From Michael McGowan on ConservativeHome blog giving his view

“I think George Walden's take on the modernisers is interesting:

"The idea that the Conservatives are diving head-first into the 21st century is a fallacy. What they are doing is reverting to their roots which are tribal rather than intellectual. That means turning away from ideology (frightfully earnest) towards old-time pragmatism and a top-down approach....Cameron is a moderniser in the sense of being an updated one-man distillation of Thatcher's wets. Willie Whitelaw with an iPod, Chris Patten in unctuous mode, St John Stevas in a stylish shirt. Why should anyone want to go back to that kind of patronising problem-dodging bs?"

The mental image that conjures up is nauseating, innit?

Christina