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Tory conference and a new Tory euphemism for the unemployed appears.
Talking about people losing their jobs at LDV in her constituency, Caroline Spelman MP chooses to describe the unemployed as an endless supply of entrepreneurs.
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Even weirder was the right wing think tank pundit on BBC Newsnight. Talking about reducing the state's role and its spend by 10%, that's £30bn, blasé about the consequences.
It was hard to make some of it out, not least cos the pundit started with a contrived explanation of the "boiled frog syndrome", that the presenter had to ask her to explain again. Very strange, cos the right in Britain and America love that story. (The story of the frog being boiled is an urban myth. http://www.snopes.com/critters/wild/frogboil.asp The truth is frogs will jump out of water that gets too hot. Or, as Al Gore said in his climate change movie, you rescue the frog.)
I hope that pundit plays a big role in future Tory party presentations.
Cos what was significant is that the need of a 10% reduction was placed outside of the context of paying off debt. This was an ideological commitment to the size of the state, paying no regard to how the state has had to underwrite the banking private sector in its latest failure, or the range of services that the public enjoy or expect.
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Amazing still that the Tories don't get the point on their tax break on inheritance tax.
Put simply, it doesn't matter if they found they've found distinctive sources to pay for such a change, with the money they say they've found, there are a lot more people who need the help more than millionaires.
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Now, I had a bit of a spelling problem with an earlier edition of this blog entry. So I won't make too much of a letter from the Tory candidate for mid-Derbyshire who says in a mailing to voters
"Conservaies [sic] believe that the next generation deserve better than this ..."
A fan of Mrs. T missing out the "t".
No, the main lesson here is, that every time I want to publish, I will try to find a speel-checker first.