Cameron tells the '22, the NHS pause is my idea not Clegg's

TrevorsDen

I understand the bastard Heffer has been sacked by the Telgraph ?

Whose next - I have a long list.

Jake

Now all we need is an EU referendum. Pah.

David Lindsay

Everyone comes in useful in the end.

Even the Lib Dems, able to stop this Government from being like the last one, and as it would certainly have been if the Heir to Blair had won an overall majority, merely a device for implementing whatever head-banging adolescent post-Thatcherism can get itself published on the Westminster Village think tank circuit.

And even the Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish devolved bodies, able to confront the other eighty-five per cent of the people of the United Kingdom with the lived reality of a country which is still recognisably Britain, rather than the test tube or Petri dish of whatever head-banging adolescent post-Thatcherism can get itself published on the Westminster Village think tank circuit.

charles hercock

This is all good news,particularly the fix on freezing council and reducing corporation tax. But what will he do with Lansley

Perry

No mention of leaving the EUSSR?

Thought not.

toco

In terms of what has been achieved the coalition can justly be proud for preventing the ship sinking which is where Labour were going.Labour when in administration has a 100% record in leaving the country worse off than the one it inherited.So rather than carping, thank goodness for the Conservatives and the LibDems for saving us from the disgrace which has befallen Ireland,Greece,Portugal and likely more to come.Old trades union behaviour and rhetoric no longer has a place in this country's very modern society.

AAE

Somehow I find the news that Cameron was greeted in the usual desk-thumping way profoundly depressing.

AAE

Did Cameron mention to the '22' that he wants troop withdrawals from Afghanistan to start within weeks? And was the subsequent desk-banging up to expectations? I honestly wouldn't be surprised if I met him selling the Socialist Workers Weekly on Lewisham High Street on Saturday morning (the only few hours in the week Socialist Workers seem to actually work).

ollie

I think it's fairly obvious that the BS has been quietly abandoned.

I also think it's fairly obvious that this daft coalition cannot possibly go on for another 4 yrs. If every policy is being blocked by a party with 50 MPs, then we are not living in anything that remotely resembles a democracy.

General Zod

Heifer had to go. He had become a whinging bore, but the appalling Mary Riddell must go too.

Andrew Fletcher

James - a somewhat "rosy" picture of the mood of the meeting I think!!

It seems a strange logic

"the lib dems may claim credit for killing our more radical policies but in fact I have killed them myself. And I'll go on killing them off before the lib dems can"

Not quite what was envisaged last May

RCE

So a 'Conservative' PM actively boasts about outspending Labour on the NHS during a period of austerity.

That tells you everything you need to know about this unprincipled, shameless charlatan.

PayDirt

My council tax just went up by more than 5%, so what is this talk of a "freeze" and when is it freezing?

Chris

@Trevorsden:

You mean 'Who's next?' You wouldn't have dared to write 'Whose next' if the Heff were patrolling these pages for catachresis.

Commentator

It's scary that deeply insecure people like TrevorsDen attach so much importance to people like Heffer. Cameron's downfall will be the fact that he, like Clegg, is an arrogant upper-middle class poseur who is simply not up to the job, however big his trust fund and however cut-glass his Berkshire Highlands accent. Heffer is no more than a footnote.

General Zod

I'm amused to see this morning that my iPad automatically corrected "Heffer" to "Heifer". A pity that it got the sex wrong, but "Bullock" would have been a stretch for the spellchecker.