'Before the fiddlers have fled' @ No 10

Arturo was humming and singing! Not a pretty sound. I actually caught some of the words:

There may be trouble ahead,
But while there's moonlight ...(humming!)
Let's face the music and dance.

Before the fiddlers have fled,
Before they ask us to pay the bill,
And while we still have the chance,
Let's face the music and dance.

There may be teardrops to shed...(humming!)

He chortled in a somewhat sinister way, as he pointed at a laptop screen. "I reckon, the 'fiddlers' are fleeing at this very moment! Now we just gotta wait for 'Boy David's 'teardrops'! 'Cos 'Silly Ass' Lansley has already really upset the Coalition apple-cart."

Arturo hit the nail on the head! 'Boy David' Cameron is right in shtuck! And he knows it! If you'd seen his purple face and furrowed brow during Prime Minister's Questions, you'd understand why Arturo was so gleeful! Cameron had no answer to the barrage of questions from Miliband about the Health and Social Care Bill! In fact, Cameron made himself look a bit of an idiot! And Lansley looked even sicker! He leaned against the insubstantial shoulder of Michael Fabricant, MP for Lichfield for support. If you need Fabricant for support - you must really be in trouble!

So why all this angst amongst the High and Mighty within the Coalition? Well, it's the whisperings in the corridors; the fear of what ConservativeHome will say next! And it's all because of 'Silly Ass' Lansley's ill-considered plans for the NHS!

On ConservativeHome today, there was a posting. Its headline was:

The unnecessary and unpopular NHS Bill could cost the Conservative Party the next election. Cameron must kill it.

It was written by Tim Montgomerie. The opening was as follows:

The NHS was long the Conservative Party’s Achilles heel. David Cameron’s greatest political achievement as Leader of the Opposition was to neutralise health as an issue. The greatest mistake of his time as Prime Minister has been to put it back at the centre of political debate.

Oh dear! Maybe those 'teardrops' are about to be shed in buckets! It seems that Tim Montgomerie has good reason to write this post. What are those reasons? Nothing more nor less than three of them. Yes! Three Cabinet Ministers have whispered into his shell-like ear!

Montgomerie wrote:

Speaking to ConservativeHome, three Tory Cabinet ministers have now also rung the alarm bell. One was insistent the Bill must be dropped. Another said Andrew Lansley must be replaced. Another likened the NHS reforms to the poll tax. The consensus is that the Prime Minister needs an external shock to wake him to the scale of the problem.

Sounds nasty, doesn't it? So what does our Tim suggest should be done?

The NHS Bill is not just a distraction ... but potentially fatal to the Conservative Party's electoral prospects. It must be stopped before it's too late.

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In the midst of this furore, the Coalition's Deputy Prime Minister, 'Wailing Lad' Clegg sits on the Front Bench looking as bemused as a child who has gone to the wrong classroom and finds himself out of his depth!

Sad really! The two middle-aged hopefuls, Cameron and Clegg, who gazed into each others eyes in the rose garden of No 10, now have to face up to the fact that the Coalition is in real trouble. The British love their NHS. They will never forgive the government that destroys it.

Arturo and I just hope Cameron and Clegg bought enough tissues to wipe away those 'teardrops' Arturo was humming about. I reckon, they'll be needing them sooner rather than later. But if they do need them - possibly the NHS will be safer!

'Bye'