Christmas now likely, says Chancellor
- A golden ball. David Beckham has two of them, we’re led to believe.
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The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has gone on record as believing it is now likely that the UK will enter a Christmas period by the end of the next fortnight, but he confidently expects the public to be singing Auld Lang Syne by the time the month ends. High-profile economists, however, claim that the UK has been in a reluctantly festive mood for some weeks already, arguing that the evidence is all around us in the form of Christmas trees, baubles, and fairy lights (by which we do not mean Paul O'Grady carrying a torch down the garden to go for a crafty smoke in the shed).
tags: Alistair Darling, Bank of England, banking, Chancellor of the Exchequer, credit crunch, Denis Healey, humour, politics, Santa Claus, Stella Artois, United KingdomThe return of Robin Hood? Well no. Not quite. Not yet. Maybe next year?
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Well whadda ya know. After waiting almost two decades for it to happen, there are at long last some real differences starting to appear between the two main British political parties, if only in how they would each manage the country’s finances in recession rather than in sincere ideological terms (both still love the money men, even though they can no longer do no wrong).
Of course as Labour is the party holding onto the public purse right now, its approach to the nation’s apparent financial apocalypse is the only one that matters for the time being, simply because it’s the only party that’s in a position to put words into action. But it’s nevertheless interesting to see what the Tories have to say just in case they do manage to stop their poll lead rapidly disappearing up George Osborne the Shadow Chancellor’s anus as he continues to preach what amounts to the classic Thatcher and Major 1980s/1990s approach to recession: do nothing, don’t give a flying fuck about the suffering of people and disintegration of small businesses, just let the people bleed and let the market lead.
tags: Alistair Darling, budget, Chancellor of the Exchequer, credit crunch, David Cameron, George Osborne, Labour, pre-Budget report, public finances, public spending, tax and spend, Tory, United Kingdom, VAT
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