Perhaps I'm being simplistic but doesn't "conservative activist" morph quite easily into "Tory" or has local factionalism on the right now gone that final step?

BTW, for everyone who blithely says that the Scots MPs should be disenfranchised from voting on English matters and that Scotland can have its independence, possibly with Wales gaining the same freedom, just consider the likely outcome of that process at the English domestic level - permanent conservative hegemony in England.

Step back from the brink, folks.

And I still think Roots is a good, catchy, commercial, if all too obviously polemical song. I much prefer Steve when he's being subtle and indirect. Still, it has got us talking, hasn't it?