We acquired a new PM today. On the radio I heard some random say that the last bloke was no good because “he wasn’t a normal sort of bloke. He couldn’t communicate”. I think that is actually two separate issues.
The ability to communicate is a vital asset in a politician. In fact, all they have is words, so they’d better be good with them.
As for being a normal kind of person… I always hope for better than that. Do we want some average person handling the complex affairs of a huge and sophisticated democracy? I think that above-average wisdom would be a really good place for them to start not being normal.
I can’t remember any of our Prime Ministers being just like normal people. It really isn’t possible to get to the top of the heap and just be average.
I don’t think a “normal bloke” would do a job like that