This is awkward.

There is no plan yet. Instead there’s an idea. A “direction of travel”, if you like.

The challenge here is, I’m a rank amateur. I’m not a political insider and my grasp of the ways in which British politics have always worked is rudimentary to say the least, but I do have a pretty good idea of how they work now.

In recent years we’ve seen two fringe groups develop dominant influence in our “mainstream” parties. Labour came under the influence of Momentum, a very public movement to affect the direction of the party by a coordinated influx of grass roots members. The takeover of the Conservative party was more insidious; a small number of well funded, shady characters infiltrated the top of the party.

Through populism, division and a cavalier attitude to the concept of objective truth they seek to consolidate power for decades to come. They’re not doing it for your benefit or mine.

Peter Oborne and others have observed that the Conservative Party is moribund. The grass roots membership is overwhelmingly old, out of touch and easily manipulated. They number less than 180,000 members.

Our hypothesis is simple. We believe there are hundreds of thousands of people like us. Squeezed in the middle, despairing at the leadership of this country and politically homeless. We imagined we’d grow up and be Conservative voters like our parents, but we can’t imagine ever voting for these people.

We have the numbers. We have to take the power back.