Sure he'll let you down, they always do. But you have to live with that.

Billy Bragg once said, talking about the general election, words to the effect "There may be only an inch ir so of difference between Labour and the Tories, but that's the inch we live on."

And Bush and his handlers make our Tories look like your "liberals".

Elections aren't generally so much about making things better, they are about stopping them getting worse. It's in between the elections that the work has to go on trying to make things better.