Three of them – representing Shipley, Scarborough and Whitby and Beverley and Holderness – don't have majorities to write home about. And there might well have been fewer Yorkshire Tory MPs if "tight" constituencies had not generally a better record for turning out to vote.

David Davis in Howden and Haltemprice scored the best in 2005 with a 70 per cent turnout. On average, barely three out of five Yorkshire folk bothered to vote.

With only three Liberal Democrat MPs, Labour dominates Yorkshire's
contingent in the House with 78 per cent of the seats – 44 to be precise. If that is representative of political thinking across
the broad acres, then I'm a Peking duck.

It underlines the enormity of Cameron's task today. It is not just to convince Tykes programmed by their genes never to be impressed with anything that he's not another powder puff politician but also
to excite them with the prospect of new, vigorous, capable and responsible young management.

Britain – not just Yorkshire – desperately needs stimulating politically for the good of our democracy, given the alarming drop latterly in voting.

For all the poll bounce Gordon Brown seems to have got out of the financial crisis and the Labour Party conference, I don't think he has a price at the next election. But winning can never be enough for Cameron now, given the horrendous – and worsening – mess he will
inherit from the man who presumes to dismiss the rest as novices.

If this is what we get from experienced journeymen, then theapprentices deserve a chance. They could not do any worse. Few will turn out
as useless as the Scottish novice who went to the Treasury in 1997.

But that is by the way. Cameron needs a substantial mandate to cope with a legacy that is considerably worse in its ramifications than Margaret Thatcher's in 1979.

The loss of two independent Yorkshire banks – the Halifax and Bradford and Bingley – in a global financial crisis exacerbated in Britain by
Brown's profligacy is only a start. The Government is borrowing more every day, partly to finance Brown's pathetic, empty bribes every time he opens his mouth. Public expenditure is out of control, with all sorts of liabilities off the balance sheet. Ever more taxation looms. We are running into an electricity supply crisis. Worsening public services seem to be managed by politically correct idiots. The Civil Service machine no longer performs. Immigration and crime are out of control. Indeed, as Cameron himself says, our society is "broken".

Today, the leader of HM Loyal Opposition has to show how he is going to put it together again.

So what does he need to say to Yorkshire folk who have been had by the Blair/Brown project?

First, after George Osborne's realism on the economy on Monday, they want a sober thought-through assessment of the nature of the financial, economic and social crisis. They want to feel that someone has a grasp of the total problem.

Then they want to know how in general – in advance of looking at the no-doubt cooked books – Cameron would put Brown's age of irresponsibility behind us. They know this cannot be done overnight, that it requires fine judgment over the balance of regulation and rewards for wealth-creating enterprise and that a period of pain is inevitable.

But they want to feel that Cameron and his boys – let us make youth a virtue – are going to sort it out, determined to curb wasteful spending and excessive borrowing and when possible reduce taxation that has got beyond a joke.

If Cameron can also convey the sense that he intends a practical – as distinct from a spin doctor's – crusade against poor services, exploitation of the public purse and deprivation, including denial of a decent education, he will find a ready response.

And if he declares war on the political correctness that increasingly produces inertia across public services from policemen to dustmen at enormous cost in money and frustration he will have them rushing to the polls.

People are fed up. They need somebody to harness them to a new purpose: to rescue Britain from Brown and make it work for its people. Speak up, David Cameron. Yorkshire is all ears.