David Cameron.
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Is it acceptable for a modern-day party to be branding those struggling to make ends meet a tosser?
Lib dem heavyweight Vince Cable thought he had captured the mood when he condemned the Conservatives' new Sort-It website in the strongest possible terms.
"This is the kind of insensitive crass nonsense we might expect from a party led by rich young men, who have never had to balance a budget in their lives," he said.
"To describe people in debt as tossers shows just how out of touch the Tory party still is."
Clearly trying to look cool with the kids, the Conservatives decided to brand debtors as tossers while offering some useful suggestions for getting yourself out of the mire.
Chiding ordinary folk to know their limits is one thing, but mind your language, says ConservativeHome.
"We have a few tossers in the Conservative party and some of them are clearly behind this," the blog reports one Tory confiding.
Conservative Home reminds us that tosser is a slang term referring to a sex act.
According to the OED, it's also "a term of contempt or abuse for a person", which leaves a bit of a whiff of condescension for those trapped in debt through the twin pressures of tight budgets and rampant consumer culture.
A whole of generation of penniless students might take offence too.
The subject prompted Guido Fawkes - never short of an opinion - to fear that the Tories may have got over their love affair with the ruthless face of capitalism.
"Are the Tories becoming a posh version of the Salvation Army?", he asks.
But Guido makes a good point. "This is the same Conservative party which is incidentally £27m in debt."
Ah yes. So who are the real tossers? Recess Monkey is inviting answers on a post.
