A funny way to do business

A telling question came this morning from BBC breakfast news presenter Simon McCoy to Nick Clegg over his calls to the coalition government to speed up raising tax thresholds to £10,000 a year.

“How can you call for the government to do something? You’re deputy Prime Minister. You are the government!” came the query.

Clegg never quite managed to answer the question - other than to say it was in the Lib Dem manifesto. But so were commitments not to raise VAT and tuition fees.


Update: and then there's the Mansion Tax again.