Damien

Milband's response to the budget was the strongest I have seen him yet since taking leadership of the party. Asking the front bench how many of them would benefit from the top-rate tax cute was good tv as well his comment, directed at the Prime Minster, that he could now afford his own horse.

Shame he is utterly ineffective the rest of the time. His failure to capitalise in any way whatsoever on the government's unpopularity, the slower than expected recovery and dalliance with another recession and the Lib Dem support utterly deserting them in mind boggling. If they can't capitalise now, at the presumed height of the current governments troubles, then they really are screwed in the general election.