However their performance during the crisis has not shown any basis for trusting them in the management of the economy.Something that they need to do if they are to win the next election.
In fact, the dour Scottish accountant in Gordon Brown and his sidekick,Alistair Darling have come across as people that,despite being dull,you would trust to look after your money.
George Osbourne, on the other hand, performs like a footballer who presented with an open goal has just hit the crossbar.
Simon Heffer writing in the Telegraph today,is quite critical of his performance
In the face of sheer dishonesty from Mr Darling, in refusing to admit he was following a policy against which he had earlier set his face like flint, all Mr Osborne could supply was hysteria and name-calling.
There was a fundamental failure, too, to start from where we are. The bank shouldn't have been nationalised, but it has been; and Mr Osborne's desire on Monday for it not to take any new business is hardly going to help it be sold on, even if that were ever possible.
That, coupled with the pointless call for Mr Darling to be sacked, suggested naivety and vacuity. Being an opposition is not just about pointing the finger. If you aspire to prove you are fit to govern, you must also convince the wider world that, faced with such a crisis of this size, you could deal with it well.
Furthermore Simon beleives that this shows the party has a long way to go before it is going to be in a position to win the election
The complacency, the smugness, the old clichés look empty now. How many people believe the Tories would have made a better fist of Northern Rock than the hapless Alistair Darling? How many believe they would tackle the real problems facing our bloated economy and our nation any more effectively than Labour does? Not nearly enough to win them an election, I fear.
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