Eric Pickles, Conservative Party Chairman, has emailed to say the Conservative Shop is now officially open, under the banner ‘Shop for Change’. In his email he says,

“And if you’re one of the first 100 customers, you’ll get a free set of limited edition ‘Make your own Gordon Brown speech’ fridge magnets, the must-have item from this year’s Party Conference.”

Well, I’ve got mine. Here it is, before I break it up to create my own Gordon ’speechette’.

Although I have to say when Eric says, “So head down to the Conservative Shop now and start Shopping for Change”, it’ll not be for a T-shirt,

“You can also buy the two winners of our recent T-shirt competition: ‘Don’t blame me I voted Tory’ and ‘Release your inner Tory’.”

Diaries, umbrellas, ties, sweatshirts, yes. T-shirts, no.