It really is small beans anyway, and to say 'cuts cuts and more cuts' as if they wouldn't be coming hard and fast anyway is disingenuous.
you mistake me. i certainly didn't mean to imply
any of the potential govts that we were facing on the morning of May 6th wouldn't be doing just that,
of course (and if my post read that way, i apologise for any potential sloppiness); i was looking ahead and noting the business background acumen of the liberal members of this new coalition in that post of mine you quoted.
what was it some northeast Labour bod said just before the election?
'we'll cut your throat, but the Tories will rip your head off.'
something like that.
still,
small beans remain
small differences.
obviously very small differences.
believe me, i have never had any illusions about New Labour, or, more recently, about this recession and the sorts of responses the international community are demanding countries mobilise toward it.
making a couple of entirely reasonable and wholly accurate observations about a pair of Orange Bookers (Ashdown once thought Laws a Tory mole and the latter was apparently invited to join a Tory Shadow Cabinet by the new Chancellor once; Cable's recent Keynesianism notwithstanding, as i noted upthread) is small (that word again!) beer in this thread...
...whilst i'm on thread, we clearly have at least one piece of unambiguously good news from this new coalition govt that is, of course, worth mentioning
leaked lib-con coalition agreement said:
We will end the detention of children for immigration purposes.