The quote of the week surely has to be from Vince Cable regarding the new budget.

“Our coalition government is united in accepting that its first duty is to clean up the fiscal mess it inherited. Not any old mess but a great, steaming pile of manure. Someone has to remove it. We can’t just hide the smell beneath the perfume of optimistic forecasts or rely on natural decay.”

If there’s one thing that really grates me it is the public services argument by the likes of Dave Prentice from Unison. I know public services will be cut back significantly but saying that the former Labour Government fought the rebuild them after years of Tory misrule is rubbish.
The unions are missing the salient point: there was no money to provide the level of services which they did. The ConDems are not hiding a fundamentally anti-public sector agenda which is Tory led. They are readdressing the balance, and a balance that has been off kilter for too long as Labour ignored the warning signs and good common sense by not putting “a little bit away for a rainy day”.
By the time this Government is finished we will have a much brighter future and I sleep easy knowing that for the first time in my adult life I can trust the government again.
I’ll do my bit. Instead of moaning about not getting a pay increment this year I’ll just just save some cash and not pay the Apple Tax. Now which Android is it? Desire or Legend…?