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Interesting comment on an FT article (paywall obvs) about TM's "electoral tactics" yesterday:
An hour ago or so I saw Mr. May (TM's husband) shopping at Waitrose. I was in two minds but I thought he should hear an opinion. After all they do continuously tell journalists "what I hear all the time in towns and villages across the country....". I apologised about stopping him in public. And then simply told him I was disgusted by his wife's policies.
He walked away visibly angry. But it's what he instinctively told me (as he walked away) that struck me. I quote him exactly: "I never hear that from normal people in normal places."
This was Waitrose this was central London. The message could not have been clearer. London, central London, may pay the UKs bills but its no "normal" place. By mere association with London - after all Mr. May cannot know anything about me - other that, like him, I was in Belgravia, he came to the immediate, gut conclusion that I was not a "normal person".
And he's supposed to be a restraining voice.
So forget "electoral tactics", they don't need them - they represent the vast majority of "normal people"