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Stephen Kinnock’s cafe society
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I DO NOT like charades. Neither the elongated attempt at family entertainment that ruins everybody’s Christmas gatherings, nor the spectacle of Labour politicians pretending to talk about class.
The experience would be less painful if the likes of Stephen Kinnock weren’t so crap at picking cultural metaphors.
But alas we must listen to his razor-sharp analysis that “messages about fast-paced economic change and globalisation may go down well in coffee bars in London, but don’t speak to workers whose factories are closing down.”
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