Election issues starting to emerge...

Following this weeks PMQs (and many others) a clearer picture is beginning to emerge of the impending electoral battle lines.

Despite Ed Ball's incessant bobbing around this week, a Brown election campaign would almost certainly lead with the charge of the Tories being a 10% cut vote. Gordon, and his cabinet, have repeated this at almost every opportunity, seizing upon the very words of the Shadow Health Secretary.

Speaking of troublesome Health Secretaries, Gordon must have been ringing his fingers with the news that Alan 'I'll stop you at any cost' Miburn is to step down.

Back to the election issues though...

Cameron proves slightly more difficult. He has led on various fronts. The charge of landing the country with the highest level of national debt has been tried and seemed to largely appease the core vote. Nothing more though.

Incidentally, the Lib Dems now seem to be picking up on this theme, hoping to attract disaffected Tories as well as Labour voters?

So, considering recent campaign material, it seems more and more likely that Dave's campaign shall focus on one simple idea: Trust. He has repeatedly attacked Gordon at the dispatch box over the issue of capital investment, seeming to suggest that Gordon had misled the house.

Whether these themes can be relayed into the wider consciousness remains to be seen.

However, one fact does stand out. With ministers openly posturing for positions and election bandwagons being proverbially loaded up, an election must surely be in the offing some time soon?