It’s Started!

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It’s started! The run-up to the General Election I mean.

David Cameron kicked off proceedings yesterday morning with a not-too convincing speech telling us that the NHS will be his number one priority, pledging also maternity reforms ‘to meet mothers’ needs’ whatever that means. All this while tackling the government’s budget deficit.

Then we had the monotone Chancellor Alistair Darling who launched an attack on the Tories’ spending plans, claiming that they had a credibility gap of £34 billions, an easy accusation to make since none us understand it or can check it.

Not to be outdone, Nick Clegg has told us that the Labour and Tory parties were ‘increasingly alike’. I’m not sure I agree with him here unless he was referring to the general shouting match that has now erupted.

We haven’t heard from the other parties but, doubtless, we will in time.

Commentators believe that the General Election will be called for 6 May. If that is right, we will have four months of this nonsense to endure.

Groan!
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A Distraction

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Trying to concentrate on what Chancellor Alistair Darling had to say in the Commons this afternoon about his pre-Budget report, I was constantly distracted by Harriet Harman, Leader of the House, who was continually nodding at what he had to say.

It was like having your attention drawn to one of those irritating nodding model dogs that you sometimes see in the back of cars.

Whether or not Ms Harman actually agreed with what Darling had to say or whether this was some sort of front-bench tactic to distract the opposition seniors, I do not know.

But it was about as irritating and utterly meaningless as those wretched nodding dogs!
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