Cynical Tory Strays: Pissing on All the Policy Lamp Posts

Brown Deserves His Kicking says Stephen Newton. Perhaps. The Mirror's editorial agrees with me that the Tories just look like yah boo thugees over it.

And goodness me this banner's justa tad annoying and continuously untruthful. Tory Fibs. For example on Inheritance Tax. Tories propose raising to TWO MILLION for couples, not ONE. Labour leave it - as it already is - at £600,000 for couples. So that pair of comparators is deeply dishonest at both ends and deliberately sets up fear and loathing by dog whistle.

The opposition can come up with any damn obvious policy or initiative they like. Some things are just in the air. Ideas whose time has come. Priorities whose time has come. Reviews whose time has come.

Oppositions can come up with 100s of generic or zeitgeist ideas. Is the government then supposed to be barred from doing anything similar? Even if it's the right thing to do? It is of course easy enough when a government does do such a thing to say you pissed on that particular lamp post first.

The Lib Dems have after all permed most combinations of tax rates, local tax, national tax, supertax, flat rate tax, rising tax, slashed tax, frozen tax, parish council tax. They've been there and done all of these and a whole lot more.

Whatever the government decide to do someone may have already mentioned it. And the fact they've mentioned nine other things seems to be overlooked.

Stephen is I think being a bit too hard on the Brown government on this one.