Should the Tories lie low?

An engaging article by Simon Jenkins in today’s Guardian, on why the Tories shouldn’t worry about the vacillating opinion polls, and would be better served by lying low for the time being:

“There is no electoral advantage ever to be gained by an opposition during a national crisis. The sane policy is to keep your head down and stay quiet… ..Political commentators have widely attributed Cameron’s fall to the vagaries of his economic policy and the vacillations of Osborne. History offers no support for this analysis. It suggests that the behaviour of an opposition at such a time is irrelevant.

History also suggests that Brown’s current standing will for sure decline as crisis turns to long, grinding recession. After an initial rush for safety, voters will peep nervously from the bunker and see the blasted political landscape for what it is, the result of a cruelly mismanaged economy.