It is October 15th, and I strongly suspect we are now less than a year away from the General Election.

The closer we get to the big day the more likely it seems to me that Mrs Davis will win and serve a 4th Term.
The reason for this is the lack of talent in the National party, none of them being much of a match for their Labour counterparts when fists start flying, or policy gets discussed.

William Rees-Mogg has written a brilliant Opinion Editorial in The Times today.

He describes how in recent weeks the British Conservatives have come into their own, cut Gordon Brown's 'honeymoon' very short, and are more than a match for their opponents in Government.

In Blackpool the press discovered a younger and more effective inner group of Shadow ministers, all of whom compared quite favourably with the ministers they are shadowing

And when it comes to the Leaders he had this to say...The two conferences also showed, as did Prime Minister’s Questions last week, that Mr Cameron is a resilient man who rises to the big occasions, while Mr Brown is an angry man who gets all hot and flustered

...and on the article goes in a similar vein.

The thought which was running through my mind whilst reading it was.. "Can anyone seriously say the same about the National party?"
I would say the answer is a resounding 'No'.

Can you really go through a list of National Shadow Ministers, man for man, and say they get the better of the Cabinet Ministers they shadow?

This is what Rees-Mogg says about Chancellor Alistair Darling vs Shadow Chancellor George Osbourne....Last week gave Alistair Darling the opportunity to show that he would make at least as capable a Chancellor as George Osborne. He muffed it. Here again, the Shadow Chancellor has youth on his side. Mr Osborne is 36; Mr Darling is 53. Mr Darling’s reform of the capital gains tax was a butcher’s job, with inadequate consultation, oppressive to small businesses, damaging to job creation, as welcome to the farmers as an outbreak of foot and mouth disease. Mr Osborne got his proposed reform of inheritance tax right. Mr Darling got his reform of capital gains tax disastrously wrong....can anyone say the same about Bill English running rings around Michael Cullen?

In conclusion Rees-Mogg says I cannot remember a time since the early 1960s when any party had as strong a core of young talents in Parliament ...also a claim you cannot make with a straight face about our Opposition.