"Stop taking money from schools, hospitals, care homes. Have the guts to go back to the banks. the speculators, the profiteers, and tell them on our behalf - you created this mess, you pay for it."
Speaking before the 'vindictive cuts' announced on Friday - a warm-up for the carnage to be wrought in the budget, he captured the absurdity of the coalitions position and especially Clegg's observation on "gold-plated and unaffordable (public-sector) pensions":
"Now, six weeks after the election, the Tories say they can't ask big business to pay tax, they'll discourage enterprise. They can't regulate the financial system or there'll be fewer jobs in the City ...... but with breathtaking hypocrisy, they'' take away benefits, they'll undermine our job security, they'll let our communities take the pain while the City speculators get off scot free .... these pension myths are scaremongering."
