Here we go again, another government initiative!  

This time it’s the ‘childrens plan’. It will be surrounded by fanfares and pumped with money for a year, maybe two (it will help take the heat off this rubbish government) Then as it fails, it will leave a trail of red tape in its wake. The associated targets and ministry memos will encourage more and more overruled professionals to seek other careers, maybe as tax collectors or national ID database staff, because these will be the only people with jobs when the recession starts to bite.  

This initiative has the smell of “back to basics” about it, a desparate attempt by a rotten government at the beginning of the end of the New Labour era. 

Vince Cable really is a great interim leader for us. I have never been a massive fan of Vince, but he has really proved himself by boycotting the Saudi leadership and his amusing questions at PMQ’s. He will surely be written into the Liberal history books as the man who humiliated Gordy. Well done Vince!