Let Them Eat Cake

This is the sort of thing that I mean when I say that Blair’s New Labour has lost it… Margaret Hodge, Minister for Work and Pensions in Blair’s government, said later that she didn’t mean to say that the skilled workers from the closed Rover plant could work in Tesco’s supermarket. Well, sorry, Mags, but that’s how it came across. Of course, she’s no stranger to controversy. Clearly not a person I would ever choose to have as a friend, he said, knitting furiously.