The Hand That Feeds

In corners of the blogosphere, even the hardest of thinking are finally admitting that the Tories actually cannot win the next General Election, because of the constituency boundaries. Progress of a sort, perhaps...

However, they are still oblivious to the fact that Scotland, Wales, the North and the Midlands - "Brown's client state" - are (with the West Country) where any successor-party would have to win seats in order to win office.

Nor has the penny dropped, either just how much of the private sector is now by definition dependent on either or both of public sector contracts and the spending power of public sector workers, or, therefore, just how dependent thereon the Conservative Party now is and any successor-party would be.

Do you want money from, say, a building contractor in Wales, or a supermarket chain with branches across the North? Well, there you are then.