As a Liberal I feel I should be empowered to make informed free choices, but as a decent member of society I recognise the need for sensible guidelines. Thus the line between a Liberal, Social, democrat, and a US style Libertarian 'im alright jack' dick is embodied in carbonated beverage choice 😆

There was a time when Brits would jokingly define themselves as not doing the over-the-top things America would do, like being obsessed with flags (as a thin metaphor...) - apparently we're now the butt of our own jokes.

As a member of that church, and a Liberal, you are spot on. People are suddenly so willing to throw aside the things that made us British to pander to populist anger...

Printer go brrrrrr 🤩

I actually think this idea work even better with a woman, a person of colour, actually anyone who could say: "you want me to call myself 'James Bond'? Really? Do I look like a James?" - and MI6 is like: "yes, that's how the alias has always worked, you're on the case James" -- job done, move along.

This rhetoric around easy political answers rather than hard economic choices is also rather hard to swallow from a party that pretended the NI cuts were affordable or pledged not to raise the big three taxes at the last election.