I just watched the conservative manifesto launch. I was a good boy and managed not to throw anything at the t.v. to be honest, CaMoron came across as quite approachable, and to start with I got into it a bit. But then I thought: ‘what is he actually saying?’ the answer is, not much.

CaMoron talks of the big state being replaced by big society, but what does he mean? What is the state, what is government if not an extension of the people? And what is society, and how will he empower it? How will he give regular people the impetus he speaks of without introducing government initiatives? How will this all be regulated? Or is government going to step back, the result of which will be an unregulated free-for-all. I, too, believe power should lie with the hands of the people, but for me that means democracy and working with government, not some fuzzy idea about big society. It almost seems he’s trying to repackage left-wing ideas of comunity and common good in a conservative indevidualist box; what utter nonsense. And as for things like more support for marriage, isn’t that indicative of a party stuck in the past with outmoded views?

In short, when you think about it, the entire speech was self-contradictory garbled nonsense. CaMoron is trying to occupy the centre, yet still pander to his party’s right wing roots. He cannot be in two places at once, resulting in the hollow rubbish I just saw.