Running the country's finances is a gigantic con, a smoke and mirrors job as proved this week by that Izzy Osborne geezer who ought to get a job as a conjuror.

In fact the entire government is nothing but a fairground in which we all stare into magic mirrors that make us think how well we look when in fact we're all flat broke and in rags. How anyone believes that Izzy can somehow magic eleven billion quid out of thin air and expect us to believe he's going to cut that from the budget in two year's time beats me.