Don't leave all politics out of it. He's a politician, and they are celebrating a moment in his political career.

It's a political career that has had and will have real human costs. It's only been 12 years, have we really forgotten what Martin helped to inflict on this country?

They have had a difficult journey through life and I'm sure it is a nice moment for them as he's made the most powerful man in the country

but unfortunately it's an awful moment for everyone else as we stare down the barrel of years of further austerity and neoliberalism

so excuse me if I don't see this as the moment to buy into this humanising bullshit. It's propaganda, it's meant to make us look away from policy, and it's meant to make him harder to criticise. Fuck off.

This thread has already lost me one follower. Let's get those numbers up