I think it's time for everyone in London to read Jae's Guide To Using A Train

Awww... David Cameron has given a very worthy speech filled with lovely platitudes about politics that you can believe in. Then he goes on about the usual Tory policies. I mean... where are the politics I can believe in? Where's the high ideals? No where... we have weak, old, piecemeal policies. It's hardly a Tory revolution. And some of the passages are laughable...

"One of the aspirations people still have and rightly so is the aspiration to own a flat and a home of their own and all of us... all of the shadow cabinet here they could tell the same story... of young people who come to our surgeries, they show you their salary, they talk about local house prices and they just say I don't see how I can achieve that dream and George showed how we're going to cut stamp duty to show that we're on their side and we'll help mend the rungs of the housing ladder and get on their side. This is the party of aspiration and opportunity and George [Osborne] has shown us the way."

Oh big deal... how on Earth does he expect this to help??? The problems with the housing market are massive, and the changes needed to fix it are going to be painful and unpopular... Sadly David Cameron doesn't have the balls to tackle the problem. Time for a change? Yes. Time for the Tories? NEVER.

Cameron Faces Tough Conference

After two terrible polls (here and here), David Cameron really needs to step up his game before the impatient Tories stab him in the back just like they did to Iain Duncan Smith.

The Tories might big up recent victories in local elections, but these were too small scale, and far too local, to really extrapolate any future general election results from.

And the Tories still have problems being "on message". Whilst David Cameron has called for a snap election, his leiutenants are saying Gordon Brown would be taking a foolish risk with possible electoral fraud if he called an early election. As Gordon Brown has not called a snap election (yet) does this not mean that David Cameron (and I admit Sir Ming) is the one pushing for a flawed election?

As the first policy proposals begin to seep out pre conference we can see the same old Tory policies coming up... two parents good, one parent bad (over their benefits policy, or as I like to call it "Social Engineering").

And rather than tackle the underlying problems of the housing market (too few homes, too many people, population drift from north to south, greed etc. etc.) they propose getting rid of the stamp duty for first time buyers. Yeah... that'll help. NOT. Here David Cameron is going on about his environmental credentials, yet he ignores the greatest risk to our environment in the south east... vast swathes of new homes.

The Tories are all talk and no action... let's not rock the boat by proposing real solutions to overcrowding in the south east and the environmental disaster it is creating. Instead let's tax some uncontroversial things (flights) and let the rape of our countryside continue.

Same old Tories. I never, ever, thought I'd actually say this but... William Hague is the best Tory leader since Margaret Thatcher. They were foolish to let him go.