Have Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves gone mad? Genuinely, do they have any understanding of the economic and political catastrophe that is about to befall them?
The explosion of infighting within Reform, which has seen one of its MPs, Rupert Lowe, reported to the Metropolitan Police for 'verbal threats', has generated glee among the party's opponents.
Fantastical rumours that the US President was literally a Russian mole began to circulate in 2016, around the time he launched his first election campaign. Now they are circulating again.
Over the past week the Prime Minister has received plaudits. Rightly. But at the heart of his diplomatic strategy lies a fundamental, and potentially fatal, flaw.
For one brief, shining moment it was a triumph. Sir Keir Starmer arrived at the White House for negotiations with the man who literally wrote the book on The Art Of The Deal.
On the surface, the briefing note circulated by Downing Street was sterile. 'The Prime Minister spoke to President Zelensky this evening and stressed the need for everyone to work together.
Not so much the art of the deal, as the art of the betrayal. Last week Donald Trump's newly appointed defence secretary Pete Hegseth landed in Europe to deliver a message from his boss.
'To be honest, we're all sick of Downing Street ,' he told me. 'No 10 is constantly trying to blame everyone else for the Government's failings. It's time they started looking closer to home.'