Gordon Brown and the "C" Word

Many commentators are expecting Gordon Brown to be a brave little soldier and tell his mates in the Unions that there will be less sweeties to go round in future. In other words, there will be cuts in public sector expenditure, possibly leading to job losses.

Whats the betting that while saying this in public, so the public believe the public sector will share the pain, what he will actually say in private to the Unions is that he will bleed the private sector some more in order to keep the public sector and his Union paymasters happy.

Thats the stark choice the country faces at election time. Labour in power and raising taxes to rediculous levels, or the Tories in power attempting to reduce the public sector burden.