I’m sure he’d think the whole “vote” idea is quite flattering. Not particularly meaningful, but flattering.
Eh - I’d vote for the Tories if they’d put that guy in the pilot’s seat. He did, after all,bring about the abdication of a genuinely dangerous monarch. Sure, the King was portrayed sympathetically, and was a decent man in pretty much all the ways Urquhart wasn’t. But he was an unabashed partisan and activist - there’s nothing more dangerous to democracy in a constitutional monarchy. Dude had to go.
The Boss from The Great McGinty was clever enough to win the election even when his candidate lost the election. Extra points because was the inspiration for Boris Badenov.
Rashuri in Michael P. Kube-Mcdowell’s book Emprise. He manages to take a post apocalyptic Earth reduced to barter and subsistence farming and return it to spacefaring.
I was also going to say Vetinari and Urquhart, though the latter is simply a brilliant politician rather than a good one - nothing good about him at all.
I’ll add Hugh Grant’s character in Love Actually, purely for the scene with the horrible President - it made me want to cheer.
