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Patrick Atwater
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Much more general problem than in just the uk! “It is much easier to call something a bad look than a bad idea. The appeal of the phrase is obvious. mps who rely on it can hide behind an imagined voter, rather than exercising their own judgment, reducing themselves to one-person parliamentary focus groups. For analysts, it offers a crutch of faux objectivity. Saying that a policy is wrong or immoral is banned for supposedly objective observers. So say it is a bad look to maintain your credentials as a shrewd political operative. Such an attitude breeds a cynical indifference to the consequences of politics. Whether things are actually important comes second to whether voters notice.” The four worst words in British politics https://www.economist.com/britain/2025/01/01/the-four-worst-words-in-british-politics from The Economist
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