Labour’s campaign strategists are worried that the electorate is not up to the task. You can see why. Voters insist on looking at Jeremy Corbyn and arriving at ludicrous conclusions.

He only has to be mildly bedraggled (one told an interviewer Corbyn was “too idle to shave”) and they withhold their support. It’s as though appearances matter.

“Have you seen the state of his garden,” these so called voters cry. “Couldn’t run a bath, the scruffy sod.” It’s the merest leap from there to dismissing Comrade Jeremy as “a wet lettuce”. There’s no justice. It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of policies to concentrate on, now that the manifesto has got such a wide airing. But somehow the voters keep coming back to Jeremy. A shambles, they are.