The Sure Mercies of David
Daveybloke, the Cuddly Conservative, has been doing his public health thing, promising to be jolly tough on industries which make profits from harming people's capacity to be refused sickness benefit. Daveybloke took the opportunity to wave his dead son about once more, on the nearly rock-solid principle that no bereaved parent would be prepared to tolerate unnecessary suffering. Dead-baby politics aside, Daveybloke rejects New New Labour's "top-down, state control" approach of delivering sanctimonious lectures to the proles while allowing big business to do more or less as it likes, and instead favours "responsibility deals" with profiteers, which would enable big business to do more or less as it likes while relieving the proles of opportunities to indulge their more unpleasant habits. In a concerted effort to bring the business community into line, the Daveybloke administration will call for, urge and propose and, as a last resort, may possibly be moved to threaten legislation. Bringing the proles into line, by contrast, will be a simple, non-state-controlled, bottoms-up matter of raising taxes on alcohol and further restricting the hours during which it can be sold, on the almost equally rock-solid principle that drinkers can be relied upon to control their addiction when their fiscal welfare is affected.
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