David Cameron’s speech to the Welsh Tory party conference serves up some more of those “uncomfortable truths” that George Osborne mentioned a few weeks ago. Rather than just referring to Labour’s debt crisis – although he did plenty of that – he talked about Britain’s overall “addiction to debt”, and suggested that the public need to change their ways for the country’s sake:
“We’ve seen too many of the ugly things that happen when people duck responsibility. The father who leaves a mother and child to fend for themselves. The banker who clamours for his bonus when he’s bust the bank. The healthy welfare claimant who thinks it’s OK to live off benefits paid by others. Or the businessman who puts profits before the planet. All this irresponsibility must end.
That is our mission: to help build a responsible society where government leads by example and lives within its means.
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