I have no doubt Gordon Brown, our unelected leader, will be fuming this morning. In a huge climb down, Alister Darling, his protege and mouthpiece, has announced that the low paid who have lost out due to the removal of the 10p tax band will be compensated for their losses. It will be backdated, though it will not even be decided exactly how it will established until the autumn.
Few will have even the slightest doubt that the only reason this has happened is because of the possibility of losing a vote in the house of commons that was critical of the change together with the likelyhood of a disasterous result in the local elections in May.
This uturn demonstrates as clearly as anything could that the PM is only interested in power. He totally dismissed the feelings of the public at large who have complained vigourously about the removal of the 10p tax band until it became clear it would lose votes. Only days ago he was insisting that the removal of the 10p tax rate was the right thing to do and there was no need to make any changes at all.
Yet more damage done to the Labour party brought about by their peculiar choice to elect as prime minister a man most people would avoid if they saw him in the pub.
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