Funny how things turn out... who would have thought, in this confused era of blue Labour and green Conservatives, that it would be as niche and technical a subject as the Home Information Pack that would finally split the left and right so neatly? Have you seen what the front page of the Daily Mail looks like today? Then see above (apologies for the cameraphone quality). Meanwhile, writing in the Guardian, Australian-in-London, uber-blogger and Guardian Weekly deputy editor Natalie Bennett takes a more considered view of the HIP, and writes from the experience of a buyer who had her fingers burned. She tackles the subject of the Tories' much vaunted cost and time-related complaints very nicely. She doesn't tackle the issue of whether, as a buyer, she'd trust somebody else's surveyor. But then, I'm undecided on that one myself, too. Oh yeah, and here's the Daily Mail piece, with some interesting comments.