It’s going to be the decisive week. ”

Oh no it’s not–we are all nerds: in the main world no-one cares. In a week’s time it’s all forgotten for normal voters.

It’s going to be the decisive week.

Cameron has suddenly drooped in the polls after topping 50%, if he can’t regain that rating with his conference bounce then the perception will be that the tide has turned and the momentum is now against him.

The succession of conference bounces is an interesting phenomenon which has long been acknowledged internally in the formation of protocol over which party (of the main three) goes in which order: political attention is undivided and the important issues can be scrutinised better.

Anthony, I hope you’ll reserve some analysis is for comparison between the different bounces each party experienced, because it is interesting that the commentariat is now picking up and dissecting in more detail the relative effects of the season.

At this stage it seems that Clegg and the LDs have benefitted more than Brown and Labour, so we’ll have to wait and see a little bit longer whether Cameron can reimpose himself successfully on the public consciousness and, more importantly, whether or not he can regain his former position of poll dominance – having dropped 10pts so far a rebound of less than this must be considered a failure for the Conservatives.

I think this means that there will be some proper scrutiny on the Tory party conference and that can only be a good thing for democracy. If the Conservatives come up with a coherent set of policies and the public agree with them then they deserve to win the election and although I’ll be disappointed I accept that that is part of democracy.

What would really scare me is if they are allowed to get into power based purely on a good marketing scheme and an unpopular PM. I’d like to see some proper Conservative proposals coming out over the next week (which in fairness did happen this time last year) – it’s going to be an interesting week!