Could it be the Tories have finally decided to try their hand at opposing the incumbent government?

After years of navel gazing and whining about Labour stealing their policies, it's starting to look as if IDS may have decided to try a similar approach.

Last month, the Conservatives came out against top-up fees for Universities in direct contradiction with their usual market oriented approach to resource allocation.

(Lets forget for the moment that they intend to reduce the Higher Education funding gap by reducing the overall number of students, and that the Institute for Fiscal Studies has calculated the new policy will primarily benefit wealthier families and move on...)

Now comes a quite astonishing change on drug policy.

Oliver Letwin (Shadow Home Secretary) has redefined the Conservative approach to 'the war on drugs' from prevention of supply to treatment and rehabilitation of users.

Iain Duncan Smith will today announce a pledge to increase the number of rehabilitation places in the UK from 3,000 to over 20,000. He claims this will be sufficient to treat every young 'hard drug addict' in the country (I don't know if this is accurate).

In recent months, New Labour has seemed ever more distant from and unaccountable to the populus and has just slammed the lid on Peter Hain's attempts to start a debate about higher tax rates for the top earners.

Finally, Her Majesty's Opposition is doing just that, presenting different solutions and stimulating debate.

It would be nice to see the Liberal Democrats enter the fray as well.

As a kind of straw poll... have you changed the way you intend to vote since the last general election?

Do you think the opposition parties are doing enough to challenge Labour, and if not, what would you like to see them do in order to convince you they deserve your vote?