© Matthew Buck Hack Cartoons

It is helpful when a piece of party political messaging basically write jokes for you. The ‘deficit’ of course is still rising (useful explainer here) and the NHS reforms appear to involve breaking up a series of institutional powers, who aren’t inclined to go quietly.

Every cartoonist I know enjoyed the general election posters of 2010 because they made so many hostages to fortune, or events, dear boy, events*, as they used to be known.

* And as Prime Minister Harold Macmillan never said.