Raise a clog to Mr Timpson

Well done Mr Timpson on your by-election victory. The scale of the majority was in excess of what I predicted (roughly 5000), so I must congratulate you, David Cameron and the Tory team for making the victory so emphatic.

Maybe the Tory party can now learn from this for future by-elections and test it out again in Henley. They should hope to increase their majority.

It does seem that New Labour has now ceased to be the force it once was. There will now be open back-biting and Gordon Brown is living on borrowed time. It's over.

Squiffy.