Well, that's to assume the mighty were in fact mighty at all. Only 4 or 5 months ago Frank Field was leading the charge to hold the government accountable over the whole sorry affair of abolishing the 10p tax rate and making a fairly good name for himself, even if he did ultimately back out of keeping to his convictions. Unfortunately it may be less the case of standing up for the needy and instead simply standing up for the intrinsically working class at the expense of all other reason. Simply put, perhaps he managed to strike it right on the liberal front with one argument, but that doesn't make him a liberally minded person...as today's news shows.

Continuing with my theme of highlighting when I'm actually impressed with Labour, given how little it has happened in the last year, I am happy to say that I'm actually glad for once that Caroline Flint has opened her gob. Usually all that falls out of it is garbage, but when it comes to rent then buy schemes she wants to set up finally there could be something at least resembling roses flowing instead.

Unfortunately with every silver lining there must be a thunderstorm of moronic proportions. Undoing any shred of good work that she started at the beginning of the week, Jacqui Smith has gone back in to nasty mode in such a way that surely the Tory old guard must be blushing.

And while we're at it why don't we throw in the fact that the Lib Dem's have announced their own strategy to tackle youth crime, one that looks like a pantheon of saintly forgiveness compared to the now fleshed out policies of Smith.

You'd think we're in some kind of war time disaster scenario, or the pinicle of crime in our time, the way some seem to wish to go on about "youths" and the crime they cause. Of course, by crime we mean nuisence. And by nuisence we mean they look a little bit unruly while standing around causing no harm whatsoever to anyone. In Redruth they wish now to ramp up from dispersal orders which have clearly had no lasting effect by implementing a curfew scheme, something the Times claims has wide ranging support not only for Cornwall but nationally as well!

How Cornwall, completely ruled over by Liberal Democrats, can abide by this I'll never know. But I'll say this, if you wanted one shining example of why I could never be an active Lib Dem supporter then Cornwall is your answer. Try as we might, the Cornish are a fairly liberal sort...those not living there in their second or third home pushing those actually from the region away that is...it seems our endeavours to encourage liberal governance is being thrown back in our face at every turn.

You'd think that a government passing an Age Discrimination bill for employers would understand that everyone should be treated without their age in mind, yet some in Parliament have commended the use of "Mosquitos" to disperse youths from areas by sending out a high pitched sound that only those under the age of 25 can hear.