The lesson for Democrats is surely that after years and years of telling anyone they could find that had concerns about society “oh you must be a literal Nazi, cope harder la la la la whoop whoop air high fives and fist bumps that’s roiiight ma BOI!” at some point these people are going to turn around and say “well ok then, I just won’t vote for you because you have nothing to offer me”.

I’m not saying the Republican party has done this any better, but surely insulting potential voters en masse and refusing to understand their concerns isn’t a sensible way to win elections. I didn’t work for Hilary either, and it hasn’t worked for Harris.

We do… but we don’t need to. Just force of habit.

There’s a purple fluffy cloud? Ooo! Where?

They include “research” when it suits their argument. And speak in absolutes. No drive time radio isn’t as popular as what it used to be… but he’s using all the same tricks.

He sells controversy. That’s his schtick.

If I were still inside your mom I’d make that face too.

Hiiiiooooohhh

I never saw the article as anything more than a sarcastic opinion piece. They’re not calling on the chancellor to reverse the budget. They’re not pointing to business opposition. They’re not saying anything but haven’t an armchair moan in, what looks like to me, a light-hearted opinion piece.

But fair enough if others see it differently. I certainly didn’t.

After some twukini

miniminimimni…twukini!

Ed knows how to write for his audience. He’s a shock jock for the modern age.

I feel… and hear me out… you’re taking this opinion piece too seriously. Read it like you’d read a Spectator article (and I very much appreciate you might read the Spectator). These are meant to be tongue in cheek. They’re not meant to be taken seriously or over analysed.

Could you imagine being this put out about the guardian opinion pieces?

Honest. I like it.

Don’t worry, the American tax payer will bail them out via Joe’s IRA.

You could say… a wave of redundancies.

Travel somewhere nice

Want this supposed to be that alternative?

I’d hope he sends the Tories further down in parliament such that the strong opposition is the Lib Dems. The Tories can language in Green or SNP territory.

Maybe within the Tory party, for sure. I can believe that. But does he not want the Conservatives to be electable in a general election scenario.

I’m not trying to be funny, but isn’t this exactly what Labour did with the Corbyn years? Appealed to what looked like a large majority of their membership that turned out to be spectacularly unpopular at a general election level.

I cannot believe the Tories want to repeat this lesson. I mean, if they want to be out of office for a decade then that’s cool with me.

Ancient flag shagging Tories… Hard Left Labour unions… With these powers combined they become:

CAPTAIN BREXIT! He’s their hero. Gonna bring the UK down to zero. Did a skid. Killed a kid. And crashed his balls on a dustbin lid.

Light switch Spider. Can turn your lights out in an instance. Fucking deadly!

To a certain extent I understand courting the fringes of your party every now and then. But for the life of me I don’t understand making that cohort the main goal of your increasingly nuttier and nuttier rhetoric.

What is this electoral calculus?

You won’t need Strava to know Joe’s at the ice cream parlour. Pffffff.