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arguably the most important British politician of this century
A bit early to judge, but if you want to give him all the credit for being the figurehead who got a particular reaction to the disastrous preceding decade over the line, then maybe the most important British politician of the 2010s.
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So important that he could only get elected, oh delicious irony, to the European Parliament when, if he did show up, the only thing he did was make his colleagues utterly sick of his non constructive contributions
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Partly because he's good box office, partly because they are obliged by charter to provide balance but they have literally no idea what that actually means, so they provide airtime to the lunatic fringes of the left/right spectrum without ever straying far from their big-government orthodoxy on the libertarian/authoritarian axis.