Peter - if you live by the sword of spin you will die by it.
The 13 years of the Blair/Brown era will be remembered for spin, its incompetence with our money on failed social experiments, the "dumbing down" of our society, the scandalous fall in literacy of our younger people and the disastrous erosion of our freedoms. The centre-right consensus has to keep these people out of office for a generation while they rebuild a liberal conservative society.