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FINANCE

White Van Man on... the budget

The Budget’s a waste of time. A load of teenagers with A- level maths beavering away in Whitehall thinking they can get the country out of the financial mess the useless politicians have got it into. The fact is, we’re run by cretins and it’s the cretins who tell the teenagers what to do, so we’ve no hope.

The Budget's a waste of time. A load of teenagers with A- level maths beavering away in Whitehall thinking they can get the country out of the financial mess the useless politicians have got it into. The fact is, we're run by cretins and it's the cretins who tell the teenagers what to do, so we've no hope.

I mean I could do the Budget myself on the back of an envelope. Think of any pie in the sky target, fast forward it to 10 years in the future knowing none of the cretinous politicians will be around then anyway, and then tell us everything's hunky dory 'cos by 2030 we'll be awash with cash and every NHS ward will have deep pile carpets and old folk will be living in country piles all paid for by the taxpayer with Horlicks on tap and their own butlers.

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