Yep.given they have always boasted about how many people they have lifted out of taxation people have to remember that the people pushing for this are old Tory MP's and reporters in papers who owned by old wealthy people - its the rich and the donors that will benefit - nobody else will
He's going through an unpleasant divorce and sounds like he's on the edge a little (and today's events won't help, after all 'Boris' got it done.
Tried to tell him the use of words like Woke, Metropolitan Elite (and all the other bingo words) were right wing (many undefinable) tropes/terms to flame up fake culture wars. Going off the back of the post on here the other week by Rascal. Metropolitan Elite (he used this about Manchester btw - he lives in the Midlands) was/is an anti-Semitic phrase. But the comeback is "Marxists' and Labour are full of anti-semites. From a life long labour support, thatcher hating guy....and there goes the radicalisation that's so powerful.
Tough this isn't it. We go back forever but I've not the stomach (patience really) for stuff like that.