Oh dear
As you may have seen in the comments I have been defending Howard and Letwin's spending review against fairweather Tories, who have been contemplating voting Labour because of the proposed cuts in defence spending.Sadly today I see it is a common view in our party - that defence spending must be ringfenced. Indeeed, The S.Telegraph reports, "[Howard] has been told by several senior colleagues that they are particularly angry at proposed defence cuts of £1.5bn".
I was also right about Nicholas Soames, with the paper reporting "Mr Soames has been frozen out of Mr Howard's inner circle".
I guess now we're set either for a) an embarassing climbdown from Letwin/Howard, b) Mr Soames' resignation, c) less money for health and educationa, or d) a fudge, in which more 'efficiency' savings are found.
I would be surprised by (b) given what I know of the man. (a) is too awful to contemplate, as electorally would (c). So expect (d) and another notch down in the credibility stakes.
posted by Matthew @ 2/22/2004 10:37:00 AM
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