"Maybe once, you could know your money was funding something good - the police forces that keep the crooks behind bars, the soldiers who keep the Empire free. Now, it just pays layabouts to stay unemployed, NHS bureaucrats to stay in place instead of looking for productive work and for the abortions and illegitimate children of the underclass"
Apart from being at odds with the data (I haven't checked the figures but I would be surprised if unemployment benefit to 'layabouts', child benefit and abortions paid to the 'underclass' and the marginal cost over and above their productive output of NHS bureaucrats come to much more than 5% of total government spending and probably far less) I think it nicely sums up the actuality behind the Tories' attempt to present a nicer face.
posted by Matthew @ 1/09/2003 12:30:00 PM
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