This is another of this things about which one does not have to write very much. The story speaks for itself. We had such low expectations of Osborne, though, that we cannot pretend surprise. Put a low-grade man-child in charge, within a government of fools and knaves, and this is what you get.

View full article here

O/T, but Dellers appears to have caused an international incident:

Maldives government complains of spoof atlas omission

The government of the Maldives has complained after the London Daily Telegraph website carried a satirical blog post saying the island nation is to be omitted from the Times Atlas of the World.
The supposed omission was said to be due to impending climate change.
The low-lying islands of the Maldives are at risk from rising sea levels.
The spoof blog post was taken seriously by several media outlets in the Maldives.
The Telegraph blog post was written by a climate change sceptic, James Delingpole.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-a ... um=twitter

Also O/T (and deepest apologies) but the BBC website had this to say....




Hmm..............

I have a mental picture of osbourne standing on the footplate of a runaway steam train shouting STOP STOP!
The tory plan for the deficit was inflation and growth, in five years they would inflate away 20 - 25% of the deficit, and growth would help with some of the rest.But of course Q.EASING by the bank of england and the fed has devalued the fiat currencies and caused inflation, growth is not happening and ,shh, they don't know what to do!

The real problem with these tossers is that they have never been broke. They have never personally had to figure out where the rent was coming from, never had £10 in the bank till payday in 3 weeks.
They have no idea of value.

It wasn't until November 2008 - a whole 15 months after Northern Crock went south and several months after Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros alerted even the doziest that something was wrong - that Gideon and Dave dropped their mantra of "matching Labour's spending plans".

The good news is that Dave and Gid kept their word and did drop Labour's insane spending plans. The bad news is that they're now splurging even more than Brownturn did. As Jeff Randall put it a year ago:


And still al-Beeb and the MSM scream "Cuts!"

Oh, if only.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeffrandall/8007556/The-Coalition-is-spending-even-more-than-tax-and-waste-Labour.html

This is so true. All multi-millionaires living the hog off the people.

I prefer to read the release from the ONS which includes charts showing up and down levels of monthly public spending and tax receipts. Obviously, if spending exceeds receipts then borrowing increases for that month. The trend seems quite to plan - nothing to scare the money market gamblers (to whom we have all dedicated our wealth).

Fair's fair. If we can't take a joke we shouldn't have joined.
I for one have always treasured Mr Cameron's "Turnip Taliban" gag. How beautifully he put us in our place. It's a pleasure to receive such elegant contempt.
Another gag of his which I found particularly amusing was that one about "sharing the proceeds of growth". Stop me if you've heard it.
Oh, you have.
Unfortunately, those proceeds seem to be debits rather than credits, for most of us.

Negative growth? We can share in the proceeds of that, shurely?

The boy was over here yesterday, spouting conservative words, while blowing the bank account back home. The current "economic crisis" is, in fact, a government crisis. The world can no longer afford so much government; their deficits are sucking the economies of the world dry; the inflationary effort to reduce the deficits by printing money is destroying economies. The world can no longer afford so many blood sucking regulatory parasites who want to control the world.

Sorry, the boy brings it out in me