Doing Without Sky TV As A Child?

Many public schools started off as charitable foundations.

He was making a joke folks! Sky asking what he missed out on as a child what else would he answer but .... tada SKY Have you all totally lost your sense of humour?

Clearly, I am hard done by as I don't have Sky tv at my great age of 83, ha, ha, ha.

When I was raising my children only the very rich and people on the dole could afford SkyTV. I never had it either and still don’t.

I would have had more respect for him if he'd said 'I was fortunate & had everything, but I do appreciate that's not the case for everyone.'

I love that quote about just when you think he can't put his foot any further in his mouth, he finds a bit more space!!! So true of all the Tories!!!

Totally agree, Aveline

Hear hear Aveline

Aveline

I'm so cross about the way this snippet has been blown up out of all proportion by the media and people who just fall for anti Rishi click bait.
I'm not a fan and am not going to vote for his party. However, his parents sound like absolute role models for others these days. They came here. Worked as a doctor and a pharmacist and prioritised their children's education over the latest consumer must haves. We could do with more like them.

Repeating this for those perseverating on that edited snippet

As others have said we did not have Sky or even a tv when I was a child. I note Kier Starmer's definition of poverty was his Parents not being able to pay the phone bill, nope never had one of those either

Sorry, it was me who said 1900s re education for the masses.
I was thinking of free and compulsory which I think was around 1917/1918.

Sorry if I was confusing.
Board schools of course were before then. I'm pretty certain they weren't free though.

loopyloo

He doesn't realise how untrendy Sky is. Or even tv is.

You obviously weren’t around when Sky was released, it was huge.
As for tv being un trendy I’m with my grandchildren, most terrestrial tv is crap so most of our viewing is on streaming apps.

We were early adopters of new 'stuff' as we felt it was important that our children were part of the modern life.

Sky and TV were trendy back then.

He doesn't realise how untrendy Sky is. Or even tv is.

Er, did Rishi Sunak mention any of those programmes? Correct me if I'm wrong, but I never heard any of the boys at the independent school I taught at discussing Buffy.
The Simpsons, however, yes! All the time!

Not laughing.

Little gem from facebook - as you can imagine there are some very funny replies .........

^I've seen so many heartless posts today from people who don't understand the trauma of growing up as a Child Without Sky TV (CWST).
CWST sufferers have had to endure the pain of going to school and not being able to engage in the playground chatter, always being on the outskirts of TV history.
Not being able to converse on topics such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the complex love triangle between Spike, Angel and Buffy. Never seeing the newest escapades of the beloved Simpsons family. Never having the opportunity to find out what the "Something About Miriam" actually was. It can be devastating and debilitating.
I know this because for periods of my life, I too was a CWST. And yes, we can always watch these shows now, yes we can "Catch Up" and everything's "On Demand", but the moment has been lost and that's something we can never get back.
So please, be kind and show sympathy to Rishi Sunak and other sufferers of CWST like me.
Thank you 🙏🏾❤️^

DiamondLily

maddyone

I must be deprived. I still haven’t got SkyTV

I didn’t have it when it was first invented (when Sunak was 10 years old lol). Alan Sugar was involved, I think.

I didn’t feel deprived not having it - we still thought video recorders were wonderful then!

Not having sky wasn’t seen as deprivation.🙄

Alan Sugars company, Amstrad made the dishes and receivers for the station. Obviously he did rather well with the deal.

Yes 1870. Our house was built in 1872.

www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/livinglearning/school/overview/1870educationact/#:~:text=In%201880%20a%20further%20Education,short%20at%2082%20per%20cent.

(If anybody is interested.)

kittylester

Yes, and not as someone said upthread in the 1900s.

From memory, I think it was 1870, but it was a struggle to get some children to go to school if they were more useful in the fields or doing some other work.

Yes, and not as someone said upthread in the 1900s.

kittylester

I gave mentioned previously that we live in a converted Board School built in the 1860s.

Board Schools were for the poorer people in an area - a mainly agricultural village in our case. Our house was used as a school until 40 years ago.

Board schools were built to fill in the gaps in provision by the church schools after attending school became compulsory in the late nineteenth century.

I gave mentioned previously that we live in a converted Board School built in the 1860s.

Board Schools were for the poorer people in an area - a mainly agricultural village in our case. Our house was used as a school until 40 years ago.

maddyone

I must be deprived. I still haven’t got SkyTV

I didn’t have it when it was first invented (when Sunak was 10 years old lol). Alan Sugar was involved, I think.

I didn’t feel deprived not having it - we still thought video recorders were wonderful then!

Not having sky wasn’t seen as deprivation.🙄

I must be deprived. I still haven’t got SkyTV