What A Fraud

[Canary42]

https://metro.co.uk/2022/03/24/rishi-sunak-borrowed-car-from-sainsburys-worker-to-pose-for-cameras-16337379/?ito=facebook%7Csocial%7Cmetroukfacebook&fbclid=IwAR0PQGviNy32m7whTvXh8cfvV3CauTyf0_tkBlr-_3loXZWfHM48revLhBw

[Hopkirk]

It's a staged photo opportunity. Hardly a fraud.

[jourdain2]

Canary - sorry, but it's fair enough. Several times when I have been around when there has been an event that local press have been interested in, I've been asked to pose for a phot --- next to offending object; shaking my fist at speeding car etc.. It's always been something I know about and agree with so I've done it.
Not a problem p- nice photo for paper that's all.

[DTCwordfan]

Flawed maybe but not a Fraud.

[douglas9401]

Photographers, the least imaginative of the graphers.

[jno]

yes, it's a fraud. He could always have used his own car, but filling up his Humvee, even with his own fair hands, would be insufficiently relatable.

[naomi24]

Crikey! I thought this was some big drama and it turned out to be a nonsense story.

[Bazile]

These staged photos of politicians , supposedly to show that they are a man / woman of the people , makes me laugh .

Rolls eyes - who are they trying to kidd?

[Gromit]

The intended narrative of the photo is ‘Chancellor a man of the people doing what ordinary folk do’.

But he is not like you or I. He has a £200million fortune and a wife richer than the Queen.

He was presumably chauffeur driven there in his ministerial car (Bad planning). So he had to borrow a car from one of the people stacking shelves.

Then even more bizarrely for the man looking after the country’s finances, he appeared not to know how to pay contactless.

Not the crime of the century, the the scene acted out was fake and not the real Sunak.

[Peter Pedant]

canary - not sorry - it is fair enough

it is a photoshoot - so all the models you or your wife swoon over ( no not playboy) they turn up like that? News: they dont, they get given them

[Peter Pedant]

reeshi's father in law has 0.1% shares worf $200 m
so we are lucky he runs the treasury rather than an ex-bus conductor ( Major )

I have already said reeshi is tres riche

[William51]

I cannot see a fraud. Sunak may be a rich politician but he has done a neighbourly thing to reward the car owner for lending him his car, he did not have to do it but he did. I congratulate him. No story here.