Just The Job?

No one believes it. Whether or not it is true, no one believes it, so no one is going to vote as if they did believe it.

MP after MP fawned over Cameron yesterday from safe seats in the South. Conservatives sitting for key marginals in the West Midlands, the North West and Yorkshire, all of which have rising rather than falling unemployment on this week's figures, were deafeningly silent.

Everywhere that wasn't rich already, the voters have made up their minds about this Government, and absolutely nothing can now happen in order to change those minds. Not a thing. Marginal seats, pretty much by definition, are not in places that were rich already.

Labour is still ahead. As it has now been for three years. Give that a moment to sink in. The next General Election is over.

A Prime Minister who cannot get his own Cabinet to turn up and vote for his war, nor can he sack them when they don't, and a Chancellor who would be hated and totally disbelieved even if he put everyone on a million pounds a month.

Finished. Utterly finished.

As for Miliband's personal lack of popularity, who cares? What matters, what alone matters, are voting intentions. And those have been perfectly clear in Labour's favour for almost the entirety of this Parliament, with concrete confirmation of them every time that actual votes have been cast. 

Cameron has Ministers, from his own party, who hold him in abject contempt. Today, it will be a fortnight. None has been sacked, and one has been on Any Questions.

If that is how even they regard him, and are perfectly able to regard him, then he stands absolutely no chance with the electorate at large.