“We’re moving forward” is one of those phrases Gordon likes to monotone to reporters questioning the government’s lack of direction and drive. The policy on taxing old-bangers retrospectively is looking like a car-crash that is going to be the subject of a niftily executed U-turn by Alastair Darling. Hundreds of truckers lay siege to London’s arteries, 30 Labour MPs have signed a rebellious EDM. The government would be crazy not to execute a reversal of policy…

 

UPDATE : A co-conspirator writes, “Retrospective taxes? OK by me if we get retrospective voting.”