Interesting when a decade--less, actually, isn't it?--has passed since the Tories were your invincible masters...now from my perspective in Canada, I have no idea who any of those people you're talking about are.

Same thing happened to our Canadian Tories, since they got dethroned in '93--reduced from a majority government to TWO seats. They have just decided to fold their current tent and shack up with the even more right-wing Canadian Alliance, under the banner of the Conservative Party of Canada--dropping the "Progressive" prefix. This will set them up, it seems, as the perpetual grumpy rightwing opposition, and they certainly lack any prospects for a charismatic or even impressively competent leader. Sound familiar at all?