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[-] Luvs2Spuj@lemmy.world 61 points 5 months ago

I don't understand why this sort of thing doesn't happen more often during these wierd visits to places.

[-] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 68 points 5 months ago

Because usually everyone is vetted

[-] Z3k3@lemmy.world 38 points 5 months ago

That and the tendency to sneek out the back door or hide in fridges

[-] Gamoc@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I still can't believe Indiana Jones managed to avoid that interview.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 52 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

TBF, he doesn't just hate young people. The Tories hate everybody who isn't rich.

[-] david@feddit.uk 48 points 5 months ago

The truth is that Rishi Sunak is very happy to sacrifice the young to bad outcomes because he doesn't think they'll vote for him anyway so he can punch down without fear of electoral impact.

[-] frankPodmore@slrpnk.net 44 points 5 months ago

He hates poor people, is the thing. Younger people are poorer, so he hates them as a by-product. It's the same deal with immigrants: the Tories are mostly fine with rich immigrants, but since most immigrants are poor, that still means they hate most immigrants.

[-] sunbytes@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

He loves to exploit the vulnerable.

The young are almost always vulnerable, as they have few allies and strategies, nor resources to use to protect themselves.

It's when the exploited get uppity that he gets frustrated.

"Can't they see they're getting in the way?"

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 41 points 5 months ago

“I’ve volunteered all my life,” the student began, only for the PM to reply: “Then you’ll love it!”

What an asshole.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 20 points 5 months ago

Getting bored with SLAMMED! already?

[-] Guntrigger@sopuli.xyz 20 points 5 months ago

I'd rather be slammed than skewered. Though both sound pretty kinky.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

Really an issue of scope IMO. How slammed and how skewered, are the questions I'm asking.

[-] JimmyBigSausage@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

I would not call that skewered.

[-] Fermion@mander.xyz 9 points 5 months ago

But if they have an accurate title like "Rishi Sunak Mildly Insulted By Student" we might realize how much of a non story this is and not click. Won't you think of their ad revenue?

[-] david@feddit.uk 2 points 5 months ago

It's only a story because it's so incredibly rare that members of the public get the chance to criticise his crazy policies to his face, in terms ordinary folk can relate to.

[-] HumanPenguin@feddit.uk 19 points 5 months ago

Young people can really make a difference in this election.

The difference being a move from tories just losing. To them failing to be the main opposition party.

The current predictions on electoral calculus are 66 seats for the tories. 59 seats for the lib dems.

But there are a predicted 53 seats where lib dems are predicted to land within 10 % of the tories winning.

Young voters are generally under represented in this polling. So if you live in one of those seats. A high agreement to tactical vote among younger voters. And a higher turn out. Could be enough to turn 4 or more seats. Making the lib de,s the official opposition.

And the tories the 3rd party.

Personally I cannot imagine a more effective way to inform the tories they funked up with younger voters.

[-] david@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

And they so very badly need to learn that lesson, yes. Hopefully this nonsense motivates a new generation of young people forming a habit of voting, and of voting against the Conservative Party.

[-] fubarx@lemmy.ml 14 points 5 months ago

Is there a requirement for him to stick around and campaign? It sounds like he's already made his post-election plans. He's already got the PM gig on his resumé. Why not go now and avoid the abuse? He can claim he's doing it out of a sense of fairness to give the Tories a fresh start.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

I heard that his kids are already enrolled to go to schools in the US this year.

[-] david@feddit.uk 4 points 5 months ago

OK, but he did claim he was going to stay on as an MP. Come to think of it, that's a bit of an admission that he's going to lose the election and then be replaced as leader of the Conservative Party.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

I haven't heard either way... I have a feeling though that he's resigned to losing and is just trying to preserve what little dignity his party has left by not triggering yet another change in leadership between elections. Nothing that he's said or done tells me that he and his team really care about the election.

[-] david@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

The Conservative Party is notoriously unforgiving of leaders who lose general elections, and currently pathologically addicted to leadership elections. I'd be very surprised if he's not gone by the end of the year even if he does exceptionally well in the general election.

[-] Churbleyimyam@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah definitely and good riddance to him. I think they should ask Rory Stewart to come back. They won't do that of course but I feel like he's the only decent guy they've had near the top in as long as I can remember.

[-] david@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

If Rory Stewart were standing in my constituency, I would be very tempted to vote for him. In his work he's now an advocate of alleviating many of the problems in the poorest communities globally by giving no-conditions cash. Who knew that the problems of poverty could be solved with money?!!!

He's also a reasonable person and one who I think genuinely wants good things for the country in general rather than just for rich folk. He actually wants Britain to be governed well and in the interests of the population. He has some blind spots of course, he wouldn't be a Conservative of he didn't, but he's decent and there's hope that he can be persuaded by evidence of benefit.

[-] baggins@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

Technically he was right, no one is being made to go into the Army.

To be really pedantic, one of the options is military service. That covers all three services.

Rish! is still a knob though. He might as well leave now. We know he's off abroad at the first opportunity.

[-] david@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Young people don't want to give up their weekends doing unpaid "mandatory volunteer" work either, though. There's no actually good option here for young people.

Let them get a good education, let them build a career, let them use spare hours for extra earning or relaxation, because their property costs are astronomical. Don't sacrifice them further just for political gain.

It's true to form for the Conservatives, though. You were sacrificed for political gain if you were low paid, if you needed healthcare or social care, if you were disabled, if you were trans, and pretty much if you weren't a wealthy outright property-owner.

[-] aarrjaay@feddit.uk 2 points 4 months ago

The thing is, the whole 'National Service' thing is to get all the old people to vote - and we're getting to a point where none of THEM did national service but they think it'll be a good thing for other people to do.

[-] david@feddit.uk 1 points 4 months ago

Very much so, yes.

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