Theresa May, the embattled British Prime Minister, gave a speech Wednesday morning that was meant to be a button on a four-day Conservative Party conference in Manchester. The speech was about something, supposedly. Something reasserting dominion over a cabinet something something plagued with internal squabbling something something Brexit. But a trifecta of distractions converged over the Prime Minister, and the speech became about them: A cough, a merry prankster, a bracelet. See, May had a cough that has been described by various publications as “awkward,” “painful to the ear,” “persistent,” and “a cough.” Then there was a mild protest in which a young man handed her the pink slip, before security ejected him. It was all very embarrassing.

But most importantly for our purposes, there was the bracelet. The bracelet, which seems to have been plucked from some bed-and-breakfast gift shop or a forgotten Etsy shop or a minor museum souvenir shop, is made of six two-by-three inch Frida Kahlo portraits strung together. Frida Kahlo! The artist who changed her birth year so it would coincide with the start of the Mexican Revolution. Frida Kahlo! The woman who is said to have had an affair Leon Trotsky, but at the very least provided refuge for the exiled Marxist leader. Frida Kahlo! Who met her husband, Diego Rivera, through the Mexican Communist Party. That Frida on the wrist of Theresa May! The woman who worked at a bank before becoming Britain’s P.M. and keeping the country’s centrist torch lit throughout the Brexit proceedings.

It’s the most important piece of the trifecta of distraction because this was a choice made by May. She probably didn’t mean to have a cough and she certainly didn’t welcome the guy or his P45, a form that the British will recognize if they’ve ever left a job. But she definitely chose to wear the bracelet. She saw this bracelet, and she saw all her other bracelets, and she said, “That’s the one. That’s the one for me at this moment.” Or her stylist did, which is worse.

Could it have meant something more specific than to just give off an “art mom from Phoenix” vibe? Could it have been a conciliatory gesture to the Labour Party or a “feminist” one? Maybe! No idea, really. No clue what she actually said.