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Gordon Brown’s budget After watching the thrilling news from Iraq… back down to earth with a thud:
Chancellor Gordon Brown’s budget… the long version of Brown’s ‘New Labour’ drivel can be found here.
The short form:
- More money for defence and security (the state’s only legitimate role)
- More socialist ‘social fairness’ and less economic freedom
- More regulation and a clamp down on theft-avoidance schemes
- More wasteful public spending and a big injection into the idiotic NHS
- More tax on sinful things because the state knows what is best for you
- Britain’s economy is growing and Gordon is going to continue chucking spanners into the machinery until it ain’t
Oh joy.
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No duty increase on spirits; I’ll make it through another year.
Did you see the part that said:.
1.5 million more people in work since 1997
Yea and how many of those are actually productive?