Good grief: Vince Cable has finally woken up to the attacks on the working poor his Tory friends have been making since 2010.
What a coincidence he should wake up just before a General Election.
Cable how says the new attacks on the tax credits (benefits, as Osborne calls them) are excessive. Well, of course they are, Vince. The attacks on the NHS were pretty excessive too, as were the cuts to the frontline of the public sector (except the MOD, of course, where the government continues to throw unlimited resources and where Prudence, bless her, doesn’t apply).
My argument with Cable is simple: look at his House of Commons voting record. Has he been opposing each and every cynical Tory announcement and budget, even voting against them? Has he taken a principled stand on anything?
Why no. Cable never votes against the government, never says a word against their awful policies, always forgets to mention that it’s because of the Liberals that the Tories get their way, not despite them.
In any event, no one will ever trust the Liberals on anything ever again. The terrible lie from Nick Clegg that he wanted to abolish student tuition fees when he was happy to double and triple them, will never be forgotten. And not only did Clegg break his promise, Cable was the one who increased the fees, calling them progressive.
Cable is a clever bloke, far more clever than Clegg or the slow-witted Tory apologist Danny Alexander, but he thinks we are all stupid.
Their Conference is this week and they will unveil lots of new policies. Just remember when you hear them that Clegg and co will ditch them all if they get another sniff of power.
Cameron says that if you go to bed with Farage, you wake up with Miliband. But I’d say that if you go to bed with Clegg, you’ll wake up with Cameron and if you go to bed with Farage in the first place you probably need urgent medical help.
