Time to change leaders?

Apparently Cameron's reshuffle does not reflect panic about Brown's slight upturn in the polls and the slanging match over grammar schools. Well, no shit, Sherlock. I don't like the guy and frequently disagree with him, but actually he's not doing too badly. Brown was always going to get a bounce in the polls when he got into Number 10, and there was always going to be a Shadow Cabinet reshuffle to reflect what happened in the real Cabinet. Like him or not, Cameron is safe where he is despite Brown becoming PM, despite grammar school debates and despite defections.

It is the Liberal Democrats who should be looking at their leader with a view to change.

I mean, seriously, where is the Minger? No-one has heard from him in ages. If IDS was the "quiet man" then Ming the Merciful is the "silent man." Brown ascends to PM, and the Tories lose one point in the polls. The Lib Dems lose three. He was supposed to be a safe pair of hands, but he is doing worse than the permanently pissed up Charlie boy.

Of course, Labour and the Tories aren't going to point out how bad Ming is. This is a dream come true for them - the Minger means that the Lib Dems are not so much going to fail to make progress at the next General Election as struggle to contest it at all. Ming has made them an irrelevance, and an irrelevant Liberal Democrat party means more seats for Labour and the Tories. Forget the Lib Dems trying to collect Tory scalps at the next General Election - they'll be too busy protecting their own.

The best thing the Lib Dems could do now is depose Ming. But they seem to be stuck in some sort of stupor - unable to do anything as their leader is unable to lead them. And without the jibes of the Tories and Labour, the Lib Dems are sleepwalking their way to catastrophe at the next election.