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To great fanfare the Government's "New Opportunities" White Paper has been launched today, and behind it Paul Waugh senses the dread hand of Teh Socialist Menace, assuming no lesser mantle than Harriet Harman - our beloved deputy leader. Waugh:
David Willetts tells me that the Harman plan is a "classic example" of Labour trying to use legislation to achieve its objectives.
We live in horrific times indeed when a Government resorts to legislation to enact its policies. Dark days, comrades, dark days. But Harriet's plan to put an obligation on all public bodies to reduce the gap between rich and poor has certainly pleased the Labour blogosphere; indeed, Parbury Politica is practically orgasmic. Less so the Daily Mail, but given that the document wasn't entitled "Birching Those Pesky Poor People And Teaching Them To Know Their Place," this is hardly surprising. Download the report here.
With the pointy-headed element of the Labour online community thus diverted, Dastardly Davy Cameron has attempted to sneak a crafty one through the slips in the form of an annoucement that there are like, yah, far too many MPs and their numbers should be slashed. If you are an MP reading this and worried that he could be talking about you, check whether your description in Dodds is followed by either the word "Lab" or "LibDem". If you are unlucky enough to discover that you have membership of these two parties, then sorry but you're toast. Honestly, did you think that the ruling classes would let you clutter up their club indefinitely? Oh, and the Boulton Blog has a rather hilarious example of a Freudian slip with regard to the shiny-haired one's reasoning.
And finally, the Liberal Conspiracy brings us news of Henry's latest venture. Surprise the POLICE STATE!!11!!1 Henry bangs on about all the time hasn't cancelled it ... but then again we do live in a free country.
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