Labour's trips to Auschwitz are a gimmick - Full stop.

Let me start by saying that I wouldn't be a member of a party that did not take the dreadful horrors of our history seriously. Today CCHQ sent briefing notes to the MSM on a speech by David Cameron - attached to the notes were a list of Labour gimmicks. Number four on that list was "Trips to Auschwitz". This as caused a PC storm of hand wringing disapproval (unsurprisingly from the government). They are asking with faux outrage: "How can the Tories put the words gimmick and Auschwitz in the same sentence?" I'll tell you how - the bloody government promised to send those kids on these very important trips, what they didn't mention was that the schools involved would have to stump up almost a third of the cost.

Sending kids to Auschwitz is not a gimmick, making out that you are performing a grand gesture whilst having no intention of fully funding it, is. If Labour had fully funded the school trips to Auschwitz, those trips would not have appeared on the following list of Labour gimmicks:

1. Community kitty for every neighbourhood
2. Funding for flooding
3. Honours for sportsmen
4. Trips to Auschwitz
5. New Border Police
6. Reversing 24-hour drinking policy
7. Police to confiscate alcohol from teens
8. Titan prisons
9. Prison ships
10. Engaging the public in policy making
11. 1,300 new train carriages
12. Protecting Public Spaces against terrorist attacks
13. British jobs for British workers
14. Deep Cleaning of hospitals
15. NHS constitution
16. Screening tests: cervical cancer
17. Screening tests: C.difficile
18. 1,000 troops home before Christmas
19. Deportation of foreign nationals
20. Inheritance Tax
21. Tenants forced to work
22. Five hours of culture a week
23. Netball to be introduced for the 2012 Olympics
24. Migrant Charges
25. Knife Scanners
26. Petition plans.

And please do not forget to read the rest of the list.