If you haven’t seen Simon Pegg’s viral video about Rishi Sunak yet, you’re in for a real treat. It’s a genius bit of satire, a brutal send-up of left-leaning, self-righteous. middle-class midwits. In it, the cult Brit comic actor turned bona fide Hollywood star does a pitch-perfect impression of the sort of unkempt craft-beer botherer who gets all of his news from James O’Brien clips. In character, Pegg rages against Sunak for daring to say people should learn maths up to 18.
‘Rishi Sunak wants a f***ing drone army of data-entering robots. F*** the Tories’, he thunders. Genius.
Only it isn’t really. I watched it, hoping it was a joke. I like Spaced and it’s a shame to see talented people be so basic and preachy when it comes to politics. But it seems like this is actually what Pegg thinks. What he reckons passes for interesting or impassioned political commentary.
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