Look at him. Strutting out of that building like a returning HERO, arms out, soaking up the chant, waving to the crowd like a rock star at his own homecoming.
Grinning like a man who's convinced the whole country's fallen in LOVE with him.
Now. Ever watched a STREET MAGICIAN work a crowd? Keep your eye on the ball. The cheering. The smile. That's the TRICK. And right now, you're falling for it.
Because a magician doesn't hide the trick. He gives you something better to look at. A pint. A DJ set. A crowd chanting his name.
This isn't a man enjoying himself.
It's a STRATEGY.
Look where we actually are. A party that won 34% two years ago, now polling around 16%. Behind REFORM. Behind the GREENS. A government approval rating of MINUS 57, as hated as the Tories were the day before they were wiped out.
A party drowning like that doesn't film DJ sets for fun. It does it because it's GOING UNDER.
So they found their one asset. Him.
Britain's own top pollster has said it out loud. Burnham is Labour's best hope of keeping FARAGE out of Downing Street. And unlike Starmer, the polls show people actually LIKE him.
That's the ball you're being told to watch.
Now here's the OTHER HAND.
He's Prime Minister, and not one of you voted for him. No election. No mandate. INSTALLED.
So how do you fix that? You don't call the vote while you'd LOSE it. You spend a few months being FUN. Loveable. Everywhere. You build the numbers first.
It isn't even his own money doing it. It's a taxpayer funded media unit, up to £872,000 a YEAR, paid to make him look like your mate.
Then, when the right is in PIECES and his face is popular enough, THEN he calls the election. And wins the mandate he could never win today.
That's the trick. The dancing. The pint. The I LOVE MANCHESTER. It's the hand waving in your face.
While the other one reaches for a MANDATE you'd never have given him sober.
Keep watching the ball if you like.
Or look at what the OTHER HAND is doing.
When I see this it makes me so nervous to be flying back tomorrow from Dubai via Doha. Like this video really hits home how serious this situation is rapidly becoming. Call me soft but I hate war and I just want this to end 😔
@vegasstarfish We got married there in 2023 - stayed at the cosmo - after nearly a 22 hour trip due to delays etc - bell boy brought our cases up even though I insisted it was fine I tipped him $20 he went “ha yeah right” - now that’s our first interaction there we felt pissed off