While he is there, Labour cannot claim "fairness" or "social justice", so what is left to say?
The Conservatives, for their part, are trying to counter the prime minister's fightback before it gets going by claiming fairness for themselves.
Even on the two moral taste buds that both sides claim – fairness and liberty – the right can often outcook the left.
They even claim fairness has been "hardwired" into the budget as a result of work by the Lib Dem triangle of Clegg, Cable and Danny Alexander, the chief secretary.
Social security is not the preserve of the poor or feckless, it is the great democratic principle that has allowed the UK to claim fairness, equality and compassion among our greatest achievements.
That is, claims about fairness may not be supported based on the extent to which features thought by researchers to facilitate fairness are actually reported as present by these respondents and described above.
The stock exchange was a rigged market that made no claims to fairness.
Military lawyers for the Sept. 11 defendants say that the improvements are exaggerated and that they intend to test the claims of fairness.
Imran Hussain, head of policy, rights and advocacy for the Child Poverty Action Group, said: "The IFS analysis is a devastating dismissal of the chancellor's hollow claims of fairness yesterday.
In his televised budget address in reply, the opposition leader sought to paint Joe Hockey's budget as a "reheated" version of last year's, the government's claims of fairness as a "smokescreen" and a "hoax" and its predictions of a major boost to the economy from its small business stimulus plan as overblown.
But Mr Hague said politicians had been seeking an answer to the so-called West Lothian Question for nearly 20 years and he dismissed claims that "fairness for England was disruptive or dangerous to the UK".
