‘This country is hurtling towards massive debt and ever higher taxes under Gordon Brown. It is hurtling towards a position in the world that is dramatically more minor than the position that Mrs Thatcher presided over and Tony Blair was happy to exploit.

‘Britain will be diminished, its voice silenced, its credibility shredded.

‘It will be too late to come back in five years’ time.’

I don't see that this is necessarily so, nor do I see any reason why, if it is so, a Cameron government would prevent it. The main damage done by New Labour was done in its early years, the mass immigration, the hand-over of powers to Brussels, the smashing up of the House of Lords, the politicisation of the civil service, the rundown of the armed forces, the huge increases in public sector employment, the theft of pension funds, the sexual revolution, the law banning new grammar schools, the assault on the top universities and the independent schools, the Iraq and Afghan Wars, the surrender to terrorist gangsterism in Ireland, the break-up of the United Kingdom, and the general assault on civil liberties - the things the Tories failed to oppose, let alone halt, and in many cases accepted. Just because most political journalists aren't interested in these things, and don't understand their importance, the rest of us don't need to buy their dim-witted, outdated version of events.