Comments by "" (@titteryenot4524) on "Rishi Sunak: Inside the Tory leadership candidate's fortune" video.
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@3:37 “You know, I have friends who are aristocrats, I have friends who are upper-class, I have friends who are working-class … well, not working-class .” (My emphasis) And that, dear Reader, is why if Sunak becomes PM, he stands not a chance of holding those working-class northern seats the Tories won under Bozo; as, for all Johnson’s posho privilege, he had a disjointed, buffoonish charisma that cut through to ex-Labour voters, that Sunak can only dream of having. Labour, for all their current lacklustre lack of identity and policy, must be genuinely looking on and thinking … “yep, we just might.”
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@rehan2118 That’s not my point; my point is that humans are tribal, birds of a feather etc etc. Sunak has quite literally nothing in common with your average voter in Newcastle, or Barnsley, or Gosport, for that matter. For all the UK being a Parliamentary Democracy (lol), and not a Presidential system, we all know that most (all?) Brits do place quite a high emphasis on the leader of the party they vote for (notwithstanding all the policy issues). It’s the basic pub test: The Conservatives won seats in hitherto unthinkable places (for the Tories) at the last election. Why? Well, in large part (but certainly not wholly), they warmed to Johnson, and yes, for all his faults (perhaps because of them), many could imagine shooting the breeze with him over a swift half. Sunak, however, has none of this going for him. I deeply doubt that many of those who voted Tory last time will vote Tory next time if Sunak is PM. Or Truss, come to that, as she is hardly much more ‘relatable’ than Sunak. Hence why Labour may have a genuine chance, notwithstanding their bland, undefined presence as we speak.
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