Tag Archives: Caroline Spelman

Morning roundup, Wednesday 4th March 2009

On the fourth day of March, my true love gave to me: a bunch of Tories a-leaking spinning, Jon "I have only one tone of voice - APPALLED OUTRAGE!" Craig a-butt kissing, and a Conservative MP with surprisingly progressive views on state-provided childcare when it relates soley and exclusively to Conservative MPs. Anyone fancy working on a musical score? More on this later.

Tories on Local Government

"Local decision making is important provided it's made by Conservative councils" appears to be the long and short of it.

So says Caroline Spelman.

Morning roundup, Monday 9th February 2009

The row over RBS' munificence with taxpayers' money rumbles on and the approach of the bankers involved appears to be, in the words of Tom Freeman's rather catchy bus slogan, "please give generously or the economy gets it."