THE EYES HAVE IT

The description 'swivel-eyed loons',

by an unamed source close to the

Prime Minster, directed at grass-root            

Conservatives, should not be

considered an insult. It was merely a

patriachal term of tolerance,

endearment almost, used by those who

are actually running the asylum at

Number 10. It refers, of course, to the

diminishing number of activists who

knock on doors in all weathers and

raise money to support the Party, but

apparently lack the intellect to

understand why David Cameron has

broken so many promises.They seem
increasingly to think that the Party he leads
has ceased being the Conservative Party,
becoming instead a kind of political theatre
of the absurd. The irony would certainly
not have been lost on another Feldman,
the late Marty Feldman, the great comedian.