The return of Mr Popular

It’s everybodies favourite Chancellor again. Alistair Darling today resisted calls for a U-turn on his abolishment of the 10p tax bracket. Denying that he has managed to increase the tax burden for 5.4 million people he nonetheless succeeded in tangling himself up in knots in his interview for BBC News, Dichotomously arguing that he wants to encourage people who work hard to continue working whilst their tax bill is effectively doubled by a laughably naive budget.
His financial ineptitude was described by Andrew Marr as “An appalling slow motion car crash” which I think is a little bit of an understatement. This is an incredibly unpopular move which in my view is going to deal the final knock out blow to Labour’s re-election chances, not that they need a final knock out blow because they look set to lose on points anyhow.
If you want to see a man wriggle like a worm on a hook then feel free to watch his interview on the Andrew Marr show but watch out for the appalling and rather unpleasant analogy of the sub-prime mortgage fiasco being likened to a stomach bug (there is something we don’t need to follow to a logical conclusion) and the sheer comic value of Mr Darling stating that ‘we can win the next election’.