Back to the grindstone @ No 10!

Jolly old hols are over for Boy David. He was lucky today though - the heat was taken off him by Vince Cable and Georgy from next door. They deflected attention from his return.

But the fortunes of the two - Vince and Georgy - were very different! Poor old invinceable Vince turned out to be very 'vinceable'. He stepped into a veritable hornet's nest today when he went to address the GMB's conference in Brighton.

Now, we all knew he'd have a rough ride - that's why the Tories gave him the poisoned chalice of a brief namely:'Business Secretary'. The members of the GMB were always suspicious of Tories - quite understandable after Mrs T - they had become even more suspicious of the LibDems, since the Coalition was formed. But the final straw, this morning was when the Business Secretary told them that widespread industrial action taken by union members over proposed Government spending cuts could ratchet up pressure to make it "harder for workers to strike".

Now, the right to strike has always been held by the unions to be an inalienable right and they were not going to have this whipper-snapper of a LibDem minister telling them otherwise. Needless to say, he was booed and heckled. Far from reaching a 'mature' understanding with the union - things became nasty.

You don't walk into a GMB meeting and threaten to take action to stop them from striking and expect to be cheered! And he was not cheered. In fact, Paul Kenny, the general secretary of the GMB, said Vince Cable's threat was an "insult to working people". He went on to say: "We wanted him to come here and talk about jobs ... We've got cuts in every service, tens of thousands of vulnerable people in residential care ripped off by big business. What's his answer? Attack the unions."

The Unite leader, Len McCluskey also made comments about the threats against the unions. he said: "Talking tough about cracking down on working people is a circus engineered by a government that is clueless about the real problems facing this country."

Of course, the real culprit, determined to put the unions in their place is one mop-headed blonde chap, the old Etonian Mayor of London - one Boris Johnson!

So, all this is cooking up to be a real mess for the rest of the people to deal with. As a mere under stairs cat, this won't affect me but I do feel for the rest of you!

Now - as for Georgy from next door. He had a charmed life today. Arturo said he looked like the cat who'd been given the biggest bowl of cream in the world. The IMF think he's doing fine - despite what the 47 economists and academics wrote in their letter to The Observer yesterday! I'm sure it must have been 17! I've never heard of 47 academics and economists agreeing about anything! Still, however many there were, George can say 'Boo and boo again' to the lot of them. 'The IMF think I'm right!' is all he needs to remember.

So you see, my friends, never despair - one day you're down in the pits - the next you're on cloud number 7!