Hills of the North, rejoice?

David Cameron is trying to win over the North. No, please don't laugh. Oh, go on then. Apparently, his wife's family is from the North. Specifically, her father owns Yorkshire, although of course he lives in Knightsbridge or some such place.

Anyway, read over the post immediately below this one, entitled "And proud of it", and you might get some idea of what sort of political approach would in fact play well in Scotland, Wales, the North and the Midlands, which are where the Tories actually have to win seats (they already hold most of the seats in the South East, but what good has that done them?), and where Labour actually has to keep seats (for what good has sucking up to the South East actually done them, in terms of seats won and retained there?).

Promising to abolish the Barnet Formula would also pick up votes in the North and the Midlands, since that Formula constitutes an unconstitutional denial to the people of England of equal citizenship of the United Kingdom, contrary to the 1707 Treaty and Act of Union. But that would be lost on Bertie Cameron-Wooster, bless him.

Furthermore, no one in the London media ever mentions (because they have neither the faintest knowledge nor the smallest interest), either that the Tory-Lib Dem battle in the West Country makes the difference between a majority government and a hung Parliament at every Election, or that UKIP and the Greens are both on the march in East Anglia. The Lib Dems pick up support for what they are not rather than for what they are. UKIP is the nearest thing that Britain has to a paleocon party. The Greens largely appeal (albeit in a deceptive manner comparable to that of the Lib Dems) to what is, consciously or otherwise, Distributist sentiment. And I really do rather doubt that Blameronism plays overly well either in the West Country or in East Anglia; certainly, Lib Dem, UKIP and Green voting figures would seem to suggest not.

So, once again, see the post immediately below this one. And, indeed, the post immediately above this one.