Matthew Parris spculates in the Times

Worth reading Matthew Parris in the Times this morning on why the Tories should prepare for government.

Office could take the Tories by surprise much sooner than they think, catapulting them into power with a dangerously fat majority and a dangerously thin manifesto

and Matthew is adamant that

Mr Brown's fate was sealed by last autumn, when the Prime Minister missed his chance for a personal mandate from the British people.

Mr Brown's Government will be capable of carrying on. Two more years of public and private disintegration may prove impossible to maintain.

and