Higher borrowing, higher taxes, higher inflation and lower growth. Sounds like an encouraging forecast for the future doesn’t it?
Still, good to know that Alastair Darling promises record tractor production:
“By 2011, every school will be an improving school.”
I liked Mr Eugenides’ line too:
Time for a cup of coffee, a nap, then another cup of coffee. After all, I can’t afford a drink any more. 55p on a bottle of this stuff? That’s cultural vandalism.
Fraser has more, here.
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