Awful awful awful. Hope he's out of cabinet soon.
Between Gove, Theresa May and Gideon (and Grayling who was in their shadow cabinet), I don't know how 36% of people could've voted for them. Maybe my glasses are too rose-tinted as regards to Labour.
My glasses ain't that rose-tinted towards Labour. Indeed, whenever they warranted criticism, they jolly well got it
I 'shocked' many of my Labour acquaintances yesterday when I criticised the Durham NUM for inviting some Palestinian woman to address the Gala - I do wish unions would not get involved in what does not concern them - and criticised this government's decision to ringfence international aid, just as I would have Labour's
I'm afraid with so many of our own people at risk of losing their livelihoods, and those 'existing' on benefits (poor compared with much of Northern and Western Europe) being targetted, we cannot afford it
Yet guess what? Despite Labour having to contend with the worst global financial crisis and economic downturn this side of the Great Depression, welfare spending as a % of GDP was less, under Labour, than when John Major left office
Imagine the mass societal trauma had the Blessed Margaret - the Founding Mother of Mass Welfare Dependency in this country - a crisis of that magnitude to contend with
Never have I been more fearful for my country
. If the cost of the consequences of the 'Crash', and the necessary response to it, has got to be paid for than it should be done in accordance with the ability to pay principle
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