But - isn't it a manifesto of sorts. I mean it's nice to see a fully costed budget broken down into multiple categories, but let's be fair, that's just to get

But - isn't it a manifesto of sorts. I mean it's nice to see a fully costed budget broken down into multiple categories, but let's be fair, that's just to get past the gatekeepers of yore (NYT, The Times, BBC). Turning up without the numbers adding up was just an easy way to get pasted by the interviewer. Now there is no interviewer - so the manifesto is what it always really was - an attempt to connect to the voter on a level of identity, common understanding and culture. It's why it is flat out amazing any single human being can get 70 million votes in the US (or even more amazing 300m in India) How many hats does such a person have to wear? How many promises does someone need to connect. I mean Brad Pitt is gorgeous and just has to say five scripted lines and he could not get 300 million women to vote for him. The idea that democracy has scale this far with just a personality cult as its main adjudicator is incredible The number of living humans who can make that many people think"yeah"'is tiny ! One day we will go beyond our initial ape reactions