As the 20th October draws near Labour are cat calling, complaining, saying the savings are the wrong ones at the wrong time etc. etc. whilst still not saying where their savings would hit. Nothing new there then, as the way they have been carrying on since the election shows them to be in complete denial of what went on during their years of rule.
But from deep in the Labour’s inner workings comes their next attack. I am told it is an 8 page document that local Labour activists are expected to order and then deliver next weekend. I am sure that it is 99% written already despite the fact that none of us know what will be in the spending review. More ‘nothing to do with us gov’ and its those rotten beggars in the Coalition Government who are making too many cuts too soon’. I await my copy with interest assuming it will be going out in Sefton Central of course.
Which brings me to the Coalition itself. Is it a good thing? Yes, of course it is as the alternative would have been a disaster. No, I am not referring to the much talked about potential Lib Dem/Labour Coalition as that was never a runner anyway. It would have required the support of other nationalist political parties from Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and would not have lasted a week! The alternative I refer to is if the Tories had won a majority with Cameron being a prisoner of the rabid right. We saw that in the 1980’s and none of us doubt what would have happened to the poor if it had been repeated. Of course, the rich would have done very well again thank you very much.
But what we have now is Cameron’s rabid right being blunted by the fairness agenda promoted by the Lib Dems in the Coalition Government something the left of the Tory Party can live with. So lets hear it for politicians working together as we hit the hardest financial times most of us can remember whilst recalling that Labour and the bankers had a huge hand in putting us in this mess.