Backwoodsman, I totally agree with you about the Tories and the Tory press so don't &%£*%@#^well accuse me of being "an obvious Tory supporter". The trouble is you then said -

I dismissed a section of the electorate as 'feeble-minded' for allowing themselves to be led by the nose to vote for a party without thinking things through

You have to be pretty confident of your own intellectual superiority to come out with a statement like that. These people have the vote. Rather than treating them with contempt we need to reach out to them, something that the remnants of Nu-Labour have spectacularly failed to do.

Regarding your opponents as inferior and somehow less than human is an ancient and repulsive technique.