...but I bet he’s nice!

THE recent radgie election showed us that a politician’s personality (or lack of it) was crucial in forming a punter’s opinion on which way to vote.

Also, this increasingly seemed to apply to physical appearance too.

So Jeremy Corbyn, no matter what you thought of his policies, was constantly berated for ‘not looking’ like a prime minister.

Apparently the style of Steptoe’s CND bookshop owner cousin dressed for a wedding disco, just wasn’t appropriate.

In contrast, our Tezza, in her ‘Aspirational Woolsington wife - but not quite Darras yet’ look was meant to both reassure us and frighten the muppets in Brussels.

Alarmingly, politics is getting so like a naff 70s beauty pageant, that I fear the next election might actually feature the party leaders having a debate by a pool in their swimwear - Corbyn in a Mankini? Boris in a thong?

Givowwer! - some aaaful sights - but maybe we would finally find out how far some of them really did lean to the left or right of if they actually drifted naturally to the centre..!

But why stop at style and dress sense as political indicators...

A recent study by Aarhus University in Denmark, suggests ‘Physically stronger men are less in favour of social and economic equality than weaker men.’

Their study supposedly discovered a link between a bloke’s upper-body strength and their political views; the bigger your pecs , the further to the right you are supposed to lean.

Conversely, the more physically weak and weedy a man is, the more likely he is to have liberal views and be a supporter of the re-distribution of wealth.

This included wealthy men who were ‘nerds’; perhaps the most blazing example would be Bill Gates.

He is one of the wealthiest people ever, but with a physique and physical presence that would not keep him safe in the prison showers.

Yet in line with this theory, he has indeed given vast tracts of his fortune away to worthy causes.

So are we to believe that if he’d been ripped and buffed like Arnold Schwarzenegger - then he’d have blown the lot on lap dances, late nights and Lamborghinis?

Personally, I definitely remember the cave men, meatheeds and brick outhouses at school always being keen on the re-distribution of property...as long as it was somebody else’s!

The geeks, nerds and wimps were always encouraged to ‘share’ their Chipmunk crisps, Aztec bars or Curly Wurleys with the alpha males - the alternative being a wedgie, Chinese burn or having your Adidas bag hoyed on the Music prefab’s roof.

Finally, the theory also maintained ‘There was no link between upper body strength and right - wing political attitudes among women, which is most likely due to the fact women had less motive for physical aggression earlier on in our evolutionary history.’

Haddaway and givowwer! The researchers had clearly never witnessed the hulking Tory ladies’ rugby team at my University - ruthlessly sorting out the bloke who’d - uninvitedly - tried to jump in and share a cab after their ‘Thatcher Youth’ ball back in 1983. I can still hear his screams now...