The acid is pouring on our deluded leader but all she can feel is the love. According to Scoop Prime Sinister Helen Clark simply won't accept the yawning chasm opening up between the two major parties. She dismisses the 21%, 24% and 26% gaps recorded in three separate polls as "very extreme".

"I'm all over the country. I believe that the Labour heartland is in very good shape indeed."

Remind you of another toxic totalitarian teetering on a toppling?