'I made a mistake'

George Osborne's words, not mine.

The Shadow Chancellor did make a mistake. He is apologising - fair enough, it certainly is a noble thing for a man to do. However, we need to be clear about what Mr. Osborne is apologising for. Not, as you may expect, for appearing to solicit a foreign donor for the Conservative party. No. What Mr. Osborne is doing is saying sorry for highlighting once more that the Tories are a party not for and of the people but an elitist organisation aimed at the betterment and presevation of the ruling and upper classes. 'Call me Dave' has spent the last three years trying to refashion the Conservative party as a centrist 'one nation' force. Disraeli can claim credit for doing this; he neither went to Eton, nor University and geniunely cared about the poor. However, when you are rubbing shoulders with the rich and powerful (and you yourself come from the same stock), who in their right minds is going to plump for anyone other than their own? Call me a pessimist.

The Labour party is less guilty (note I didn't say 'innocent'). However, what this event has done is show the Tories' true colours. Not green, regal BLUE and Osborne's apology is to Cameron; the former knows that he has done great damage to the latter's plan to swindle the Great British public.