The non-committal grunt has to be practised over many years before perfection is reached, but there are many opportunities to do so.

This is what he said about the Truss/Kwarteng budget: 'This was the best Budget I have ever heard a British Chancellor deliver, by a massive margin.'

And the other bit, that it's 'all along time ago' only works if you've shown the capacity to admit mistakes and change. Farage's behaviour has been absolutely consistent: he's still the same racist bully he always was.

I was gonna say that he's taking his frustrations out on her...

This is a travesty. Gove may be the most harmful political figure of the last two decades.

Fair point.

But does he think that's a bad thing?

And the idiotic framing 'biology vs. Ideology'! The 'gender-critical' view is pure ideology, and the one thing it's got nothing to do with is biology.

Thanks, I was tempted to try this out myself, but then thought better of it. Oh dear! The same misconceptions but wordier and purpler.😅

That struck me too. Couldn't they have at least used Gen AI to mimic his style and aesthetics a wee bit more convincingly?

The notion of a 'revolt against populism' is also delightfully crazy. I thought populism was supposed to be the revolt?! Is this an admission that it has become the establishmen? Surely not!

There is a question whether these stories ever burst the bubbles Reform voters are in, and, even if so, how many of them care.

I think it's natural to assume that you ended up there by accident.

They will of course conclude that he isn't being 'tough enough'.

You've got to be a boss to say things like that with such confidence!

To be fair, the question of 'whether the reforms will work' cannot be answered unless there is agreement about what that means. If it means that there should be as few refugees coming to the UK as possible, as the govt. appears to see it, I don't want it to work.