The new conservative line on Miliband is a bit mystifying to me: do they want people to think Miliband is a charmless North London nerd or do they want them to think of him as a slick operator without principles?
Both. Now that the crunch has finally come, so to speak, I imagine that the Tory high command and associates are getting rather worried by the fact that Labour appear to be experiencing a modest rally of sorts in the polls (not that a lot of them mean much). Now there really going to throw all the sh**te they can at Labour in the hope that some will stick.