Weak, Weak, Weak

“Weak, weak, weak” is a famous quote from Tony Blain in the 1990s when he was criticising John Major’s government. I believe this is also an attack that could be levelled at the current government. Today the government did its third U-turn in a week, this time on the issue of capping the amount of tax relief available for charitable donations.

The tax was met with anger from charities and philanthropists alike; they were worried that the new law would reduce charitable donations considerably. This was one of many unpopular measures in the budget that have since been chucked in the bin.

Although I am very glad that the government has performed the U-turn, I do believe that is shows just how weak the government is. It doesn’t seem to understand the public mood and lacks a sense of direction and confidence. It would appear that the public pressure surrounding Jeremy Hunt is the only area on which Cameron and the government has remained steadfast, which is very unusual.

Unless the coalition sorts itself out both parties will not have any hope of achieving electoral success in 2014. The public are recognising that the coalition is extremely weak and incompetent, if they do not sort out this mess then Labour will clean up at the next election.