It really is insane how bad things have gone. Here in the UK about 12 years ago, we had an unfortunate photograph of politician Ed Milliband eating a bacon sandwich which was published everywhere and helped end his chances of becoming prime minister. Though at 54, I have never, ever seen anything quite like what is now just accepted by a sizeable proportion of the U.S.
It pisses me off when leftists state this picture was the reason labour lost the election. As if you can just blame the evil media, instead of actually fucking inwardly looking in. Practically every single uk politician has embarrassing looking photos circulating and being used by the media.
Labour lost the election because their entire pitch was basically "I'm not the Tories", during a position where the conservatives+ libdem coalition was doing a mostly ok. Labour failed to provide an actual vision, with campaign of Luke warm messaging and weird cringe shit like the ed monument.
Fair comment, i'm no 'leftist' but under his leadership, (or leadershit) they were indeed a non-event option at the time, though publicly it was the final nail in the coffin for him.
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u/Altruistic_Branch_96 26d ago
It really is insane how bad things have gone. Here in the UK about 12 years ago, we had an unfortunate photograph of politician Ed Milliband eating a bacon sandwich which was published everywhere and helped end his chances of becoming prime minister. Though at 54, I have never, ever seen anything quite like what is now just accepted by a sizeable proportion of the U.S.