[Brian Allgar]

But Chris, how will you manage to stay awake long enough to read all that?

Despite what I've said above, I have knocked off an indifferent piece on the subject which, I'm glad to say, required no research at all.

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People are fed up with politics. And they’re fed up with politicians. So it goes without saying that they’re fed up with policies.

That’s what’s really radical about Ed Miliband. He’s not going to have any policies. Instead, he’ll have attitudes; people can relate to attitudes.

He will definitely have a very strong attitude towards the Tory Party. He’s against it, and he doesn’t care who knows it.

He’s also got an attitude towards Tony Blair, and it’s a pretty powerful one: “I’m not Tony Blair. I shall never be Tony Blair. I don’t even look like Tony Blair.”

That’s certainly an attitude people can relate to, isn’t it?

But just to leave no doubt about his total commitment to this attitude, he’s absolutely determined that nothing he does will ever remind people of Blair - like winning a General Election.