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It has long been acknowledged that the UK, in its cultural consumption and political discourse, is increasingly becoming a vassal state of America. Now another US export has belatedly reached British shores: calling your opponents “weird”. After the Democrats found success in using the word to describe the GOP’s Trump-Vance ticket, The Guardian has now applied it to the UK’s Tory Party — twice in the space of a day.
The first of the articles observes that the “weird” moniker has been “deployed to devastating effect in the US”, and accuses the Conservative leadership candidates of “com[ing] off as weird, for their obsessive focus on things no one else is talking about”. The examples cited of things the public doesn’t care about include limiting migration and “the scourge of woke”. Are those issues really so unpopular?
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