Your guide to the PBR Brownies

R King

Don't be too worried if Darling slaps a big tax levy on bankers bonuses and they all go off abroad. I'm sure there are thousands of out-of-work used car salesmen just waiting for the opportunity to move in.

Isn't that where the last batch came from??

Fred the Shred....... wasn't that where he previously worked??

Nick

Brown & Darling will be relying on the financial iliteracy of most of the population, helped, of course, by the financial illiteracy of most of the media.

The Radio 4 news headlines at 8.00 this morning opened with the line "This afternoon Alastair Darling will announce how he is to halve the country's DEBT over the next four years."

The National Debt is not the same as the budget deficit. The BBC keep (deliberately ?) making this mistake.

NotaSheep

The deliberate confusion of debt and deficit is often practised by the BBC and needs to be challenged every time. I wonder if Alistair Darling will try the same trick today?

Cjamesk

This annoys me so much, I`m legally obliged to pay my taxes so the Government should be legally obliged to spend my taxes correctly.

Now we all pay for financial misconduct brought on by NuLabour and it`s goons.

Ivan D

I thought we had agreed, after your fibs and evasions over Matt being sacked, that you wouldn't anymore get all santimonious about the 'lies' and 'brownies' other folk tell? Or, is it Bad for the prime Minister to mislead, but quite okay for Spectator editors?

Blue-Eyed Boy

The best Brownie I saw was when he said that employment was relatively 4 times higher during the 1990s recession. This was only true because the recession wasn't half as deep