Friday, April 11, 2003

Thanks to my friend James for pointing me in the right direction, but it's a good one.

Stephen Pollard in today's Independent notes in an article on NHS spending that;

'In other words, spending on the NHS will then amount to 0.35 per cent of the entire planet's measurable GDP. That Mr Brown considers it desirable, or even possible, for one man to sit at a desk in Whitehall and be responsible for assigning 0.35% of world GDP is almost beyond belief. '

Is this the same Stephen Pollard who revels in his role as neo-Conservative, and who belives it is desirable and possible for Donald Rumsfeld (who he refers to as 'the great man') to sit at his desk at the Pentagon and assign its budget of just under 1% of the entire planet's measurable GDP?