Vince Cable "Nuclear" control

The coalition of the LIB DEMS and the conservatives is just really a sham.

Accorindg to Vince Cable who has lifted the lid on the turmoil within the coalition, has shown that the TRYST between the Lib Dems and the Tories is nothing but a marriage of convenience.

In a taped interview where Vince cable candidly opened his heart to two female journalists who claimed to be constituents.

The interview shows that they have nothing in common, apart from the fact that they wanted to taste power and do not seem to be bothered about who gets hurt in the long term.

The full article from the telegraph can be read here.

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This is what he told two undercover Daily Telegraph reporters at a surgery in his Twickenham constituency earlier this month.

On the 'battles behind the scenes’

“Well, there is a constant battle going on behind the scenes, which often … Sometimes between us and the Conservatives, sometimes … I’ve been involved in a big battle over immigration caps and I have won that argument and that was mainly with the Conservative colleagues, but I had some allies like Oliver Letwin. So it wasn’t a purely party thing.

“We have a big argument going on about the banks and that is party political, because I am arguing with Nick Clegg for a very tough approach and our Conservative friends don’t want to do that. You can argue these things publicly, but then it becomes more difficult to get them to compromise.

“There are some arguments we’ve won, big arguments we’ve won, on civil liberties issues and questions over Europe, where they have a different style, and didn’t want them to be destructive. We’ve won that argument. We’ve won the argument on lifting tax thresholds and lifting people out of tax. We won that argument. We’ve had a big argument about capital gains tax, when I wanted it to go up to 40 per cent and they agreed to take it up to nearly 30. We split the difference. So life is a constant …

“You know I have never been in government, never been a minister, so I have no idea what it was like under the Labour government. My general impression was that it was more, they were same philosophy, but they didn’t like each other and it was very personal, whereas with the Tories, it is more professional. We may not have anything in common, but you have a professional process by which you arbitrate, negotiate and produce compromises. And the Cabinet does function as a Cabinet, in the way it is supposed to in the textbooks. We debate things across the table.”

On 'the war’

“Can I be very frank with you, and I am not expecting you to quote this outside. I have a nuclear option; it’s like fighting a war. They know I have nuclear weapons, but I don’t have any conventional weapons. If they push me too far then I can walk out and bring the Government down and they know that.

“So it is a question of how you use that intelligently without getting involved in a war that destroys all of us. That is quite a difficult position to be in and I am picking my fights. Some of which you may have seen.”

On policy being rushed out

“There are a lot of things happening. There is a kind of Maoist revolution happening in a lot of areas like the health service, local government, reform, all this kind of stuff, which is in danger of getting out of control. We are trying to do too many things, actually. Some of them are Lib Dem inspired, but a lot of it is Tory inspired. The problem is not that they are Tory-inspired, but that they haven’t thought them through. We should be putting a brake on it.”

On the child benefit announcement and the winter fuel allowance

“Well, I know what happened. It was party conference and they [the Conservatives] had to announce something at party conference — we announced something. And this was something they had chosen to do. The reason it happened that way was because they had made a pledge, our problems with students notwithstanding. They had made a pledge not to do anything about universal child benefit. Cameron had personally pledged not to do it, so they had to bite this bullet and, you know, because they were going to have to reduce universal benefit, they haven’t yet done the winter fuel payments, but that’s coming, I think. And so it was left to them.

“You know, you’ve got to take this tough decision, get on with it. Unfortunately, they have done it in a rather cack-handed way, which has had the perverse consequences you described. It would have been much more sensible, either to do it the way I suggested, which is to assimilate it into child tax credit or to just tax, you could have taxed child benefit, and that would have dealt with the problem in a slightly different way. Whereas what has happened now is that you have created discrimination between working and non-working parents and that is not good. But what I will try and find out is whether this is a completely closed issue or whether it is possible to reopen it.”

On Howard Flight, the former Conservative minister recently elevated to the House of Lords

“The Howard Flight appointment — to be fair, the Tories gave us a problem, because the Lords is Labour-dominated, because [Tony] Blair packed it with cronies, we are trying to rebalance it.

“We want it to become a democratic institution, but before it does, we want to rebalance it, and the Tories got, I don’t know, 15, 20 peers and they offered us 10. So in numbers’ terms, they’ve dealt with us properly. One or two of ours might raise eyebrows in certain quarters.

Howard Flight is actually a very nice guy, I know him well, but he is very, kind of, crass. They sacked him in the middle of the 2005 election, because he blurted something out that he wasn’t supposed to say. [Michael] Howard [the former Conservative leader] sacked him, actually, but you know, he is a nice but rather silly public school boy with a few prejudices to boot.

“But we don’t control their appointments, so they don’t control ours. That’s the basis.”

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