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He made UKIP mainstream. Got into the EP and then leveraged the funding system to expand UKIP. If UKIP had a random nobody who sections of the population didn't relate to and all of the media didn't love they would have never posed a threat to the Conservatives. If they didn't pose a threat to the Conservatives, Cameron wouldn't have called the election. Neither would the ERG lot would have never had the juice they did when they did.
I'm not generally a believer of the the Great Man theory, but at certain points someone comes along who pushed and shaped things because of who they are, whether that's Martin Luther or Hitler. Sure someone else could have done it and the ingredients were there. But sometimes the way an individual operatates is what changes things.
From a UK perspective he and Blair have probably had the greatest impact on my life, and imo our society.