Especially so if in the time the nation is obliged to wait before the Prime Minister is forced to call a General Election, David Cameron and the Conservatives make good on their promise to come up with some workable policies.

Even if the economy revives between now and then, the inadequacies of Brown when Chancellor and his successor at the Treasury, Alistair Darling, will neither be forgiven nor forgotten.

From the tax raid on the UK's pension funds in 1997 right up to date with the Northern Rock debacle, Labour has sold the public short either by cock-up or conspiracy. Sometimes it has been a combination of both.

The U-turn forced by the Party's own backbenchers triggered by the scrapping of the 10 per cent tax band is only the latest example of how out of touch Brown has become.

But then his reputation for competence as Chancellor owes much to the sound economy he inherited from the Tories - and then from following their spending plans for the first couple of years in Government.

We are now discovering how as the years rolled by Brown's unfettered spending requires both higher taxes and borrowing to make the sums begin to add up.

He never put anything aside for a rainy day - or to extend the meteorological analogy "he didn't fix the roof while the sun was shining."

Behind the Capital Gains Tax furore and the attack on the non-doms is a desire to top up the Treasury's coffers.

No bad thing to make business pay, you may well feel. But to do so with ill-thought out plans, that have to be tinkered with when their shortcomings are exposed leaves the Government open to ridicule.

Its business-friendly overtures have been exposed as a sham. Labour has alienated both the public and business.

I don't share the joke when it is said that Gordon Brown was put on earth to make Tony Blair look good. The former Prime Minister was a master of spin and self-advancement whose 'sins' I don't need to remind you of here.

David Cameron should use the time available to him to ensure that come the next General Election he can form a Government with the right ministers and the right policies that this country deserves.