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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more impotent than it already is; and the continued inflow of clueless immigrants whose view of Britain is fifty years out of date - I say: watch for the swift rise of third world slums built of corrugated steel and cardboard, and for the unstoppable spread of rough sleepers.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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Right, it’s a fair cop. ACPO and All That.

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You’ve twigged at last. For most of my lifetime, we’ve been working for just this. Partly because it’s such fun to be simply evil, and partly of course out of personal animus. That was certainly why I signed on in my late teenaged years.

We’ve done well, I think. I mean, it’s one thing to go on for some decades keeping a solemn face whilst banging on about liberty and prosperity, when all the while we’ve been actually bent upon ruining the country; but it takes a special talent, and bloody hard graft, so to infiltrate Labour as to create a series of economic and spending disasters, and to elevate the Worst Chancellor Ever first to the Exchequer and then to the premiership, as to make a crash inevitable. It’s not been easy, you know: posing as HM Loyal Opposition even as we directed our puppets to over-regulate the markets, bend over for the EU, find the historic bottom of the gold market and sell off the whole bullion reserve, drive away production, jobs, and wealth creation by swingeing taxation, enter into procurement contracts that cannot be broken despite their resulting in HMS White Elephant, throw open the country to all comers so as to have more people on the dole and sleeping rough, sink billions into the unaccountable long firm fraud that is Brussels, create a surveillance state, cock up Northern Rock, swell the public sector like the tumour it is and thus, by taxation, transfer taxable wealth from the poorer and the productive to a gang of politically-connected bureaucrats and quangocrats who do bugger all for their pay packets but create a reliable payroll vote for our Labour puppets, sod agriculture in ways previously unimagined and unimaginable, bugger the countryside with useless wind farms, and burden an already sinking economy with ‘green’ taxation and regulation. Wot larks.

And we did it all whilst mouthing the principles of Austrian economics, which was specially clever of us, as, everywhere they’ve actually been tried, they’ve created an expansion of wealth – in all sectors – and liberty. God, but we’re cunning.

I confess, there was a bit of a cock-up when we let the mask slip with Boy Dave and his too-early admission that we weren’t, actually, Thatcherites at all; but, fortunately (ahem. Purely fortuitous, of course. [Evil laugh.]) our moles in Labour turned up trumps when the unions imposed Special Ed Miliballs on a party that really didn’t wish for him as leader. What can I say: when you’re evil, you’re lucky. I realise we’re not perfect, I make quite certain that you’d have done a far better job of managing affairs, but it’s worked out well in the end, hasn’t it. We’re not as cleverly diabolical or as diabolically clever as you Continentals, yet we have managed rather handsomely in pretending all along that we sought more liberty and more prosperity for the subject – share ownership, home ownership, an end to dependency on the dole, lower rates, stronger families – when of course our true object was to create a Third World Britain that Labour might envy, a mere satrapy of the EU. Not bad, for all that we were forced, until the Advent of Dave, to operate through what the inattentive believed – it’s too funny, really – was the ‘other party’, what?

You and you alone have had the perspicacity, the wisdom, the financial expertise, the sheer cleverness, and the raw courage, to have seen what we were really about and to have exposed us: well done (one must pay grudging tribute to so formidable an enemy, after all). But don’t let yourself become too pleased with your cleverness. You’ll never suspect what we’re up to with Pakistan cricket, Liverpool FC, Strictly (beware of Agent Widdecombe), and the Wayne Rooney contract!