If Jeremy Corbyn thinks winning this general election is mission impossible then he is not showing it.
In his first newspaper interview of the campaign he was brimming with confidence and brimming over with policies.
The Labour leader is piggy-backing on the kind of populism which got Donald Trump elected in America, although he would not welcome the comparison.
Curbing bosses’ pay to around £350,000 will be popular with everyone except bosses earning more than £350,000.
Halting £3billion of school cuts will go down well with parents and teachers alike.
And who could oppose his ambition to build affordable homes priced at £150,000 so average income earners can actually afford them?
Yet today’s Sunday Mirror poll shows what a seemingly impossible mountain Mr Corbyn has to climb. With the Tories on 50 per cent of the vote and Labour lagging 25 points behind, it looks like the game is up before it even starts.
But that’s what they said about Donald Trump. Polls can narrow. Voters can do the unexpected. Even Everest was conquered.
The Tories have always put themselves and their rich cronies first, and nothing Theresa May has done so far changes that view.
If she cannot even keep her word on not holding an election, her election promises will not be worth the manifesto they are written on.
If we truly lived in a country which works for everyone, the NHS would not be underfunded and parents would not be buying their children textbooks schools can no longer afford.
If we truly lived in a country which works for everyone, low-income families would not be paying for austerity while the better off get richer on low interest rates.
If we truly lived in a country which works for everyone, workers would not be exploited by zero-hours contracts while bankers line their pockets with fat bonuses.
This country is divided like never before, between Brexiteers and Remainers, between a struggling North and a prosperous South dominated by London, which has become an island nation for the super rich.
Britain faces years of painful negotiations to strike a deal with Europe, yet Mrs May will not tell us what kind of deal she wishes to strike.
Now she is asking for five more years to steer the ship of state while ordinary working people languish below deck as her galley slaves.
The kind of thumping Tory majority the polls at present predict will only make matters worse.
Mrs May only called this election because she senses the opportunity to obliterate the Labour Party. That would be a tragedy.
Mr Corbyn may not be to everyone’s taste, but his wish to create a society which enriches us all, not just makes a few people rich, is sincerely meant.
That is why Labour voters must stand firm at this time, just as football fans stand by their team.
They may not always agree with the tactics, or even have much time for the manager, but through thick and thin they remain loyal.