The Cameron thing last week, thinking he needed people to remember him, announced that the Tories agreement to match the current government’s spending plans, are no more. He says they are ...well basically wrong. So if the Tories do get in at the next election come 2010/11, they will be going it their own way, good old cut price Tories.

You could be forgiven for saying 'so what' because you may be thinking as I am,

1/ how does anyone know what the financial climate will be then?

2/ will Cameron get in?

3/ I'm already fed up of his whinging and sniping at the government.

I don’t think (and I may not always be right but I'm never wrong) that this country will ever change (in peace time) while we carry on the adversarial style political argy bargy we have burdened ourselves with, i.e. the need to oppose for the sake of opposition.

You can hardly see these days the difference between red and blue in this country's politics but the country’s democratically elected government is constantly berated, criticised, rebutted and undermined. I'm no great flag waver but don’t we all know that one lot is no better than the other. Shouldn't we get behind the government of the day?

Who would have thought it,...well I have... I think Gordon is the man for this moment. The leaders of the world seem to think that too. The same policies seem to be being employed the world over in an attempt to avoid financial Armageddon.

The much related to 'confidence factor' can never be achieved when every measure the government take, the opposition lampoon.

In this, I salute the liberal party leader, but I can’t think of his name, such is his effect on general proceedings. But at least he’s supporting the Government albeit grudgingly.

So, it’s the opposition’s duty to oppose. The question. Should it be? Or does all that Punch and Judy nonsense over the dispatch boxes in parliament make you despair too.

As an addendum to this piece I wrote last week, I should mention Alistair Darling’s attempt announced yesterday to borrow/tax this country out of recession.

It would appear that every politician, every political commentator, every shopkeeper and their dog, think he’s wrong. Is he, isn’t he? Or do the media look for whiners to interview.

All I see is more booze, fag and petrol tax, a dose more national insurance and a measly 2.5% cent off a bag of cement. Great! Oh sorry… ‘it’s the right thing to do’. That’s the in phrase.