Why do Lying Nick and And Deadly Dave Only Visit Schools?

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 After Boy George announced his swingeing cuts off they trotted to explain themselves to, of all things, children. And it isn't the first time that they have done it. Why can't they stand up in front of a grown up audience? As it was they fell a cropper when a bright girl asked them why they had hit the poorest hardest.
 As for Poor old Cleggy he's in denial claiming that the  IFS had got their sums wrong and choking out apologies about breaking election promises. It would be funny except for the fact that millions at the bottom of the social ladder will be suffering.
 Hopefully they will leave the children alone in future but unfortunately the kids as well as the poor are bearing the brunt of the cuts. Other statistics suggest that two thirds of all women will be worse off. It is all clever stuff though as they have passed most of the buck to the councils who will have to slash their budgets by enormous sums. Yes those are the same councils that provide Social Services, education, affordable housing, fire brigades and empty your bins, protect the environment and mend your roads.
 So the hope is that the councils, and especially Labour councils, will be blamed for the deterioration in these services and hapless councillors will have to decide what to chop and what to keep. Alan Johnson got it bang on when he pointed to the cheering rats on the Tory benches waving their order papers in support and pointed out that this is is what they have come into politics for - to reduce public spending and let the private sector pick up the pieces and make billions in the process.

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