ONE YEAR ON - GUARDIAN POLL PREDICTS TORY LANDSLIDE

There are some who read this blog who think I should be a bit more positive about Gordon Brown. Today's Guardian poll explains why there is little to be positive about.
One year after I was lectured, harried and shouted at by right-wingers for saying publicly that Brown's "coronation" would be a disaster for the Party. here is where we are.
74 per cent in a new Guardian/ICM poll say that he has been a change for the worse compared with Tony Blair, and only 24% think Labour has a chance of winning the next election while he remains leader.
The poll also gives the Conservatives a record 20-point lead over Labour, six points up on last month. Labour support has fallen two points to 25%, the lowest recorded in the ICM polls, which began in 1984.
Conservative support, at 45%, is at a 20-year high. That would give David Cameron a landslide victory as big as Labour's win in 1997, with some 400 seats. Labour might be reduced to well under 200 MPs, with many ministers losing their seats. The Tories would retain Crewe and Nantwich, won in a byelection last month, while Labour would lose previously safe seats such as Wakefield.
A year ago, Labour had a four-point lead over the Tories in the June Guardian/ICM poll. Support for the party, at 39%, was 14 points higher than today. Well done Gordon . Well done New Labour. You have taken us from the prospect of a modest election win 12 months ago to complete catastrophe.