Well it remains to be seen whether the Tories are any better than Labour on the only really important issue, civil liberties.

Indeed. We can only wait and see on that one.

John Major’s government were cunts on civil liberties - it tried to push ID Cards down out throats.

Well, yes and no… it was a similar story to Blunkett’s obsession a decade later. Michael Howard wanted it but the cabinet was luke warm. They were pretty quick to drop the idea. That, frankly, is the significant difference - Labour have clung onto the scheme despite opposition and despite clear evidence that it is a bad idea.

Will Cameron stick to his promise? He is a politician, so I will only be sure about that when it happens.

If you think the Evening Standard’s campaign was poisonous (and I agree, it was) then you should equally condemn the nasty, poisonous campaign run by the Guardian, shouldn’t you? Was it significant either way? I very much doubt it. Recognising that people vote the way they want to, rather than the way newspapers headlines tells them to, does not make me an idiot - and you are one for suggesting that I am.

Ultimately, people voted the way they did out of self-interest. The suburbs felt that the Livingstone administration failed to represent their interests and turned out in force to register that point. That, my friend, is how democracy works.

In particular this bit from Paul - “You appear simply not to be able to get to grip with Neil’s argument that there might, just might, be an imbalance of resources and power in the press, and this might, just might, be bad for the democracy that you hold so highly”.

Longrider, You seem to be trying to suggest that media opinion is unimportant - a £1 trillion advertising industry suggests you are the idiot not me.

Neil Hardings last blog post..Still Gutted About Ken.

Nope. They’re still a bigot. The only qualification necessary to qualify for the tag is unthinking, irrational intolerance of others.

Mister Joness last blog post..Christopher Booker is in trouble….

The sheer contempt for the electorate is another nasty side to these people - and, replace “posh” with homosexual, Muslim, Jew or black and the bigotry is plain to see. These are not nice people and finally the world can see them for what they are.

This week was a good one for democracy and freedom in the UK.