In defence of our ordinariness, we would also make the following observations :

• WE HAVE ALL BEEN VOTING FOR PARTIES FOUNDED AND RUN BY THE 'MOVERS AND SHAKERS' — BY THE 'SUPER-DUDES' — FOR DECADES, AND LOOK WHERE THAT HAS GOTTEN US !
• In 2002, Stuart Drummond stood for election as Hartlepool mayor — standing as H'Angus the Monkey, the Hartlepool United football team mascot!! He was duly elected. And then re-elected in 2005. And again in 2009.

[ He remained undefeated, as the councillors and local people voted to abolish mayoral elections in 2012. Quite. ]

THE SUPER-DUDES CAN BE VERY OUT-OF-TOUCH

• In politics, as in life, it is possible (in some ways) to be a victim of your own success. And in many significant ways the achievement of a lifetime of success, status and influence can be a hindrance in truly democratic politics (although not in pseudo-democratic or blatantly undemocratic politics!). For the success and the influence has often come at the price of an inability to genuinely empathise (from the heart, not just conceptually from the head) with the fears, hopes, dreams, inadequacies, hindrances and struggles that are the daily stuff of life for most ordinary folk.
• Travelling the road to success too, has almost inevitably entailed accepting much of the mindset, practices and foundational implicit beliefs of the vested interests — almost inevitably limiting political vision : to one of merely tinkering with, and largely defending, the unfair, usurious status quo.
• In this context, it is perhaps relevant and appropriate to note that one of the reasons that ordinary people have had their meaningful vote, their country and their culture stolen from them in recent decades has been the out-of-touch, elitist attitudes of their leaders, far too many of whom have been long-taught by birth, by education and by career, to hold an opinion of themselves and their peers too high, and an opinion of everyone else too low.

IN GOVERNMENT, THERE WILL BE NO SHORTAGE OF EXPERIENCED ADVISORS

• For our part, once in power, our party, our government, our cabinet, WILL HAVE NO SHORTAGE OF GENUINELY EXPERT, EXPERIENCED ADVISORS UPON WHOM TO DRAW FOR INFORMATION, ADVICE AND ASSISTANCE.
• There is also the small matter of the 430,000 civil servants — who probably know a thing or two about the intricacies of policy implementation!
• Also, when it comes to rightly-understanding many aspects of democracy and culture it is not really a technical matter at all — suitable only for the ministrations of experts — but a question of instincts, gut and common sense.
• Finally, in each genuinely technical area of policy of crucial financial significance — housing market reform, stock exchange reform, tax reform and pensions reform — our policy (clearly stated in our manifesto) is to establish a commission to help provide us with truly workable solutions.

IN TOTALITARIAN TIMES, PERHAPS THE MOST IMPORTANT QUALIFICATION FOR OFFICE IS BEING A TRUE DEMOCRAT

• Recent decades have surely also shown that far and away the most important qualification for high political office in the present climate of the creeping abolition of truth, democracy and freedom, IS A WILLINGNESS TO HEAR AND RESPECT THE WILL, THE WAY, AND THE FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS OF ORDINARY PEOPLE.
• And the beauty of REAL democracy — which is the kind of democracy that a SINGLE term of office by a Fair Britannia Party government will bring to Britain — is that should The Fair Britannia Party prove to be 'just like all the rest', or 'just not up to it', THEN THE BRITISH PEOPLE CAN SIMPLY VOTE US OUT.