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Originally Posted by Oliver_W
Podium-Pounding-Politics.
That sort of behaviour is fine for parties which will realistically never see real power -UKIP, Green- as they largely exist to bring ideas to the table and have an influence, but will never be the leading party or the official Opposition.
It's also fine for "mavericks", members of the main party who float around the backbenches but don't touch the (Shadow/) Cabinet.
But when they're leading figures among the mainstream parties, it's just not very becoming.
Floating voters like my favourite apocryphal couple, Joanna and Michael, might not really care about politics and could vote on a whim, or based on whoever the current party leader is. They don't really follow the ins and outs of the world of politics, and voted for Boris because he's a Good Old Boy(tm). They're starting to be put off him because of the way he's been handling the pandemic, and now he wants to steal more of their hard-earned ... but they're getting called SCUM by a shouty little madam who they've barely heard of ... why should they swing to Labour next time?
I think we've learned by now that #BeKind only applies to certain people ... both as perpetrators and targets ...
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Actually she didn't call Con voters scum.
Not at all.
She was getting at the Cabinet from their leader down.
The ones who make the heartless decisions that crush the weakest, poorest and sick and disabled.
Not the voters.
I'll make no apology though for saying myself, again, I believe of the voters who all go out to vote.
30% of them, are hardline Con voters, extreme and heartless, not caring a jot for anyone lower or weaker than they may be.
So support heartless policies.
Frankly, I think scum is too good a word for them, those that support those polices and even moreso as to those implementing such heartless policies too.
After all scum means a layer of dirt or froth on top of something.
So maybe it IS the very appropriate word to describe the very top of this governmental Cabinet.