Will anyone bother voting at the election? Labour’s base are going to choke on Milburn’s New Labour market-orientated manifesto with a little bit of added liberty crushing authoritarianism in it. After Iraq it may prove too much for the luvvies. So in Islington, Hampstead and the more bien pensant parts of Britain they will stay at home and in the areas where the Telegraph has higher sales they will stay at home or vote UKIP.

“Don’t vote, it only encourages them”, will be my slogan. Anti-politics and anti-politicians. We may even be the majority.