How will you win back my vote which you lost for the first time in 45 years? In the past three years I have witnessed a ghastly operation from No10. People surrounding the then PM were bullies and thugs and briefed mercilessly against the opposition and colleagues alike. I disliked many policies, short termism, polical messages (class, we will spend the tories will cut etc)and also many Cabinet Ministers came over as either bullies or complacent. I have witnessed policies that encouraged welfare dependency and backtracking on sensible policies like Royal Mail and public sector pensions. Caroline Flint and James Purnell have said some excellent things about reforming the benefits system. Nothing was implemented - we shied away from difficult decisions putting party before country. An abysmal failure of leadership and governance.

I am now concerned about the left leanings from all leadership candidates. I am consoling myself that this is because of winning votes for the leadership. I am appalled at how all we do is attack without offering alternate views on how to reduce our deficit. This is alienating many people. We are not daft - we know the state of the public finances, we know that the public sector has been permitted to bulge with out reform. We have seen waste of public funds etc etc.

I love coalition government. I never thought I would say that. it is rather refreshing seeing political parties working together for the public good. We are awfully tired of tribalism and sick of listening to the rhetoric and aggressiveness from the official opposition (I do not include DM in this). If you tackle the agressiveness, the failure to acknowledge the state of the public finances, provide a vision of how you want the country to progress, stop your nannying ways of big government knows best you may engage with the voters you lost. I am hoping that DM wins the leadership battle as in my opinion he is the only person able to engage with English supporters.