Marginal

Looks like the British people might defeat Tony Blair after all, choosing his bitterest enemy, with whom he has barely had a conversation in his life, over his clone and preferred successor, who is surrounded by his remaining representatives in Britain, a country he almost never visits, just as he almost never did when he was Prime Minister. Michael Ashcroft should demand his money back.

Having said that, we are not really talking about "the British people", are we? Labour won in 2005 with a mere twenty-two per cent of the eligible vote, and the Tories limped in with a pitiful twenty per cent. Each will be lucky to hit fifteen this time. Marginal, indeed.

Meanwhile, Martin Kelly writes:

Andrew Rawnsley's documentary Cameron Uncovered on Channel 4 last night brought a familiar name to the front of mind.

Apparently David Cameron's speechwriter between 2006 to 2008 was a guy called Danny Kruger, now heading up a spaghetti hoop outfit called 'Only Connect'.

This is presumably the same Danny Kruger who was binned as the Tory candidate to stand against Tony Blair in 2005 for remarking that the Tories wanted "a period of creative destruction in the public services". Last night, David Cameron said that he wasn't very ideological. Aye. Whatever you say.

Well, how could Kruger have stood against Blair? They didn't disagree about anything...