"Look, this poll says that if we replaced Sunak with someone who cut taxes, fixed the NHS, stopped the boats and grew the economy, then we'd only be slightly behind Labour!" "OK, so what's the plan to do those things?" "Well obviously step one is to get rid of Sunak, and we'll figure out the rest."
I think that was like hours after Blair had been slow hand clapped at some event, and someone told him "Good news prime minister, the lunchtime news did not lead with your terrible event. They have gone with footage of John Prescot punching a voter in the face."
He's not arguing for a reduction in migration (good news for him, that is government policy! He won that argument.) but that the people hear already are not /really/ British, and it's a bit insulting that we are meant to not connect the dots.
There is a Jon Finnimore sketch where a woman asks a physic for information on her past lives. "I always felt drawn to Cleopatra" "OK, well you were 18 people during her life time, mostly you died before your 1st birthday, and once you were a Chinese peasant."
"Why Jeremy Corbyn is more like Margret Thatcher than every leader since her" would have been a great headline for an article that would have annoyed so many people in 2019.
Tearing up as I take a selfie infront of Thatchers old clothes at the Tory conference, before going onto x.com to complain why it's hard to rent in London.
"London isn't even British anymore" = "I'm furious my comparable lack of worth means I can not afford a comfortable lifestyle in the best city in the planet, and want to blame the "other" for it."
I hate assuming people are acting in bad faith, but after x number of "This argument makes no sense" it really is easiest to just assume they are racists doing motivated reasoning.
I never got why she does. Her origin story about being failed at school was under Major, and then her real success as an adult took place under the economic and social liberal boom of labour.
