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read this piece from norm in the observer this morning.
"The headlines on the front pages of the upmarket papers last week had been bad enough for Cameron, but the Saturday tabloids were an absolute disaster. This dog of a coalition government has let itself be given a bad name and now anyone can beat it. It has let itself be called a government of unfeeling toffs. Past governments have had far more real Tory toffs: prime ministers Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Macmillan, or even in Thatcher's day, Whitelaw, Soames, Hailsham, Carrington, Gowrie, Joseph, Avon, Trenchard and plenty more, without incurring similar abuse.
The abiding sin of the government is not that some ministers are rich, but that it seems unable to manage its affairs competently. The Blair government was scarcely rocked by the discovery that the deputy prime minister, John Prescott, had exercised his droit de seigneur by fornicating with a civil servant on his office desk during working hours. This government has difficulty in managing a non-story about the chancellor upgrading his ticket on a train, or the stupidity of the former chief whip (who is no toff) behaving like a saloon-bar bore.
Of course, the government was bound to be vulnerable to name-calling and mudslinging, as it is bound to upset all manner of vested interests as it reins in the Blair-Brown spending spree that brought us to the brink of a real financial catastrophe. Even
worse, Cameron has to put up with disloyal Liberal Democrat ministers who would clearly be happier playing for Labour. None of that, however, can be an excuse for one failure after another to think through an idea before launching it at half-cock and having to backtrack.
In some ways Cameron should be glad that the bad name his government has been given is that of a government of toffs. He can overcome that by imposing some managerial discipline not just on his colleagues but on himself. Had Ed Miliband concentrated his fire on a long list of muddles, from the proposed sale of our national forests to the BAE and energy policy muddles of recent days, it would have been far worse.