I can see his heroic speech now “I DISAGREE with what Israel is doing to Palestinians but now is NOT the time for disagreement and division between us!” Burnham will say triumphantly as he desperately tries to become specific enough as a human being for anybody to remember past the posh thick rimmed glasses guy who ran interference to facilitate Genocide as prime minister that came after the other posh thick rimmed glasses guy who ran interference to facilitate Genocide as prime minister.
Spoiler - he won’t.
I can see his heroic speech now “I DISAGREE with what Israel is doing to Palestinians but now is NOT the time for disagreement and division between us!” Burnham will say triumphantly as he desperately tries to become specific enough as a human being for anybody to remember past the posh thick rimmed glasses guy who ran interference to facilitate Genocide as prime minister that came after the other posh thick rimmed glasses guy who ran interference to facilitate Genocide as prime minister.
Honestly I don’t think the majority of middle Englanders are ready to accept a guy with a strong northern accent as “posh” but we’ll see.
Radical change is hard!