Making things worse, he then goes on to say how important it is for all of us to become indispensable, for not tobeindispensable is tantamount to economic and career suicide.
As it has been for six decades, our alliance is going tobeindispensableto our shared future, the security we need and the prosperity that we seek not only in this region but around the world.
That has opened the way to restoring the earnings link to the basic state pension, another no-go area for the chancellor, but an indispensable reform if means-testing is tobe arrested and saving encouraged.