There is a particular quality to this footage that references privilege and entitlement 🖊️ Simon_Kelner via ipaperviews
On one level, it’s hard to know what to think about the newly-released footage of a Christmas party at Conservative HQ from December 2020, when Britain was under Covid restrictions that banned socialising indoors.
It speaks mainly of the indifference and insensitivity of the political class, or at least of the conceit of a party which has been in power for 13 years. Would the widespread ignoring of the Covid rules have been perpetrated under a Labour administration? They would like you to think not, but a long period in government can breed an institutional arrogance, and Labour’s own 13 years in power was not exactly devoid of hubris.
Nevertheless, there is a particular quality to this footage that references privilege and entitlement, and that’s what haswho can vividly recall the privations they endured, patiently, during Covid lockdowns. There is the ineffable sense of haughty self-satisfaction, which, at the risk of sounding petty, may come down to the question of Mr Mallet’s braces.
Not to labour the point, but the inescapable fact is that the wearing of braces can make you look like… well, a bit of a tosser. Mr Mallet may well be, as Zac Goldsmith says, a “kind and decent person”. But he doesn’t look it, carousing without a care in the world. And if there’s a fashion accessory that communicates a self-regarding, born-to-rule, superior attitude, it’s braces.
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