The last time we elected a monkey in Britain it was reasonably successful.
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Monkey on a stick explainer
And I was going to look for the Hartlepool reference but was beaten to it. (There’s also the story that a monkey was killed by NE England coastal locals when it turned up on the shore after a French shipwreck, because the locals thought it was a real Frenchman!)
It is not that Corbyn comes over as a jerk (YMMV) but that he is incapable of leadership in tough times/hard decisions. On the stump he can come over as quite charismatic sometimes. Plus he is a known Leaver because the EU seeks to prevent true socialism (state funding of industry, nationalisation, etc) so no remainer trusts him on Brexit.
He has presided over odious anti-semitism, and his record of constantly voting against his own government/party when on the back-benches speaks volumes for principle and makes any expectation of pragmatism non-credible. Plus he has presided over internal party civil war and surrounded himself with true believers whose management methods are stalinesque to say the least.
But he can often manage to not come over as a jerk, despite all that. 
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Yes, but… Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson. Boris Johnson. BORIS FUCKING JOHNSON. The condensed essence of every rotten self-serving lying snobbish greedy clownish short-sighted malicious Tory turd since Margaret Thatcher, without so much as a smidgen of the patronising aristo fake benevolence that made Tories of old like Macmillan and Home almost bearable for the truly exploited and actually deprived British. Truly, if the British will put up with this they’ll put up with anything and their future as a band of insular serfs dwindling into poverty-stricken irrelevance will be assured.
Oh, go on – vote Tory again, as if doing the same thing over and over will change anything. Funny bloke Boris will show you to the cliff you’re looking to jump off; enjoy your trip, it’ll be laughs all the way down.
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Boris Johnson has spent their entire life grooming their public image to appear to be the worst of the worst to mask the fact that they really are the worst of the worst. It’s kakistocracy by design and apparently it’s worked (as opposed to the accidental kakistocracy of Trump).
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The return of democracy.
Same thing is actually happening in Hong Kong even if the candidate Pro-CCP are sure to be elected. (read “selected”)
Another good way to show disagreement with legal manners.
The question is, which young people? Recent polling has voters aged 18-24 preferring BJ to JC by a few percentage points…
I’m not sure that’s remotely true.
Or even if it’s a “likability” thing - they are still voting anywhere but Tory. 
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Sorry, I forgot to include a link to where I read that:
Perhaps it’s no surprise that the over-65s prefer Johnson to Corbyn by 62% to 8%, but it’s arresting that even among the youngest voters, aged 18 to 24, those once seen as the Labour leader’s base, Corbyn is less popular than the prime minister, albeit by three points.
I agree that it doesn’t meant that they won’t vote for Labour regardless; after all, you vote for your MP, not for the PM.
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