Study YouGov’s polling: Conservatives are on 44%, Labour on 35% and Lib Dems on 13%. Gloat at the Cleggites’ sinking fate if you like – but the combined government support is a stonking 57% and David Cameron’s approval 58%. Which party is “led by people of real ability”? 31% Conservative, 15% Labour and 7% Lib Dem. People are profoundly alarmed about the economy and afraid for their future: 54% expect their own household to suffer this year, 69% expect to be personally harmed by public service cuts, 64% fear losing their job. Who do they blame? 48% blame Labour, only 21% the Con-Lib government. On a string of measures, Labour is harpooned. Polly Toynbee, The Guardian.

Why are people so stupid? Why on earth do we believe their lies? Why do we wish to wear hair shirts and sacrifice our jobs, health and pensions to making the wealthy ever richer? There is no need for these massive cuts.

There’s much of the defeated Labour government I could find fault with – Iraq, Afghanistan, ID cards to name three – but one thing Labour isn’t to blame for is the banking crisis – not one of our politicians at Westminster saw it any other way at the time.

Still I’m a voice in the wilderness when it comes to my views on the need for savage cuts – there is no need.