The sense of the Major Government is overwhelming: each of the present crop of Ministers is more incompetent than the last, and all of them are guaranteed to be forgotten within a few days of their eviction from office, an eviction for which a remorseful nation has been gasping almost since the day of the most recent chance to effect it.
In fact, it took the Major Government until the autumn of 1992 for the country to take violently against it, a position from which the voters then never wavered. But that Government limped on for five whole years, and so will this.
Then as now, its tiny overall majority was entirely nominal, and was provided by people, some of whom are still the same people, whose hatred of the Prime Minister had no parallel on the other side, where the Labour Left rarely, if ever, disliked John Smith personally, had no such aversion to Tony Blair until the Iraq War, was always fundamentally loyal to the ticket on which it had been elected.
Since there are only two realistic outcomes of a General Election, namely that the Leader of the Conservative Party should become Prime Minister or that the Leader of the Labour Party should become Prime Minister, the only logic of the Major-hating Right's position has always been that Labour ought to have won the 1992 Election. It took a very short time after that Election for the electorate at large to arrive at the same view.
Likewise, the only logic of the Cameron-hating Right's position is that Labour ought to have won the 2015 Election. It will take a very short time after that Election for the electorate at large to arrive at the same view. There will be many more days like today. Many, many, many more.
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