Dropped In

Some little tick at the Treasury has had a squeak in the Daily Torygraph, all about how he's going to tell the big boys that fair is fair, and that responsibility comes with privilege, and that it might be rather jolly to have his head taken out of the toilet bowl before the Bullingdon Club starts its weekly championship game of "Bombs Away", if the seniors wouldn't mind awfully. Labour is claiming that the Government plans to take £4000 a year off people on low incomes through cuts in tax credits, so the Deputy Conservatives have dropped the Chancellor's fag into the spotlight in the hopes of generating a rival headline. Accordingly, Danny Alexander (for it was nobody much else) said that he might possibly be willing to support a motion at the next Deputy Conservative conference, even though it is consistent with the party's election manifesto.