beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/george-osborne-should-use-30bn-4762414 Are you actually safe to be on the Internet?
what i liked best was the fine example from the school of Labour mathematics: we have £106Bn in, £85bn going here, £21bn going there, and somewhere £30bn is hiding. its like a magic bean growing in between the numbers (presumably he means its reserved in the £85Bn to welfare). then we have text book politician deceit: "Part of it could be the balance he’s advised to hold on to – but what’s the rest of it for?" do you not know Prescott? i bet you do, but it wouldn't suit the narrative to say so, if its less than all you'd bloody well have put a number there. then we have the new sound bite, about returning to the 1930s, when nothing of the sort is happening - government consumption is heading that way, but not government budgetary spending.
funny its exactly the amount of the NHS black hole. funnier though that even Balls hasn't found this £30bn for his spending plans.