Biggest swindler in history

[AlfredJPruffock]

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.

[Sysman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

A few billion?

Amateur.

What's the difference between Gordon Brown and Bernard Madoff?


Bernie's pleading guilty

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.

And before we forget, CUK got there first.

[minestrone]

Pocket money for the likes of you.

[Gordon Brown]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Madoff

A few billion?

Amateur.