Rishi Sunak

[mosssideblue]

I sensed from his first lines after the Sunak piece that Ben Elton is not a fan,

Are you sure :)

 

[TinFoilHat]

Course they will

Uncle Rupert decided he want Sir Keir to do his bidding. Expect his papers to be pushing for a GE to get rid.

 

[Vic]

Dreadful interview.

He has this awful habit of just repeating a pre-prepared soundbite over and over. To the point you can see he is even bored saying.

He is actually starting to look and sound like Liz Truss.

That's what you do when the media want a soundbite for the news bulletins. Say several times the one thing that you want them to use. In a lengthy interview it just sounds like prevarication (aka bullshitting).

It's even worse when your core message is five pledges to sort out problems you've created, and they're not sorting out the problems.

 

[johnnytapia]

This is an awful interview. He just won't shut up but instead says the same thing 4 or 5 ways, and deliberately answers a question that wasn't the one asked while talking over the interviewer. Oh, and recites his numbers without context.

Kuennsberg is doing okay at keeping him to the questions she's actually asking, but as he won't actually answer the direct question, the "we'll get through this" is not landing convincingly - a plan is all well and good but if the intervening time is lethal, not much help. How many will not be able to switch mortgages for something useful?

Avoiding the bad stuff just makes him sound relentlessly upbeat that everything will be all right in the end (and we won't mention those who won't make it to the end).

Totally failed to answer whether he agreed with the decision on Johnson, making excuses. If he'd answered the first time, it would look much stronger than needing to be dragged back several times to not answer again. Ah, and then apparently it was time to abuse Starmer (did you know that he wants to put more power in Putin's hands by not exploiting gas reserves?) and a party political statement. And of course his five goals came out again.

“Everyone has a plan. Until I hit them.” Michael Gerald Tyson.

 

[TinFoilHat]

I think Ben Elton has just written his next stand up routine.

 

[marco]

i know a lot on here dont like Piers Morgan but he ripped the Torys to bits during covid on the breakfast show to the point they wouldnt go back on,would love him to do a 1 on 1 with Rishi cocerning his Hold your nerve statement

 

[mosssideblue]

Asking everyone to hold their nerve when he hasn't a financial worry in the world is taking the piss

 

[somapop]

His persona and presentation style is that of Sooty's new 'dad'.

 

[MillionMilesAway]

That's what you do when the media want a soundbite for the news bulletins. Say several times the one thing that you want them to use. In a lengthy interview it just sounds like prevarication (aka bullshitting).

It's even worse when your core message is five pledges to sort out problems you've created, and they're not sorting out the problems.

And when the govt have run out of policy.
The Commons stops before 5 pm quite often at the moment because there isn't anything up for debate.

 

[TinFoilHat]

i know a lot on here dont like Piers Morgan but he ripped the Torys to bits during covid on the breakfast show to the point they wouldnt go back on,would love him to do a 1 on 1 with Rishi cocerning his Hold your nerve statement

The Tories don't talk to channel four for that reasons.

Newsnight is also on that list.

They like soft interviews where their client journalists allow them to parrot thero slogans and not talk about anything else.