One could say we've had quite enough 'personality' in politics with Johnson and Trump, that someone safer (though some might say duller) would be a welcome change!
I'm sure it has come up before on this Forum that we tend to alternate 'personality' and 'grey' for PM.
Johnson - personality in spades
May - grey
'Call me Dave' - personality
Brown - grey
Blair - personality
Major - (possibly 50 shades of) grey
Thatcher - personality
Callaghan - grey
Wilson - personality
Douglas-Home - grouse moors grey
SuperMac - personality (well for the fifties)
Eden - don't know (I think he is only known for Suez)
Churchill - personality
Attlee - grey but effective
Churchill - personality
Chamberlain - grey
(Probably breaks down before then although Baldwin did try and come across as 'Uncle Stanley' I understand.)
Clearly a lot of my very superficial descriptions are influenced by the times, but there does seem to be a pattern (and we clearly know less about the earlier PMs because of the media at the time).
I always thought that Farron at least had some energy about him. It was religion that did for him.
If Kennedy had remained as leader it might have hastened his untimely death.
I tend to agree but he might have a more positive legacy if he had died 'in post' in the same way as John Smith has. (Not much use to him or his family, of course). He is now largely forgotten, unfortunately. I would be more likely to vote for him than Ashdown, there was a spark that the others do not have.