Nice work, Bob. Have you seen what Flipper Gove has been up to? You might want to have a look at my blog (or not as the case may be).
By the way, I've been advertising a few of your posts on twitter and reckon that'd be good to see you on there - just a suggestion.

Who's fault is it that we will have a New Thatcherite party, I can just see most of the Conference rhetoric being dumped once the Tories get in and the whole country suffer, except of course large business and the rich, sadly a bit like New Labour.

Ron... nice blog. I've added you to the blogroll. Never really got in to twitter to be honest. I've got an account, and people are forever telling me they are "following me on twitter"... but I've never given them anything to follow I'm afraid.

Yes we worry about that terribly chez Newmania , but isn't the one at the front a bit brown and the one next to her looks a but gay to me as well.
Given that 5% is about the size of the effnick minority population any more would be scare mongering ?

Isn't this depressing - not only do Tory boys never grow up in political terms by moving beyond Thatcherism they now appear to have found a way of cloning themselves.

WHAT?!

No patronising stat black?

Another reason to vote Tory.

Nowhere on ConHome does it say who these miscreants are, which would have been quite interesting, although I can identify a few. Back row is Margot James (token lesbitarian); Zac Goldsmith (token millionaire Green); token ginger woman. Middle row: don't know; some berk who looks a bit like Andrew Gilligan or Mark Lawson; some bloke who's strikingly less photogenic than the others. Front row: Esther McVey (former Breakfast TV presenter and token Scouser - why would anyone from Liverpool in their right mind be a Tory FFS??); the Evil Love Child of Peter Mandelson; bloke who looks a bit gay (Nick Boles?); woman who looks a bit like a token Asian and is less annoying and dim than Sayeeda Warsi (that's not saying much); boring bog standard Daily Mail reading woman who lets the side down by not looking young and funky.

Actually Newmania, the lady on the back row at the left is, I think, the Tory candidate for Stourbridge and she is openly gay.

While it is good to see the Tories selecting openly gay candidates, diversity is no guarantor of quality. She was on the Politics Show last weekend and was embarrassingly vague on anything to do with policy. Almost as bad as their chap in Nuneaton, who was comprehensively squashed by the Labour candidate over Tory cuts to the Warwickshire fire service.

Thanks for that, Bob. Very much appreciated - I've never had so many people visit my blog! If it's okay with you I'll keep advertising your posts on twitter.

The self-righteous indignation at the lack of black faces in that image is a bit rich given the overwhelmingly white composition of Brown's Cabinet.

The problem Labour has with attacking the diversity of other parties is that it's own policy has simply served to show the electorate that, given the right opportunities, Labour party members like Keith Vaz, David Lammy and Patricia Scotland can be just as useless at their jobs as their white counterparts.

That's just bullshit. So if white MPs were no good we wouldn't have them either? In the last 10 years Labour have had as many black Cabinet Members as the Tories have had in their entire House of Commons representation.

And I'm not saying Labour's record is good, but we certainly wouldn't send out a message saying Here's a snapshot of the new generation with a bunch of pasty faced buggers grinning inanely.

No it simply shows that the only equality your party has propagated has been to show that the average Labour MP is an incompetent drone, irrespective of race, colour or creed.

I note you don't attempt to defend the records of the individuals in high office that I named - you simply defend them on the grounds that they're probably no more shite than a white man in the same job would have been - brilliant, vote-winning stuff, well done.

By the way - what are the numbers? How many members of pre-Blair Labour shadow cabinets were black? How many black people were in Callaghan's cabinet? Or was that before it mattered?

Oh and anyone with a search engine can find images of carefully-selected multi-racially-representative Labour candidates "grinning inanely."

Finally (and blimey..!)..."pasty-faced"? Bit of self-loathing there?

multi-racially-representative Labour candidates "grinning inanely."

Hey, who's showing their true feelings there then? Not quite relying on old Boris' watermelon smiles, but getting close.

I make no claims for competence of MPs, black or white, nor the inherent racism in old Labour either, so why would I try to defend them? In fact the racism and sexism that ran through the Party establishment is one of the reasons I make no claim to be old Labour. But the fact that the Tories still think an all white all right future lies ahead simply goes to show that they still don't truly get the fact that British society has changed, despite Cameron's desperate attempts to tell us otherwise.

Now, calm down and take some deep breaths before you reply... you're letting your hidden self peek out.