Posts Tagged ‘Vince Cable’
After every election, the public sector is reorganised. It never seems to save any money.
BBC News - Radical police shake-up outlined. After every election, vast swathes of the public sector are reorganised. And yet, within four years, the opposition — whoever they are — is able to point to a litany of inefficiency, bureaucracy gone mad, pointless red tape and wasteful duplication. Today, the police are being told they will be [...]
In the nation’s interests
I have received howls of protest over the last few days from Lib Dem members, people who voted Lib Dem but usually vote Labour, and people who have never voted Lib Dem and never intend to. Some have demanded that Nick Clegg immediately fall into line behind Cameron and stop negotiating for 'party advantage'. Some have insisted that for Clegg to [...]
The phoney war begins
Everyone knows that the General Election is this year. So, like clockwork, on the year's first working day, the spin machines of both Labour and the Conservatives trundle into action, and then into overdrive and counter-spin, back-spin, side-spin and top-spin. How long before they go into tail-spin? You can now watch both in glorious [...]
For “war-cabinet” read “My team isn’t good enough”
UK Conservative leader David Cameron has a problem. If he really believes that he is going to lead the country later this year (though the polls are pointing towards a hung-parliament), then his team is simply not strong enough. True, he's got former chancellor Ken Clarke -- good old Ken -- but, aside from that, he has no-one with economic clout [...]
