Politicians playing dress up
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Anyone else sick of politicians playing dress up?
Boris visits a police station, so out comes the dress up box so that he can dress up as one. Zelensky appears in the news wearing tee shirts and a hoodie, fair enough, he's out trying to deal with an invasion, next thing is, French President Emmanuel Macron is wearing one for a photo shoot! Liz Truss goes on an aircraft carrier, out comes the dress up box again and she's dressed up like she's in Top Gun!
And the latest, Rishi Sunak announces a cut on fuel duty, so out he pops to play at being a normal working man for a photo op with his borrowed Kia Rio and his sleeves rolled up.
Boris visits a police station, so out comes the dress up box so that he can dress up as one. Zelensky appears in the news wearing tee shirts and a hoodie, fair enough, he's out trying to deal with an invasion, next thing is, French President Emmanuel Macron is wearing one for a photo shoot! Liz Truss goes on an aircraft carrier, out comes the dress up box again and she's dressed up like she's in Top Gun!
And the latest, Rishi Sunak announces a cut on fuel duty, so out he pops to play at being a normal working man for a photo op with his borrowed Kia Rio and his sleeves rolled up.
Nic Ferrari was quite funny on LBC this morning about it, apparently it was borrowed from a Sainsbury's worker -
"Can we borrow your car mate for a photo shoot"
"er yeah alright"
"And we'll fill it up for you"
"Ah ok, can you get me a twix at the same time?"
Yes it's pathetic. But someone votes for all these wallys.
"Can we borrow your car mate for a photo shoot"
"er yeah alright"
"And we'll fill it up for you"
"Ah ok, can you get me a twix at the same time?"
Yes it's pathetic. But someone votes for all these wallys.
It's a bit like TV presenters having a go at whatever trade they're filming.
"mr smith makes precision gears for watches, he's one of twenty in the world with these skills, and he's going to let me have a go..."
"oh my effort looks really s
t, whodathunkit"
"mr Jones is a bricklayer and today he's going to put me through the paces"
"oh wow it looks st, i can barely lift a brick... would you take me on as an appreciate hahaha"
"mr smith makes precision gears for watches, he's one of twenty in the world with these skills, and he's going to let me have a go..."
"oh my effort looks really s
t, whodathunkit""mr Jones is a bricklayer and today he's going to put me through the paces"
"oh wow it looks s
t, i can barely lift a brick... would you take me on as an appreciate hahaha"WindyMills said:
It's a bit like TV presenters having a go at whatever trade they're filming.
"mr smith makes precision gears for watches, he's one of twenty in the world with these skills, and he's going to let me have a go..."
"oh my effort looks really st, whodathunkit"
"mr Jones is a bricklayer and today he's going to put me through the paces"
"oh wow it looks st, i can barely lift a brick... would you take me on as an appreciate hahaha"
Indeed, although I guess there's a reason for TV presenters to have a go in the name of entertainment."mr smith makes precision gears for watches, he's one of twenty in the world with these skills, and he's going to let me have a go..."
"oh my effort looks really s
t, whodathunkit""mr Jones is a bricklayer and today he's going to put me through the paces"
"oh wow it looks s
t, i can barely lift a brick... would you take me on as an appreciate hahaha"Pretty sure most of us can grasp what 5p a litre fuel duty is without needing a politician to go 'look, this is a car, and here I am, putting fuel in it, this is the thing I'm talking about fuuuueeeelll duuuutty. Do you see, children?
The really concerning thing about the Sunak farce is that he quite obviously doesn't know how the barcode reader works or how to pay by card. To put it bluntly, he doesn't know how to buy stuff in a shop. That shows how utterly divorced from reality he is.
The other thing people should worry about with Sunak is his enormous wealth, esp when combined with his wife's wealth, If I was worth 200m not including the wife's cash, I wouldn't be slumming it for 160k as chancellor. Obviously the ability to influence national policy especially financial is the answer. What an upstanding bloke he really is.
Politicians wearing Hi-Viz were normal employees have to wear it fair enough, plus overalls, I don't expect people to lay bricks in a suit for example. But the whole' fancy dress photo op' is totally ridiculous all the same and shows us what fools they all think we are, regardless of their political colours. Its a bit like the Royals and their fancy dress lives.
The other thing people should worry about with Sunak is his enormous wealth, esp when combined with his wife's wealth, If I was worth 200m not including the wife's cash, I wouldn't be slumming it for 160k as chancellor. Obviously the ability to influence national policy especially financial is the answer. What an upstanding bloke he really is.
Politicians wearing Hi-Viz were normal employees have to wear it fair enough, plus overalls, I don't expect people to lay bricks in a suit for example. But the whole' fancy dress photo op' is totally ridiculous all the same and shows us what fools they all think we are, regardless of their political colours. Its a bit like the Royals and their fancy dress lives.
ZedLeg said:
TBF to Bush (something I never thought I'd say) he is a trained pilot and if you're going up in a jet you need to wear the suit for safety.
If I were Prez I'd be abusing my commander and chief privileges to the max- Blasting cross country in a tank and unlimited free F-18 rides!
neilr said:
The other thing people should worry about with Sunak is his enormous wealth, esp when combined with his wife's wealth, If I was worth 200m not including the wife's cash, I wouldn't be slumming it for 160k as chancellor. Obviously the ability to influence national policy especially financial is the answer. What an upstanding bloke he really is.
I'd like to think he's trying to give something back. That may of course simply be astonishing naivety! I've often thought that politicians at the top end simply don't earn enough to attract the right people. Someone genuinely of the calibre needed to turn the country around and really get things on track is simply going to take a job in the private sector and make five times as much.
Which leaves us with, well, this lot...
I've just been reading up a little on Rishi Sunak and to be fair, he has done extremely well for himself (and arguably married extremely well too).
It does make you wonder why someone with that level of nous is prepared to play silly 'dress up' games with someone else's cars though, you'd think he'd have a little more self respect.
It does make you wonder why someone with that level of nous is prepared to play silly 'dress up' games with someone else's cars though, you'd think he'd have a little more self respect.
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