Sputtering Cable

In order to distract the headlines from the antics of those smallfry in Gateshead who think the Deputy Conservative party has something to do with being liberal and democratic, Vincent Cable has been blustering in the Guardian about how backward-looking and out of touch the proper Conservatives are, and how he's going to give George Osborne what-for if he doesn't do as he's told. "I am going to confront the old-fashioned negative thinking which says that all government needs to do to generate growth is cut worker and environmental protections, cut taxes on the rich and stroke 'fat cats' until they purr with pleasure," said the Government's leading social democrat, who serves as business secretary in an administration which has cut worker and environmental protections, increased taxes on the poor and is hacking large, gold-plated, well-oiled cat flaps into the NHS and the police. Well, I feel better already.