Trying to move us on a bit from the trenches we have been fighting over and making no progress ...

Grant Shapps and David Davis both blame the fact the Conservatives do not have a majority on a poor manifesto and in particular a few own goals in it. I grant them that without those own goals they may well have won enough seats to get some sort of majority, even if it was no better than they started with. But I also think if they don't look at the things like how the demographics have changed, and put all their effort into writing a better manifesto rather than thinking about what their real purpose as a party is (as people like Chris Patten were saying over the weekend), they are doomed to failure.

So as a Labour supporter, I am quite happy if they blame everything on a poorly thought out manifesto and the thinking stops there.

What say you?