Good for Labour

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Times today

Darling set to receive £5 billion Budget boost
Increase in tax receipts and a massive revision of borrowing figures by ONS gives fillip to the Chancellor a week before Budget

Ah good. Labour may well win the election.

[Mich the Tester]

Darling’s obviously had a few lessons in ‘saving the world’ from Wise Uncle Gordon.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Darling’s obviously had a few lessons in ‘saving the world’ from Wise Uncle Gordon.

The bizarre thing about that is that everybody picked up on Brown's Freudian Slip when he started to say 'saved the world' but hadn't meant to say it; but actually he really did save the world.

[TimberWolf]

So about £80 each. Or a bit more if it's targeted at potential Labour voters.

I thought tax receipts had gone down.

[Mich the Tester]

The bizarre thing about that is that everybody picked up on Brown's Freudian Slip when he started to say 'saved the world' but hadn't meant to say it; but actually he really did save the world.

Having first buggered it up quite comprehensively, although Messrs Bush and BLiar could take some of the credit for that. Oooh, sorry, did I say ‘credit’? Must have been a Freudian slip.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

So about £80 each. Or a bit more if it's targeted at potential Labour voters.

I thought tax receipts had gone down.

They were expected to go down, but didn't. Or, propaganda from the Tories said receipts would go down, but they have been exposed as liars.

[Moscow Mule]

Is that because he's only buying 200 Snatch Landy replacements instead of 400?

[Moscow Mule]

They were expected to go down, but didn't. Or, propaganda from the Tories said receipts would go down, but they have been exposed as liars.

I think you'll find being a liar isn't an exclusively Tory trait.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

Having first buggered it up quite comprehensively, although Messrs Bush and BLiar could take some of the credit for that. Oooh, sorry, did I say ‘credit’? Must have been a Freudian slip.

Funny how different recessions have happened under different ruling parties, but every one has happened about 10 years after a weak and venal Tory government. It takes a little while for their assorted wrongdoings to work through the economy.

[Mich the Tester]

I don’t care if the tories are a bunch of liars as long as they can balance the books.