Doing Without Sky TV As A Child?

Well, my children, much of an age as Sunak, grew up in a house with a tiny tv and no extras and we were slow adapters to colour tv. DH and I are not tv watchers. They also never had televisions in their bedrooms either. We would not let them. It was one small tv in the living room and nothing else.

I am pretty sure that they have never considered this a sign of a disadvantaged upbringing.

I doubt if any of the leaders have a clue how the vast majority of UK people live and get by. For too long it's been the private school/Oxbridge/ etc. route. Too many of them represent London seats.

Sky news and some output is free to view anyway. There is more than enough free tv if anyone wants to watch it. By all accounts young people don't watch much tv. It's all streamed music and YouTube.

Sky tv didn't exist when Sunak was a child! Apart from his hopeless attempt to empathise with his voter, pay to view tv is a want, not a need. There will be many many people I'm sure, who struggle with heating, feeding and housing their family. Probably sky tv is way down their list.

We don't have Sky am I underprivileged? I don't have Netflix or Prime either. I don't have a big TV either.

Sky was here in the uk when sunak was about 10.
Just when you think he cant put his foot in his mouth any further, he finds more room 🤦🏼‍♀️

Yes I can just imagine forgoing a Sky TV subscription would afford families a really comfortable lifestyle, if only they could have realised that. Shades of "We're All In It Together" Expensively educated and excelling themselves in the, obviously difficult subject matter of "Absolutely No Nous Whatsoever"

Blue Sky thinking indeed Mr S

I dont have Sky but I can access many of their programs via NOW TV. I have only one TV in my house - a normal 43 ins size. I dont want anything bigger. I do have Netflix and Prime.

We got TV in 1953 for the coronation and then later ITV by some kind of box which attached on the side. You had to switch it manually. I can recall having that for most of my school years. We only got colour when I was in my late teens.

My parents never had a car and were not on the phone until the 1970s.

If my parents had still been alive now I dont think they could have coped with streaming services or smart phones. My father was partially sighted and my mother ran a mile from technology that had anything more complex than an of/pn switch.

There was no Sky TV when he was a child so I don't know where this has come from.

We don't have Sky now.

Oh the horror! Someone phone Childline straight away!

I cannot stand the man and think he is a weak PM.

However he never said this was hardship.
He was asked if there things he went without as a child because of his parents paying school fees.

His answer was always going to be twisted by the press.

He had a very privileged background and married into money, it doesn’t make him less qualified to do the job he’s doing.

Sparklefizz

There was no Sky TV when he was a child so I don't know where this has come from.

There was. Just do a quick search.

Not sticking up for him and I think it was an absurd thing to say but it was on air when he was a child

His doesn’t have any understand of the people who are truly struggling to survive.

I despise this pretence it’s insulting.

He seems to have no political instinct at all. He could have said, my mother ran a pharmacy and my father was a GP so I did not want for material things, but I do try my best to understand how hard life can be etc etc.
That would be a platitude but better than talking about Sky.

Vintagewhine

We don't have Sky am I underprivileged? I don't have Netflix or Prime either. I don't have a big TV either.

This is me as well. Am I poor?

I saw a preview of the interview where he made this ridiculous comment. The interview will be aired tonight. It’s that extremely important interview that necessitated him abandoning the veterans last week to rush home from France.

He is so out of touch with reality and looks more like a rabbit trapped in the headlights with every day that passes. He’s completely out of his depth. Rather like Boris Johnson, if he sticks to his prewritten speech he just about scrapes by but appears incapable of coping with a spontaneous question without coming out with nonsense.

He had to leave the D-Day event because it 'overran'. I think the same might be said of this Tory government.

Lots of Asian parents pushed their children to work hard and get a good education often in certain subjects which they were prepared to pay for. Amongst his peers it may well have been relative deprivation. You don’t have to be tortured to understand how painful it is. What this country needs is someone from any background or class to lead and I can’t see anyone I have any confidence in of doing that.

I never saw a television set until I was 16. And that was in the house next door where they invited us in to watch the Queen's coronation in 1953.
I don't have Sky, but I do have Netflix.

We do pay for Prime now but never Sky it’s far too expensive even without the sports channels, it’s hard to find a decent programme on the 50+ standard channels, iplayer helps but still too many repeats.

Sago

I cannot stand the man and think he is a weak PM.

However he never said this was hardship.
He was asked if there things he went without as a child because of his parents paying school fees.

His answer was always going to be twisted by the press.

He had a very privileged background and married into money, it doesn’t make him less qualified to do the job he’s doing.

Of course his answers will be twisted by the press. That's what the press do. He clearly doesn't think fast enough on his feet. He has no comprehension of what life is like for most people in the UK. That is because he had a very privileged upbringing and as you say married well. He will always get caught out.

He cocked up calling the GE, the podium in the rain, D-Day, then hiding away from the press. Now this unnecessary gaff about Sky.

Keir Starmer and Ed Davey are no better. None of them should try to come across as 'ordinary blokes'. The only one who can pull that one off is Nigel Garage and he's not one either.

We didn’t have a TV - let alone SkyTV. Where I came from, no one had. Radio was the thing

petra

Sky was here in the uk when sunak was about 10.
Just when you think he cant put his foot in his mouth any further, he finds more room 🤦🏼‍♀️

That made me laugh out loud.