“It is game on” for British politics, according to David Miliband because they managed to keep hold of Glenrothes in the latest by-election… ignoring the fact that they have lost the last three.

To add to this, the latest poll is giving the Conservatives a 13-point lead over Labour, with 43% to 30% – and the Lib Dems down on 18%. But Brown and Darling are currently still seen as a safer pair of hands to guide Britain through the economic downturn.

The game has been “on” for years. Ever since David Cameron took over a Conservative leader, and definitely so since the current line-up of party leaders – Gordon Brown and Nick Clegg – took over, the game has been played.

If Miliband is only just realising this, one must question what exactly he’s been doing for the past year… Unless he was convcined that Labour was going to lose the next election and this result has given him a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel. It’s just more likely to be a train than the other side.