First they say they can’t do it, because it would be wrong. Then they admit it could be done, but they won’t do it because it would cost too much.
But under growing pressure to “do something”, they begin hinting that it might be done, with some money they found in a tin bath under the stairs.
That’s how the Tories make policy. They spend our money on us when it becomes politically impossible not to. It’s as cynical as that.
