Quick, somebody pinch me. I've just had a moment when I'm not sure if I'm awake or in a lucid dream. I have just found myself agreeing, wholeheartedly, with Tory MP Nadine Dorries who has branded the leader of her party - David Cameron - and his Chancellor of the Exchequer - George Osborne - 'arrogant posh boys'.
Or, to give her quote the fullness it deserves, she said, on a TV show today:
'Unfortunately, I think that not only are Cameron and Osborne two posh boys who don't know the price of milk, but they are two arrogant posh boys who show no remorse, no contrition, and no passion to want to understand the lives of others - and that is their real crime.'
Yes, yes, yes. Absolutely. It is. She's right and it shocks me to say it considering she has not been above using the 'one rule for them and one for us' divide when it suits her.
Like, for example, the time she seemed to think it entirely appropriate to claim her childcare costs on expenses - which she did - although she more than paid for that faux pas with the public anger that followed.
That said, I'm not one to hold a grudge, and certainly not if she's prepared to speak out for the greater good. So it was that I found myself cheering loudly at her candid - some may say foolhardy - announcement.
So, leaving aside the fact that she has her own axe to grind with Mr Cameron - and not least because she has previously clashed with him when he has treated her like a bit of fluff during PMQ's by doing his boy chortle and calling her 'frustrated' - what she has said should resonate loud, long and clear with us embattled Brits because there is a great deal of truth in it.
I am in my forties and I can state, without reservation, that I have never known a Prime Minister of our country to be so out of touch with the needs of the electorate.
Trust me, I thought Tony Blair was a weapon of mass distraction - he and his dodgy dossiers - but at least he did a passable double of caring. And, no matter what, the impoverished of our country were still not as in-the-dirt poor under him as they are now.
Our current Prime Minister and Chancellor are as transparently uncaring with the people they represent as it is possible to be without actually lining us up against a wall, loosening a clip and finishing us off.
Fair to say, in less than two years in power, Cameron has pushed for changes that neither Margaret Thatcher or Tony Blair could see through. Financial cuts that have left people who were already on the poverty line in a wilderness of abject fear.
Many Tory grassroots think Cameron is 'too left', but that's only because they have not been exposed to the obscene fullness of what he has really put into effect.
The truth is that when the public are finally aware of the heinous measures taken by this Coalition, it may be too late to rectify them - and we will be left with a ravaged country that may take two or three decades to get back on its feet.
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www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2134133/Its-true-Ms-Dorries-Cameron-Osborne-touch-When-office.html
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The 'voice of the people' has spoken.