Channel 4 News.

Gideon Osborne.

It’s very important to try to keep people in their home [and] if necessary to restructure their mortgages to help them do that, and we’ll look at the detail of this scheme and support anything that works.  But the real thing you could do is keep people in work and I’d like to see much more done to help businesses in this difficult time.

If you don’t believe me, the soundbite begins at 2:25 in this clip:

Unless I’m very much mistaken, that’s a Conservative finance spokesman advocating state intervention in commerce to protect jobs.

You may remember the Tories: free market economics, 3½ million unemployed, get on your bike, let’s destroy entire communities because there’s no such thing as society, survival of the fittest, never bail out any business unless it sells arms, fuck the poor and disadvantaged proletarians, annoying woman with pompous hair.

WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?