there is a link?

Yes, ecu - pass your cursor over the word 'link' in the original post and you'll find it.

IDS needs to open eyes ears and heart oh and have something happen to his brain?  that sort of thing?

and you could say the same about just about every politician we have had around for the past 40-odd years - so what's new?  I think the bit about the brain is probably even more relevant to the Browns and Blairs, Callaghans and Healeys of the political world.  After all, it has only been on the watches of such people that the British economy has gone into free-for-all.