Rishi Sunak mocked with brutal fundraiser to assist him pay for Sky TV
Rishi Sunak has been brutally mocked after whining he went without Sky TV as a child – with a tongue-in-cheek fundraiser set up.
More than £1,000 has been pledged for ‘Rishi Sunak’s Sky TV Fund’ – with the cash actually going to support food bank charity the Trussell Trust. The JustGiving page, set up after the PM struggled to name anything he’d gone without as a child, says viewers were “heartbroken” by his plight.
James Barisic, who set up the fundraiser – which includes a mocked-up image of the PM holding an old-fashioned TV set – said: “Millions of people across the UK were heartbroken to read the recent interview with Rishi Sunak when he revealed that, during his childhood, he had no access to Sky TV.
“Unlike thousands of children, Rishi’s deprived childhood included no satellite TV – a fate surely shared with his poverty-stricken friends who were also students at the private Winchester School. Despite this unimaginably tough start, Rishi worked hard and rose to a position where, as an investment banker, he earned millions after he bet on a bank that was subsequently bailed out by taxpayers.”
The brutal fundraiser continues: “Rishi is now facing more hardship. He is down to just one helicopter and he could soon be out of a job. Forced to live on just a PM’s pension and quite a few tens of millions in the bank, Rishi could once again be deprived of Sky TV. So I am asking you for help.”
Mr Sunak, 44, attended one of the country’s most expensive boarding schools, Winchester College. He and his wife Akshata Murty are the richest inhabitants of Downing Street in history with a combined £651million fortune.
Speaking to ITV News, Mr Sunak was asked if he’d had to go without anything when he was growing up. He replied: “Oh, we went without lots of things because my parents wanted to put everything into our education and that was a priority.”
Pressed by interviewer Paul Brand to give an example he said: “Famously, Sky TV, so that was something that we never had growing up, actually.”
The JustGiving page urges people to support the Trussell Trust, which supports tens thousands of people struggling to make ends meet each day. Mr Barisic wrote: “All the money will go to the Trussell Trust to help people who, like younger Rishi and because of older Rishi, are unable to make ends meet. They provide food and support for those in desperate need in the UK.”
Earlier TV funnyman Jason Manford skewered the PM after a video of the interview was shared. He posted: posted on X/Twitter: “Why do they pretend that their upbringing was worse than it was! We see right through you! A more compassionate answer would’ve been ‘look, my parents worked hard & I was fortunate to have a warm house & food on the table & I want to make sure every child in the UK has that too’.”
Click here to donate to Mr Barisic’s fundraiser for the Trussell Trust
