It's not tactical. It's just like trying to sound smarter than you are.

Yeah. Listen to what I'm saying to you. Yeah. What's all the, what's the point of all this?

The boy waves his hand around taking in Westminster. The arches and mosaics, the statues and

security guards, the researchers fast walking up the shallow steps, the TV screens showing

committees in progress, the BBC Parliament feed from the chamber. You can feel Tom Watson getting

hard, right? Three people watching it. Um. There are less people who watch BBC Parliament than there are who watch the trash future

life.

Right? And like, genuinely, you can do this with America, kind of, because they have the, like,

fuckery to make it work. That's why this exact scene works in the newsroom, where people

ask Jeff Newsroom. Jeff Newsroom isn't America bad? And he's like,

well, no. Yeah. So basically, um, what then, but bear in mind, this is a 16 year old boy in

2022, then says the follow up, then says the following line. This is just punch and Judy nonsense, carrying on as usual while the world goes to hell.

You've got to have the fire in your belly.

Punch and Judy.

Something or just learned about in GCC history, as a matter of fact,

the Punch and Judy show from Punch Magazine in cartoons, which I greatly enjoy reading.

Can I just say, I'm going to briefly defend this line because I would much rather read

a line that a 16-year-old would only have said in the late 19th century rather than reading

what Tom Wonson thinks a 16-year-old in 2020 speaks like because that would have been

like it's like it's a 100 geeks isn't it

yeah

he's only gone and done

...