Don't you just hate it when Coalition Crescent is this quiet? It's like the calm before the storm. What are they up to? What do they have hidden up their sleeves?
The Secretary of State for Education, Michael Gove, has hinted that profit-making companies will be allowed to run new "free schools" in England, set up by parents outside of local authority supervision. The Secretary of State for Health, Andrew Lansley, has set in motion the "denationalisation" of the National Health Service by handing over the budget for hospital care to family doctors, and encouraging hospitals to attract more private patients from home and abroad. The Secretary for Work and Pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, has launched an assault on the benefits system, including swingeing cuts to housing benefit that threaten to make hundreds of thousands of poor families homeless.
A whole raft of announcements and cuts in the first one hundred days then ... that's it, we forget about them? We wait for the economy to start picking up, people start finding jobs again and before you know it their five years is up, the election is called, we think 'oh, they weren't that bad' and they're back in for another term.
Surely we're not that naive.
