Anthony Barnett (London, OK): 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 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 may not be so far-fetched after all.
