Oh come on you can't expect to win a crushing victory and win popularity contests. Only Tony Blair does that, and he has to pretend to be a liberal.

If you walk round saying I want to conserve all this nastiness, because its terribly good for you, and furthermore I have the wooden plunger about my person to stuff it up hither, thither and even places where you never dreamed you'd like it - the as PJ Rourke says, you need a damn good haircut to get away with it - Tony's got that, or he used to.....