They’re trying very hard to disguise it, but at its heart is just the “We’ll say anything” desire for power.

For me, the primary difference in the parties that overides all this ‘progressive conservatism’ and ‘progressive austerity’ garbage is that …

1 Labour reduces spending due to changed circumstances, and financial necessity.

2. Liberals…, I don’t really know much about them , except what their economics person has said…., and that long before it became politically expedient for all those creepng and crawling around the Conservatives, the Liberals were talking about reforms, sustainabiliity..

3. If you prod a Conservative with a barge-pole, out will pop…. “Cut public expenditure.” Brain not required. Macro-economic incompetents, and the primary architects of what eventually has come home to roost as the current mess. I understand that their proposals, on regulation, to ‘hand it all over to the Bank of Enlgand’ have drawn groans of “Oh , Jesus” from those competent in the subject.

Got to say, I’ve never heard a taxi-driver speak quite in the way that Reeves describes.

Demos ? Wasters. If you’re interested, check out the blog on their site http://www.demos.co.uk . I’m a bit all over them at the moment. I really do feel that, in the guise of a standard 4 yearly election, what I’m looking at is a very unhealthy grab for power by those who have least earned it.

And no, I believe that the Conservatives have not remotely won an election yet, I believe, as a citizen, that I deserve better than that bunch. A PR man, for crying out loud. A long, long, way from Barack Obama isn’t it ?

rgds

Andrew