Voters Like Tories Who Are Like Brown, Not Blair

Whenever I point out on certain websites that the Tories are in electoral meltdown (so that there will soon be no reason for the Labour Party), I am pointed to the last local elections.

But those were a victory for Tories who are not like David Cameron, and who do not like David Cameron, the Heir to Blair. Indeed, they are far more like Gordon Brown: that bit older, impeccably middle-class but not posh, socially conservative, and all in favour of lavish public spending so long as it is on their own or their client-voters' pet projects.

Incidentally, there is much attention given from time to time to the fact that the Tories have no councillors in Liverpool, Manchester or Newcastle. But it is also some years since they had one in Oxford. And have they any in Cambridge, either?

Wake up, Tories: your party is over.

And wake up, Labourites: so is yours, because the bogeyman against which it defines itself does not exist.