Labour this morning handed journalists a list of "100 spending commitments the Liberal Democrats can't fund because their sums don't add up".
It being a bank holiday, I actually had time to glance through this document - here it is as a pdf - and my eye was inescapably drawn to Point 94, which quotes the website of the Liberal Democrat Treasury spokesman, Vince Cable, in February last year. In the interests of objectivity, I quote the passge in its entirety:
"Bees. Twickenham has one of the best bee keeping centres in the country. Many local people support it. Benefits from bees' natural pollination activities are enormous, worth billions of pounds. There is however negligible research into damaging diseases and I have pressed the ministry of agriculture for a bigger research commitment."
With all due respect to Labour, if that counts as an "uncosted Lib Dem spending commitment", then I hear the sound of barrel bottoms being scraped.
