The British prime minister had an awkward encounter while serving breakfast at a charity shelter.
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has drawn ridicule for asking a homeless man whether he “works in business” before giving him a free hot meal. Sunak, a multi-millionaire former hedge fund manager, made the remark on Friday during a visit to a shelter in London.
The PM was filmed at the counter of a soup kitchen run by a charity for vulnerable people in the UK. At one point a young man, reportedly named Dean, asked Sunak whether he was “sorting the economy out.”
“That’s exactly what I’m trying to do,” the prime minister said, before asking: “do you work in business?”
“No, I’m homeless, I’m actually a homeless person but I am interested in business,” the man replied.
"Are you sorting the economy out?"
"That's exactly what I'm trying to do," Rishi Sunak responds to a homeless man at a London shelter today while serving him breakfast
The PM says the government has pledged £2 billion to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over three years pic.twitter.com/cQNcyeNeqh
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Dean went on to say he liked finance because it’s “good for the city”, to which Sunak replied: “Yeah, that’s absolutely right, so I used to work in finance actually… Is that something you would like to get into?”
“I wouldn’t mind, but I don’t know, I’d like to get through Christmas first,” Dean responded, explaining that he hoped to get temporary accommodation, to stay off the street.
The exchange was derided by the opposition.
“Out of touch. Out of his depth. Time he was out of office,” Labour MP Bill Esterson tweeted on Saturday, calling for a new general election.
The awkward episode comes as the UK reels from a cost-of-living crisis and double-digit inflation, with the economy slipping into recession for the first time since 2008. Government policies seen as exacerbating the problem accelerated the resignation of Sunak’s predecessor, Liz Truss, in late October.
Sunak himself has identified skyrocketing inflation as one of Britain’s key economic problems, saying that tackling the challenge is one of his priorities.
Earlier this month, a study from the homelessness charity Crisis, led by Heriot-Watt University, warned that over 300,000 individuals and families across Britain could lose the roofs over their heads if the government does not change its policies. The authorities have pledged £2 billion ($2.4 billion) to tackle homelessness and rough sleeping over the coming three years.
It’s a wonder Sunak didn’t say…. You’ll be homeless and you’ll be happy
Like ” big brother” the USA, the UK governments prefer to make cannons than to build houses.
Spending money on a war against putine, while british are cold and hungry. Population fed by charities, like in Dickens’ time
Poverty is more than dreadfull in the United Kingdom, i saw it while younger and nothing has changed
Rishi Sunak HAS MORE MONEY AND ASSETS THAN DOES THE ROYAL FAMILY!!!
The West is finishing-up it’s run in Modern History.
What’s left are tents, soup lines, and the ultra-rich being condescending and rude to those who are not ‘in the know’ and are not receiving ‘mates rates’ treatments and favouritisms.
When Gates, Soros, Schwab, and the rest of the Zio-Communists are finished with Rishi, he too will be tossed under the bus after being used by the NWO / WEF minions.
The historical and political patterns are in full ops now!