Originally published @ 1:48 am, Thu 23rd Dec 2010
So I bumped into some celebrities at The Council House and covered myself in glory by not knowing who the one was and not thinking fast enough of anything the other had done that I like.
Stephen Graham and Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje were in Nottingham making a film called “Best Laid Plans”. http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Movie-cameras-focus-gritty-Nottingham/article-3015856-detail/article.html
I was happy to tell Adewale tales of the radical history of Nottingham and he was polite enough to listen. I couldn't get past Stephen being in the Damned United.
Time to segue way from best laid plans to the ConDem coalition and their worst laid plans. Nah, doesn't work And the point about the ConDems is not that it's a coalition, but that it's asking those who have the least to pay the most and letting bankers off at the same time. And its lost any ambition for the country by equating economics to household budgets, reducing the role of Government and dropping any sense of a worldwide project to reflate the world’s economy.
It now turns out that the Telegraph stung a number of Lib Dem Ministers and found some more who wanted to mutter about the government to complete strangers.
Once Liberal leader David Steel has taken solace from the reports of disagreement. Hey ho.
ITN meanwhile reports growing disapproval of the ConDem gov’t and their cuts programme. And this is still before the impact of the cuts have properly been consulted on. Most of the big changes are for the new financial year and the details of much of the changes will be announce in January and February. Nottingham City Council for instance will be announcing £60 million of cuts then.
The ConDems didn’t outline the case for such cuts at the General Election and they don’t have either the mandate and they won’t have the public support.
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