Now I quite understand that politics is the ‘art of the possible’. And that the art of getting elected is in many ways based on not frightening the voters. But I now think that this latter point is redundant. People are crying out for simple direct accurate explanations followed up with policies that correct the mistakes – however painful. You cannot fight epic deceit with more deceit. It is that is getting up The Voters nose.

Your allegation of his association with ‘violence’ and extremism is unevidenced and best taken with a good pinch of salt.

Then you base your argument not on fact but what may be. There is no evidence to suggest Cameron will “return to local government, re-empowering people and abolishing waste.”

If however, he does as he has suggested and returns grandees such as Peter Lilly, Stephen Dorrell, and might I suggest, John Redwood to the front benches. Then there is a qualified belief that a Cameron government would do as you have said.

Perhaps the one great mistake Thatcher made, amongst many successes, was the fact she changed policies without changing the culture. Many Brits simply do not believe their kids would be educated, or themselves treated in hospital, or taken care of in old age without the state. This is of course nonsense, they would be better off, but we need to break with the prevailing zeitgeist.

Nulabor – the clenched fist in a velvet glove.

The ‘ruling party’ is rotten to the core and widely recognized as such.