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Any examination of the Mail and Telegraph newspapers confirms that the Coalition’s savage cuts in services and in spending power, the road to yet further economic ruin, are no more popular with Conservative supporters, Middle England, or what have you, than they are with anyone else. The Coalition of Resistance to them can and must include hitherto Conservative supporters, Middle England, the Mail and Telegraph newspapers, and what have you. The local election results pointed the way.

And then yesterday, Ed Miliband delivered the most conservative, classically Tory speech by the Leader of a major political party in heaven alone knows how long. At one point declaring a police notebook to be Holy Writ even against the word of a Cabinet Minister (and, as Chief Whip, an Officer of the Royal Household) as backed up to the hilt by the Prime Minister, the next Prime Minister had as his main point the absolute identity of interest, essentially social democratic and behind that largely rooted in traditional religion, between workers and employers, between the public sector and the private sector, between academic excellence and technical proficiency, between the North and the South, and so on.

Out in the country at large, Tory Britain is already voting for this in large and growing numbers. But what of the Mail and Telegraph newspapers? Does it enjoy their support, too? If not, why not? And what on earth does?

Bypassing the Murdoch papers, and The Guardian that is still trying to flog the dead horse of Lib-Labbery, by going straight to the Telegraph and Mail titles. How’s that for triangulation? But a Labour Leader should have no trouble pulling it off when he is already winning 60 per cent and more of real votes cast in Southern villages that Tony Blair never even contested.

Not only is the working-class Labour vote, which merely abstained last time, now re-energised with one hell of a vengeance. But it is joined, not by the biggest turning away of traditional Tories from the Conservative Party since the Poll Tax, but by an even bigger turning away than that. And this time, they can’t vote Lib Dem instead.