Brown tube

[Churchill]

Prime Minister Brown, was it always your intention to **** up the British economy?

[bogeyman]

"Why do you think our money is really your money, and we should be grateful for anything you let us keep?"

[Comrade Brown lumbers to the microphone and speaks...]

Well, I'm really glad you asked me that Citizen Mule, and the answer is perfectly simple.

I strongly believe that all money and property rightfully belongs to the State - which I represent and embody.

The State (i.e. me), should be able to spend your hard-earned on anything that will advantage the State (and the Labour Party).

If I deem it necessary to bribe the electorate or simply quell unrest, I will allow you to beg to have some of your money back by means of a Byzantine, socialist bureaucracy that makes GUM (the old Moscow department store) look like Tesco Express.

I hope that answers your question.

If not, off to the gulags with you!

[Moscow Mule]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7407650.stm

http://www.youtube.com/downingst

Anybody more eloquent than I care to craft a question for the PM?

Something along the lines of -

"Why do you think our money is really your money, and we should be grateful for anything you let us keep?"