Our dear leader has been likened to Kim Il Sung. Peter Hitchens brandishes his typical sword of animosity against the "political class" and the Politically Correct.

It was "entirely familiar to the benighted people of that one-party, power-worshipping state, especially the fake, undeserved applause". Party conferences do have a distinct air of Big Brother totalitarianism, which is why only journalists and politicians get worked up about them. Rory Bremner referred to the repeated evocation of "election fever", being "whipped up" around Westminster and several party conference locations. He added however, the fever doesn't seem to spread between species outside of political correspondents and politicians. No-one is really bothered about whether Gordan Brown will call a snap election, one of the main reasons he isn't is because it coincides with the X factor semi final, and he is therefore (rightly) "worried about turn-out".

The indications of a dysgenic Big Brother society are ever more worrying. Surely the level of surveillance, proposals for ID cards, and the straight centre consensus in government are not the dynamics of a democratic society. There are problems today but unfortunately neither Brown or Cameron seriously address them. And New Labour's luxury of having never really faced "any serious opposition" because, with a few minor quibbles, the Conservative Party broadly agrees with New Labour, doesn't serve the population particularly well.

If Cameron's promise to help "have-a-go heroes" and scrap ID cards and "focus" on a region he's never visited and I doubt knows much about, namely Afghanistan, in the "War on Terror" are what he's running on, aside from peripheral issues like inheritance tax, he may edge the affections of the electorate.

What I feel would really shake things up is if Cameron took a serious stance on foreign policy, and echoed his domestic concerns about civil liberties to citizens of other nations who clearly want rid of our forces. Its all well and good promulgating "small government" and less state interference, whilst at the same time remaining virtually silent on what exactly he believes our troops are doing thousands of miles away in hostile conditions. If only these 'principles' of his were telescopic. We wait with trepidation for the next bout of election fever to hit the streets of Westminster, luckily the antidote merely consists of 'getting a life'.