By way of a response to the comments on my post yesterday, here are some reasons to be cheerful about Cameron and the Tories.
The poll lead dropping to six points is indeed a wake-up call, and Cameron probably worked out a while ago that things were going a bit Pete Tong. Indeed (Short the UK), there are signs that he has already started to act. Look at last Monday: three strong election videos, without a politician in sight. The perfect remedy to the Tragedy of Cameron’s Head poster.
The policy of allowing management buy-outs of government departments is bold, radical and entirely in keeping with Cameron’s general policy of empowering the many, not the few. (Strange how Brown has appropriated this slogan, especially as his government has empowered the bureaucratic elite at the expense of the many – Cameron almost made this point in his latest

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