I doubt many would disagree with what you have said. i don't, however, for me that is exactly what is wrong with UK politics. Politics is not about what was and sticking with the old and tired. Tories stuck in Labour wards and their vote never counting, so they drift and vice versa. This fella has won his seat every time since 1983 and he has said people are sick of the way things are and people are sick of it. He may not change much or even the world and he may not get the chance but he is having a go and he is becoming more popular on the back of it. He will garner even more support when Camoron tries to wade in with whatever he has been accumulating.
So what if he talks with terrorist groups, they usually end up talking anyway, when the UK realises it needs something from them, mind you in the week the biggest arms conference in the world is taking place in London, the Tories and diet Tories do love a good war. At least he can look at every single dead and injured soldier's loved ones in the eye and know they would not have died or been injured if he talked and looked for solutions. Tony Bliar and Dave the Twat cannot, Dave supported Tony and his pack of lies, there is a lot of blood on their hands.
As has been stated elsewhere, now at least there is two party system and people can look at a real alternative rather than diet Tory and if that does not engage them, fair enough but at least he has had a go.