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# Cameron's cyber charisma
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/camerons-cyber-charisma/
- Published: 2007-10-01T09:10:10.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T22:37:35.000Z
- Author: openDemocracy Supporters
- Tags: #en, #Migrated, #Import 2026-04-09 18:31

**Anthony Barnett (London,** [**OK**](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/05/08/hot-off-press-call-for-new-settlement/?ref=opendemocracy.net)**):** Cameron would have beaten Blair in an election and he remains a serious, modern candidate. But I find there is something oddly unattractive about his attractiveness, an avatar like sense that his looks have been remodelled for the screen. I felt it the first time I saw him fesh into the leadership at a Demos event. Up against Blair it would have been like a computer game: an election in Second Life in which the latest version has the better pixels.

Davatar Cameron

What Brown has done is bring politics back down to earth. A place where Cameron looks, well, alien. Matt d'Ancona touches exactly this effect with [a great joke](http://www.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/214486/the-terminator-is-here-in-spirit.thtml?ref=opendemocracy.net) from Blackpool. He noticed that the Terminator films are being especially screened through the conference and writes that on Wednesday delegates have a choice of entertainment between "...an all-action thriller with lots of stunts and special effects in which a battered cybernetic organism repeatedly defies death against an apparently unbeatable foe in an attempt to prevent catastrophe; and... an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie".

Another reason, perhaps, why my [Boris Scenario](http://ourkingdom.opendemocracy.net/2007/09/27/what-if-the-boris-scenario/?ref=opendemocracy.net) may not be so far-fetched after all.