Tim Montgomerie sounds a trumpet call:
We need to forget the focus groups and the polling for just one minute and tell the truth about a nation that is in trouble. Mr Cameron might be surprised at voters' reaction. Our hunch is that the first politician to tell the British people 'how it really is' will form a bond with many millions of them.
I wholeheartedly agree . But are we really prepared to tell the whole truth about the trouble we're in? Because it isn't just the Government that's to blame.
For instance, who's to blame for economic instability? Who sold sold all those dodgy loans? Who built business models on the wholly unrealistic assumption that the credit boom would go on forever?
As for social breakdown, who pushed so much cheap drink at our young people? Who's getting rich from music, films and computer games of unprecedented violence and depravity?
If we try to blame big government for everything that's gone wrong, then our attempt to "tell the truth" won't ring true at all.
