Oh I get it George: it was all just a big windup

So. George Osborne has decided not to institute those changes in tax credits after all. But while this news will come to many as an enormous relief, I wonder if those millions are not also entitled to some sort of apology. For months now, they have been going through spasms of anxiety as they asked themselves the question:
If they push these cuts through, how I am I going to cope?

Now it seems the Tories can balance the books without recourse to hammering the poorest in our society, or at least when they do it will be by smaller increments, so hopefully no one will notice. But what astonishes me is the political ineptitude of a group of men who seemed happy to launch the whole dumb, vindictive little idea in the first place, and then were apparently astonished that many people, including members of their own party, thought the plan was unduly cruel, even by Conservative standards.

You can just picture them, after the election in May, going:
This is great! Now we don't have to worry what those damned libdems think any more we can do what we like! So lets get out there and screw the poor and look after our own,  just like we always do- more champagne anyone?

Back to those people who believed their tax credits were going to be cut. Never mind an apology, shouldn't they now be entitled to compensation? Damages for unnecessary emotional pain and suffering, post traumatic stress if you will, should be paid out. In a kinder Universe.