On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 13:44:07 +0100, News
wrote:

I neither like nor support him,

Ditto.

but cannot help admire his tenacity.

Contraywise; I utterly despise the man. He's playing wooly-headed
fools like cheap fiddles, appealing to the mawkish sentimentalism that
resides in many breasts, playing them for all he's worth in his
personal pursuit of power.
He's a very good politician, but one who realised early on in his
political life he had no chance in the shark-infested pool of true
National Government, so decided to create a national platform of his
own that he could strut around on, and blare his hideous propaganda
from.