The TUC conference is on. The Prime Minister spoke to Union leaders at Chequers just ahead of conference, and the Chairman of the Trade Union Congress, Brendan Barber, had his public reply today. However, the really significant piece of talking in the short term appears to have Lord Mandelson’s non-conference speech in London which is being spun as ‘compassionate’ government spending reductions* to come. Take a look at who’s talking too.

This cartoon was drawn in July of this year.

* (not cuts)