UPDATE: CF too boring to matter much

Guido Fawkes, parliamentary blogger extraordinaire, has struggled so badly in trying to find a story out of the CF elections that he has essentially given up. No candidates were right-wing nutters or closet wets - no one has anything much political to say.

Not that that's a problem

CF doesn't do policy, and there's a very simple rationale for that. As a cohesive body it doesn't really exist, so all those members have no weight behind them. They can help swing elections, but kudos for doing this only extends to the local area they have been helping - we are not consistent enough as an organisation to make people sit up and take notice.

The task for the next nine months are about putting in place the systems to get CF working as a cohesive organisation. Also, bear in mind that CF either doesn't, or barely exists in huge swathes of the country. When I say it is a failing organisation, that is not hyperbole.

Until those problems are on the way to being solved there is little point in trying to play at politics.