ENOUGH is enough.

To suggest Eddie Howe should be given a vote of confidence is an insult to the Cherries manager and his achievements at the club.

In an interview with the BBC this week, chairman Jeff Mostyn said they would never been moved to take such a step – and then almost did.

Predictably, his comments, or at least the newsworthy sound bites, were jumped on by the national media.

Asked how Howe had been dealing with the “choppiest waters” he’d had as a manager, Mostyn made reference to Leicester giving Claudio Ranieri a vote of confidence and said Cherries would “never have to give Eddie that”.

However, he went on to add that Howe would “continue to be our manager for the foreseeable future”, words which sent the headline writers into a frenzy.

Even the BBC, in a follow-up article online, failed to mention Mostyn’s first response, prompting the ctrl c, ctrl v brigade to have an absolute field day.

For Mostyn, who has been criticised by some supporters for clamming up when the going gets tough, it is very much a case of damned when he does and damned when he doesn’t.

Howe has made it perfectly clear he will not leave the club while Maxim Demin remains at the helm and, although the club’s owner never speaks publicly, you get the impression the feeling is mutual.

In two spells as manager, Howe, who was being touted for the England job in the summer, has earned the right to become unsackable and only he will decide if and when he leaves.

Make no mistake, nobody will have hurt more than Howe during Cherries’ current run of two points in five games or five from eight.

And nobody will be more determined than the 39-year-old to see the team start turning the tide. And nobody is better equipped than him to see them through this blip.

Howe’s fiercest critics may have had cause to rejoice had Cherries been cast adrift at the foot of the table with 14 games of the season remaining.

And no doubt the fact the squad was not bolstered during the transfer window would have given them added ammunition.

But while the recent dearth of points is a worry, they are still ahead of champions Leicester and Crystal Palace and Middlesbrough, both of whom have thrown serious money at their respective squads.

Under Howe, and after avoiding dropping into non-league in 2008-09, Cherries have improved every season, finishing second in League Two, second in League One, 10th in the Championship, first in the Championship and 16th in the Premier League. They are currently 14th. There have been downs as well as ups, not least five defeats in a row during a key stage of the League One promotion campaign, one win in 11 games in the first season in Championship and three points in an eight-match winless run last season which saw them drop into the Premier League relegation zone. They were all conquered and were experiences Howe would have learned from as he seeks a solution to their latest travails.

Supporters of Preston, Sheffield United, Coventry, Leyton Orient and Doncaster – the five teams which lowered Cherries’ colours in successive games in 2013 – together with Newcastle, Aston Villa and Norwich – the three clubs relegated from the Premier League last season – would willingly have traded places with Cherries this season.

Constant references to how far Cherries have come in such a short space of time and where they were eight, seven, six or five years ago may well be wearing thin.

On Monday, Cherries will host one of the richest clubs in the world in front of a live television audience in a routine league game.

Perhaps that is an indication of where they are now, which is largely down to one man.

Like one poster to Twitter said, Howe doesn’t need a vote of confidence, he deserves a statue.