Hot on the heels of our early post today about New Labour’s Mad Tendency kidnapping the Budget, George Osborne has told the BBC

“At the moment, you still have the prime minister going around saying it’s a choice between investment and cuts – that is just a dishonest approach to British politics.
We have a chancellor of the exchequer – who probably is not going to be in post whoever wins the election – who has a very difficult judgement to make about whether he puts his country before his party, and we’ll see whether he does that or not.
I think the central point we have to understand here is that the debt is holding back the British recovery, and unless we get confidence into the British recovery – and that comes from dealing with our debts – then we will not be creating the jobs that we all want to see.”

Here at Slogger’s Roost, we don’t know. All the ‘where from’ hits data on Statscounter has been combed, but there’s no sign of anything we can trace back to George’s Commons office, Osborne & Little, or The Investor’s Chronicle Fantasy Budget League. But it certainly looks like the Shadow Chancellor is his own man at last.

Meanwhile, there is growing panic among the Conservative rank and file, as Dave hasn’t been seen for quite some time. He was last heard of being heckled as he addressed students and job-seekers in south London. Is he going to come out and play as well?