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If you've got a problem and no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire...Gordon Brown ...( cue music ) -
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What's the difference between Gordon Brown and Bernard Madoff?Originally posted by Gordon Brown View Post
Bernie's pleading guilty
And before we forget, CUK got there first.It is, however, a nickel-and-dime swindle when set alongside the 12-year con trick perpetrated by Mr Brown on British taxpayers. That, too, has been a form of Ponzi, but with many more zeroes and little chance of the mastermind ending his days in what Americans call Crowbar Hotel.
The Prime Minister is nothing if not a man of vaulting ambition, with a desire for power which, like Macbeth's, "o'er leaps itself". While Big Bucks Bernie was snaffling billions, Mr Brown had his sights trained on trillions.
Five trillion, to be precise – that's £5,000,000,000,000 – which is how much Labour has taxed and spent since it came to power. In 1998-99 its Budget was £333 billion. By 2008-09, the Government's annual expenditure had grown to £618 billion. Every year, the sums required to shore up the house of cards became bigger and bigger. But while the good times rolled, too few cared to notice what was really going on.Last edited by Sysman; 13 March 2009, 11:25.Behold the warranty -- the bold print giveth and the fine print taketh away.Comment
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In this life, one thing counts
In the bank, large amounts
I'm afraid these don't grow on trees,
You've got to pick-a-pocket or two
You've got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys,
You've got to pick-a-pocket or two.
Why should we break our backs
Stupidly paying tax?
Better get some untaxed income
Better to pick-a-pocket or two.
You've got to pick-a-pocket or two, boys,
You've got to pick-a-pocket or two.Last edited by AlfredJPruffock; 13 March 2009, 11:38.Comment
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