UK PM contender Rishi Sunak's 'no working-class friends' video goes viral; Netizens call him 'clown'

An old video of Rishi Sunak, the top contender for next UK PM, has gone viral. The decades-old video is from a BBC documentary 'Middle Classes- Their Rise & Sprawl' where Sunak says he does not have working-class friends. The video has taken internet by the storm with angry Brits lashing out at the UK PM contender. Some netizens called him 'clown' while others accused him of being a 'liar'. The old video has given fodder to his critics as hashtag #FishyRishi trends on social media platforms. Rishi Sunak is an Indian-origin British leader who launched his campaign on July 8 with a hashtag #Ready4Rishi. Watch this report to know more.

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[tallurirahul]

My dear fellow indians, don't defend him just because he is an Indian. He is not serving our nation and let's worry about our problem's, geniuses!

[cooltoad]

The background music isn’t loud enough. I can almost hear him.

[MrPritham]

A man without empathy is more dangerous than anyone else

[Gordonthevet]

Some sins in youth are forgivable, but contempt for the lower-class does not go away.

[shamanbhattacharyya]

As a Indo-Brit (mostly Indian and l live in India), he is not Indian. He serves the interests of the British! Let's not get pumped up about this. In fact...

[dailydoseofanimalsandnature]

It would be great to see a working class individual make it to PM. Somebody who understands what the majority of the nation is going through rather than those who are in the top 10%

[freyapc]

A wise person chooses friends who share their values, regardless of social class.

[JoySparkx]

I don't think we should expect anything from Indian origin people, who were especially born abroad.

[meerasreekumar]

How can a person who has prejudice against working class represent a nation??

[baghazukhov]

To the Indians all excited about him. It's entirely irrelevant to us. This guy is as British as it gets. Nothing remotely Indian about him except for his looks.
He'll act for the interests of Britain and those interests are more often than not, contradictory to India's interests.
Nothing to celebrate here even if he makes it.

[galaxyraider]

look how proud his father looks after he say smugly "well actually I don't have working class friends"

[ankurbhardwaj]

He comes across as someone who knows about middle class problems via ppt presentations and board room discussion about how to deal with poverty

[TheB]

This is basically being used as an attack strategy before the person even is elected to that position.

[tripti]

Why is everyone getting jealous of him.. 😂 Idk why Indians are much more interested in this matter rather than UK 🇬🇧

[ILoveJesusToo]

Just a reminder that Rishi Sunak MP, the man in charge of the country's purse strings and perhaps the strongest voice insisting that the extra £20 a week to those on Universal Credit must be cut, is one of the richest men in the country.
Sunak's wife, Akshata Murty, is the daughter of a Billionaire. She owns shares worth £430M in her father's company alone, meaning she has more money than the Queen.
Sunak himself, is a former hedge fund manager and Goldmann Sachs banker who attended the elite boarding school of Winchester College.
Today it costs £41, 709 to send a child there for one year 😳
Sunak's property holdings span several continents, and just one of his homes in London alone is worth £7M.
This is the man holding down the minimum wage and refusing to properly pay our key workers.
The people making these decisions don't have the faintest idea what life is like without the safety blanket of financial security.
They are NOT on your side! They’re just pretending that they are.

[karirai]

It’s the mindset that won’t go even in younger age or older

[HamadKiani]

Upper class people have friendships with upper class ones. Working class people have friendships with people of similar backgrounds. It is a universal truth and not something extraordinary. He just spoke truth.

[far-dam]

PM should be some one who understand everyone. Especially the working class and the poor. This guy clearly detest the poor and his father seemed to be be proud about.

[jijiani]

Why are we discussing a candidate that's not even contesting for an election in India?
Please come out of the colonial mindset
He is in and out a non-indian
Don't go on his name
If given a chance he will change that to fit in that western society

[TheScrewdriver]

He didn’t say he was ashamed he just corrected himself when he realised what he uttered was an overstatement.