Why should Cameron ditch the Lib Dems? Coalition has made his party more radical, more
electorally successful – and the worst ideas in the Cabinet come from men with blue lapels. Take Andrew Lansley. His press release today would have been shocking had it come from a Lib Dem,
and denounced as dangerous leftist nonsense that renders the government’s overall message incoherent. Ed Balls’ arguments against cuts have routinely been challenged in Coffee House. So we can
hardly be expected to applaud when his arguments are plagiarised by a Tory.
The hapless Lansley, whose needless and complex heath reform bill has stalled, is today trying to win back the initiative by attacking Balls and Miliband from the left. He accuses them of
conspiring to find savings in the bloated NHS budget. His press release speaks best for itself:
Lansley: Ed Miliband and Ed Balls would cut our NHS by almost £30 billion New analysis of Labour’s NHS spending plans shows that Labour would have cut the NHS by £28 billion over the current Parliament.
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