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  • does any government publicly want to be a loser

    perhaps they see it as fuel for their misplaced victim complex, and can/will use it as culture-war fodder to rile up their voter-base?

  • perhaps they see it as fuel for their misplaced victim complex, and can/will use it as culture-war fodder to rile up their voter-base?

    Of course they will - but, if your modus operandi is to pick culture war fights constantly, doesn't it start to look a bit weak if you lose absolutely all of them?

  • if your modus operandi is to pick culture war fights constantly, doesn't it start to look a bit weak if you lose absolutely all of them?

    There's no-one independent keeping score. It's just a mechanism to get Daily Mail front page headlines slagging off lefty judges, Keir Starmer, immigrants etc. Then your average red wall voter thinks "hold on, I don't like lefty judges / Keir Starmer / immigrants either..... maybe I SHOULD vote Tory"

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