1) Career politicians, straight from reading PPE at Oxbridge and then straight into a research job or think tank post (or indeed brief tenures as a banker);
2) Aged 35 – 50, generally male;
3) Overkill of impassioned hand gestures.
What happened to the individuality of politics? And why exactly is the Blair template so successful?
Suggestion:
Ah, the bitterness of the Lefties like Alan over their beloved parties defeat at the election. Far from making remarks about the Tories and Libs take the beam out of your own eye. The biggest liar and charlatan in the past few years was a leading light in the 'New Labour Party' one Anthony Blair. Who epitomised as the questioner says the infestation of Parliament by Blair clones one of whom is the new leader and the other his brother not to name all the rest of the Blair acolytes now scrambling to group round the Milly Bands.

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