Had to laugh when I heard 'Cameron's Caring Conservatives' on yesterday's BBC Politics Show promising to improve rights to a fairer split of money and property when non-married couple split up.
So who's trying to persuade us this time that the Tories are no longer the nasty party...?
Stand up Peter Bone, Conservative MP for Wellingborough, Northants.
Surely not the same Peter Bone who bragged to the 1995 Tory Party Conference that he only paid staff in his travel agency a paltry 87-pence-an-hour...
His attempt to ridicule Labour's plan for the first ever national minium wage earned rapturous applause from the Tory rank and file - and the label 'meannest boss in Britain' from the media.
Yes, the very same Mr Bone...
The Tories fought tooth and nail to prevent Labour's national minium wage which put the first ever floor under wages in Britain.
They claimed it would destroy a million jobs...in fact a million more people are in work after the minimum wage was brought in.
Despite a Tory rearguard action to scrap the minimum wage led by people like Peter Bone, last month it was raised to £5.80 an hour.
Isn't that more than six times the sweat-shop wages Mr Bone paid his staff...?
It's another example of the two faces of Cameron's Conservatives - the face of change and the real one...
I know which one I believe.
How about you?
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