The last PMQs before the election. Gordon Brown's last as prime minister, maybe. You would think that Labour MPs would have been pumped up for this one. Stakes high and all that.
But what have we just seen? The Tories rampant, noisy, boisterous, laughing, and clearly relishing the fight. Right up for it.
While opposite them sat Labour: sullen, exhausted-looking, meek, feebly quiet by comparison, without a new thing to say or argument to deploy. David Cameron focused on ill-equipped troops in Afghanistan, and was roared on by his backbenchers while Brown was left to battle wearily against the din, with his ministers and MPs failing to raise even a semi-respectable counter-effort.
As Brown left, the Tories shouted "bye-bye" and waved their order papers. Where had been the easy planted question on Chris Grayling (whom I couldn't see – wonder why?) and B&Bs? Was that not the easiest of hits for Labour?
If that was a sign of how things will go on the doorsteps in the next four weeks then we might as well not bother. Labour MPs looked as if they would rather roll over and hand it to Cameron than be bothered to get off their backsides.
As Alistair Darling said before last year's party conference, Labour looked as if it had "lost the will to live". After that they somehow came back from the dead and narrowed the gap in the polls.
Someone somewhere has to put something in their tea, or the polls and the momentum will go the same way as PMQs today – to Cameron.
