The rise of the British Political Personality
Friday 11 May 2007
Whilst chatting to a guy named Sam today in college we got onto the subject of Labour party leadership. We were discussing how Gordon Brown, who almost inevitably will get the position, although, not nessecarily without competetion, was widely mistrusted by the public. I jokingly said it was the scotsman in him, but we had raised a fairly valid point. Despite, in our minds at least, Brown doing very little which could be seen in a negative life when compared to Blair, many people just seem to prefer Blair. Brown's economy has been pretty decent, Blair took us to Iraq. Go figure. The question is, how much importance do the public give the charisma orcharm of party leaders when voting? How much of voting is manifesto led, and how much is run by charachters, the big names in politics?
The film above shows just such views in the supposed emulation of Blair by Cameron; the man with fingers in every policy-related pie. After disappointing results for the Lib-Dems, I have to wonder, how much are the Yellows at a disadvantage having Campbell; generally not in the news to the extent Cameron or Blair are, as their leader? As people seem determined to make comparisons between Blair and Cameron, and even wider comparisons to modern Labour and Cameron's reformed vision of the Conservative Party, just how much is Campbell edged out of what, in terms of media, if not politically, is increasingly looking like a two'horse race? Is it no news is good news, or there's no such thing as bad publicity? With poor results across the UK, I expect the LibDems would have to say the latter...
posted by danny @ 17:02,
1 Comments:
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At 12 May 2007 at 09:35,
Unknown said...
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The fact that people are saying: "With Blair gone, we're going to have a man in power that we didn't vote for" makes me wonder whether policies come into it at all.
People vote for the person they like the most; their political affiliation is irrelevant...
