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I disagree, personality wise he might not be Johnson but on policy for the last couple of years it has been hard to view him as the change candidate, offering mainly tweaks around the edges of current policy, the differences of policy between ERG headbangers and One Nation tories are probably further apart than between what the opposition party have been offering versus Johnson.
I think what he tried to set out at conference actually was OK and Rachel Reeves economic plan was reasonable but you rarely here them articulate these positions when challenged and land up sounding like they don't offer an alternative vision
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Johnson spunked his way into the place as different from the status quo, riding on the sewage stained coattails of Trump draining the swamp from his evil, swampy lair at the heart of the swamp. I think when people say Keir is status quo they're thinking down, down to the quo of old, when politicians were just a bit dull and normal rather than openly narcissistic psychopaths.
I think most people would sum him up as the status quo and that isn't what people want from opposition