A stiff letter to the council won’t stave off David Cameron’s next crisis
by William Keegan from on (#TMQB)
The sight of the PM complaining about cuts is remarkable. But it underlines how misguided the Tories' appraisal is of the real threats to the economy
You could not make it up. Our ultra-smooth prime minister has complained to the Conservative leader of Oxfordshire county council about the cuts to local authority services being made in David Cameron's constituency, which is itself in Oxfordshire. We owe this great story to the Oxford Mail, to which organ a certain exchange of letters, or possibly emails, was leaked.
Welcome to the real world, Dave! When a prime minister finally wakes up to the consequences of the ideologically driven austerity policies of his own chancellor, then perhaps he should be tempted to follow the example of his hero, Harold Macmillan, and sack him.
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