Last night’s This Week tried very, very hard to take hipster Ugly Sweater Parties mainstream.
Christmas Farage!
Portillo in a onesie! Self-depracating hashtags!
A dog (for some reason)!
That dog’s face says it all. Buzzfeed’s Jim Waterson is right about the real “Portillo moment”:
So @bbcthisweek nailed its “Westminster on cheap drugs” feel with this shot. Man on right was almost Prime Minister: https://t.co/r8IGQ6XT3j
— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) December 20, 2013
It’s not quite the pre-Olympic rave end-credits scene from 2011, but it’s not far off: