Oh dear. The chancellor, who in case you haven't realised it, has been in power for almost a decade now and who has shaped the current state of Britain as much as Blair, is now getting tetchy about some annoying little northerners with a plan that might scupper his career and retirement plans. Like the absent landlords before him, he fulminates in rage against the irritating peasants on his estate that are getting ideas above themselves. He snorts with derision as they say, "hang on, wouldn't it be fairer if we just took care of our own problems ourselves?" Bloated after years of state dinners and metropolitan soirees, sycophantic grovelling at the feet of the capitalist class, smooching with celebrities and exhausted by the strain of pygmalion-like accent supporession he's finally woken up to the fact that some people have sussed that the Britain he has created is an economic, moral and environmental failure.
Now he's been hoisted onto St George's horse and, bow-legged, it staggers North to quell the rebellion, like some latter day Don Quixote, ranting and raving with delusions of grandeur in a completely fictitious dreamworld of union jacks and bulldogs.
Well, let the battle commence, but don't be taken in by his press cronies who are doing their utmost to somehow disassociate him from the worst past excess of Blairism. Let's not forget that this has been a partnership between the two of them and he failed the moral test completely they day he endorsed the Iraq war. That could have been a turning point if he'd taken a stand, but he didn't, not out of fear, but simply because he too suffers the same delusion of the crusading christian vision of 'democracy' based on middle class values, personal aggrandisement and free markets.
Nice to see also he appreciates, respects and admires Margaret Thatcher. Seems keen to constantly tell us all this.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6258089.stm
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