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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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Tbf on the bottom paragraph, why should people be kind to a party that's never really been kind since beating Gordon Brown in 2010?
If the party wants respect then they need to be respecting the people.