Admittedly, this is but an item of marginalia in the notebook of British politics
– but I’d appreciate CoffeeHousers’ views on it nonetheless. I’m talking about the Tories’ efforts to squeeze an apology out of Labour for the state of the public finances. This is something
that they’ve been trying to do since the election, but the strategy has been reheated in the aftermath of Ed Miliband’s election. As Sayeeda Warsi put it on Saturday, “what I noticed in his acceptance speech was that there was … no apology for the role that he had played in
the current economic mess.” Other Tory folk have called for that to be put right.
I’m inclined to take a dim view of this. My position is that it looks immature from a party of government to carp on about an apology that they’re not going to get.
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