Government confuses 'need' with 'want'

A Downing Street spokesman today confused the word 'need' with the word 'want'. Talking to the BBC the unnamed source said "we have a very, very big welfare bill and we need to bring it down".

This isn't the only example of the coalition getting it's words mixed up. For example, when the Chancellor George Osborne said "We'll get tough on banking regulation", it was a simple case of getting tangled up in language when what was meant was "Once this blows over, we can get back to doing it all again" and Andrew Lansley's pledge of "No top-down reorganisation of the NHS" clearly meant "sell the bugger off". This is not purely a Conservative disease, however, as the Liberal Democrat pledges of "we will scrap tuition fees" and "we will introduce a mansion tax" were merely cases of getting the words 'will' and 'won't' muddled up.