Doing Without Sky TV As A Child?

Oh no, we've still only got BBC in black and white 😁

The question really really threw him didn't it! It was painful to watch but not nearly as painful as what he has planned for NHS, Education, people who are disabled, people fleeing war torn countries, families and children in poverty, young people... the list goes on. He really does view us with disdain from his self entitled boys club.

No one had sky tv when he was a kid!- it was not around - the first tv of that time was NTL cable tv about 1999( i remember cause my youngest child at the time was just over a year old born 1998- we had it installed but was sold door to door then and we bought the basic pack, just tv no broadband or anything in 'those days' so whats he on "that he was poor they didnt have sky" - Sky wasnt around.

Unfortunately he had to say something and he came up with that.
I’m sure he wasn’t deprived at all but like most of us he probably thought he was.
Why he couldn’t be honest and just say he was’t deprived of anything important I don’t know.
As someone up thread mentioned, Sky wasn’t a thing when he was young was it?

It was introduced in 1989!

Nannan2

No one had sky tv when he was a kid!- it was not around - the first tv of that time was NTL cable tv about 1999( i remember cause my youngest child at the time was just over a year old born 1998- we had it installed but was sold door to door then and we bought the basic pack, just tv no broadband or anything in 'those days' so whats he on "that he was poor they didnt have sky" - Sky wasnt around.

Maybe this will convince you as to when it was launched.

advanced-television.com/2024/02/05/sky-tv-turns-35/

Probably not, petra - I gave the dates up above.


(And the words he used too)!

We had Sky TV in 1992 when my daughters were 11 and 8 (born 1981 and 1984 respectively). The Premier League started in the 1992/1993 football season and this massively increased the sale of Sky subscriptions

mae13

That's Mr Sunak's definition of hardship? Yes, he is truly detached from the rest of us.

We never had Sky when my children were at home and I don't think they felt deprived We watched terrestrial and later cable TV, but supplemented with film videos for when there was nothing suitable on the normal channels. Incidentally my children did not watch ITV because they were constantly lambasted by toy adverts.

Sigh. It's not his definition of hardship. Just watch or read the whole interview.

Indeed!!!

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.

I’m the same vintagewhine - no Sky tv, no Netflix, no Amazon Prime even! Have to make do with Freeview on our tint tv. Think we’re definitely underprivileged 😀

Tiny tv, not ‘tint’ tv. Fat fingers

The politicians playing "my childhood was harder than yours" game reminds me of (I think) a Les Dawson sketch when he said that his family were so poor that his dad used to suck a Polo mint and the children sat round him to get warm!

He wasn't doing the "my childhood was harder than yours" thing though!

I can't understand why people don't find out what was really said..

🙄

Just seen this

Perhaps we can look forward to a Telethon to raise money for needy children without Sky TV.

Or those who are gullible enough not to see through a smear.

No smear in view. Sunak said he 'went without' Sky TV as a child.

Just watch the whole interview and not just one tiny, out of context, quote fed by the media to the gullible.

Exactly.

Callistemon21

Deedaa

Pittcity Never mind Twix and Haribo. look at his dire attempt to eat a pasty in Cornwall. Nobody holds both ends and takes a bite out of the middle! Had he even seen one before?

How do you eat yours?

Traditionally you were not supposed to eat the thick pastry crust, it was used as a handle by miners who had no way of washing before eating; they often had arsenic on their hands too.

I always cut the thick pastry crust off, eat the middle (with a knife and fork!!), then dip the leftover bit in the gravy (yep, I have gravy with mine!) I guess there's absolutely no hope for me.