{"id":2682,"date":"2010-05-30T08:45:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2010-05-30T08:45:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-30T08:45:08","slug":"general-election-aftermath-iii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"General Election: Aftermath III"},"content":{"rendered":"

David Laws has quit after only 3 weeks<\/a> as Chief Secretary to the Treasury.<\/p>\n

I find it hilarious that David Cameron should say this – of an MP in a different party to his own (Laws is LibDem):<\/p>\n

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“The last 24 hours must have been extraordinarily difficult and painful for you. <\/p>\n

“You are a good and honourable man. I am sure that, throughout, you have been motivated by wanting to protect your privacy rather than anything else. <\/p>\n

“In your short time at the Treasury, you have made a real difference, setting the government on the right path to tackle the deficit which poses such a risk to our economy.” <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This is nonsense. He wasn’t as understanding during the previous expenses row and his contradictory attitude was one of his election manifesto items – the self-styled sheriff was going to clean up this dirty town!<\/p>\n

Cameron would not have had this attitude if the Tories weren’t in coalition with the LibDems.<\/p>\n

The ridiculous planned cuts to “reduce the deficit” have already got a lot of people up in arms. It has to be one of the worst starts to a new government ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

David Laws has quit after only 3 weeks as Chief Secretary to the Treasury. I find it hilarious that David Cameron should say this – of an MP in a different party to his own (Laws is LibDem): “The last 24 hours must have been extraordinarily difficult and painful for you. “You are a good […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t