The other day Vince Cable, perhaps the ablest politician in the cabinet right now, accused certain factions within the Tory party of waging "economic jihad" about the spending cuts.
He has challenged a number of policy issues; specifically the "sacred cow" status awarded to certain areas, including health and education. He has questioned whether this is the right move now, especially as we are discovering the extent to which ordinary people will be affected by the cuts: 1 million women, for instance, who will have to take cuts in their maternity benefits. And that's just the beginning.
Last year Vince alerted us to the band of "right wing nutters" in the American Congress who make any kind of state funded health care virtually impossible (these same nutters are of course the same nutters who resist any limitation on the ownership of firearms, even fully automatic assault rifles). He might as well go the whole hog and name and shame a bunch of right wing nutters in the Tory party who what to cut, cut, cut, without any consideration of any other, fairer, way of making ends meet in our economy.
You go Vince! Keep making it awkward for the bastards!
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