Dave doesn't seem to want to win this election. I wonder why?

As the campaign days go by I'm coming to the conclusion that Dave doesn't really want to win this forthcoming election. He seems to be content to be drawn in to the endless Labour smokescreen, giving credibility to largely irrelevant issues like zero hours or Tory cuts (when Labour has signed up to making the same cuts) the NHS scare stories etc.

He's the Prime Minister but he's not setting the agenda and he's not focusing enough on his achievements in office. I've long suspected that he's not really 'up' for this job, that he got it by accident and would be personally happier to lose the election and go back to a more normal life.

Obviously he'd never publicly admit to this but he knows the numbers - the state of the economy in reality rather than the spin being put on it by all sides - and he doesn't seem to me to want to play all his aces. You'd have to wonder why this is - and it's quite a scary prospect in many ways - he's seen the books and doesn't seem to be up for the fight. Does he know what we don't? That we are still a basket case following the crash of 2008?

Despite the recovering economy and all the new jobs that have been created - jobs in the private sector rather than Labour's proliferation of public sector 'diversity officer' non-jobs - he doesn't seem to have the heart for the fight.

It's almost as if he knows that we're in for even more difficult times ahead and that he and his Tory party henchmen would rather be in opposition when they hit home.

We all know that we cannot go on borrowing forever, living beyond our means and also that there hasn't really been any real austerity yet. It seems to me that Dave has looked under the rock and discovered something there that he can't hope to fix. And that he (and his colleagues) would rather be in opposition, sniping, than trying to fix an unfixable problem.

I hope I'm wrong about this, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that I'm not.

One thing is for sure: an increasingly left-leaning, borrow-and-spend-more Labour party will only make the problems we face more acute.

Generally speaking Labour has always created - and hidden - the fundamental problems we face as a nation in the past. And the Tories have become steadily more unpopular by trying to fix them.

It seems to me that this time, the Tories don't believe that they can fix the issues we face and that they would rather be in opposition when the shit really hits the fan.

We should have let the banks fail in 2008 and we should never have 'printed' money out of thin air. It would have been very painful, in the short term, but it would be over by now and we would now be coming out the other side of this crisis with capitalism intact. Instead we're continuing to kick the can down the road to the benefit of the corporations and the bankers instead of real people. This is not sustainable - it's the desperate ploy of an irrevocably failed - and failing -  financial system. And it will come back to bite us in the end.

As I say, I hope I'm wrong. Time will tell. But I think I'm right and that there is a lot more suffering to come.

Thanks for reading.