Rishi Sunak told people not to ‘politicise’ his early D-Day exit and the entire internet responded as one
If you could work out today that it was a mistake to leave D-Day commemorations early, why couldn’t you work it out yesterday?
— Matthew Stadlen (@MatthewStadlen) June 7, 2024
You’re not presenting like someone that would be buzzing to get into National Service at 18 years of age! https://t.co/QvjXLwm66W
— Gary Neville (@GNev2) June 7, 2024
He’s a details guy remember https://t.co/22bcTN8nss
— Al Murray – DKMS.ORG.UK (@almurray) June 7, 2024
You chose self survival and self promotion over remembrance of the fallen.
You chose not to attend the major event for some desperate look at me interview.
Hopefully you just ended your career and your Party.
One man was a Leader of the country yesterday and it was not you— dave lawrence (@dave43law) June 7, 2024
Ok, the itinerary was set weeks ago. That in many ways make the decision even more incomprehensible https://t.co/HK8o7WJAvU
— Jessica Elgot (@jessicaelgot) June 7, 2024
So you’re apologising for not staying in France longer. You are not apologising for disrespect you showed to survivors and the fallen by scuttling back to the UK to do a political interview in which you lied about lying.
Your mealy-mouthed, disingenuous non-apology that is…
— Andy Burge (@AndyGJBurge) June 7, 2024
Not quite sure how this campaign gets worse. Maybe he burns an effigy of David Attenborough by mistake today https://t.co/nXZC6qXLXZ
— Alan White (@aljwhite) June 7, 2024
PM in apologises for leaving D-Day event early, explains “itinerary was set wks ago b4 GE campaign” > As an explanation, Q then is why it was always scheduled for PM to leave event early regardless of GE, given elderly veterans had come all the way & prob 4 the last time https://t.co/b4s2BSf0J2
— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) June 7, 2024
To conclude …
Rishi, love, it was you who made it political by a) proposing national service b) making precisely the veterans’ demographic your target voter and c) fucking off home early and hoping nobody would notice. Idiot. https://t.co/hJh89s2bWJ
— Kate (@katebevan) June 7, 2024
Last word to @SamCoatesSky.
Tense.
Do watch in full pic.twitter.com/b0gnd6nv4i
— Sam Coates Sky (@SamCoatesSky) June 7, 2024
In particular, this.
Remarkable moment @SamCoatesSky tells Sunak that a D-Day veteran has told Sky he “let the country down”
PM responds by reading his line to take, but looks broken https://t.co/14m76mDB3L
— Alex Wickham (@alexwickham) June 7, 2024
And finally!
My brain is still recovering from Sunak's line about politicising the row. It's a work of art.
— Ian Dunt (@IanDunt) June 7, 2024
Source @SkyNews