SaturdayDespite being much in demand to speak at fringe meetings, I was able to snatch a few minutes with Vince ‘High Voltage’ Cable at Bournemouth to discuss the party’s economic policies for the next election.
“It’s very simple,” he told me. “We are proposing savage spending cuts to please the voters in Southern seats where the Tories are challenging us and my new mansion tax to please voters in the North where we are trying to win seats from Labour.”
“That’s all very well,” I returned almost immediately, “but what happens if the voters in the South hear about the mansion tax and the ones in the North hear about the savage spending cuts?”
He went rather quiet after that.
“That’s all very well,” I returned almost immediately, “but what happens if the voters in the South hear about the mansion tax and the ones in the North hear about the savage spending cuts?”
He went rather quiet after that.
Earlier this week
- Monday: Trapped inside Phil Drabble
- Tuesday: Inside the Liberal Democrat Attack Unit
- Wednesday: The Queen's lorry-driving career
- Thursday: Rutland's computer industry
- Friday: A new gun dog
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