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Originally Posted by wadey

There is a temptation to regard Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, as the court jester of the Coalition, licensed to say outrageous things in the great cause of cheering us all up. Unfortunately, the joke is beginning to wear thin. In his sub-Marxist party conference effusion yesterday, Mr Cable sounded less like a Cabinet minister, more like Citizen Smith addressing the Tooting Popular Liberation Front. The “spivs and gamblers” who run the banks and their “accomplices” in the “murky world of corporate behaviour” are part of a “rigged” capitalism that “takes no prisoners and kills competition”. Who would have thought Mr Cable was once chief economist of the Shell oil company? The Liberal Democrat faithful lapped it up – which was, of course, the intention

Daily Telegraph 220912

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