Tamzin Lightwater

Diary of a Notting Hill Nobody | 22 November 2008

Tamzin Lightwater's unique take on the week

issue 22 November 2008

Monday

Hooray! We are the party of spending cuts and proud of it — at last! It really was a stroke of genius by Dave to put Mr Letwin in charge of drawing them up because Mr Letwin is just about the cleverest economic brain we have, aside from Mr Redwood of course! He certainly won’t be going into hiding this time. Just as soon as he’s dusted off his £20 billion package from 2001 and tarted it up a bit we’ll be shouting it from the rooftops. And people say we haven’t changed! We’re constantly changing. If dumping our commitment to pretend to match Labour spending plans for a bit in favour of a swingeing package of cuts doesn’t show we’ve changed I don’t know what does!

Tuesday

Bumped into Gids. He was taking Mr Letwin his toasted sandwich.

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