{"id":"2087822782742581645","url":"https://x.com/triffic_stuff_/status/2087822782742581645","text":"🫣 Please stop with these videos, Prime Minister. We’ve suffered enough.\n\nJust when you thought British politics couldn’t get more painfully performative, here come Burnham and Rayner doing their best “I’m just a normal person like you” cosplay, swapping childhood hardship war stories like it’s a grim-up-north Olympics.\n\nRayner goes first:\n\n“I used to have to go round our estate and collect the 1p bottles and then send them back to the pop man in the shop and that’s how I got my 10p mix. The kids don’t know they’re born these days.”\n\nBurnham, never one to be outdone in the struggle Olympics, immediately tries to one-up her:\n\n“They don’t! I did a paper round and the Sunday paper bag used to be so big. It was like an industrial injuries scheme that I should launch for that.”\n\n😬 Cue the fakest, most forced laughter from Rayner you’ve ever heard. The kind that makes your soul leave your body.\n\nTwo senior politicians earnestly competing over who had the more authentic working-class trauma as kids, all while looking like they’re reading from a focus-grouped script titled “Relatable Northern Vibes 101”. \n\nIt’s not charming. It’s not authentic. But it is unbelievably painful for the public to endure. \n\nSo please, for the love of God, stop!","author":{"name":"J Stewart","username":"triffic_stuff_","avatarUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1746070412381863937/KKz4xn-u_200x200.jpg"},"createdAt":"Thu Aug 13 08:45:15 +0000 2026","engagement":{"replies":1042,"retweets":756,"likes":3558,"views":206609},"media":{"photos":[],"videos":[{"url":"https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2087822737364471808/vid/avc1/576x960/9R18wwGzfd6A6Oep.mp4?tag=29","thumbnailUrl":"https://pbs.twimg.com/amplify_video_thumb/2087822737364471808/img/OxrWWu3qFwv-HP7w.jpg","width":576,"height":960,"duration":19.651}]}}