But, Backwoodsman - tell us why you have to be true to your roots? Is there no possibility of change of circumstances or attitudes in one's life?

And what are one's "roots" - father's, grandfather's, mother's, grandmother's? If you'd lived in my part of Lancashire in the 1950s, you'd have met many, many "working class" people who voted Tory - the fact they were working class wasn't necessarily linked to a political viewpoint.

I don't care if Cameron et al are Tory rights, wets, liberals or anything else - just so long as they take a humane and understanding view of society and the people in it as a whole - which they don't