Brown breaking all the rules
Editor
Gordon Brown’s pledge to limit public spending to 40% of GDP was abandoned this week, as public sector borrowing soared though the £9bn in June. It’s odd, because rules and laws, and the restriction of freedom have always been at the heart of this dirigiste politician. It’s the unwritten ones he has never had a feel for:
Agnes Allen’s Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. [Iraq]
Micawber’s Law: Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery. [Do we need to spell it out?]
Morrow’s Law: The candidate who takes the credit for the rain gets the blame for the drought. [Remember how he used to boast about 10 years of solid growth?]
Mind you, there is at least one unwritten law even this dunderhead must understand by now:
Locke’s Law: One day you’re a peacock, the next day you’re a feather duster.
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