Gordon Brown = Neville Chamberlain?

The Telegraph report that:

"Gordon Brown's personal support among voters has fallen faster and further than that of any Prime Minister since political polling began... His personal rating is now minus 37, down from plus 48 in August, a plunge even more severe than that suffered by Neville Chamberlain in 1940 after Germany's invasion of Norway."

Couldn't happen to a nastier piece of work.

To make matters even worse for Mr Brown, the poll shows that voters would be more likely to support Labour if his predecessor Tony Blair was still in office.

Six out of 10 complain the Prime Minister has a tendency to "dither" and only 26 per cent believe he has shown decisive leadership.

Just 14 per cent agree he is "in control of events," while 57 per cent say he is "floundering".

Worse still for the man who built his reputation as the steward of the economy as chancellor, 61 per cent of those poll said they blamed Mr Brown for the current financial crisis and two-thirds said they did not trust the Prime Minister and the current Chancellor, Alistair Darling, to steer the country out of it.

I am beside myself with schadenfreude.