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if viewers can get over the contradiction of her being from an immigrant family but still hating immigrants
Mentally rolling through the nationalities of some of the people I know of who voted Brexit; Kiwi, Indian Mauritan, Bahamian, Scottish, 2nd gen Irish, another 2nd gen Irish. I think "those other immigrants / not like us" is a pretty standard personality type TBH.
hugo7-
Yeah, I've got first generation fimmigrant extended family who worked hard unlike the other freeloading immigrants, or so they believe.
Similarly, that chap Ali Akbar (Ali Alexander), who co-organised the capitol riots last year was from a good hard working immigrant family, unlike the others in his opinion. I mention this because I called him out on his anti immigrant views when I had the misfortune to meet him.
Not much wiggle room between Daily Mail readers and the American far right it seems.
Stonehedge
They’ve written themselves into a corner. They built up characters like Farage and May over years then discarded them without finishing their arcs, then added in layer after layer of complicated but novel nonsense. Add to that how viewers absolutely hated the Gove sex plot from earlier this season and I can imagine they’d feel despairing.
It does seem like they’re building up for a May 2.0 with Patel, who likely screen tested better and makes a more believable baddy (if viewers can get over the contradiction of her being from an immigrant family but still hating immigrants). I reckon they’ll pit her against the two-faced buffoon at some point.