Well, sadly, the Liberal Democrats did not approve the (oustanding) Social Liberal Forum's economic motion, and with that it is hard to see how the LD's will possibly be able to present themselves as an alternative from the Tories.
However, a little refreshment did come from the ever-fresh Vince Cable, who launched a scathing attack on the 'hated' Tories, with my favourite lines being:
'The Conservatives’ spiritual home is the United States. They’ve become the Tea Party Tories; they want to throw overboard any tax or regulation that gets in the way of their blinkered, small-state ideology ...
Deep down they believe there is no alternative to unhindered self-interest.'
Fantastic stuff from Vince. One cannot help but wish that Miliband and the Labour front bench would say something similar. When the official 'centre-left' opposition is being rhetorically outgunned from the Left by a man sitting opposite Cameron and Osborne in the cabinet chamber, you've got to ask yourself some serious questions about the effectiveness of the Labour party.
No comments:
Post a Comment