British citizenship should not be the loss leader for a educational establishment that can't compete

Vince Cable is busy making his very Lib Dem point keeping the immigration floodgates open ( yes Vince we know you had a wife from India ).

What he's really saying is we need to offer British Citizenship to shift education services. Prostitute our country to keep so low quality Guardian reading lecturers in artificial employment.

Perhaps its time to rebalance the economy away from parasitic arrangements like that Vince ? Only as a Lib Dem that thought has no chance of registering does it ?

Note on Red Vince refusal to stand up for English careers and jobs

So here we go again - Vince Cable is doddering about trying to get his principled resignation right. He can't go just now as he's not ready to stab Nick Clegg in the back just now ( and anyway the Left need the Tories to take the blame for the grown up decisions that must be made shortly after their criminal irresponsibility ).

The excuse Red Vince is preening himself with is the arbitrary immigration cap this year. He trying to go with the idea that English business can't cope with it. After all we are a country of only 60 million people with the highest graduate rate we've ever had. And anyway business would rather hire than spend years training and building up England's future.

You see where I'm going with this ?

Any Business Secretary worth his salary should be saying hold on a minute - why doesn't business develop the skills they need. Are English graduates just thick and useless ? ( In which case why spend all that money forcing vast populations through the expanded University system ).

And anyway UK Business has the whole of the EU to recruit from !

So why is this an issue and at the same time the assumptions behind it not an issue ?

Vince Fable

Its about time some one did this .....

Remember its Red Vince

Vince Cable has to do a lot of pretending.

He's and ex-Labour politician and was at Glasgow University at the time Brown was there. His time at Shell is far less impressive than he makes out - and as we've seen Vince isn't above letting people come to the wrong conclusions.

His party is very left wing and anti-UK pro-EU, but Vince has to sit on that Lib Dem fence to win votes in Twickenham, but we know its not what he really believes.

No Vince is red in tooth and claw, as his amazing outburst of class hate at the end of the TV chancellors debate shows. He's one of those Labour guys who left for the SDP but wishes he hadn't and can't find his way back home.

And lets not forget that signature Lib Dem hypocrisy that Vince so ably represents.

See also Paul Goodman coming to the same conclusion over at Conservative home.

Update: David Cameron gets this spot on - "the great thing about being Vince Cable is that no one asks you tough questions" quite !

John Redwood wins Newsnight

Finally the BBC invites John Redwood onto Newsnight.

We had some ex-member of the MPC, followed by Angela Eagle and the ever BBC present Red Vince Cable - giving variations on how wonderful things are - but not explaining the problem to the public.

Then came an quietly angry John Redwood.

First he explained that he was the only one of the 4 people being interviewed to take a different line from the govt ( good side swipe at the BBC there John ) and how where we are today is a result of people like him not being listened to. Kirsty Walk tried to give Angela Eagle a chance to knock that down, but John was having none of that - he wanted to make his point.

And his point was the banks aren't lending because another branch of the government - the regulator - is telling them not to.

A point of such power that immediately everyone else had to agree with it - although Red Vince did his best to distance himself from the brand of John Redwood.

What struck me about this was:

1) At last an angry right win commentator wins through by being forceful.
2) A basic and key point about the crisis was being hidden by the BBC film introduction and all three left of centre commentators. A point they all had to acknowledge once it had been made.

Well done to John Redwood - I'd like to see more of this sort of aggressive and insightful debating style. Angela Eagle was made to look wooden and Vince Cable out of his depth with the BBC looking complicit in a pro-Govt stitch up.

A good nights work.

Update: A full report is available on John Redwood's blog here.