Of course, if he wants to see some real anger he should come down our way and mention that appalling bloke who just last year told us such Monstrous Lies as the following:"In 2008, alongside North America, our growth will again be the highest in the G7 - between 2½ and 3 per cent - with the same rate of growth also in 2009 - under this Government, with stability in this as in every other Budget the foundation, sustained growth year on year."Reality check - the IMF now expects the UK economy to contract faster than any other in the G7."Just as our monetary discipline is the foundation of our economic strength, our fiscal discipline is the foundation of the strength of Britain's finances...
Britain's net borrowing, which in the early 1990s went as high as 8 per cent of our national income is this year just 2.7 per cent.
Compared to a deficit equivalent of over £100 billion in a single year in the early 1990s, the figure for this and future years will be £35 billion then 34, 30, 28, 26 and 24 billion."
Reality check - borrowing this year is on track for £70bn, heading for £150bn pa, or about 10% of GDP. Far far worse than anything under the Tories, and far worse than any other G7 economy.
Gah! It's no good. I had intended to Fisk the whole of Gordo's 2007 Budget speech, but I'm simply too angry.
This now notorious Budget speech has mysteriously disappeared from its usual position on the HM Treasury website. All it now says is Error.It sure was.
Anyone else seen potentially embarrassing official documents disappear from official websites?
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It doesn't matter if they've consigned it to the memory hole: he's repeated the same lies several times recently, well after the crisis had started, making it quite clear that they are lies and not just incorrect forecasts.
And the 'lies' bit can't be emphasised enough. They are not half-truths, evasions or vague remarks, they are outright galloping, shrieking, projected-onto-the-clouds, visible-to-the-naked-eye-from-the-moon fucking lies.
How does the cunt get away with it? Why doesn't some opposition backbencher at next PMQs give him one chance to retract with dignity (fat chance), then when he doesn't, point and and shout LIAR!*
The Speaker will then throw the MP out, so he can go straightaway to a press conference and say that Brown is lying, what his lies are, exactly why they are lies, and how he is fed up maintaining a parliamentary tradition that prevents anyone from telling the truth that the PM is lying.
Cue general uproar followed by the eviction of a brazen liar from the highest office in the land.
(*Sorry, I have a bit of a hangover. He may wish to add "pants on fire!")
Not lost, just reorganised into a different folder, see http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/bud_budget07_speech.htm
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