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If there was one line that showed Cameron studied politics at Oxford rather than Cambridge it was that swish little 'It'll succeed through its success' line. A more punctilious Cambridge man wouldn't have been able to say that without a bit of a neurotic twitch!
You know, I've just been watching Matthew Parris on BBC News. He said he'd been trying desperately hard to be cynical but on balance had come down on the side of actually being quite convinced of the sincerity. He reckoned he had a good feeling about the arrangement. Just about sums up my own feelings. I've tried my damnedest to be pessimistic myself. Even I have to say this could... just could... be the start of something truly revolutionary in British politics. I certainly hope so because I'm tired of being this cynical. Maybe I'm just guilty, along with others, of a triumph of hope over expectation. Consensus is never a bad thing. I hope I'm not disappointed.
Blair never delivered - hence we all know that "fine words" not backed by "Fine Action" will always be hollow.
I believe they are sincere - but they will have to FIGHT to change things. Have they got the GUTS and BOTTLE to be unpopular and create a New Politics when everyone around them will be screaming as their "vested interest" is threatened.