Stage managing a car crash

The Tory-Lib Dem coalition's attempts to stage manage the cuts have been rumbled. It's an excellent article.

The much-trumpeted axing of Child Benefit for the very rich was a crude deflection from the wave of welfare cuts now about to break.

Further leaks that Child Benefit is to be cut for all youngsters over 16 and that the new aircraft carriers will set sail without any new aircraft suggest that the news management is preparing us for the worst.