Strange Conservative times
First we have Conservative MP (albeit not one I had heard of) in an attack on Mrs Thatcher's mental state, and an attack that was apparently that was sanctioned by the leadership. Malcom Rifkind asks some slightly more decent questions, though this is something only a politician could say:
Why did she agree to go last week, of all weeks, when there was talk of an election in the air?
Last week, of all weeks? Did you notice anything different about last week compared with any other political week? Not sure I did. I imagine most people if asked to characterise last week would either talk about Kate McCann, England v Russia or the first bank run since the 1970s. Apparently however there was an election in the air.
Then in today's Sunday Telegraph, Cameron blames Labour for the crisis at Northern Rock, arguing that:
and argues that we need more State regulation and less free markets. Perhaps we do, although I can't see what policy any Tory government would have followed that would mean less debt. Kenneth Clarke, whom we now must see as being on the economically liberal wing of the party, argues the opposite in the same piece. Or maybe it's just that George Osborne and David Cameron have never seen the point of a mortgage?Under Labour our economic growth has been built on a mountain of debt.
Labels: David Cameron, George Osborne., Gordon Brown, Mrs Thatcher
posted by Matthew @ 9/16/2007 10:22:00 AM
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