So bored of Conservative MPs' Cameron-style faux anger every time they don't want to answer a question or to defend the indefensible.
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The idea that any of those guys could get any mileage out of their anger in an *actual* confrontation always has me in tears, laughing.
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Being able to switch it off - because it's fake - means it's pretty easy to revert back to being the "adult" if anyone actually gets angry. But yes, in real life it's hardly a sensible tactic.
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The correct response to this kind of performative anger is incisive mockery.
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The other possibility is to ramp up sincerety to the point of absolutely nill tolerance for or engagement with bullshit.
But this is a game most politicians are incapable of playing, for obvious reasons.
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