‘Do you think people are stupid?’ Sunak shrugged. Of course he did

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  1. Add:

    [As it happened, Guardian live blog: ‘Do you think people are stupid?’](https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2022/mar/28/rishi-sunak-energy-security-strategy-spring-statement-uk-politics-live-latest-updates)

    and bonus:

    >[Mirror: Millionaire Rishi Sunak actually owns FOUR CARS after claiming family drive a Golf](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/millionaire-rishi-sunak-actually-owns-26578755)
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    >Rishi Sunak said his family drives a Volkswagen Golf, but sources said he also has a high-specification Range Rover, as well as a top-of-the-range Lexus and a BMW kept at his luxury Santa Monica pad
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    >(https://archive.ph/sTT4L)

  2. He doesn’t just think we’re stupid, he knows we are and acts accordingly. If you think this man and all his millionaire chums in the Conservative party have any interest beyond maintaining their own wealth and privilege then I have a bridge to sell you.

  3. believeing people are stupid or not isnt the point, their are banking on people being hesitant to use violence to remove them from their cloistered positions.

    if this was france, londongrad would be well into a month of riots.

  4. Given his perspective, that his party has gutted and disrespected it’s citizens for over 10 years with 0 repercussions, not surprised he’s confident he can get away with abhorrent behaviour.

  5. He’s seen people constantly vote against their best interests in a number of recent elections and a referendum. He and his mates probably joke about how stupid those people are behind closed doors.

    What’s his answer going to be? “Yes, and we rely on them remaining stupid so we can have another 12 years in power.”

    I suppose he could have lied and said “no.”

  6. Sunak is a cunt and a pampered little shit like the rest of the politicians we have but eh. Kinda agree. Average intelligence is horrible and most people possess average intelligence

  7. The fact that the Conservatives are polling more than 5% (1% for the ultra-rich who actually benefit from their policies plus the [lizardman constant of 4%](https://twitter.com/qikipedia/status/1250408537752305664?lang=en)) suggests that the people are a bit stupid.

    And Sunak knows that.

    If they can spend 13 years fucking the country over and lying to our faces, how can they claim that we’re not stupid if a huge chunk of the electorate still believes them?

  8. I’m not exactly siding with him but fuck me, a lot of people are truly stupid and I’m not talking about not being able to see through some dodgy tax accounting, I’m talking Ralf Wiggum eating glue stupid.

  9. Bozo has surrounded himself with incompetence, Peter Principal. We thought Sunak was slightly more competent – Obviously not.

  10. They have intentionally cut and fucked education for years. He hopes people are stupid because it’s the plan.

    Unfortunately, many younger generations continue to educate themselves outside the confides of school, and there is a growing mass of intelligence and pissed off people. Sadly, apathy for the state of the world means many will continue to do nothing about it.

  11. Smearing Jeremy Corban as an anti-semite proves that people are morons with no connection to reality.
    So yeah, people are thick as pig shit.

  12. To be fair, if the sample of people that you interact with most regularly are the current cabinet, I can see how you’d come to that conclusion.

  13. We’re all less smart than we could be and we somehow repeat history’s mistakes of dehumanisation, generalising about nuanced issues, war. But humans do brilliant things too, compared to any other animal. So a shrug works out lol.

  14. They’ve just robbed our country blind through covid corruption, have allowed hundreds of thousands to languish with next to no support through one of the worst crises in living history, have completely thrown an equal if not greater number of vulnerable people under the bus as easy collateral, the economy is in tatters with millions of working families facing the worst winter of their lives looming ahead this year, and still damn near half the public can’t help themselves with the effusive praise for how these people have saved us from catastrophe. Damn fucking straight they think we’re stupid, they rely on it for their success.

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