Opinions

Poor old Young. Tells it like it is, there isn’t a disaster. No need for massive cuts.

The press is having a nervous breakdown. The government is making it up as it goes along. The cabinet is falling out over Defence, Sports, Schools, Health and the EU. The LibDems are revolting, well more so than usual. But what are the pundits obsessed with? Splits in the Labour Party!

At this stage of the game all they want a futile gesture. A confession that everything is our fault and that we would have implemented bigger cuts.

What tripe. Just shows whose side they’re on!

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Leaving a Foreign Office School Helen Clark Head of Development at the UN was asked by a very senior FO Official where she was going “To Grimsby to give the Tony Crosland memorial Lecture” “Who’s Tony Crosland?” Said he! Shocking!

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The British Constitution is whatever government can get away with. If the coalition can get away with gerrymandering the electoral system and fixing itself in office until 2015 it can fiddle anything.

Here’s a crucial test of the Lords as defenders of the constitution. Let these bills through and it’s as much use as a condom machine in the Vatican.