Beam me up Scottie

"It's space (between the Conservatives) Gordon, but not as we wanted it. We are now so far away from reality that we will never be able to get back to Earth!"

The next big thing - Alistair's Budget

The exchanges at PMQs yesterday were more about generating heat than light. All Brown could do was set out his party's attack line on the Conservatives in the on-going general election campaign. "They will cut, cut, cut and cut again. Your babies will be eaten at birth and the world will stop rotating on its axis if the Tories are the next government. They are the 'do nothing' party that opposes my fiscal stimulus which all other countries in the world have followed. I am the saviour of the world and my mate Barak thinks I'm the bees knees."

[He even had the gall to claim that his decision to sell off the country's gold reserves at the bottom of the market was the "right thing to do" as he had used the money to buy euros which have gone up in 'varl-yoo'! Yeah, because you have buggered up our economy so badly that sterling has depreciated by over 30% in the last year! Twat!]

When all the dust has settled after the G20 jamboree and we discover that nothing much has really happened we will have the pleasure of hearing Alistair Darling present his much delayed Budget to the House of Commons. How will he present the fact that this Labour Government has totally lost control of the country's finances? How will he portray the fact that this country's level of debt will be totally out of control and cripple the financial future for our children and grandchildren?

How will he explain that unemployment will rise to over three million in the next year? What will he do to 'spin' the fact that if he doesn't cut public expenditure now the rises in taxes he will need will be so high as to prompt a mass exodus of businesses and individuals from the country and, therefore, reduce the tax revenues he needs to repay the interest on the debts that he and Brown have created?

Despite Brown bestriding the world stage today nothing will stop him looking like the small boy who put his finger in the dam on April 22nd. He must hope that Alistair will rescue him before the waters break through and wash him away.

(PS: Hope you like the picture of Alistair Darling in 1982 when he was a Trotskyite!

Darling - I'm so sorry. Not!

Dizzy has a brilliant take HERE on Darling's supposed admission that the Labour Government has got things wrong. He rightly points out that what he actually did was to subtly blame the Tories and the Civil Service.

I had the same impression after reading the original interview in the Daily Telegraph too. But we shouldn't really be surprised by this. All these failed Labour cabinet ministers have left in their armoury is to imply that all the problems they have had during the last 12 years in office have been caused by the Conservatives.

Expect to hear more of this spin over the next year or so.

Beware of false gods!

hattip: Paul Linford