CAMERON KNOCKS OUT MILIBAND BUT .............. .

David Cameron's speech to the Conservative Party conference was, unlike Ed Miliband's effort at the Labour get together, a tour-de-force. While Miliband droned on for ages and yet forgot to mention both the economy and immigration, Cameron spoke with vigour and passion covering most the necessary ground in fine style. He not only beat his main Prime Ministerial opponent, he slaughtered him.

I don't like either of these men, both coming from wealthy and privileged backgrounds and both more than happy to tell the rest of us to live our lives but one has to be fair and pragmatic in assessing their relative abilities and merits. Yesterday, Cameron looked and sounded like a man with a purpose, a man who was genuinely passionate about his country and who really wants to put things back on an even keel. Conversely, Miliband, talking last week, sounded like a whining schoolboy desperate for someone, anyone, to listen to him and tell him what a good chap he was.

Miliband wants to be Prime Minister and, frighteningly, could even be after next May's election. Cameron played on this but, to my mind, he made one major blunder by repeating his claim that 'a vote for UKIP would be a vote for Labour'.

In this free and democratic nation of ours, everyone is free to vote for the party of their choice, be it Conservative, Labour, Liberal Democrat, UKIP or any other legally recognised body. For Cameron to attempt to scare voters into shying away from UKIP by effectively threatening them with Miliband does him no credit. If his own party's policies and actions are good enough, they will win the election; if they're not, then voters will go elsewhere and Labour may well get back in. By his claims of 'vote UKIP, get Labour', Cameron is saying to his supporters that, whatever his party's , policies and whatever its record, they have to continue to vote for it out of fear of the alternative.

This is no way to win an election or to run a government. I will vote for UKIP because it's the least entrenched of the, now, 'Big 4'. If that means Miliband in Downing Street, so be it; in reality that won't be much different to what we've had for the last 5 years. It might also presage the rise of a real Conservative Party once again, rather than the wishy-washy and mildly socialist bunch that we currently have.