You've got to admit it, the Tories are working hard on making this country one no-one would wish to migrate to if they weren't desperate. The trouble for that being people are that desperate.

But maybe given time the strategy will succeed. We've got one minister, Jeremy Hunt, explaining how taking thousands of pounds a year from the working poor will encourage them to work harder, like Chinese workers in sweatshops, and Ian Duncan Smith justifying cuts as a way of setting up a Chinese model two-child family society (though of course not for the well-off), and a think tank calling for cuts to pensioner's help, on the basis that a lot won't be alive by the next election, so there's no need to fret about losing their votes, and with luck a lot will have lost their marbles, and won't remember who brought in the cuts.

Yes. the Nasty Party is back in the open once again.