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I thought it struck the right tone because it was conciliatory, not triumphalist, and focused on thanking those who had made his victory possible - those many thousands of working class voters across swathes of once rock-solid Labour constituencies. That these voters, many of them from mining families for whom voting Labour was a birthright, felt they had more in common with Boris Johnson than Jeremy Corbyn is a damning indictment on the latter and his cosy Islington set with their romanticised view of the working class.

To follow that up by making his first port of call the north of England was smart thinking by Johnson and it seems clear enough to me that his reference to one-nation Conservatism means he plans to broaden his appeal to all sectors of society.

Again, just my opinion. I'm not expecting you to agree.
It's as much a damning indictment on them, and their knowledge of history as anything else. They fell for a snake oil salesman selling them a universal panacea for all their perceived ailments, it's very hard to feel sorry for people who are that stupid they pay money for a cure to an illness that doesn't exist.

They are a disgrace to the previous generations who had the gumption to organise and demand better. They do not seem to have the imagination to ask for more (or even worse they don't realise how well off they actually are.) In this new version of the politics of envy the only thing they can aim for is that everyone else is worse off.

The cosy Islington set thing is bollocks, and Corbyn's team and policies are a million miles away from the days of Ed Milliband eating a bacon roll, or Peter Mandelson mistaking mushy peas for guacamole.

Nice spin, and not too much gloating in your post. It does come across as patronising and smug all the same.