So we owe £1.3 trillion. The economy will have shrunk by 4.75% this year alone. And Darling has made the following items his priority.
- 0.5% on N.I.
- A cut in bingo tax
- A boiler scrappage scheme
Well it’s good to know we’ve got a firm hand on the tiller. Fuck me. As he has learnt from years of sitting at the knee of his master, we got the usual stupidity masquerading as wisdom. “Tough choices” in the speak of Whitehall apparatchiks means game-changing decisions like tax rebates on electric cars and frankly bonkers items like:
From next month, no-one under 24 needs to be unemployed for longer than six months – down from the current 12 months – before being guaranteed work or training.
What does that even mean when an estimated 20% of young people are out of work? Where is the money to fund work and training for that number of people going to come from in the context of a £178 billion shortfall in the public finances this year?
I prefer your stories about sunroofs flying off on the A1 and birthday presents scattered along the A59. Haven’t you had any recent amusing accidents?
Yeah I thought the same thing, I mean a cut in bingo tax, didn’t see that coming.
It’ll be fine – don’t worry about the 1.3 trillion debt.
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