works in business

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DaisyAnne Mon 26-Dec-22 19:25:31

LONDON, Dec 24 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak faced criticism on Saturday for seeming out of touch with ordinary people when he asked a homeless man at a charity whether he "worked in business" and wanted to get into the finance industry.

My sympathies for the homeless whose background we don't actually know. Honestly, could Sunak be more out of touch or more tactless?

varian Mon 02-Jan-23 18:52:08

Supporters of football teams are hugely, blindly loyal to the team - win or lose - my team is the greatest and no-one will ever persuade me to support another team - ever - ever - ever - Hell will Freeze over before an Everton supporter decides that he prefers Liverpool.

So in the same way there are people who have been so thoroughly indoctrinated by The Daily Mail, The Express or even The Telegraph that they still desperately try to claim that voting for brexit was a brilliant move. Nothing, no amount of evidence that brexit has been an utter disaster will make them change their deluded view..

Nothing will ever ever ever make them change their minds. They are like the flat Earthers. Evidence does not matter to them. They have committed themselves to belonging to the team of Leavers. If Leavers were a football team and came bottom of the League, then got demoted season after season, they would still support it. They have sworn lifelong alligence to their team.

That is "footballification"

Grantanow Mon 09-Jan-23 12:54:39

There's a Guardian letter today about a homeless former Classics teacher teaching other people Latin at a homeless centre. Goes to show one should not assume homeless people to be without an educated hinterland.