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Jan 18 5 tweets 1 min read
In the minds of the British commentariat, the UK government is an utterly dysfunctional and hapless apparatus that they want to go and sort out the problems of other countries.
Like if you spent years complaining that this government is an utter mess, the last thing you want them to do is take that incompetence elsewhere
The hilarious thing about this is that they genuinely believe it when they say things like 'the world is looking to Britain for moral leadership'.
Imagine anyone in the world actually thinking "the situation is dire. We need the British". Like most of the world spent years trying to get rid of the British.
If anything, to be consistent you should be asking other countries to come and intervene in the UK

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