Fairly soon, Mr Cameron will be fully aware of these depressing metrics. He has ordered a special app on his iPad that will give him a “management dashboard”, with everything from dole figures to inflation. (One of his senior advisers says the PM spends “a crazy, scary amount of time playing Fruit Ninja on his iPad”, so the new software will offer some respite.) It will be a digital horror show. His government is “dealing with the debt” in the same way that George Best dealt with the drink: bingeing on it. Ours has increased more than any eurozone member’s. And still, as his iPad will soon tell him, the government envisages no economic improvement to speak of by 2015. Britain’s deficit won’t be abolished. It will still be there – indeed, it will be the largest in the Western world.