Earlier today, Tim posted on David Cameron's fourth anniversary as leader of the Opposition. ConHome has always been a "critical friend" of our party. Indeed, one reason why the centre-right owns the blogosphere is that loyal Tories, who would die in a ditch to see a Conservative government returned, are nonetheless willing to be critical and to debate, and that the central party accepts that without rancour, indeed encourages it.
This is not the Labour Party. We don't ask that you check your brain at the door.
That said, Tim's article asks if he's missed anything. And my answer has to be.. erm... yeah. While the article brings in, at number 10, the idea that we are now "on course" to win the next election, the party's breathtaking success in the last few years is hardly referred to at all.
Now, I know what (critical) supporters of the Cameron project ConHome have been. They campaigned hard for this party in every set of elections. I do not infer any deliberate minimising of what's happened in politics since 2005 at all. Rather, it may just be that all of us are now so used to being favoured to win by the bookies, that we have forgotten quite what a turnaround this is.
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