Is this a deliberate plan, do you want to try and create a Conservative Party that puts behind it the reputation of being extreme and right wing and that you're on a moderation course at the moment, to get across that you're sensible, reasonable and a credible future government?
It is an amazing triumph of technology that gets better and better, year after year, and yet somehow is every bit as exciting as a 25 mph drive through a sensible neighborhood at a reasonable time of day.
Given Mr Blair's desire to wind down Britain's presence in Iraq before he leaves office, he has probably struck a reasonable balance between the politically desirable and the militarily sensible.
He said nurses wanted "a sensible pay offer and a sensible commitment to see nurses pay on a level with their allied health professions within a reasonable time scale".