The Need to Dock Wagging Tails

The LibDem tail certainly seems to be wagging the Tory dog. It may well be necessary for this to happen to a certain extent if the Tories want to keep the coalition alive but at the moment and as a result of this tail wagging the Tories are looking a bit weak. Surely they should be saying something along the lines of "We have an agreement and are  surprised that the LibDems think this gives them the right to seek changes unilaterally to items that have been signed up to, of which of course the change to the NHS Bill is a glaring example. Furthermore to issue tit for tat threats such as No Lords Reform, No Boundary Changes is unhelpful to both parties to the coalition. On the issue of boundary changes the public has for a long time recognised that the present boundaries are unfair to the Tories and that since devolution Scotland and Wales are both overrepresented in the Commons. The public does not have the same feeling of urgency for reform of the Lords nor, as the AV vote made clear, for those Lords who are to be elected to be elected by proportional representation." On the demands of the LibDems for items in the budget Osborne has already made it clear that as we have no money there can be no tax giveaways. If Osborne is not going to increase the tax threshold then he must do something to reduce the cost of doing business in a bold and significant way such as abolition of the minimum wage, the withdrawal of statutory employment protection, maternity leave and the like, changes to the planning laws, the abandonment of the climate change policy nonsense and cutting the over bloated civil service more deeply and more quickly than hitherto.