I was about to post something on David Cameron's silly and objectionable campaign against NHS cuts. Silly, because far from cutting the NHS, the government has sent spending soaring out of all control.

But Daniel Finkelstein has just posted what I was about to write. So I won't bother. Read him instead:

Here are three objections:

First, the Labour Party has not cut the NHS. This is a simple, but fairly fundamental, problem with the campaign.

Second, the petition you are asked to sign is not a petition against cuts. This is what it says:

We, the undersigned, call on Gordon Brown to stop his mismanagement of the NHS, which has resulted in deficits approaching £1,277,000,000; 20,000 job losses in NHS hospitals; service cutbacks; and left many of our trainee doctors and nurses out of work. We want NHS money to go where it is needed; local people put in charge of local NHS services; and short-sighted closures replaced with long-term measures that improve care for patients.

So the petition does not actually call for a reversal in so-called cuts. This discrepancy between the campaign slogan and the small print is highly questionable.

Third, people can understand points one and two because they are not idiots.