Originally Posted by Peter_

That is exactly the kind of attitude that the average tory voters fail to grasp when they vote for these people, which is that they do not care for the average person or oik, which is what many of the present members of the government see their voters as and are shocked that they do not tug their forelocks when confronted by them.




Regardless of whether it is an act or not it is not something that looks good on serious political stage, and if people can not see that is an issue then it shows that the above forelock tugging is still in their mental makeup, even if they no longer tug it as Boris and his fellow party member do the tugging for them.