My thanks to John O’Sullivan for his response to my post on Friday. A post that was so “well hidden” (as he puts it) that it was the top post for four hours and on my blog’s front-page all weekend.
I’m grateful too that he sees fit to remind me that the current electoral set-up gives Labour a considerable advantage. I wish someone had pointed that out sooner.
Just to re-cap: Mr O’Sulivan thinks that the biggest question of this campaign is why the Tories aren’t winning by more. To which I’d say that actually they are winning but that there are a number of other factors that prevent us from seeing this clearly. If Cameron beats Brown by seven points in the popular vote he will have beaten Labour by the same margin that Mrs Thatcher prevailed by in 1979. Should she have beaten Labour more handsomely? Does that victory seem insubstantial? I think not and nor will Cameron’s.
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