As part of our ongoing political blogger series, Total Politics interviews Tory Bear. He talks to us about making politics funny, keeping numbers up and how the Lords is the perfect retirement home.

Where did you get the inspiration for your name?

Well, I was reading Alastair Campbell's first diaries and he was constantly talking about TB this or TB that. It was kind of catchy. I wanted to write a fun blog mainly focused on the youth movement in the Tory party and to play around with it: talking about kids so playroom, kids, bears. Then it kind of sounded like Tony Blair. And I was also the proud owner of a blue teddy bear so it all kind of makes sense.

You are now quite renowned in the blogosphere. It must have been quite a steep rise?

Yeah, I started writing about Tory HQ and then I branched out a bit. Then, of course, Derek Draper turned up on the internet which kind of galvanised the Tory bloggers to war. On the back of that, it picked up. It went from 50 people reading it a day, to 500. During that time it was up to 1,000 and it has just grown and grown since then. So, thank you Derek Draper!

Is there much scope to be funny?

I think so, especially with up-and-coming people. There is a lot of people who want to be MPs, politicians and journalists who all take themselves way too seriously so it is always useful to be able to take them down a peg or two. That's where a lot of the humour is. I mean ruthlessly ambitious Tory kids especially. The combination of gossip and humour takes the edge off a bit while making a serious point.

So on a scale of 1-10, how funny are you?

I'll let you be the judge of that. Maybe 3, 4.

Have you any political aspirations of your own?

Absolutely not. Being an MP is a horrible job. If they reform the House of Lords and it's a 15-year term then maybe Lord Bear one day. But that's a retirement job. Anyone would take that, especially Prescott. I wouldn't like to be an MP. It's a nasty job. You're just a puppet and you have no power. Your life is scrutinised beyond all belief and you're basically a glorified social worker. I can think of more exciting careers.

Your blog is quite Conservative Future centric, why is that?

When I first started the blog about two years ago, I was quite active in that. My most loyal readers have always been young, London-based Tories. I don't actually care about the Conservative Future elections. There are more exciting things out there. I spend most of my day writing things for other places that are far more interesting. At the end of the day, it keeps the traffic numbers up which keeps the advertising up. I update my blog site infrequently but more than the Conservative Future website. So during the election it would be stupid not to cover it.

In the film of your life, who would play you?

The secret love-child of Hugh Grant and Piers Morgan.

Favourite politician?

Alive: Daniel Hannan. Dead: Ronald Reagan.

Least favourite?

Sarah Teather.

Favourite blogger?

Stillettoed Socialist.

Least favourite blogger?

I'm going to get my revenge here because he said I was his least favourite, Sunder Katwala from the Fabian Society.