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It seems uncharitable to immediately assume bad faith.
What is it about the content of the comment you disagree with?
I think it provides a further example to the parent post that regardless of what one thinks about the Act, the discourse isn’t entirely neutral.
> Probably because you've seen it repeated so much in your hyper-propaganda bubble of reddit that you've started to believe it
It’s a bit easier to explain away the inconvenience of locked individual items as a response to a rise in crime rather than the store’s choices.
I doubt it’s a direct motivation but that isn’t to say it’s not a useful outcome either.
We do learn more than it’s just muddy. For example the Lord Chancellor is somewhat introduced. We know the time of year. We know it’s been muddy for a while. We know the time of year. We know some term has finished so it’s likely that less people are around or it is quieter than usual. Whether these are relevant to the whole plot we can’t tell from such a short passage but that is true of any extract.
Whether that applies to Starmer is a matter of opinion I suppose