
"The expenses scandal has had a devastating impact on Labour and Gordon Brown, a Populus poll for The Times finds today.
Labour’s overall position has slid to 21 per cent, its lowest in polling history. When asked how they would vote in next week’s European election, those polled have put Labour in third place behind UKIP and the Tories, for the first time".
And now the master plan...
A reshuffle of the Cabinet following the European Election.
Meanwhile, it's 1912, and the Titanic strikes an iceberg. The Captain announces over the tannoy that the deckchairs will be rearranged.
The fiddlers play on...