Stop Braking! You're making me dizzy @ No 10!

Arturo and I are in total emotional disarray. We are not our usual placid selves at all. Despite a great night hunting rats - with considerable success, we have not had a day of rest today! And why is that? Because of the commotion here at No 10 and No 11!

'Georgy' Osborne, 'Boy' David Cameron, 'Wailing Lad' Nick Clegg and 'Babyface' Danny Alexander, known as the 'Quad' to the cognoscenti, are the pace setters of the Coalition agenda! So far - so good, you would think. Equity - two and two. But it isn't, is it? Georgy and Boy David are the senior partners. However much Clegg and Alexander stamp their feet and strut their stuff - they are very much the juniors.

At the end of the week, Babyface went and put his foot in it! Undoubtedly, he'd been given instructions from somewhere on high - how high, we know not! But, into the fray went our Danny. He announced to the world - the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) thinktank that is - that drastic changes would be made to public sector pensions. He said there would be an increase in the pension age for public sector workers to 66 by 2020, putting them in line with the state pension age.

So - what's wrong with that? You might well ask. Well, my dears, what was wrong was the fact that Babyface Alexander was in the midst of negotiating over these very issues with Unison, the public service workers' union! And boy did the union object!

You can understand it, can't you. Imagine - you are negotiating to buy a house and you read in the papers that the house has been sold to you at a higher price than the one you had been discussing with the owners. Would you feel happy? No, you would not. And Dave Prentis, general secretary of Unison, was so infuriated that he warned of strike action comparable to that of 1926. And that was some strike!

So, there has been panic and consternation at Nos 10 and 11. The Treasury were particularly disturbed by this state of affairs, fearing a further backlash directed at them! A Treasury spokesperson said:

What the chief secretary put forward were not concrete policies. They are proposals that are subject to negotiations. That is why we are still in negotiations ... We are continuing to discuss these issues with the unions.

Arturo and I were forced to stifle our giggles and rushed out into the kitchen! "Do we sense another u-turn, Butch?" Arturo asked me. Of course, there was no need for me to reply!

So it's cheery-bye from me:

And also from Arturo: