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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
If you're a politician never, never have your pic taken while eating.  |
Eating comes only second to kissing babies over here. Many of our career politicians come from the high echalons of society. They went to the same schools, the same Universities. There are only so many things you can do on camera to prove yourself a man of the people. Eating seems to be the only one legal for the front page of the newspapers.
And yes, they get it wrong on a regular basis, because those at the top really do not live in the same world as people like me. The irony being, I could "pass" better at one of their dinners, as long as I didn't talk.
You just know Cameron never succumbed to a Greggs Steak Bake because he had enough money in coppers and his hands were cold and it would fill him up all day. He may eat real pasties with Samantha in Cornwall, but not chips on the front in Blackpool. And (the British version of) BBQ - no David, no. One does not eat a hotdog with a knife and fork.
The rest are the same. Except real man of the people Nigel Farage (because no-one is impressed by the public school he went to, and he went to work in the City, as a commodities broker, not to Uni). So he gets away with holding photo ops in pubs and sipping from the top of pints while defending his party's racist attitudes by saying they have one full black and one half-black candidate. Because everyone talks like that.
Female politicians don't need to eat in public, because people can see what they've done physically if they have children.
Women who work in politics and have no children are obviously so unnatural anyway, you wouldn't want to see them eat. Because it would probably be live rodents...