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Would love to see a picture of his replacement. I hope he has hair. It was impossible for Smith because he's not telegenic. Blair photographs well, is tall with a great head of hair and big smile, and he made Smith look like an aging nerd by comparison. In a time when movie stars are winning elections and style is winning over substance (particularly in star-struck Diana-lovin' UK), the conservatives need to find someone with a little sex/youth appeal.

Sadly, people don't want to listen to what you have to say if they don't want to look at you. I've talked to many very frustrated conservatives in UK and many of them don't even understand how much more personal and economic freedom they would have if they could break the chains of entrenched socialism. BBC has little competition so "fair and balanced" alternative ideas don't seem to get presented to the people for discussion. There is no Rush Limbaugh or talk radio over there, which makes me wonder if anything will change until they have some sort of groundswell grassroots movement. Which media would feed this movement, with tv so limited and radio nonexistent, I cannot imagine. Back to pamphlets and tabloids?

"Would love to see a picture of his replacement. I hope he has hair. It was impossible for Smith because he's not telegenic. Blair photographs well, is tall with a great head of hair and big smile, and he made Smith look like an aging nerd by comparison."
There's a theory that labour controls the tories to explain this. That would also explain why Hague (the previous leader) came out with a story about drinking 10 pints of beer a day when he was younger, before the last elections ...
Another version of the same theory is that
- someone else (it would have to be a secret society in that case) controls both the government's party and the leadership of the opposition in the EU countries (Labour and Tories, SPD and CDU in Germany, Chirac and the Socialist Party in France and so on).
- since it's essential to create a sense of stability in these troubled times, they have on the agenda now reelecting the current goverments.