Nick Robinson compared Rishi Sunak to a scrounger in a pub and the seething glare said it all
For half an hour on Monday night, Rishi Sunak veered wildly between the dictionary definition of seething and a deer in the headlights as he was pulled to bits by interviewer Nick Robinson.
Not sure I’ve enjoyed anything much more than Nick Robinson dragging his metaphorical nutsack across the sneering chops of Rishi Sunak.
This is absolute decimation.
Look at his face! He’s literally seething!#panorama pic.twitter.com/49qkLFHo1J
— Kraig (@___Kraig___) June 10, 2024
His performance was every bit as underwhelming as the rest of his campaign has been. Here are a few comments that paint an accurate picture.
So relieved that I managed to avoid coming across like an arrogant, petulant little shit. #panorama
— Parody Rishi Sunak (@Parody_PM) June 10, 2024
After watching Sunak's interview by Nick Robinson
I've concluded the only difference between Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, is that one combs their hair and the other doesn't
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) June 10, 2024
If you can get past his patronising, entitled and angry tone and listen to what Sunak is actually saying the substance is… also patronising, entitled and angry #panorama
— Larry the Cat (@Number10cat) June 10, 2024
I see why Sunak hasn’t done any interviews, he wanted to save up his uselessness for one big performance
— Toby Earle Threads tobyontv (@TobyonTV) June 10, 2024
Nick Robinson’s BBC interview with Rishi Sunak showcases the hapless PM as totally divorced from the truth. Suffice to say that if Sunak was put in charge of a whelk stall, he would say he was selling lobster thermidor
— Mary Riddell (@MaryRiddell) June 10, 2024
After years of gentle handling by the BBC, it clearly came as a shock to him to be held to account. Watch his reaction to this brutally accurate analogy.
Nick Robinson, "You sound to me like a guy in a pub who borrows £50 three years ago. And you keep saying, dont worry I'll pay you back. And then when you confront him in the pub, he says, I'll pay you tomorrow. You wouldn't believe him, would you?"
"You're constantly promising… pic.twitter.com/QZyyX3xaUd
— Farrukh (@implausibleblog) June 10, 2024
Athough Sunak probably thinks fifty quid is the price of a pint of milk, his face illustrated perfectly that he knew he wasn’t getting his usual kid glove treatment and couldn’t understand why.
The internet had some thoughts.
1.
#MemeForToday https://t.co/uWAsR2XCZA pic.twitter.com/HEwhf3TwTV
— ady bee (@AdyBee9) June 11, 2024
2.
This bird is less cooked than Sunaks goose pic.twitter.com/3bycploQSs
— Hamish (@caledon65) June 10, 2024
3.
The look on Sunak’s face is almost funny. The further he sinks into this interview, the less will he has to fight back with empty rhetoric.
This is how interviews should be done – not just with Sunak, with all of them.
— Age Garton (@adrian_s_garton) June 11, 2024
4.
Great that the British media found their confidence after the Tories spent 14 years destroying the country. Could've used some of this a few years back. Now that Sunak is politically done they're all happy challenging him.
— Dusk (@Dusk_VII) June 10, 2024
5.
Look at Tiny Temper plotting Nick Robinson's demise.
Nobody ever holds him to account or challenges him, and he cannot handle it. https://t.co/QVDAQKm9L6 pic.twitter.com/zdDfIKbEBG
— Lichfield’s Lips (@lichfield_lips) June 10, 2024
6.
Sunak actually started rocking in his seat, tight lipped. https://t.co/IItQJgS2cA
— Fionna O'Leary, (@fascinatorfun) June 10, 2024
7.
Nick Robinson looks like a man who knows he is about to be freed from bootlicking serfdom, is, in fact, already free, because the UK has turned on the BBC's puppet masters.
Out from under the yoke at last. You can taste it, can't you… https://t.co/ZYaZIKs6ez
— Mandoline ️ (@Mandoline_Blue) June 10, 2024
8.
The look from Sunak sums him up. Utter disdain. "How dare you question me?". He wears his contempt on his sleeve – he can't hide it. The sooner he's out of our lives, the better…
— Prince Architects (@princearchitect) June 10, 2024
9.
"Hello, Police, I've just witnessed a murder live on tv" @DrJayDrNo @freakindelight @SproutCan @DavidJWood2 @HoosAGoodBoy @River_City_MB @Krzwyf https://t.co/dp9w2tffTB
— Neil Swan (@tramowl) June 10, 2024
10.
"I'm sorry, £50? What's that? I only deal in stock shorting trades" https://t.co/3ykJ8rdMgd
— Anth Sinnott (@librarianth) June 11, 2024
11.
Oh dear! Look this angry little face! The poor, poor lamb! https://t.co/SEy8RfzVx5 pic.twitter.com/I6KG8feBOf
— Tom Bradley (@TomBrad18427379) June 10, 2024
12.
Can we keep running this as an advert for the next 4 weeks?
— Lady de Lancelevee #FBPE #KTTO (@LansleyA) June 10, 2024
Neil Walsh put the cherry on the cake.
To continue that analogy, the sort of guy who, when you're finally done and demand that money back, has the nerve to take offense and say, "You're all about the money, aren't you?"
— Neil Walsh (@Nwalsh1977) June 10, 2024
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