It’s pretty depressing that British politicians are shallow enough all to glom onto the same risible fad at the same time:
It’s a thing. It’s definitely a thing. Someone is telling them to stand like this. pic.twitter.com/RcvelFujVa
— SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) June 2, 2016
It’s even more depressing that the risible fad in question is also a poster child for the replication crisis in psychology, and completely discredited as a terrible example of the misuse of basic quantitative methods.
I can well imagine you can learn to project authority on stage – it’s called acting – but there’s a world of difference between that and this god awful, one weird trick snack-thinking.
Isn’t this also an indicator of how useless today’s politicians are at actually acting and communicating? If they’d slogged their way up the ranks by talking to the public and making their point in public ways, they would surely be much better at this sort of thing. Instead they give every sign of having been stamped out at a cyborg factory and have no experience of talking to the public.
Labour really need to put together a poster combining the Osborne and Blackadder photos.