Have you seen Nigel Farage? Kier Starmer? British politicians are so far down the heap they're living in bogwater. The "left" is fascinated by a naked politique whose only qualification is being able to hold a conversation with a northern accent.
Literally nobody in the island's political system has a grain of swagger so how could we expect a troglodytic disease like robinson to be in any way appealing to anyone but his fellow swamp people