What voters want from their off-duty male politicians is state-of-the-art blokey informality, a look that speaks of the golf clubhouse rather than the chamber.
But you've spoken about a blokey culture, I mean isn't that sort of thing hard to change?
Okay, no more schmaltz - it's time to get blokey.
Having more women in politics has so far not created much difference as front benches and priorities are still blokey.
He has no desire to dispense blokey bonhomie from the stage.
Maybe he'll pull it all together for next week, but chances are he won't, and his blokey enthusiasm won't get him much further.
City women give the blokey outdoors life their best shot.
A graphic art whizz had done it for him, but he had made the mistake of giving the red-top a blokey, jokey quote to accompany it.
I grew up in a fairly blokey environment but with powerful feminine influences.
It only takes one to say something blokey and everyone starts in.
But they're very masculinist, they're very blokey, they do appeal to a certain kind of image of modernist, alpha male sort of image.
It will be interesting to see if the blokey culture of cricket and sports media gets debated once the dust has settled on this story.
The other four nominees suffer in comparison from being relatively established names and, more damningly, from having short, blokey names.
You can be a blokey bloke without losing your trust and love for people.
The offensive and shocking new program is a show for blokes about being a bloke and doing blokey things.
I mean, they're kind of bohemian, or they'd be working on a building site rather than a theatre, but they are blokey.
That's not to say that she doesn't recognise journalism shares with politics a blokey culture, nor that she is insensitive to power relations.
I wouldn't really consider this blog to cover the same sort of material you'd normally find in a blokey magazine - but sometimes we really must bend the rules and make exceptions.
People think of a bloke in his shed and they expect blokey mechanical type things, but the exhibition has some really subtle and intricate pieces.
Outside, the paint had a nice mirror finish and the car looked confident, with a low, hunched stance and sharp creases but, again, a bit blokey.