Good comments and I'd just add that it irritates me to read and listen to comments coming from folk with words like "bumbling" and "Bojo" or "Boris" being used. These Tory f####rs are incompetent (not bumbling!), the PM is called Johnson, he is not our friend and he is a lying, law-breaking Prime Minister!! This govt are not "buffoons", they are deliberately appalling people who don't care for the country or the constituents they ostensibly represent. I believe calling them buffoons or Boris etc plays into their cynical narrative - they are "friendly terms". All jolly larks eh!! No! That is the image they wanna project, the Woodhouse "how-bad-can-THIS-bad-guy-be-look-at-him" cloak behind which they hide. As for Rees-Mogg? He isn't some 18th century remnant. He is a vile, poisonous man who is just a middle-class Tory cosplaying as Lord Snooty! And every time someone makes a joke about him being some top-hatted toff from another century, his deceptive little cosplay cloak works - it is a deflection!!! This is a govt with a breathtaking contempt for parliament, for the devolved assemblies and for the world at large - we need to stop "playing their game"!
Journos, other MPs and us need to stop "falling into this trap". How we use language MATTERS and the more that lotsa people use their language, the more they can get away with.
Journos, other MPs and us need to stop "falling into this trap". How we use language MATTERS and the more that lotsa people use their language, the more they can get away with.