Something To Look Forward To

From http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk:

For the past few weeks I've been making a programme about David Cameron, without his help. The result will be shown on Channel Four on Monday evening (March 26th) at 8pm, under the title 'Toff at the Top'. I make no pretence of being an unbiased observer, and make it clear in the programme that I am not (as I wish more broadcasters would do - the pretence of impartiality is increasingly absurd).

But I think many supporters of Mr Cameron will be struck by the conclusions of our interviewees about what his approach to politics is. I trust they will also be interested in Michael Gove's defence of his leader ( Michael, an old friend, generously agreed to put the Cameron case when he didn't have to). I hope to discuss the whole thing at greater length here next week - but I make one small point. Isn't it interesting that Channel Four came to me, a disaffected conservative, rather than - as you might have expected - a left-wing journalist, to make a programme critical of the new Tory leader? This is a sign of how the political categories are shifting, in a way the opinion polls continue to hide. Some of the most passionate supporters of Mr Cameron are now to be found amongst the ranks of the now leaderless Blairites.

But will this film feature the strange matter of the Tory Leadership Election? There are only 450 active Conservative Associations, and half of those admit publicly to having fewer than 100 members each. Yet more than a quarter of a million people could be found to vote in the Leadership Election, and - would you believe it? - more than two thirds of them voted for a BBC-endorsed, ultraliberal, warmongering toff and Blair clone.

So, who were these people, and where had they been for the previous 10 years? For that matter, where are they now?