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!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
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With the greatest of respect: the guy was Chancellor of the Exchequer for years. It seems reasonable to assume people know who he is in a UK politics forum. (edit: sp.)
I can totally appreciate that contextually people would assume his title and other important background information based on their regional knowledge and understanding.
For all the words in the article they do very little of explaining the incident, it's newsworthiness, or the relationship of the parties involved. I think it's just a bad article considering I learned more from short replies like yours than I did from the article!