The chutzpah of the Tory party and their excitable press claque... I can't think of anything to match it in Europe...well, there's Silvio, but he's really in a league of his own, somewhere between denial and disdain. Still, il Cavaliere must be hearing them panting behind him, constantly self-referencing themselves as the Government already. Did I miss an election somewhere ? Did it happen whilst I was asleep ?

Conservative Central Office must be busier than Heathrow, every day there's a new edict or pronouncement cleared for take-off, their busy army of worker ant newspaper columnists sweat like galley slaves frothing everything up.

I understand why they do this: they want their team to win, so it's get in there early and impress the waverers, the floaters, with just how businesslike the boys and girls in blue are, tell them about the preparations they've made, how they'll hit the ground running and straight into action.

All understood, I'd do the same, but there be monsters here; the constant repetition, the never ending implication that they'll win (sad, but likely), might actually back fire: there's so much froth to step through - more than you'd find on a cappuccino - that there's all the likelihood that some people will give up trying to understand them, or actually believe they are the government, and not vote. Please let it be the latter.

Of course, there is the minor matter of the Tories winning the next election, but that does n't seem to bother their thinking.