“We are the party of enterprise,” said David Cameron in his Cardiff speech. Well, that’s fine and dandy. The problem is that he then foolishly declared open season on the “enemies of enterprise”. This seems to be pointed directly at the six million people employed in the public sector — or nearly 21 per cent of total employment who are doing the nation’s work. And they are all voters. It’s unclear why he would want to upset them even further just as the austerity measures — ie unemployment — are about to hit the public sector.
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