Boris. Would everyone love him if he was not blonde?

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Looking at our current PM, it occurred to me that he might not be so appealing to us if he had dark hair? Would he be viewed as a possible case of self neglect requiring assistance rather than the bouncy Labrador he is seen as?

I don’t love him now, please don’t think everyone loves him.

People are drawn to a natural blond , I doubt this is in doubt. Humans are drawn to unusual things and most people in the UK are not as blond naturally as they are in Sweden ( for example)
However, his hair is more worzel gummidge these days and looks pretty shit.
He is lucky to still have hair at his age though!

She'd have been far more competent at dealing with Covid. She'd understand the science and wasn't afraid of making unpopular decisions if she believed that it was necessary. She''d never have been guilty of "dither and delay". And even though I don't agree with most of her decisions, I think she was fundamentally ethical

All that may be true but Thatcher was a genuinely evil person.

Hence my user name, I lived during the Mrs Thatcher years as a young teen through to the bitter end of that government. She was very much a marmite person , my dh and his family and friends all loved her , I wasn't keen.
She did have a science background, so she might have been a bit better at the data if there had been an 80s pandemic.
You wouldn't have had lockdown though as nobody could ' work from home ' back then as nobody had the tech , maybe a few very expensive , but not very good mobile phones.

It wouldn't have been the same at all, much harder in fact.
I don't know what they would have done.

People travelled less often in the 80s. It would have been far easier to stop international travel and even limit local travel. Also, restaurants were a big treat for most people. So easy to close them. The main issues would be no working from home, and pubs of which there were far more of.

She did have a science background, so she might have been a bit better at the data if there had been an 80s pandemic.

She didn't value human life at all though, so it's hard to say which way she'd have gone. She'd have prioritised the economy (although not locking down to save the economy proved a false economy anyway).

Plus, although not comparable there was a pandemic in the 80s that was badly handled (Aids).

True, she may have kept the economy going instead I suppose. AIDS was badly handled I agree.

I would have hoped as a scientist that she would have realised that the economy or lives was always a false dichotomy.
For example, we didn't lockdown before Christmas for the economy. But people just stay away from restaurants and pubs. People lock themselves down if they don't think it is safe. People have to think it is safe for the hospitality industry to thrive.

AIDS was badly handled because it was "only" gay men, drug users and prostituted women that were badly affected. Thatcher didn't care about them at all.

we didn't lockdown before Christmas for the economy. But people just stay away from restaurants and pubs.

Plus in 2020 (March and December) delaying the lockdown/restrictions made the lockdown much longer on both occasions.

AIDS was badly handled because it was "only" gay men, drug users and prostituted women that were badly affected. Thatcher didn't care about them at all.

Thatcher didn't care about many people though. She literally left a generation of working class areas to rot, with callous spite and destroyed communities and community spirit which has never really returned. "No such thing as society".

@User135644 I agree delaying restrictions just makes lockdowns longer.
Thatcher didn't care about people, but she believed in giving people the chance to rise and get wealthy. Those who couldn't, tough luck.