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With this budget, the Tories are within sight of the job they set themselves since Margaret Thatcher being made party leader: drag Britain into the third world. Once we start summing up the number of tenants who will be evicted and unable to find housing anywhere; people who will lose their jobs and find themselves unable either to find or to keep their house on the forthcoming rates of benefit; criminals who will go unwatched because jails and the probation service will be understaffed (they already are) and the police even more impotent than it already is; and the continued inflow of clueless immigrants whose view of Britain is fifty years out of date - I say: watch for the swift rise of third world slums built of corrugated steel and cardboard, and for the unstoppable spread of rough sleepers. Hundreds of thousands of people, at the very least, will not have anywhere to lay their head - not even jail.

But at least the banks will have been saved and the bankers will still be free to award each other million-pound bonuses. And that is what really matters.

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Re: Not at all, my man. (2)

[fpb.livejournal.com]

No, why? But our Gervase does like to sound a bit old-fashioned. And I try to keep up the standard of invective that was set long ago by the great insulters from Pope to Churchill.

Re: Not at all, my man. (2)

[elegant-bonfire.livejournal.com]

LOL, that's exactly it. This whole conversation sounds like something from a nineteenth century novel. I'm just easily amused, I guess.