True Grit

The Government has responded to the cold weather in predictable fashion, by telling local authorities to cut down on road safety measures. Daveybloke's Cuddly Communities Secretary, Caroline Spelman, has criticised the Government for failing to learn the lessons of last year's cold weather, and the London Haystack has urged head teachers not to burden working single parents unnecessarily by not thinking carefully enough before closing schools. The impact, it appears, would be "devastating", thanks to New New Labour's consistent coddling of single parents and its reliance on the free market in the matter of child care. Spelman also noted that the Government had "failed to build up a strategic Highways Agency reserve, and Labour ministers have sat on their hands instead of putting measures in place to safeguard grit supplies", as though the grit were in danger of being kidnapped by mineralic fundamentalists rather than simply running out. However laisser-faire they may be about those nice people in the banks, Daveybloke's Cuddly Conservatives are always prepared to admit the value of forward planning and government interference when there's a risk of the wage slaves being kept from the rowing benches.