Here is yet another example of what we are coming to see as Dave's stock-in-trade which is that he says to the person in front of him at any given moment what he thinks will be most emollient to that person's ears whilst at the same time saying something diametrically opposed to the audience on the other side of that same topic. In short Dave is as much of a snake oil salesman as Smuggo Blair ever was.

Thus we have Dave's desperate attempt to don Margaret Thatcher's mantle - he is unfit to lick her boots, by the by - talking big about tackling 'vested interests' whilst at the very same instant his right hand man has been sending quite different messages to one of the very worst vested interest, the bully boys in the Unions.

Further to my earlier post about Boris Johnson's obeservations on the topic of saying one thing to the EU and another to the British People, Dave is fast acquiring a reputation as a serial liar to match that of Gordon Brown. So here we have him telling the electorate that the Union Thugs who bankroll Labour (and are, in their turn, bankrolled by Labour out of Taxpayer's money) will be brought to heel in the full knowledge, as the FT tells us, that his right-hand Union specialist, Richard Balfe has made it plain that the Union gravy train will keep rolling along.

These are the unions that are about to trash millions of people's travel arrangements over the next month or so. Dave, however, thinks they should be appeased. And so it shall be, just as he will appease the EU Comrades.


Hat-tip: ConHome