You missed a bullet (no pun intended) there - he’s a total mediocrity with all the charm of a rotting clam and he’d probably spend a chunk of it telling you why your mixed race grandchildren aren’t really British.

The BBC have now edited the article and headline for accuracy

I feel like those on the right of politics are deeply insubstantial people who get built up as substantial by our overwhelmingly right wing press. While those on the left - many of whom are deep thinkers - feel the need to make themselves insubstantial in order to get by in UK political life.

Yep. From memory he did a bit of a ‘what I was trying to get at…’ explanation about the article around return of normal cultural, social values blah blah blah.

He’s griped on one or two Americast episodes about how people often throw it back at him. What did he expect!? Moron.