All change please
Tories sneer at Brown's climb-down
The Conservatives are having a field day - and probably a field fortnight, with a couple of field bank holidays slotted in - with the Prime Minister right now.
Following the debacle of the 10p tax rate issue - which would hit 5 million plus low-paid workers - PM Gordon Brown has denied that agreeing to compensate those affected by the changes amounts to being "pushed around". Not so the Tories, however, with David Cameron ranting that the backtracking featured "no apologies, no admission of guilt, just a U-turn to save his skin."
Brown himself has been on the defensive, claiming that:
"I don't think I've been pushed about at all. What I've done is look and make the right long-term decisions. My whole mission in politics is to do what I can to help people... It means we have got to judge things right at every point."
This could have been the correct retort to give during Prime Minister's Questions, what with a sustained vitriolic outburst from David Cameron labelling Gord a "loser, not a leader". Ouch.
If you'd like to check out a strangely gurning PM attempting to justify himself, then the BBC has a treat for you right here. Oh - and D-Cam pretending to care about poor people too.
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