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In the last week I’ve heard politicians utter the following pearls:

Politicians and the public need a new commitment to commitment, we need to put our trust in hope, we need to believe in trust and trust needs to be re-established so we all have hope … utter bollocks.

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Well I couldn’t have got my predictions more wrong yesterday (here).  In mitigation I really didn’t think it possible that the cosy club would actually vote in a member of the opposition purely because he was disliked so much by his own party.  Oscar Wilde would be proud of such a plot line.

Anyway, lot’s to cover today – not least, Bercow settling down into his big green chair as we, as tapayers, decide we’ll dig deep to find up to £9.6 million for Stephen Hester, the gaffer at RBS.