Life is like being in a toilet bowl. Most of the time we can be happy surrounded by something bright and shiny. Every now and then it will rain down upon us.But with our shiny surround comes the certainty that sure as we are alive we shall have the occasional shitty time from which we are cleansed. The real problem is, once in a while the shit gets so heavy that wipe around is not enough, we need a good scrub up before we can be shiny and bright again except that no one ever wants to do the scrubbing.
So, we have the ‘Let’s buy a whole host of gullible voters day’ with George Osborne. No doubt we’ll be told how employment is rising, how the deficit is falling, how we’re all so much better off now than we were (compared to what?). We’ll be told that there are still tough times ahead but that only a Conservative government can steer us through them. It will be pointed out how inflation remains low, how not raising duty on fuel has helped everyone as is seen by the current lower prices at the pumps (it’s going up again George). In short, I should listen to this budget later and decide to vote Conservative in May but, I won’t. Labour certainly did nothing to avoid the mess the country got in but they didn’t cause it. They made the mistake of trying to be too conservative, allowing high finance the freedom to cause a catastrophic cock up for which they took zero responsibility. They made the mistake of allowing Gordon Brown to take the job of Prime Minister, one for which he is totally...
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