DR DOLITTLE'S DODGY LOGIC.

Byline: Paul Routledge

BRITAIN is climbing out of recession, though it won't feel like that if you're one of the two-and-a-half million people out of work.

Gordon Brown's bitter medicine is finally working, so what's the remedy proposed by Dr Dolittle, aka Cameron? The Tory leader wants big price hikes in the bars and cafes of Westminster, to show he's tough on the cost of politics and the causes of costs.

I have news for Dodgy Dave - literally news - because you never see him buying a pint or patronising the self-service restaurants.

The charges are about right for the thousands of low-paid workers in the Palace. They get paid as little as onefifth of an MP's salary, and they don't get bumper allowances to live in London. They just have to get by as best they can.

Cutting their standard of living isn't "leadership". It's classic Conservative oppression of the servants.

I'm surprised the Tory leader actually knows what a pint costs in the Commons. His lot usually hang around a few feet from the bar, waiting for somebody else to pay.

If he thinks that gestures of this sort amount to a serious economic strategy, be sure the voters will put him out of his ignorance.

IT IS reported in the Right-wing press that some Labour MPs are planning a "Gordon must go" campaign next month.

The plotters must be out of their tiny little minds. Just when the ship is entering calmer waters, it is no time to make the captain walk the plank. Party members would not understand. Voters would be perplexed. The Tories would rejoice.

No wonder the coup-plotters are hiding their identity. They daren't show their faces.