Last week saw the first Conservative Party Conference with David Cameron as Prime Minister. And what a week it was. If you've been even mildly aware of the 'goings-on', you couldn't have failed to notice a the controversial decision that the Chancellor George Osborne is planning to cut child-benefit for families as a means of tackling the UK deficit. Child Benefit if the working parent earns over £44,000. But a family in which both parents work, but earn under this amount can still get it; and they could have joint-income of, say, £70,000 a year and get Child Benefit, but the family next door earning just over half this amount would lose out. Is that fair? Certainly not.

The easiest solution for Osborne and his team is to set a limit for joint-income, so that families with a joint-income higher than £44,000 or £50,000 would lose out. Perhaps he is trying to persuade stay-at-home moms and dads to part-time work to get back their entitlement. But in the current market, how does he expect them to find work? So, David Cameron and his comrades are preaching 'the Big Society' theorem- or brain tease- moreso, asking people who are in most financial difficulty to bear the brunt of cuts along with "others"; but where are his words of encouragement for them? How does he plan to increase employment in the economy? He hasn't answered this question. In fact, the only thing I am aware that he said was to the "rich" people of the UK and that if they took some of the cuts aswell, they'd get more money in their pockets in the future.

So, this leads me on to another thing that stinks about Cameron's rhetoric. He talks of a 'Big Society' and 'getting Britain together" and he talked about cuts for middle-income families, but what about the rich? How will they contribute to the deficit reduction plan? The PM, as far as I am aware, said nada, ne plus, nothing about this. And that strikes me as ironic - if not downright irritating.



First of all, he should start with the monstrous 'banker bonuses', which totalled £7 billion in the previous quarter. Obscene! They only need to tax this minimally to generate at least a billion. And at least since the 'bankers' got us into this mess. They should have been allowed to fail.

So, I do sympathise with David Cameron and the need for everyone to bear and take part in the cuts. It's just that so far, he is targeting the needy and not the greedy. I hope he proves me wrong.

So, in short,