And so should every Tory and Liberal.

Three years later and our economy is still hovering over stagnation, and although it hasn’t fully recovered there are encouraging signs of healing and hope for a better future under Osborne. Especially when you consider the state Labour left this country in. It is a miracle we only just lost one of our AAA ratings.

I know people are tired of hearing it, but it needs to be said and people need to remember it. This government is only fixing the damage the last one did. They are simply working with the legacy they inherited from Labour. The deep wide hole Labour left cannot be sorted overnight and thirteen years of damage can never be fixed in three. Looking around us ‘Tax and Spend’ isn’t working anywhere and will never work here again. To get out of the hole we need to build and grow – and that’s what this government is doing.

Despite the challenges, yesterday’s budget was sensible; it gave help to First Time buyers, froze duties and brought forward the aspirational £10,000 rise on personal allowance. All measures aimed at helping low earners, especially young working families.

That is why I like the two Eds. Three years on and they are still saying the same thing with no or little regards to what is actually happening. They want to take form low earners by reinstating the 10p Tax, and cut the VAT, a measure that will only benefit those who regularly purchase high end goods and services. Not quite the ‘One Nation’ folksy measure you’d expect from a socialist pair.

I like them because they make this government’s job easy by daily showing the voting public who is really on the side of people, clearly not Miliband and Balls.

We all knew the Same Sex Marriage bill will pass in the commons. We also knew many Tories will not vote with their government. But what we didn’t know or expect is the numbers we saw on Tuesday. More Tories abstained and voted against the bill than with the government. As surprises go, that was a big one.

This morning Michael Gove was forced to abandoned his GCSE reforms, maybe not altogether. But his very ambitious and bold changes will not be the EBac system he worked hard to implement. Whispers suggest the obstruction came from the DPM.

The other, albeit a milder shocker is that the Eastleigh by – election will not take place this May but will be held in just three weeks on February 28. Marking the occasion the DPM is to deliver a speech attacking his coalition partners for blocking the Mansion Tax. Where will that speech be delivered? You guessed it, Eastleigh!

After the AV referendum, Lords Reforms, Boundary Changes, squabble over the NHS reforms and constantly telling us that if it wasn’t for them this government will order the killing of every first born, now we finally have our showdown. This by- election is the first time where the gloves will truly come off. Eastleigh is a straight forward two way race. Before the 2010 election, Chris Huhne held the seat with only a couple of hundred votes, after running for his party leadership, his popularity increased that to a 3,684 majority. As for Labour, they are just spectators in Eastleigh. There the Lib Dems run the council and have a strong grassroots base. So naturally they are the favourite’s to win and hold their seat. On the other hand we have Maria Hutchings who fought the seat in 2010 and have been the Conservative spokesman ever since, I hope the association selects her to stand, as this no time for daft ideas.

But most of all and for the first time since the Coalition was formed; this is the first true test for this government. My concern here is for my party. As this is also a test for Cameron as a party and a parliamentary party leader. A test of our party’s unity, its resolve and its brand as it is seen by outsiders and the public currently.

To me Eastleigh is ‘make or break’ time and I am sure that I am not alone in thinking it.