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Dithering Dave is ready to give ground over Press Reform .His `bluff`bid to go to the vote fell foul
over the weekend so our `poker`` playing PM is forced to `rethink` after Tory rebels
let him know he was heading for a damaging defeat in the commons.
Cameron`s credibility is almost but done.
The Conservatives are plotting and talking themselves to death
There are more than two years to go before the next election, but many Tories are acting as if they've already lost
Labour should be ashamed of its 10-point lead:
There are two ways of thinking about the future for the Conservatives, a grim way and a brighter way.
Let's consider both, starting by looking through the Tory glass darkly. Conservative reasons to be
depressed number one: the coalition is eating itself.
The Tories and the Lib Dems are fighting over press regulation, welfare cuts and a whole lot else
while the Tories are at war with themselves over far too many things to list.
His grip over his colleagues weakening, David Cameron is gaining such a reputation for being
jostled around by stroppy ministers and pushed into U-turns that he is beginning to resemble
the love child of John Major and Ted Heath.
To add to the many skidmarks on the tarmac of Downing Street, the government has just
made a forced retreat on the "bedroom tax" while the prime minister has suffered a rout at
the hands of senior colleagues over minimum alcohol pricing.
On his febrile backbenches, Tory MPs are reacting to unpopularity with panicked plotting - not
so much headless chicken as headless vulture syndrome.
Leadership wannabes in the cabinet are exploiting the situation by positioning themselves for the
succession, manoeuvres that further corrode the prime minister's authority.
There is no respite in sight. George Osborne will this week deliver a budget that he'd cancel were it not
an inescapable event in the chancellor's calendar.
He will again have to confirm that he's missed his targets for the deficit, for growth, you name it,
he's flunked the tests that he set himself.