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Stuart's avatar

He didn't go to Oxbridge , has had a real job and he's run a business, just those three factors alone makes him attractive to a lot of people, the main three parties are one and the same and utterly useless.

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Jason Frowley PhD's avatar

No he doesn’t, yet he’s still vastly more popular than the leaders of the other parties. That surely tells us something…

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Alex Potts's avatar

It tells us that scrutiny has been applied asymmetrically.

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Reed Roberts's avatar

Somehow he has catered the idea that he is consistent and that he keeps to his word. He has managed this despite espousing many many mutually exclusive political ideas, he is the equivalent of student body rep running on the platform of a longer summer break. He surgically alters his messaging based upon who he talks to, he manages to give left wing takes to lefties and right wing takes to righties. Dog whistling is the wrong word, it's more like a dog sonnata. Power will destroy him, and as far as I see it, he knows it. Which is why it seems he avoids it.

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