Like Fox Mulder, I want to believe, but my faith in David Cameron is being sorely tested. He and his Shadow Chancellor, George Osborne, have said that they will put “economic stability” above tax cuts. Not only does this ignore the fact that the two are by no means incompatible and that the tax burden on British citizens has increased to the point where it threatens economic stability, but they appear to be being economical with the truth about the Conservative party’s history. Nick Robinson, political editor of the BBC, has been told by “Cameroonies” as he puts it that, “Margaret Thatcher did not pledge to cut taxes in her 1979 manifesto.”

Nick’s index finger must be broken, because it only takes a couple of mouse clicks to find the 1979 manifesto, and there, clear as day, is this:

We shall cut income tax at all levels to reward hard work, responsibility and success; tackle the poverty trap; encourage saving and the wider ownership of property; simplify taxes–like VAT; and reduce tax bureaucracy.

A better distillation of the conservative approach to tax I cannot imagine. Now why would “Cameroonies” be disavowing that?