So, Labour lost big time and the Tories won. But as Glenn Reynolds says, it's hard to see how much actual change the Tories will bring about. If the party won't let you know what their policies are then how can you?

Meanwhile, Labour are wondering what went wrong and the Tories are wondering what they got right. The feeling in the pub last night was that this was a vote against Labour far more than it was a vote for the Tories, so the Labour post-mortem is rather more interesting. Sunder Katwala, who, if memory serves me correctly runs the Fabian Society, sets out all the things that he thinks are going to win voters back in an article on LabourHome.

"Then make a fairer Britain the defining mission: take risks for the cause of child poverty; make clear what climate change demands of us all; go for electoral reform and a written constitution. If not now, when?"

This is, not to put to fine a point on it, bizarre. Other-worldly. Does he really think that people voted Tory because he though that Labour had done badly on child poverty? That they want to pay more carbon taxes? That they are, in fact, aching for electoral reform, and were raging all the way to the ballot box to express their fervent love of written constitutions?

Some people in the Labour party think so.