Useful In The End

Even the Lib Dems, able to stop this Government from being like the last one, and as it would certainly have been if the Heir to Blair had won an overall majority, merely a device for implementing whatever head-banging adolescent post-Thatcherism can get itself published on the Westminster Village think tank circuit.

And even the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolved bodies, able to confront the other eighty-five per cent of the people of the United Kingdom with the lived reality of a country which is still recognisably Britain, rather than the test tube or Petri dish of whatever head-banging adolescent post-Thatcherism can get itself published on the Westminster Village think tank circuit.