To intensely dislike personality politics?

[CurlewKate]

It doesn't matter about their hair, their accents, their clothes, their dogs, their entertainment value or even their personal wealth.Look at their policies, ffs!!

Agree. It's tiresome.

Totally agree. You would think we would have learnt something from Boris.

Yes. Very easy to look up someone’s voting record and what they’ve said in debates via TheyWorkForYou, Hansard etc.

When they have no policies, that’s all that left to comment on. That’s where we are today. The quality of politicians in this country is the worst it’s ever been.

@tpxqi Of course they have policies! You may not think they are very good policies-but they have them.

And no, they are not "all the same".

I concur

The problem is that people:

Believe media that says ‘blah blah has no policies’

Then they do not bother to think of the knock on effects of bribes (see Brexit, reversal on climate promises, having staffed billions on HS2 knowing full well they’d never achieve what they promised).

My mother still looks back fondly at Boris, while she lives in poverty in Cornwall.

I do think politicians and the media don't communicate policy well. And definitely not in a way that most normal people understand - let alone people who have accessibility problems such as language or disabilities. Most of the electorate rely on passive knowledge which is often poorly emphasised and skewed to whatever sells clicks and ads.

No real place where policies are laid bare to compare.

Maybe we need to start a table policies on one side and ticks and crosses on the other. It won't be perfect but a good start.

It’s always been part of politics it’s nothing new

and personality does matter its not just down to policies and what you have listed is just part of a personality

Party leader and PM’s need to be flexible, need to have people believe in them, need to make decisions that go against their beliefs and at times be utterly ruthless

class is hugely ingrained into our society so this will play out in politics