Rishi Sunak trusts his driver so much he thinks he doesn’t need a seatbelt

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  1. Bets on the excuse?

    – The vehicle was made without seat belts
    – The vehicle was being used for a police, fire, or rescue service
    – I’m pregnant and my doctor says I don’t have to wear one

  2. Aww more Tory ~~rule~~ law breaking, how adorable!

    Fairly sure he isn’t exempt, unless they added being a slimy twat to the list.

  3. Fines are for poor people, £100… he probably lost more then that out his pocket down the back during the trip.

  4. A pro wrestler died two days ago because a driver in the opposite direction randomly swerved into his lane and caused a head on collision. He was driving carefully just taking his kids to practice, but wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

    By not wearing a seatbelt you’re not just saying you trust yourself or your own driver with your life, but literally every other person on the road. I certainly don’t trust random people I’ve never met, so not sure why I would do that while driving a few tons of deathtrap.

  5. Is that going to be 2 criminal convictions for the current PM since the last GE now then?

    I imagine that’s a new record!

  6. I know the writing is on the wall for the Tories, but these are the kind of stories which make it really obvious. These sorts of minor hit pieces are the type of thing that usually gets slung at Labour

  7. His excuse seems to be that he’s extremely busy and working very hard to get around the country. Obviously no other prime minister we’ve ever had has ever been this busy previously…

    He’s the first Prime Minister in a while who doesn’t look physically knackered already. He may just have a super healthy lifestyle but generally when I think of the half decent PM’s we’ve had they all had bags under their eyes within a few months.

  8. I dated a guy who wouldn’t wear a seatbelt because he ‘didn’t like being told what to do’. In my experience, these kind of people are a special kind of prick.

    I’ve strong feelings about seatbelts because when my dad met my mom, seatbelts weren’t mandatory. He was a firefighter and told her to start wearing hers, because of the accidents he’d seen. A few months later she had a crash with a drunk driver which would have killed her had she not been wearing the seatbelt.

  9. I mean every where he goes he’s surrounded by police outriders and in a group of cars in a little convoy. The chances of a crash are probably about the same as any of us being in a car crash and none of us wear belts in trains.

    Whatever the reason, I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.

  10. Why are our countries leaders so goddamn stupid? I thought these people went to the best schools money could buy.

  11. The cars not moving.

    Then why is the background moving mr Sunak?

    “Thats just the speed of Britain levelling up!”

  12. His accent gets in the way of the seat belt… so polished and soft, like his wife’s businesses… “we colonise YOU now hahaha”

  13. You’d think at this point the next incompetent PM would realise repeatedly demonstrating woeful stupidity is not a good idea.

  14. Err, sorry, is my eyesight going?

    It looks to me as if he *is* wearing a seatbelt, but over the wrong shoulder. It looks to me like he has it passing behind his neck and then going downjust to the right of his open jacket.

    I’m not saying this to defend him – who the heck wants a guy running the country who is too dumb even to wear a seatbelt properly. Reminds me of Obama’s comment on Clintons “I didn’t inhale” claim: “When I smoked a joint, the whole point was to inhale. Who wants a President who can’t even toke a joint properly?”

    Edit: Just seen another version of the video as linked [here,](https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/10g5l4k/no_10_admits_brief_error_of_judgement_after_pm/) and I think it is just the lapel of his jacket, that looks shinier than the rest of it. And No. 10 has called it a “brief error of judgement” rather than “an idiot who cannot perform simple physical tasks.”

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