The Yellow Canaries slash and burn public sector There may be some people under the impression that Liberal Democrats are somehow a softie lefty version of the Labour Party, personally I would have hoped that the human species would have evolved beyond falling for such delusions but for the benefit of those yet to be enlighted as to the nature of the yellow canaries I have news for you.

Lib Dem councils Tauton dean and Somerset County council have decided to hop into bed with IBM to run loads of their services, presumably because the Lib Dem councillors running them are so useless they have no idea how to improve them other than getting in the private sector in to slash job and the terms and conditions of council staff. They also want IBM to run customer services. This is another brilliant idea separate the function for complaints from the people that have any say over the actual services. The press release is here

If that wasn't enough the Lib Dems in Bristol have come up with the genius idea of crapping on care workers. Full story here.  ¶ 4:40 pm