We have our politics; they have theirs
16th Nov 2006, 21:25 GMT
Stephen Harper, a neo-conservative ideologue, has suffered a crippling blow. His fellow traveller in the White House got ''thumped'' in the midterm elections. American voters repudiated the bellicose, socially conservative and militarist agenda of George W. Bush, signalling a centrist shift in the American consensus, leaving the Canadian Conservative Prime Minister isolated, discredited and facing his own, inevitable comeuppance.