You would think that Mr Hague had been advocating the flaying of babies rather than suggesting that a virtual government monopoly might not be the best way to deliver healthcare, or that individuals could be allowed to keep a teensy bit more of their own earnings. There is, alongside the unscrupulous viciousness of this campaign to bury the Tories for ever, a deeper political cowardice. Whatever concerns we all have about the running of public services, they can be resolved only within the larger context of how much our own government is democratically accountable to its electorate, and whether the law-abiding population can be protected from criminality. If the government that we ourselves elect cannot make law and then enforce it, there is little point in arguing about anything else. His accent was risible and his manners suspect.
New Labour is the posh party now and it inherits the respectability vote.
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